Speaker 1: Maxie Miles. It's the production of a typical artists and
Speaker 1: I heart radio. It's just it's just a cabin, yeah,
Speaker 1: complete with Mr Beatie's interior decorating skills. God forbid the
Speaker 1: man learn about throw pillows. What did you expect? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Riley worth a shot, I guess. Oh hey,
Speaker 1: look creepy old lock trunk. I bet there's not a
Speaker 1: body chopped up in there. Be serious? Look where do
Speaker 1: those lead? Max? What? Just be careful? They're just doors, ross,
Speaker 1: but you don't know what's behind them. Whatever it is,
Speaker 1: I'll handle it. We'll handle it. Fine. You want to
Speaker 1: get that door, then okay, on the count of three,
Speaker 1: one two three, it's just a bathroom, would you get bedroom?
Speaker 1: No Riley in here either? Did you really expect to
Speaker 1: find him in here? I don't know. I just Beatty
Speaker 1: looked like he was running away, like he had something
Speaker 1: to hide. Well, maybe he does. Are you thinking what
Speaker 1: I'm thinking? Are you thinking of looking through all his
Speaker 1: drawers and closets? Then yes, we just have to make
Speaker 1: sure to put everything back the way it was before
Speaker 1: we leave, so that he doesn't suspect any thing is all,
Speaker 1: and we need to be quick. I still have no
Speaker 1: idea where he went right, and then we should see
Speaker 1: if we can track him down. See what exactly? H Ross?
Speaker 1: What what is it? WHOA, that's a lot of cash?
Speaker 1: What on earth would Mr Beati be doing with? Is that? Quick?
Speaker 1: What are we ross? What? Max? Be quiet? It's Mr
Speaker 1: Beatie if we're lucky, because there's only one tiny window
Speaker 1: in here, which means the only way out is through
Speaker 1: that main womb. And if we get caught, there's no escape.
Speaker 1: H from a typical artists and I heart radio. You're
Speaker 1: listening to Maxie Miles. This is chapter six the cabin,
Speaker 1: is it? Yeah? Yeah, it's Mr Beatie. M What is
Speaker 1: he doing? M H? I don't know, but you need
Speaker 1: to be quiet? H h Hello, No he's not I
Speaker 1: told you I don't know where he is now. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I understand. What do you really think? Yes? Yes, okay, No,
Speaker 1: he left nothing behind. I know, but I I'll get
Speaker 1: him back. I promise. No, that won't be necessary. No,
Speaker 1: give me a chance to find him first. There's non
Speaker 1: need to escalate this. Yes, I'll get it done by
Speaker 1: Sunday night. You have my word. Jeez, your hand is freezing, well,
Speaker 1: so are your lips. Uh. Seriously, though, are you like okay,
Speaker 1: you're not going to go into a hypothermic shock or anything.
Speaker 1: I'm fine. It's just nighttime in October and we're in
Speaker 1: the middle of the freaking woods. At least I can
Speaker 1: breathe now. Look, I'm sorry, it's just that I know.
Speaker 1: It's fine, I get it. I didn't want him to
Speaker 1: hear us. Right, what was that all about? I have
Speaker 1: no idea. Is he making tea? It sure sounds like it.
Speaker 1: Well guess we're stuck here? Then great? Yeah, I wish
Speaker 1: there was room to sit. As long as you don't
Speaker 1: try to shut me up again, we'll be fine. Well,
Speaker 1: will you be quiet? Now? You're the one who's talking
Speaker 1: up a storm. I'm just I'm freaking out a little bit. Max. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is not ideal. Oh shit, I don't think Mr
Speaker 1: Beatty would ever heard us. I'm sorry, did you hear
Speaker 1: that phone call? I'll get him back. No need to escalate.
Speaker 1: I really don't want to find out what Mr Beatty
Speaker 1: means by escalate. Well, then I guess it's good he
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to see a need for it. Then, what,
Speaker 1: You're right? That call was very odd. I'm surprised you're
Speaker 1: not already in the other room in terrogating him about it.
Speaker 1: I'm just as invested as you and not getting caught.
Speaker 1: I thought you had a brilliant plan, or you would
Speaker 1: have a perfectly reasonable explanation for why we came in here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was before we went through his stuff and hid
Speaker 1: in a closet. I don't know how we would explain this.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's plenty of reasons why two teenagers might
Speaker 1: sneak off to a cabin in the woods and then
Speaker 1: not want to get caught. What what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Come on, Max, We're standing nose to nose in a closet.
Speaker 1: I think it would be pretty easy for Mr Beany
Speaker 1: to make a leap to Oh yeah, okay, I see
Speaker 1: what you mean. I'm not saying that's what we're doing. No,
Speaker 1: I get it. I mean that would that would be
Speaker 1: a good excuse, right. It's not like it's true, right,
Speaker 1: But if a person were to come across us in
Speaker 1: this situation, they might think that. I mean, it looks
Speaker 1: a certain way, right, and it's not our fault that
Speaker 1: it looks that way right, right, But I still don't
Speaker 1: think it's a good idea to go out there. Yeah no, no, no,
Speaker 1: terrible idea. Better to just play. It's safe exactly, And
Speaker 1: if he does come back in here, we can h
Speaker 1: it looks like we're safer. However long it takes him
Speaker 1: to drink his tea, I guess, uh so, how did
Speaker 1: it go with THEO and Jenna? What the the love
Speaker 1: note thing? What? Ross? Do you think now is the time?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what to do. I've
Speaker 1: never been in this situation before. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the appropriate topic of conversation is. I'm freaking ow Max,
Speaker 1: my scary neighbor who's wanted to murder me for years
Speaker 1: over the time I ran over his rose bushes is
Speaker 1: in the other room while we hide in his secret cabin,
Speaker 1: and you're so I could barely breathe, and I just
Speaker 1: need you to I don't know, I just get my
Speaker 1: mind off this whole situation. Okay, Okay, I get it.
Speaker 1: It's okay, I'm here. Who we're gonna be Okay, nothing
Speaker 1: bad is going to happen, right, I promise. Okay, uh,
Speaker 1: thank you give of course you don't have to keep
Speaker 1: m hm oh right, sorry, I didn't mean to No, No,
Speaker 1: it's it's totally fine. I just didn't know what else
Speaker 1: to do. We're good. So, uh the love notes right right? Um?
Speaker 1: It went fine. I guess all things considered. What do
Speaker 1: you mean, Jenna, she never wanted to date whoever was
Speaker 1: writing the notes in the first place, no matter who
Speaker 1: it turned out to be. Why did she want you
Speaker 1: to figure it out then to get them to stop?
Speaker 1: And well I didn't figure it out in the end.
Speaker 1: You told me you would have gotten there eventually. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, it never occurred to me that
Speaker 1: it could be THEO. Really, the poetry didn't tip you off.
Speaker 1: I guess I didn't want it to be him because
Speaker 1: he and Jenna are such good friends, you know, and
Speaker 1: it might make it weird, right, but it all turned
Speaker 1: out okay anyway, I think it will. I guess THEO
Speaker 1: wasn't really that invested. After all. Jenna seemed to think
Speaker 1: he liked the idea of writing love poems more than
Speaker 1: actually being in love. What come on, you clearly have
Speaker 1: an opinion about it. I think Jenna is probably right.
Speaker 1: How did you find out about it? Anyway? THEO told
Speaker 1: me why. I didn't think you guys were that close
Speaker 1: we're not. But he he wanted to know what it
Speaker 1: feels like? What what feels like? THEO smart? You know,
Speaker 1: yeah he sentimentals hell, but he's not dumb. He'd been
Speaker 1: writing the poems for a while and realized that he
Speaker 1: didn't really want to go any further than that. That
Speaker 1: he wanted to have a crush and and Jenna was there. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that sounds bad. He cares about her, obviously, but I
Speaker 1: think he'd hoped it would be more that writing her
Speaker 1: notes would make him feel the way he wanted to feel,
Speaker 1: you know, some grand romance or whatever. Such a sap. Wait,
Speaker 1: so I still don't get it. Why was he talking
Speaker 1: to you? I guess he wanted to talk to the
Speaker 1: most much person he knows. Right, of course, because when
Speaker 1: people think grand romance, Ross Teller is the first name
Speaker 1: to come up. Maybe you don't know everyone as well
Speaker 1: as you think you do, Max. I mean, look at Riley, right.
Speaker 1: We all had this specific idea of him, the golden boy,
Speaker 1: star student, apple of his parents eye. What's your point?
Speaker 1: What was he into? Max? What have we gotten ourselves into?
Speaker 1: I don't know. It sounds like like he's done with
Speaker 1: his teeth or is he making more? M m? Do
Speaker 1: you think he's settling in for the night. Well, he
Speaker 1: always goes home, right whenever you've watched him. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true, but it's sometimes in the morning. Right. How
Speaker 1: pissed is Joe going to be? I have a feeling
Speaker 1: I'll never be able to leave the house ever again. Hey,
Speaker 1: remember when you got the chicken pox when we were seven,
Speaker 1: and we rigged up that bucket so I could send
Speaker 1: down comic books and I could send up candy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we can do that again. I could send up new
Speaker 1: info about the case, and I could send down leads
Speaker 1: for you to chase. It's a good system, it is.
Speaker 1: We make a good team. Is that he's asleep? Should we?
Speaker 1: It might be our only chance? Come on, ship? Is
Speaker 1: that the Duffel bag? Oh? My god? Quick? Yeah? Anything? Nothing,
Speaker 1: just Charleston choose? Oh my god? What what is it?
Speaker 1: Those are Riley's favorite candy bars? What? Come on? We
Speaker 1: have to get out of here. Wait what let me
Speaker 1: go first? Ross White? Just okay, yeah, he's out, Let's
Speaker 1: go come on. H Oh my god. I can't believe
Speaker 1: we just did that. Are you happy now we've successfully
Speaker 1: followed Mr Beatie I'm just happy we didn't get caught.
Speaker 1: Miracle of miracles. Where are we? I think somewhere southwest
Speaker 1: of the main mine entrance, which means the nearest road
Speaker 1: should be about a mile that way. How in the
Speaker 1: hell do you know that? I told you I studied
Speaker 1: the maps for a day. I have a good memory.
Speaker 1: You're amazing. All right, I guess we should start heading
Speaker 1: to the road. Then, do you have a watch? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a ship's dark out. It's almost nine o'clock. Crap,
Speaker 1: Joe is going to kill me. At least it's not
Speaker 1: three am. True. I don't understand why would Mr Beatty
Speaker 1: want to kidnap rightly? Do you think he did it?
Speaker 1: It's not looking good Ross, I know, I know, But
Speaker 1: you thinking Mr Beati is creepy isn't actually a compelling
Speaker 1: motive for a crime like this. Having a secret murder
Speaker 1: cabin feels like a good start. Okay, let's go through
Speaker 1: what we need. Mr Baty has left his own house
Speaker 1: most nights for anywhere from an hour to half the night,
Speaker 1: sometimes with stuff, but basically never returning with the same stuff.
Speaker 1: And we don't know anything about him owning any other property.
Speaker 1: But then again, we didn't know anything about him having
Speaker 1: a family at one time, so yeah, any updates on that,
Speaker 1: nothing new, just that we had a wife and son
Speaker 1: and they're gone now. I don't know the specifics. But
Speaker 1: that also tells us that Mr Beatie is really private.
Speaker 1: So him owning a cabin in the woods that no
Speaker 1: one knows about, not outside of the realm of possibility exactly.
Speaker 1: Then there's the matter of that I would guess seven
Speaker 1: dollars in cash in the nightstand and the candy bars
Speaker 1: and the candy bars and that phone call. Someone knew
Speaker 1: he was going to be there, or someone knew that
Speaker 1: someone was going to be there. He sounded angry right
Speaker 1: on the phone. Beaty always sounds angry. Yeah, but this
Speaker 1: wasn't yelling at you for ruining his roses. This was
Speaker 1: he sounded scared too, like desperate. Yeah, yeah, she's it's
Speaker 1: cold here. Oh you don't need to you've lived here.
Speaker 1: You're a whole life, Max. How are you not in
Speaker 1: the habit of bundling up. I'm wearing my winter coat, yeah,
Speaker 1: with no hat, no gloves. But now you're going to
Speaker 1: be cold. It's just a scarf. Miles, Well, thank you,
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Max, Yeah, I can you keep my little
Speaker 1: freak out to yourself. You really don't want anyone hearing
Speaker 1: about me having a panic attack in Mr Beaty's closet.
Speaker 1: It wasn't exactly planning on telling anyone about the trespassing
Speaker 1: we just did, of course. But also, there's nothing embarrassing
Speaker 1: about that, Ross says you. I think it's normal to
Speaker 1: get stressed out in a situation like that. You weren't, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I had you there. Uh, I don't know. Everything
Speaker 1: always seems less scary when you're there. You always pulled
Speaker 1: me back before I do something really stupid, do I
Speaker 1: I feel like you've been doing plenty of stupid stuff lately. Thanks, well,
Speaker 1: I'm glad my cowardest keeps you grounded. That's not what
Speaker 1: I meant, then, what did you mean? Oh? Ye wait?
Speaker 1: Is that what? Oh my god, Ross, this is I
Speaker 1: can't believe it. It It that's Riley's backpack. Now. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna stand here and chew you out for joining the
Speaker 1: search party without my knowledge. An extremely dangerous thing to do,
Speaker 1: because I know your uncle was going to be plenty
Speaker 1: mad for the both of us. I know, I know,
Speaker 1: Mr Colmes. I'm really sorry. Okay, I should have told you,
Speaker 1: but I knew you wouldn't have let me, right, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have, and you Ross, I thought you knew better.
Speaker 1: What gave you that idea? You're supposed to be looking
Speaker 1: out for maccine? Why does everyone insist on making Ross
Speaker 1: my keeper? Because you need someone to look out for you, Max,
Speaker 1: I do. I've got all of hastings, which is why
Speaker 1: it's my job to look up for Hastings. In return,
Speaker 1: you can do that by staying safe. I thought you
Speaker 1: weren't going to chew us out. I'm not, but I
Speaker 1: need you to understand just how serious that we do.
Speaker 1: That's what we're trying to tell you. Look, we found
Speaker 1: Ridley's backpack what in the woods about half a mile
Speaker 1: east of Root three or two? Do you know the
Speaker 1: mile marker? I don't know. It was dark, so we
Speaker 1: didn't check. That's okay, No, it's not. I don't know
Speaker 1: how I didn't think of that. It was near that
Speaker 1: old covered bridge, the one that crosses Dry Creek River,
Speaker 1: that's right. I don't know how we could have missed that.
Speaker 1: We checked that area on our first search party. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe it wasn't there. My my quite a gathering for
Speaker 1: near midnight on a week night. How I hope these
Speaker 1: young people are an in trouble, Sheriff combs. You know,
Speaker 1: parking isn't a crime, even if it is frowned upon.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, God, we can't even drive. How I
Speaker 1: didn't think you'd be in this late, which is why
Speaker 1: I didn't look at this. Max and Ross found Riley
Speaker 1: Stevens backpack. Really well, isn't that very interesting? It's a
Speaker 1: good sign, right, I mean maybe it wasn't even there
Speaker 1: when we did the first search party. Maybe Riley left it,
Speaker 1: maybe he really is lost, or maybe saying it definitely
Speaker 1: is progress. Well, what's in it? Nothing of note? Just
Speaker 1: school books, pens, pencils. Is his camera in there? Riley
Speaker 1: had a camera he liked to take photos for his articles. Wait,
Speaker 1: you're right, where's his camera? Not here? Very strange indeed,
Speaker 1: and YouTube just found these. Yeah, it was just sitting
Speaker 1: on the forest floor and this was it, right, Nothing
Speaker 1: else in the area around it? No, we checked. Did
Speaker 1: you come across anything else in the woods? Anything odd? Nope? No,
Speaker 1: nothing odd at all. Maxie Miles was created by Lauren
Speaker 1: Chippen and as a production of a typical Artists and
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. This episode was written and directed by
Speaker 1: Lauren Shipman, dialogue, editing and sound side by Morrissy Ewing
Speaker 1: of Hemla Creek Productions, with editing sistens from Laurian Davis
Speaker 1: and Melissa Ponds. It featured Jordan Cobb as Maxie Miles,
Speaker 1: Mixa Follow as Ross Teller, Nate to Fort as Mr Beatie,
Speaker 1: Sean Jane as Sheriff Combs, and Josh Ropino as Mayor
Speaker 1: how Original artwork by Shane McMullan. For more information about
Speaker 1: the show US, visit Maxie Miles dot com and follow
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Speaker 1: executive produced by Lauren Shippen and I heart Radio and
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