WEBVTT - 5. The Delivery 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:08.080 Murder on Songbird Road is a production of iHeart Podcasts. 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.600 Previously on Murder on Songbird Road. We're going to head 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:16.520 over to hucks now, but there are three hooks in 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:18.160 the general vicinity. 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:19.360 Which one did she go to? 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:21.720 It's going to be the one on the Young Street, 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:22.520 all right. 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.720 So took us nine minutes fifteen seconds to get here 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:28.360 catching that light, which we knew. She caught the light 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:28.880 as well. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.120 The prosecution contends it would have taken Beverly six to 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:33.560 seven minutes to make the drive. 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:36.360 She would have known because. 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:39.640 You manage a gas station, that would probably be the 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:44.040 worst possible place if you wanted anonymity. Samples weren't collected 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:48.320 from Beverly's car until the evening of the murder, after 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.040 it had been moved by someone on the scene and 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:55.920 not Beverly. Then they go to the dump and find 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.959 three unrelated items. 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:03.160 When knives are in introduced of any kind an a juror's. 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.839 Mine, the damage is done. In the victim impact statement. 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:08.360 Darkness the light. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:11.119 Oh that's what I wrote down. 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:15.240 Yeah, fucking witch. 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:20.759 It could be a motive as to why this girl 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:21.720 was railroaded. 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:23.600 Yeah, you know what I'm saying. 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.039 I mean that kind of shit is frowned upon down here. 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.240 I'm Lauren Bright Pacheco, and this is murder on Songbird Road. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.480 Within weeks of her arrest, while being held in Williamson 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.680 County custody awaiting trial, Julia Beverly made a shocking but 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.760 not entirely unexpected discovery. Here's Renee high Tower. 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.760 She found out she was pregnant in jail. 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.600 I was happy for her, but I was hurting for 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.239 her because I knew the situation. 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.400 I knew they wanted another child. 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:19.919 Beverly and her now estranged former fiancee Mike Beasley had 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.880 been trying for a third child together, hoping for a son. 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:27.800 Julie has issues with her cervix and she wanted a 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:32.120 boy with him, so they were trying one last time. 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:34.320 When all this happened. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:38.160 For Beverly, the pregnancy was a light in a sea 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:39.120 of darkness. 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.360 She wanted to nurture this baby as best she could 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:48.760 in the situation she was in. But it was it 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:49.280 was rough. 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:53.360 It was rough, the best possible blessing at the worst 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:54.200 possible time. 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:55.519 Yes, exactly. 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.960 Upon learning her daughter was pregnant, high Tower immediately began 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.079 to petition the courts for a home based pregnancy. While 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:04.160 awaiting trial. 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.400 We went to get her a bond reduction so she 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.000 can come home with her pregnancy and be around people 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.760 that care about her, people that love her, and people she. 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.880 Loves, and see her children because her bond was set 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.560 for two million dollars. 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:22.720 Yes, yes, two million dollar bond, and we went in 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:27.200 for a reduction and Judge Green denied it. So her 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.720 attorney said that she was going to try again at 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:34.079 a later time, and his response was, I know you will. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:38.119 So we tried again when she was around eight months pregnant, 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:43.880 and he denied it again. She even suggested worrying an 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:48.000 ankle monitor. She wasn't going to go anywhere if she did, 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.640 they would immediately know about it, and he denied it again. 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:54.920 He gave two different reasons for each time we went. 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.400 One was he was afraid that she was a flight risk, 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:04.560 and the second one was my mother wouldn't be able 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:08.880 to defend herself if anything were to happen, because my 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.440 mother was living here as well. He said, my mother 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.960 was on an oxygen machine and she was not capable 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:18.200 of running away. 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:19.640 If Julie ever attacked her. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.200 That my mother wouldn't be able to defend herself if 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:23.720 Julie got out of control. 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.240 Am I wrong in remembering that there was also some 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.599 issue that your house was too close to a school? 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.080 They brought it up in courts. 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.919 What was the implication that Julie was some kind of 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.839 a threat to children in general? 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.960 Yes, keep her away from children and elderly. We appealed it, 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.280 and then the appellate court denied. 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.160 It as well and upheld the judge's decision. 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:48.920 Keep in mind that Julia Beverly had no priors, and 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.000 this was while she was awaiting trial, when she was 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:55.719 supposed to have been given the presumption of innocence. Renee 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.159 high Tower had immediate concerns about how her daughter was 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.680 being treated after she was taken into custody in Williamson 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.400 County before she even knew she was pregnant. 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:09.000 I was trying to get a hold of her, and 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.200 the second or third day she was in there, I 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.800 was calling and calling. When I finally did talk to her, 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:20.760 she said that the correction officers were almost parading her 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.200 charges to everyone in there, saying that she. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:24.960 Was child killer. 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.479 And not only that, they said that her father was 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:33.880 a police officer trying to rile up people in jail 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:36.719 to do things to her, to harm her. 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:38.320 MM. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:42.240 What would you say were your major concerns after Julie 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:42.880 was arrested. 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.480 She had told me after she was in there three 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:51.800 weeks twenty one days, she hadn't taken a shower or 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.200 got the opportunity to brush her teeth at all since 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.280 the time she stepped in there, and for twenty one 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:02.560 days following. I called called the sheriff, spoke to him directly, 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:08.880 Benny Vick, and I voiced my complaints and he said, well, 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.159 inmates lie all the time. And I said, well, she 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.160 has no reason to lie about taking a shower or 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.960 brushing her teeth. So I said, do you keep this 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.400 things on record? And he said yeah, and he was 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.760 going to look into it, and he never called me back. 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:23.800 And then once I got off the phone with him, 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.440 I called her attorney and I told her the same thing, 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:31.040 and she was beside herself and she said she's going 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:31.760 to take care of it. 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.960 Well. Julie called me the next day and said. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.680 She finally got her shower and got a semi kind 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.120 of toothbrush to grocer. 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:45.560 Teeth under what precaution or protocol. Did they justify not 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.479 allowing her to brush her teeth or shower for twenty 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:49.640 one days, I've. 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.520 Never heard an answer yet, no one returned, and he 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:53.080 calls to me. 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.560 No one has answered that question, not one person. 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:02.679 Who do those officers report work directly to the sheriff 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:04.760 I believe who's now retired. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.400 Yes, Beni Vic. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.640 Your call has been forwarded to an automated voice messaging system. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:16.000 Hi. 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.480 My name is Lauren Bright Piceco, and I am a 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.000 journalist trying to get in. 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:20.960 Touch with mister Vic. 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:25.240 I've reached out to former Williamson County Sheriff Benniveck to 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.960 no avail since March eighteenth, twenty twenty four. I've also 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:33.000 attempted to contact current Williamson County Sheriff Jeff Diedrich, making 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:37.120 Freedom of Information Act request for documentation of orders that 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:41.200 dictated Beverly's treatment while pregnant and during the delivery of 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.560 her son while she was in custody of Williamson County 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.720 awaiting trial. At the date of this recording, I had 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:49.480 yet to receive a response. 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.480 She wasn't treated like she was an innocent human being 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:56.280 at all. Is sickening right down to what they were 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.920 giving her to eat. It took her a while to 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.400 get the vitamins that she That was another reasoning. 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:06.160 For house releas because she had issues with iron, so 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.160 in case she needed an iron infusion. 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:12.200 She finally started taking the vitamins, but nutrition was not 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.440 there because a lot of the food that they were 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:17.120 giving her this was during COVID. 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.240 These are the excuses COVID. So a lot of the 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:22.320 meals were lunch meat. 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.720 This went on for at least three to four months. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.720 Lunch meat for lunch and dinner. 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:32.360 That's filled with nitrates. 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.400 Yes, eating too much of that and her being pregnant 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:41.200 can get lysteria. It's just like at every opportunity that 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:46.880 came to them to degrade her, or belittle her, or even. 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:49.000 Torture her, they did it. 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:53.120 It took that opportunity and did whatever they could. There 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.960 were no presumptions of innocence while they were awaiting trial. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:57.160 It was none of that. 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.600 None of it especially would seem when it came to 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:06.960 Beverly's labor and delivery. We'll be right back with Murder 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:16.920 on Songbird Road. Now back to Murder on Songbird Road. 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:24.000 In a six page letter, Julie Beverly shared the circumstances 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.880 of her son's birth while in custody of Williamson County. 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.199 I've asked her cousin Niki to read excerpts of that letter. 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.080 July twenty eighth, twenty twenty one was one of the 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.560 best days of my life, and it turned into the 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:41.200 hardest days. I gave birth to my fourth child, Thomas. 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.200 It was hard birth because a few hours earlier I 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:45.840 was told for the first time. 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:46.640 That he would be taken. 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.200 Beverly goes on to explain that she was awoken in 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.600 her cell at ten pm by Williamson County jail nurse 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.360 Marilyn Reynolds, who was accompanied by a corrections officer and 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.800 a police lieutenant. Beverly was in four She was being 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:02.880 taken to the hospital to be induced. 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.199 When we arrived at the hospital, Marilyn and the corrections 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:11.000 officer Stocker, stayed in the room with me. Nurses started 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.719 my intake, and at that time they asked if I 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.559 had planned to bottle or breastfeed. I said I wanted 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:19.839 to breastfeed. While I stayed in the hospital room. Then 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.320 Marilyn Reynolds tells me that the judge ordered Thomas would 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.400 be taken as soon as the umbilical cord was cut. 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.560 I wanted to scream at that moment, I said, no 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.960 one told me this. Her reply was, well, your attorney 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:34.319 and the judge signed off on it. 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.839 Not only was Beverly not informed as to the plan 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.440 to immediately seize her son, she was denied access to 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:46.280 contacting her lawyers or family. Reynolds apparently ordered the phone 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.440 removed from Beverly's hospital room. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.800 All I could think is I didn't want to be here. 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.440 I wanted to keep him inside until he was ready 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.840 to come out, and I'm ready for him. I didn't 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.040 want to hand him to anyone, and I wanted him 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.520 to stay until the case was resolved so that I 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.640 could take him home. I was not prepared, would never 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.600 be prepared to give Thomas to anyone. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:13.160 Beverly was forced to give birth with two Williamson County 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:14.880 Jail employees in her room. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:19.320 My only support system was Marilyn and the corrections officer 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.760 stuck her two people I did not want with me. 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.560 There was a person who showed Beverly kindness and compassion 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:30.840 immediately after Thomas was born, her OBGYN, doctor Andrea Humphrey 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:34.320 By refusing to immediately cut the umbilical cord. 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.640 Hearing that first cry is always the most amazing feeling. 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.760 He only cried for a few seconds. Once he was 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:44.040 placed on my chest, he was calm. Then Doctor Humphrey 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.600 did for me the most heartfelt, amazing thing. I will 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.640 never be able to express how appreciative I am for her. 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.280 She gave me the golden hour. It's an hour where 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.320 the umbilical cord stays attached and the mother and child 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.839 are able to bond. She gave me an hour when 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:04.360 the courts and the corrections officers wanted to give me seconds. 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:09.000 Doctor Humphrey also made sure that photos of that hour 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.880 were taken before Beverly's son was taken from her. 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.320 That hour was the best thing ever. 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.120 I got to hold him and kiss him, breastfed him, 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.440 and most important, tell him that I loved him and 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:23.880 I will forever love him. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:29.200 The pictures are heartbreaking. In them, Beverly's face clearly shows 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.559 the strain of having just given birth and the emotional 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.840 weight of balancing her love for her newborn son with 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:37.479 their inevitable separation. 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:39.960 Then the dreaded moment came. 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:45.120 Doctor Humphrey said, it's time it was like Thomas knew 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:49.080 because he started crying, and of course I immediately started crying, 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.280 and I'm crying now just reliving the moment. 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.440 It broke my heart. I didn't want him to leave. 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.560 When a hospital staff member came in to discuss the 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:05.040 birth certificate, Julia Beverly endured additional heartbreak, and it involved 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.440 the man she had lived with for nearly eight years 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.320 and already had two other children with, Mike Beasley. 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.080 She said he didn't want to sign the birth certificate 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.360 without a DNA test. It felt like a slap in 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.880 the face. So he basically said he believed that I 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.240 had cheated on him. I had never given him reason 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.200 to believe that he was the love of my life 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.680 and the only person I was with, So my name 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.240 was the only one on the birth certificate. 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.760 Less than twenty four hours after giving birth and still 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.400 bleeding heavily, Beverly was shackled and returned to the Williamson 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:45.640 County Prison, her breasts painfully swollen with milk, meant for 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.400 the son she has not seen or held since. And 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:50.959 then came another blow to Beverly. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.280 I found out later that day that Mike took Thomas 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.720 home before the DNA results came back. I don't know 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.560 why he was able to take him when he wouldn't 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:01.640 sign the birth certificate. 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.840 As we'll further discuss, the circumstances surrounding Beverly's birth and 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.480 the custody of her son are even more controversial than 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:14.400 they are cruel. But alone in her cell, Beverly, stripped 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.200 of her newborn, felt powerless and despondent. 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.240 I fell into a deep depression again. It was a 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:22.640 rough couple of weeks after that. 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.880 Julia Beverly ended her letter with this. 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.080 It's heart going back to these moments. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.000 Even before reading the letter, the way in which Beverly 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.760 was forced to give birth and the way in which 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.840 her son was taken was hard for her cousin Nikki 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:38.720 to process. 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:44.720 It's horrific, it's inhuman. I can't even imagine. 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:45.840 I was. 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:52.160 So worried for her leading up to the birth, just 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:56.760 because I know, having had three kids, everything that takes 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:01.320 out of you and everything that you go through, it's 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.000 all worth it in the end, because they. 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.840 Are you and they're a part of you. And for 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.440 her to have to do that with. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:17.040 Nobody that cared for her, really, to be alone and 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:22.120 have to do that and then have to leave without him. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:26.280 I just can't. It's still it's extremely upsetting. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:31.680 Especially if, as Nikki vehemently believes, Julia Beverly was wrongfully 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:36.400 accused and convicted. Back to Beverly's mother, Renee high Tower, 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:40.240 how did you find out that your grandson was born? 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.080 My friend? Actually she used to work at the hospital, 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.600 so she called saying that she needed to check on 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.560 Julia Beverly. She got through to the nurses station up 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.720 there and they told her what time she came in, 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.480 and she asked how she was doing, and then she 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.800 called me and told me that she was there. So 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.600 that's how I found out because I wasn't getting calls 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.160 from Julie at all, and I was worried about her. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.520 And then when I called immediately after, they told me 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:07.160 she wasn't there. 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.120 And this was within ten fifteen minutes. 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:15.360 So she's put back in solitary confinement basically when she 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:16.640 gets back to the jail. 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:17.600 Pretty much. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:22.040 Yeah, and she's not reaching out to you, no, and 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.640 you're probably concerned again, very. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:28.280 Yeah, because I knew this is going to be heart 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.080 wrenching for her not being able to be with her 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:34.960 baby and the whole situation in its entirety, and she 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.640 didn't call me. I sent a text and I didn't 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.440 get a response from that. So I called the jail 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:44.200 and I talked to an officer who was a woman, 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.800 and I said, I know she had the baby. I'm 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.280 just checking to see if she's all right. She's not 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.480 calling me, And they said, I guess she's okay. She's 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.920 not in a smock and what does that mean? Meaning 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:00.640 she's not in a suicidal outfit, So I guess she's 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:01.040 all right. 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.200 It is of interest to add that I've been given 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:08.840 portions of Beverly's DCFS case file by an anonymous source. 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.760 For some reason, Beverly, who is half white, is listed 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.560 as black on the reports, yet all four of her children, 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:20.520 whose fathers are white, are listed as white. Again, Mary 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.760 and Illinois is eighty six percent white. Here's Rene high 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:24.480 Tower's reaction. 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:25.800 I have the page. 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.919 It's on page two of fifteen. Julia Beverly adult female, 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:35.399 black African American, Jade Beasley child female white. I'm not 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:39.040 going to use the kids' names, but Mike and Julia's 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.919 one year old child is listed as female and white, 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:49.960 and Jaden is listed as white. Wow, as is the 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:55.520 eldest daughter that Julia and Mike share white, All the 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.800 kids are white, and just Julie is black. 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:00.520 How does that happen? 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:01.560 Get me? 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:06.119 That view of Beverly as other seems to have also 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:10.280 impacted the way her entire family was treated even before 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:14.159 the trial, particularly when Hitower was petitioning to have Beverly 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:15.959 stay with her during the pregnancy. 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.080 The sad part about one of these things is when 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.600 she was up for that hearing to the appellate court 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:23.879 for her to be on the house arrest just for 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.359 the birth of her baby, and we were waiting on 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:29.600 the results for that, and when those results came back, 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.280 they were not given to thene They were not given 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:36.159 to me, they were not given to Julie. Yet Mike's 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:40.959 family made a huge post on their Facebook denied in 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:42.080 all capital. 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:45.520 Os with explanation points, and that's how we learned. That's 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:46.159 how we learned. 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:50.600 There seems to be huge lack of communication, but it 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:52.520 seems to just be in one direction. 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:53.880 YEP. 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.040 A quick aside. When this interview was taped in March 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.960 of twenty twenty four, Thomas was nearly three years and 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:04.840 so when did you first get the chance to meet Thomas. 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.040 I have yet to meet Thomas. I have not met 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:08.440 him yet. 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:13.000 I've seen the pictures that Julie got from the hospital, 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:14.399 and that's all I have. 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.520 Renee High Tower had been denied access to Beverly's three 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.960 youngest children her grandchildren since the arrest. 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:28.560 Mike is keeping three of Julie's children from me on 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:32.919 what grounds. He states that he's doing it for the 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:38.680 protection of his children, and I'm not sure what that means. 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:42.200 That's one half of their family. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:48.400 Yeah, yeah, And this is not something that was done 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:53.560 later in this case. This was done immediately immediately upon 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.560 Julie's arrest. As soon as she was arrested. It was 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.720 completely cut off. Even when Thomas was born. I reached out, 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.280 you need to help with the baby, let me know. 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.080 I'll help any way I can. Everything goes unanswered. 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:07.480 That's got to be so painful. 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:08.439 It is. 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:12.720 It is very And then I have Jayden here, who 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.800 is missing out on three of his siblings, and he 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:19.359 comes to see me every other weekend, yet he can't 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.880 see his own siblings. And Mike has a direct line 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:24.399 to Jaden where he doesn't have to go through me 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:25.200 or anyone else. 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:28.080 And he still doesn't maintain contact. 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:31.520 With him, and Jaden sends text messages all the time 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:33.960 want to talk to the girls, and those go unanswered. 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:38.000 High Tower has had no choice but resort to petitioning 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:40.360 the courts for access to her grandchildren. 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.520 There was always an excuse, like clockwork. 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:47.640 Every two weeks, I would request to see them, and 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.560 my request would either go unanswered or it would be 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.239 it's not a good time, or I'll let you know. 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:58.000 And this went on for a year and a half 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:00.000 and I finally looked into getting a jorney. 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.560 I ended up filing for grandparent visitation. 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:08.480 Never did I think it would take years. 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:11.480 You have reached the non emergency line for Williamson County 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:12.280 Sheriff's Department. 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:13.600 Get this an emergency. 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:15.560 Please hang up in down nine to one one. 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:16.679 Please listen carefully. 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:19.960 By the fall of twenty twenty four, it's important to 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:24.439 stress just how unresponsive Williamson County had been to my 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:27.840 outreach for information pertinent to the case against Julie Beverly. 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:31.600 This occurred on multiple levels, across multiple branches. 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:38.720 For Williamson County Jail, Please press one WAYNAMS in King Jail, Hi. 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:40.639 I please speak with Marilyn Reynolds. 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:43.000 Just a minute. 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:47.040 Record your message. 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:47.959 Hi. 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:51.400 Ms Reynolds. My name is Lauren Bright pitch Ecko, and 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:54.160 I am a journalist who is looking into the Julia 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:59.160 Beverly case. I'm calling because I believe that you were 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:03.160 the attending on duty when she gave birth to her 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:07.960 son Thomas on seven twenty eight, twenty one, when she 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:12.280 was in custody of Williamson County awaiting trial. I'm just 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:16.359