TX - Terri 'Missy' Bevers, 45, killed in church/suspect in SWAT gear, Midlothian, 18 Apr 2016 #46

[acehard]

Maybe, he's a first timer. Didn't it take Bundy and Dahmer years to enact their second murders? If he's young, maybe his satisfaction level is working itself out. Maybe, he's in the learning phase of committing a cleaner crime.

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He/She might have been burglarizing other places at 3-4 am in this getup and this is the first time they encountered someone as well as caught on surveillance. You don't expect someone on a Monday morning in a church at 4 am. It makes sense he/she thought there would be money from the Sunday services. Obviously has to change MO after seeing themselves on TV. Use hammer to break in, carry a gun just in case. IMO

 

[TheGardener]

The gait is similar to what is called "out-toeing" or "Duck Walk". If the condition isn't corrected in childhood, it can become more pronounced and painful as the child matures into their teenage years and adulthood. It can be made worse by a sedentary lifestyle that can cause a shift in the balls of the femur in the hip socket. This condition in a child or young adult is pronounced enough to perhaps cause the person to become the object of bullying or ridicule.
Causes may be:

Skeletal Causes:

• Femoral Retrotorsion: the femur (thigh bone) is rotated out leading the rest of the lower extremity to turn out.
  
  • Potentially associated with Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis (SCFE) which is ruled out via an x-ray and is a serious medical condition. SCFE is a condition where the head of the femur slips off the neck of the femur. Seen primarily in males during early adolescence.
    
    
  • Legg-Calve-Perthes (LCP) may also cause toe-out. This is a condition where the head of the femur stops getting blood supply and the bone begins to die or become necrotic. This is also ruled out via x-ray and is a serious medical condition. Primarily seen in boys ages 6-10.
    
• Tibial External/Lateral Torsion: the tibia (lower leg bone) rotates outward causing the foot to turn out as well.
  
  
• Flat feet: the collapse of the arch sends the toes out to the side in compensation for the arch position. The “too many toes sign” is a good indicator that potentially flat feet are leading to your child’s out-toeing presentation.
  
  
  Non-Skeletal Causes:
  
  • Neurologic conditions: like cerebral palsy can lead to out-toeing just like in-toeing. The spasticity changes their gait pattern and causes different muscle tightness.
    
• It might be helpful to search local school, doctor and specialist records to see if any of the suspects have such a medical history. They may also be flat footed.

 

[TheGardener]

He/She might have been burglarizing other places at 3-4 am in this getup and this is the first time they encountered someone as well as caught on surveillance. You don't expect someone on a Monday morning in a church at 4 am. It makes sense he/she thought there would be money from the Sunday services. Obviously has to change MO after seeing themselves on TV. Use hammer to break in, carry a gun just in case. IMO

Its my understanding that she posted the class schedules online. Wouldn't the church pastors count up and secure the Sunday morning donations? Why would he think they left the funds ripe for plucking until Monday morning, a work day? He may be an experienced burglar, but it seems he's not a very successful one.

 

[Itsapuzzle]

Totally random off topic. Does anyone understand the top the perp is wearing? So it's got the quilting at the back, but at the front we can see the v-neck top (which I still find odd for this outfit if it's a male) - but anyway, there seems to be a goody bag attached to it on the left-hand side creating an image of bulk there. Also this v-neck top seems to be made of a thin fabric? Thanks if anyone has a picture of what this jacket is.

 

[acehard]

Its my understanding that she posted the class schedules online. Wouldn't the church pastors count up and secure the Sunday morning donations? Why would he think they left the funds ripe for plucking until Monday morning, a work day? He may be an experienced burglar, but it seems he's not a very successful one.

The ones here have evening services around 5 pm that can go late till people clear out. One had a cash box that they locked. Not sure of their deposit process or if they kept cash in the church. I feel like he's some war vet PTSD stoner type. I don't see him checking Facebook and all. JMO

 

[Gumshoe Stories]

Its my understanding that she posted the class schedules online. Wouldn't the church pastors count up and secure the Sunday morning donations? Why would he think they left the funds ripe for plucking until Monday morning, a work day? He may be an experienced burglar, but it seems he's not a very successful one.

Why does it seem odd that a burglar might think a church would still have the Sunday offerings somewhere on site? Some churches count everything and do a night drop at the bank but others wait until Monday. My mother in law was a church secretary - they waited until Monday to count and deposit. Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston had a burglary sometime between Sunday and Monday morning and the thieves got $600k in cash and credit card transactions.

 

[Jethro4WS]

While we don’t have access to the 911 calls, we do have the dispatch report, which tells us what was discussed on the 911 calls:

Dropbox - 911 dispatch log.pdf - Simplify your life

Refer to the “Call Remarks” section. There were two 911 calls because there are two different dispatchers listed - “lward” and “rparrish”. The first call came into lward at 5:01 and was to report that Missy was unresponsive, not breathing, and that CPR was in progress. Then rparrish begins to note information provided by the RP.

The reporting party (RP) was the early bird camper who was the first to arrive. The RP stated the following:

Missy’s truck door was open.
RP didn’t see anyone else.
Missy’s vehicle was the only vehicle seen.
Missy arrives at 4 am every morning.
RP arrived at 4:30.
There is broken glass inside the church.
Interior door windows are broken in.

What we can conclude definitively is that no camper heard a shot, period. The killer was either already gone, or snuck away from the other side of the building without the RP being aware. The RP neither saw nor heard anything.

Regarding the gun, police do have some physical evidence and they do know what type of gun was used. If they recover a gun, they will be able to determine whether it is a match.

BBM. On the video we only see one interior door window that gets broken - Room 9 at the NE. It is my understanding that when campers did enter they were able to spot Missy quickly and went to her. Did campers go walking around the inside the building to the NE after finding Missy? Is there some room door that had a window broken that we haven't seen? Do all the room doors at the NW have windows in them?

 

[Gumshoe Stories]

BBM. On the video we only see one interior door window that gets broken - Room 9 at the NE. It is my understanding that when campers did enter they were able to spot Missy quickly and went to her. Did campers go walking around the inside the building to the NE after finding Missy? Is there some room door that had a window broken that we haven't seen? Do all the room doors at the NW have windows in them?

I think it’s a good bet that someone made a quick tour of the church to see what else had been disturbed. There were five campers there, and within minutes it would have dawned on them that someone did this to Missy and it wasn’t an accident of Missy falling or a health episode. So they would have inspected to see what else was disturbed and if someone was still lurking. They would have seen room 9 as well as the kitchen service door, and that may be where the plural “windows” came from.

It’s also possible that room 14’s window was broken out, if that room was locked. There are two rooms on that side, 9 and 14, and since 9 was locked there is a good chance 14 was too.

And yes, all the rooms along the main hall from SW to NW have windows in them. The only exception is the janitorial closet (#1). All those rooms are classrooms, and it doesn’t appear that the church locked them. Even the church offices were often not locked.

 

[TheGardener]

I feel like he's some war vet PTSD stoner type. I don't see him checking Facebook and all. JMO

I think you're close, but I don't believe they would qualify for military service considering their disability. They don't seem to be using what might be considered "tactical" moves. They're more or less strolling around like they have all the time in the world to poke and probe around on doors and such. I do think you're right about them having a somewhat skewed, military mindset. They didn't choose military fatigues. They chose "top cop" as their role. I just can't get over their ridiculous costume choice.

 

[cady]

BBM. On the video we only see one interior door window that gets broken - Room 9 at the NE. It is my understanding that when campers did enter they were able to spot Missy quickly and went to her. Did campers go walking around the inside the building to the NE after finding Missy? Is there some room door that had a window broken that we haven't seen? Do all the room doors at the NW have windows in them?

Brave campers, inspecting the building with a murderer's location unknown....Jethro, many moons ago you had a specific POI that you had done extensive research on. Do you still have that POI in mind? Has anything caused you to eliminate them? Thanks JMO

 

[cady]

I think you're close, but I don't believe they would qualify for military service considering their disability. They don't seem to be using what might be considered "tactical" moves. They're more or less strolling around like they have all the time in the world to poke and probe around on doors and such. I do think you're right about them having a somewhat skewed, military mindset. They didn't choose military fatigues. They chose "top cop" as their role. I just can't get over their ridiculous costume choice.

But WHY that church, WHY that day, WHY that time and WHY Missy?

 

[TheGardener]

I recently saw a program - Lies, Crimes and Video - HLN 2019 Series - #4 "Murder In the Church", where the forensic podiatrist, Dr. Michael Nirenberg, claims to have been given unreleased surveillance video of MB being approached by SB moments before the murder. He describes what he saw as "like looking at a horror movie and thinking, YOU NEED TO RUN OUT."
This leads me to believe that MB was surprised by SB. MB was beyond physically fit and to my mind could have taken the short, costume laden, physically compromised SB in a physical fight...if given the chance. She didn't get that chance, because SB didn't choose to back off and leave the building. SB chose to creep up on and strike at what appears to have been an unsuspecting person.
This leads me to believe that all of the door opening and exploring done by SB wasn't a matter of looking for something to steal. SB was unfamiliar with the building and didn't know where the exercise class would be. SB didn't open doors, go inside, rummage around through drawers or look for safes. SB opened doors, gave cursory examinations and quickly moved on.
I can only surmise from the doctor's description of the video footage that he saw, that MB did not discover and "surprise the burglar" and cause them to respond with violence. SB found her unaware and chose to commit an extremely rage fueled murder.

I am struck by the dichotomy, the polar opposites of these two people. SB is relatively short, on the dumpy side, has a compromising physical condition and a need to project authority. MB is a physical specimen, loaded with self-confidence, has an enthusiastic following, is considered a "workout guru". Night and day. I am also struck by the incapacitating hammer blows and the completely unnecessary puncture wounding. It is all so personal and beyond a burglar's disappointment at coming up empty-handed.

 

[SteveS]

But WHY that church, WHY that day, WHY that time and WHY Missy?

If we assume the answer to "why Missy" is "because she happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time," then your other questions become really good ones to ponder.

Without Missy being the attraction, the selection of "that church, that day, that time" all somewhat limit who the perp could have been. He must have selected the place (as a target) and it would have been of some convenience (in comparison to other possible places to break into). In what way could that have happened? And, just as importantly, what can we rule out?

 

[SteveS]

... Nirenberg, claims to have been given unreleased surveillance video of MB being approached by SB moments before he murder. He describes what he saw as "like looking at a horror movie and thinking, YOU NEED TO RUN OUT."

This leads me to believe that MB was surprised by SB.

Maybe.

But his thinking was based on what he knew, not on what he saw. He didn't say he saw "MB being approached" by the perp. (And from what we have been told by LE, there's probably no video of anything like that.)

He just knew, at that video moment, something that MB did not know -- that her murder was going to happen soon thereafter.

We have no way of knowing whether MB saw the perp and recognized who it was, saw the perp and thought it was police, saw the perp and was alarmed, or never saw the perp at all and was shot before she had any clue.

 

[cady]

If we assume the answer to "why Missy" is "because she happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time," then your other questions become really good ones to ponder.

Without Missy being the attraction, the selection of "that church, that day, that time" all somewhat limit who the perp could have been. He must have selected the place (as a target) and it would have been of some convenience (in comparison to other possible places to break into). In what way could that have happened? And, just as importantly, what can we rule out?

I just cannot rule out the gruesome, personalized OVERKILL. True, SP didn't know that the gunshot killed her, so an extra blow to the head is feasible, I guess, but why spend precious time to get away using tools to gouge and puncture and mutilate, when SP had a gun?

 

[SteveS]

I just cannot rule out the gruesome, personalized OVERKILL. True, SP didn't know that the gunshot killed her, so an extra blow to the head is feasible, I guess, but why spend precious time to get away using tools to gouge and puncture and mutilate, when SP had a gun?

What overkill? What extra time being spent? What extra weapons?

From what we have been told, it could have been just 1-2-3 -- 1 one shot to the head, 2 one shot to the chest, and 3 run away (not caring whether she is dead or alive). Anything "more" is something we have to assume and insert, and in so doing can be total fiction. Those others can be imagined if we wish, but we don't know that any of those existed at all.

All we know is someone broke into the church, wandered through it, and eventually shot and killed MB.

So maybe the target was the church, not MB. Why that church, over some other location? What regarding the perp caused such a selection? We should be trying to figure out these answers imo, because they might tell us things about the perp that we are trying to identify.

 

[TheGardener]

But WHY that church, WHY that day, WHY that time and WHY Missy?

1. WHY that church? - Because Missy advertised it on the web and promised to be there "rain or shine."
2. WHY that day? - Because Missy promised to be there and advertised it on the web.
3. WHY that time? - Because Missy advertised it on the web.
4. WHY Missy? - Because Missy was beautiful, confident, fit, sexually radiant, cheerful, reveled in the power of her physical attributes being the foundation of a successful life, was boldly uninhibited, seemed physically unflawed, had an approving fan following.
SB was none of these things. SB was short, dumpy, noticeably physically compromised. SB didn't hide their face as burglars might do. SB tried to hide their entire obviously compromised body in a costume that projected what they do not have - authority. SB's costume denies knowledge of their sexual identity and replaces it with an unanswered sexual question - What is it? We don't know, but what we do know is the unmistakable physical deformity that a full body costume could not hide.
We all might be a little bit, harmlessly jealous of a woman like Missy, but for some who suffer ridicule and bullying, she might embody everything they are not, a symbol defining a crushing, all encompassing inadequacy and a lifetime of failure to fit in. For some, the comparative thrust of our moment of envy might well become manifest as a jealous and vindictive rage in a stalker. Missy thrives on being the person who can help fix what is fixable and empowering. SB cannot be fixed.

I believe SB was an online stalker who developed a love/hate fixation for Missy and decided to bring their hatred to fruition in the "real" world. Missy provided the opportunity, the invitation to her location, the time. She did not disclose where in the building she might be before the start of class. That required a hunt on SB's part.
She promised to be there "rain or shine".
SB believed her. IMO

 

[gliving]

If I found my fitness coach brutally murdered, the last thing I would do is go looking around the church for other disturbances or a lurking murderer. Nope.

 

[cady]

For those who continuously support the notion that Missy was an unfortunate victim of a run-of-the -mill unfruitful church burglary, why the interest in the case, 5 years after the fact? Unsolved burglaries happen every day. So do unsolved murders, for that matter. If she is just collateral damage, who cares who the burglar is/was. JMO

 

[FromGermany1]

Totally random off topic. Does anyone understand the top the perp is wearing? So it's got the quilting at the back, but at the front we can see the v-neck top (which I still find odd for this outfit if it's a male) - but anyway, there seems to be a goody bag attached to it on the left-hand side creating an image of bulk there. Also this v-neck top seems to be made of a thin fabric? Thanks if anyone has a picture of what this jacket is.
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On the pic to the right it seems indeed to be a slip-on shoe on his right foot, open at the rear end. NIN??