
This week, in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, a trip to a friend's house to buy some meth, turns into a horrifying three day session of brutality, when a man is duct taped, and seeming driven all over town, in the trunk of car. He's also stuffed into a...
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Dwayna Beebe
Here we go.
Jimmy Wissman
Let's go on a trip, shall we?
James Petregallo
We are going to belle fourche, south dakota.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
Now if I gave you 10 tries on the spelling of Belle Fourche, South.
James Petregallo
Dakota, you would need 20 because it's ridiculous.
Dwayna Beebe
Ph in the shit.
James Petregallo
No, see, there you go. B E, l l e. Like, you.
Jimmy Wissman
Know, belle, the french version.
James Petregallo
And then f o u, r, C h E. That's foosh. There's an R. There's an r. That's foosh. Okay.
Jimmy Wissman
That is some.
James Petregallo
That sounds like some like louisiana shit, right?
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah, it sounds very French.
James Petregallo
South of new Orleans or something.
Dwayna Beebe
This is in south sounds uneducated is what it sounds.
James Petregallo
Yeah. And I'm not saying it is. That's probably just how you pronounce it. I don't even know. We don't know anything about it. The last thing we know about is french. Speaking of uneducated, we're the dummy. We're dummies. We don't know anything about other languages.
Dwayna Beebe
That's all I know.
Jimmy Wissman
We know nothing. This is in southwestern south dakota. About four hours to billings, Montana. To the west, about a half hour.
James Petregallo
To deadwood, which we've done before. And then about six hours to our last episode, which was in yankton, south dakota. That was the hammerhands killer. That was a wild episode with the hammer. You got to listen to that. If you haven't. Episode 551. This is in butte county. Like butte, montana, Even though it's in south Dakota. Okay. This is sure.
Jimmy Wissman
Area code 605. Population here, 5561 people.
James Petregallo
So small place, not a big town at all.
Jimmy Wissman
Median household income here, it's usually about 69,000 in the rest of the country. Here it is 46,151.
James Petregallo
So significantly lower than the national average.
Jimmy Wissman
And the median home cost here is $263,100.
James Petregallo
So tough. If you're making 46 grand, that's a tough one.
Jimmy Wissman
A little bit of history, I guess. Belle Fourche is French for beautiful fork.
James Petregallo
Yeah, see, that's what I mean. We don't know anything. It was named. Yeah. It was named by French explorers who.
Jimmy Wissman
Referred to the confluence of what is now the Belle Fourche and Redwater rivers and the Hay Creek fork in the river. Beautiful fork. And it's a nice area, too.
James Petregallo
It's very pretty.
Jimmy Wissman
South Dakota is a scenic area.
James Petregallo
It's really pretty.
Jimmy Wissman
Beaver trappers work in the rivers.
James Petregallo
You know.
Jimmy Wissman
We call them pimps in.
James Petregallo
The 21st century, but back then they. Beaver trappers, I guess they were called. I don't know, working the rivers, trying to get the ladies. No, that's not working.
Dwayna Beebe
That's a bar. Fly.
Jimmy Wissman
Actual beaver trappers here. And during the gold rush of 1876.
James Petregallo
Farmers and ranchers settled in the valleys and grew food and meat and things for the miners. So became that.
Jimmy Wissman
Now, Seth Bullock, who you might remember from the show Deadwood, the character Seth.
James Petregallo
Bullock, Timothy Oliphant's character, that's a kind of a half true, half, you know, half made up account of Seth Bullock on Deadwood.
Jimmy Wissman
Some of the stuff is true, but.
James Petregallo
Then some of the stuff isn't. The dates are moved around a little bit, you know.
Jimmy Wissman
So Seth Bullock steal his brother's wife.
Dwayna Beebe
Isn't that who she was?
James Petregallo
He died. Back then, that was considered a noble thing to do to marry your brother's widow so they wouldn't be, you know, homeless. So I guess Seth Bullock knew that.
Jimmy Wissman
The cattle barons and the railroad would need a place to load cattle onto freight cars for shipment to packing plants in the Midwest. So Seth Bullock pretty much founded Belle.
James Petregallo
Fourche as a really a place to do that. Yeah. So Timothy Oliphant founded this town, which is interesting here. Now, he arrived in Deadwood, actually on August 2, 1876, to sell supplies to.
Jimmy Wissman
The Deadwood miners, just like in the show.
James Petregallo
But he arrived the day Wild Bill Hickok was killed. So that whole friendship from the show.
Dwayna Beebe
Didn'T even know him.
James Petregallo
Didn't happen.
Dwayna Beebe
Damn it.
James Petregallo
Might have seen him, but never, you know, didn't hang out and have dinner with him.
Dwayna Beebe
I just love that they. They sat there building the place after getting drunk all day.
James Petregallo
That was playing cards and shit, throwing.
Dwayna Beebe
Hammers after being hammered.
Jimmy Wissman
So here's some reviews of this town here.
James Petregallo
5 stars.
Jimmy Wissman
This town is one of the Greatest small towns that anyone could find in the United States. Yeah, the community's full of loving, wonderful people who want to give back to one another. Summers, winters, and every season always brings a nostalgia that makes you feel like life couldn't get any better. Belle Fourche is an amazing rodeo town with great people.
Dwayna Beebe
Here you go. This is where I'm taking you.
James Petregallo
Jason, talk about the rodeo here.
Jimmy Wissman
Three stars. For the most part. It's a very safe area. Mostly smaller towns where everyone knows each other or is willing to give a.
James Petregallo
Helping hand if needed.
Jimmy Wissman
The police can be very single minded. They think they are always right and would rather argue than listen.
James Petregallo
That sounds like cops. But still, it's a safe area. Here's two stars or three stars.
Jimmy Wissman
I'm sorry. The seasons are very different from one another. Very hot summers and very cold winters.
James Petregallo
Not listen to this idiot. Your review is over, sir. Done.
Dwayna Beebe
That's very specific to this area, huh?
James Petregallo
I'm not gonna listen to some idiot tell me that summer's different from winter. You don't deserve to be heard, asshole. Go away. Okay.
Jimmy Wissman
Not everyone deserves a voice.
James Petregallo
You know what I mean? Two stars here. Moving on.
Dwayna Beebe
Sugar's sweet.
Jimmy Wissman
Sugar is sweet. And salt is salty.
James Petregallo
Water is wet. So two stars.
Jimmy Wissman
In our town, we have very limited eating choices. Neighboring localities offer a few more choices. We might find some better choices for food and entertainment. 30 miles away in our gambling city, Deadwood.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah.
James Petregallo
Yeah. There's not a lot going on here in this town, we'll put it that way.
Dwayna Beebe
You want to go to Deadwood, you.
James Petregallo
Go to Deadwood, which is also a small town. So that's interesting things to do here.
Jimmy Wissman
The Black Hills rodeo Roundup. Roundup Rodeo.
James Petregallo
I apologize here.
Jimmy Wissman
And they say, here's the description. Just what is a ranch rodeo? In many ways, it harkens back to the roots of the Black Hills roundup when working ranch skills were put to the test in competitions for the enjoyment of spectators.
James Petregallo
Ranch rodeos are still events in which.
Jimmy Wissman
Traditional working cowboys gather to compete and.
James Petregallo
Demonstrate skills that are used every day.
Jimmy Wissman
In cattle ranching operations.
James Petregallo
So I think these aren't like your.
Jimmy Wissman
Professional touring rodeo people.
James Petregallo
These are like. Like fucking ranch hands that actually are.
Dwayna Beebe
These are real people. Yeah.
James Petregallo
Yeah, that's what I mean. Which is interesting. They say they don't do it for sport.
Dwayna Beebe
They do it for their job.
James Petregallo
Yes. They have to do it. This is how they eat. They're trying to create a more genuine.
Jimmy Wissman
Presentation of real life ranch work.
James Petregallo
Yeah. I don't know if the traditional rodeos, if A lot of those like events actually have any, any real relevance.
Dwayna Beebe
Ride a actual ranch every day for eight seconds?
Jimmy Wissman
Probably not. I assume you probably your horses are.
James Petregallo
Probably pretty trained by then or whatever.
Jimmy Wissman
So they say. They said bucking stock are not used in ranch rodeo unless the ranch rodeo contestants unintentionally provide their own.
James Petregallo
So that's what that is.
Jimmy Wissman
And most of the events in the traditional rodeos are events for individual competitors. There's no events for individual competitors in ranch rodeos. This is a team.
James Petregallo
Teams consist of four cowboys and a.
Jimmy Wissman
Typical ranch rodeo will have four or five events. Each team has a maximum time limit.
James Petregallo
Of two and a half minutes to.
Jimmy Wissman
Successfully complete each event. Mutton busting will also be a part of the rodeo.
James Petregallo
They say the Black Hills Roundup today.
Jimmy Wissman
Is bigger and better than ever. Drawing top ranked cowboys and cowgirls to compete in heart pounding events like barrel racing, bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, bull riding and team roping and more.
Dwayna Beebe
God damn all the classics.
James Petregallo
We're going to enter the teen roping competition or team roping. Not teen roping, that'd be a really weird one. Just go to a high school. Get over here you little bastard.
Dwayna Beebe
Set out a naked 13 year old and try to rope her.
James Petregallo
I wasn't even thinking naked. I was thinking kids like in a school going take those goddamn crocs off and put some fucking sneakers on, you goddamn asshole. I wasn't thinking of it sexually at all. But I like to see where your mind goes. Yeah. So also they said they'll have patriotic.
Jimmy Wissman
Parades and every moment is packed with western charm, adrenaline and Americana.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah.
James Petregallo
And in addition to the community barbecue.
Jimmy Wissman
Mutton busting and all the events, they will also have the Miss Black Hills Rodeo Roundup Queen coronation there as well.
James Petregallo
Queen of the rodeo.
Jimmy Wissman
Also parades, fireworks and concerts. Concerts of such consequence that they don't.
James Petregallo
Name one of the bands.
Jimmy Wissman
So you know they're going to be great.
Dwayna Beebe
So good.
James Petregallo
That said, let's talk about some murder, shall we?
Dwayna Beebe
Here we go. Yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
Holy shit.
James Petregallo
This is crazy. All right, we're going to go back.
Jimmy Wissman
To 2004 for this whole thing here, this, this mess.
James Petregallo
2004 in July and 2004, not that.
Jimmy Wissman
Long ago, still, Internet, cell phones, just.
James Petregallo
You know, Internet's not really on your cell phone.
Jimmy Wissman
That's the only difference.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah.
James Petregallo
I mean, yeah, it can be, but it's not. It takes about 20 minutes to check your email on your phone.
Dwayna Beebe
Back then, a little less technology. Not every car had fucking navigation.
James Petregallo
Yeah, that's all. Otherwise Same world pretty much.
Jimmy Wissman
So let's talk about Troy Jason Klug. K L U G. Troy Klug with.
James Petregallo
A K. With a K. Hard Klug. He's born May 27, 1978 here. Troy.
Jimmy Wissman
So he's about 26 here in 2004.
James Petregallo
Yeah, he's born in Rapid City, South Dakota to parents Ronald and Joyce. And he was a boy Scout when.
Jimmy Wissman
He was a child.
James Petregallo
Real into sports, track, baseball, soccer. Loves to go out and do outdoor shit with his dad. You know, hunting, fishing, all the stuff people kind of do in this area. He's into it.
Jimmy Wissman
Yeah.
James Petregallo
Kind of young, real all American kind of lifestyle here. Something went wrong after high school though, because in high school he was out.
Jimmy Wissman
In the sports and this kind of thing.
James Petregallo
But by 2004 he appears to be a pretty severe meth addict. Oh, T Roy is not going well for Troy at this point in time. I mean, his family, he still like.
Jimmy Wissman
Talks to his family and gets along with them.
James Petregallo
He's not like, hasn't been banished from the, from the family or anything. Doesn't. His mother never came home and found all her furniture gone because he hawked it for meth or anything like that. He's not a.
Jimmy Wissman
Not a terrible piece of shit.
James Petregallo
He's just a drug addict and that's okay, you know, that kind of thing. He's got a girlfriend named.
Jimmy Wissman
I don't know if it's Dwayna or Duana. D, U, A, N A.
James Petregallo
That's Dwayne. It's Dwayne with an A. So I'm calling her Dwayna because that's what I called her. The whole time I was doing the notes. I was like, this is Dwayne A. Beebe and her last name's Bebe. B, E, E, B, E, B. Duana Bebe. Wow. That's Troy's girl right there. I had written under here, possibly Don Beebe's daughter. Let's check and see if her neck is springy and then we'll know. Rubber headed little girl, drop her on her head. Directly on her head. If she bounces up, then she's Don Beebe's daughter. We know that if she just like shoots up like a spring, we'll name her Dwayna. That's a real old school sports Reference from the 90s. A Buffalo Bills wide receiver that once. There's footage of him and it's a famous play of him landing directly on his head and he just bounces. It's like, it's like a pogo stick it's the craziest fucking thing I've ever. And then he gets up and walks away. I was like, oh, my God, your spine's three inches shorter.
Dwayna Beebe
Is the ground rule double off of Conseco's head? It's just as fucking wild.
James Petregallo
Lots of guys get hit in the head, though. The hat kind of protects you a little bit, but not over the.
Dwayna Beebe
Not over the fence like that.
James Petregallo
That was funny. Yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
This was like unbelievable.
James Petregallo
If the guy was alive, nevermind, had his neck intact.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah, there's a guy playing for the jets that wishes he was that springy in the neck.
James Petregallo
Yeah, no shit. So Dwayne's brother's name is Robert Highley. Appropriate. H, I, G, H, L, Y. No Y. Highley.
Dwayna Beebe
Jesus Christ.
James Petregallo
And he is another meth guy and he's high. Yeah, yeah. He's Troy's friend and Dwayne his brother. Okay, so that's how this works. Now, on the night of July 12.
Jimmy Wissman
2004.
James Petregallo
Robert comes over to where Dwayna and Troy are living, and he is.
Jimmy Wissman
Going to go out with Troy.
James Petregallo
Troy and Robert are gonna go out.
Jimmy Wissman
Together to go to a woman named.
James Petregallo
Cynthia Kindle's house in Rapid City to get some meth. Now Dwayna is pissed off.
Jimmy Wissman
She said that he wanted to go get the drugs as a front.
James Petregallo
Basically he owed this Kindle money for meth. So he was gonna go get meth.
Jimmy Wissman
Fronted to him so he could sell.
James Petregallo
It and pay back for both loans and. Yeah, get the last one and get this one paid for and be uneven ground.
Jimmy Wissman
That's the plan here.
James Petregallo
Okay.
Jimmy Wissman
Wow.
Dwayna Beebe
Balancing drug debt. Oh, man, that's worse than credit cards.
James Petregallo
Robbing Peter to pay Paul for meth is a lot.
Dwayna Beebe
And then get high. Paul high.
James Petregallo
And they're both still trying to get. Sell you meth. So. Yeah. And we're sober now.
Jimmy Wissman
Kendall was also Dwayne, a Bebe's drug dealer.
James Petregallo
So it's not like they were, you know, she's innocent in this whole thing either. Everybody's doing meth. Everyone we're going to talk about in this story does a shitload of meth.
Jimmy Wissman
There's not a human until we get.
James Petregallo
To like, the court proceedings and maybe the district attorney or something. Everyone else is on meth. It's crazy.
Dwayna Beebe
And we don't even know if the lawyers are not on meth, that they just aren't in trouble.
James Petregallo
We have no idea. Yeah, they're not arrested for it, so.
Jimmy Wissman
They end up leaving. And now she's pissed, by the way.
James Petregallo
She just had surgery, apparently, Dwayna.
Jimmy Wissman
So she's like, you're leaving me here.
James Petregallo
Post surgery to go get meth? Thanks a lot, asshole. She's pissed.
Jimmy Wissman
She said, I was mad because I couldn't believe he was even going over there.
James Petregallo
I was recovering from surgery, like, this is crazy. So they said, bye, change your bandages on your own. And Robert and Troy took off to go get some meth. Now, apparently, Troy calls his girlfriend Dwayne multiple times after that from when they left, but she wouldn't answer because she was upset with him for leaving.
Jimmy Wissman
So she wouldn't answer.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah.
James Petregallo
Later on, Troy sent. Later in the day, Troy sent Dwayne a text message asking, is Robert with you? Yeah, now they left together. So she's like, where the hell did you guys get split up?
Jimmy Wissman
She said, no, he's not.
James Petregallo
And then she never talked to him again. Oh, not on purpose either.
Jimmy Wissman
She wanted to, because as the day went on, he never came home.
James Petregallo
And she started to get worried. And now, you know, mad has turned to worry. That's the thing. If you're going to be late, be late enough. Where someone's worried, that's a better reception when you get home than there's a.
Jimmy Wissman
Middle ground where they're just mad.
James Petregallo
You gotta get away from that. You gotta come home earlier than mad or later than mad, but don't come home during the mad hours. That's bad. We all know that. Every guy knows that. Well, if I come home now, she's gonna be pissed.
Jimmy Wissman
If I wait a little while, she.
James Petregallo
Might be happy to see me.
Dwayna Beebe
If I wait two hours, she's gonna go, thank God. I've been so worried.
James Petregallo
Yeah. So about 7pm or she called his.
Jimmy Wissman
Phone multiple times and left voicemails. And after about 7pm, though, she couldn't.
James Petregallo
Leave any more messages because his voice box, his voicemail was full.
Dwayna Beebe
She filled it up.
James Petregallo
She filled it up. So now where the hell is he?
Jimmy Wissman
And where's Robert?
James Petregallo
What's going on? Well, let's find out where he is.
Jimmy Wissman
Well, he's at the.
James Petregallo
Cynthia Kindle's house, the one we talked about that has the dealer.
Jimmy Wissman
The dealer?
James Petregallo
Yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
She lives at 607 Cloud Street.
James Petregallo
And also with her here at Cynthia Kindle's house is Torrey Teigen. That's a guy, by the way.
Jimmy Wissman
We're gonna have a couple things where.
James Petregallo
It'S like a Jamie that's a girl, and a Tori, that's a guy. So we're gonna have to keep this straight.
Jimmy Wissman
Tori Te. You'll be able to tell by his.
James Petregallo
Actions that he's definitely a guy dude behavior. So. Oh, yeah. So Tory Teigen's nickname is the Mad Hatter. That's what everybody calls him. Not a compliment, by the way. The Mad Hatter was insane, and it was named after guys who went insane from inhaling chemicals. So it's not good, which is what he does. He inhales chemicals and.
Dwayna Beebe
Really?
James Petregallo
Yeah. So Tory is there. Torrey Teigen, he'd been staying at Cynthia Kendall's house. Now Troy.
Jimmy Wissman
Not Tory, Troy Klug.
James Petregallo
Now I'll just call him Klug as our main guy here, and then I'll do Tory Teigen. So Klug, he proposed to buy some meth here and all of this type of thing. So they arrived. Hailey and Klug, Robert Highley and Troy Klug. They meet Torrey Teigen and Cynthia Kendall at the house.
Jimmy Wissman
They asked Robert to leave.
James Petregallo
Robert Highley, they said leave. So Robert gets in Troy Klug's vehicle and leaves.
Dwayna Beebe
Really?
Jimmy Wissman
So now Troy is at the house by himself.
James Petregallo
That's why he was texting. A little while went by, and he.
Jimmy Wissman
Was texting his girlfriend going, where's your brother? Is he with you?
James Petregallo
Did he come back to the house with my car? Where the fuck is he? So a little while after that, Cynthia.
Jimmy Wissman
Kendall leaves as well.
James Petregallo
She's got to take off.
Dwayna Beebe
So just leaving Tori and Troy together.
Jimmy Wissman
Leaving them together. So Cynthia Kendall leaves back. She's not gone very long, by the way.
Dwayna Beebe
She comes right back.
Jimmy Wissman
Gone a little while, half hour or whatever.
James Petregallo
When she comes back, she finds that.
Jimmy Wissman
Troy and Tori are both still there.
James Petregallo
But Torrey Teigen had bound Troy Klug with duct tape.
Jimmy Wissman
He is now duct taped and bound.
James Petregallo
And then Cynthia Kendall and Torrey Teigen loaded clug into the trunk of Cynthia.
Jimmy Wissman
Kendall's black Nissan car and left. So he's duct taped in the trunk now.
James Petregallo
Troy Club.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah.
James Petregallo
They.
Jimmy Wissman
Where are they going?
James Petregallo
To Dwayne. A BB's house.
Dwayna Beebe
Of course, Dwayne is having them come over.
James Petregallo
Maybe they're. Maybe they're. No, she doesn't even know they're coming.
Dwayna Beebe
Oh, but that's where we're going.
James Petregallo
They're going over there now.
Jimmy Wissman
This is about 9pm so this is two hours after the voicemail's been full.
James Petregallo
They're gonna roll up. I don't know if they're gonna. I mean, what, are they gonna drop them off on the front porch all duct taped up like a fucking FedEx package? I don't know what's going on.
Dwayna Beebe
It's a weird way to get your credit declined.
James Petregallo
Yeah, I would say. Talk about cutting up your cards. Yeah. So she was upstairs in her bedroom.
Jimmy Wissman
Dwayna recovering from the surgery. Kendall and Tegan come up the stairs.
James Petregallo
To her bedroom and they ask her.
Jimmy Wissman
Do you know where Troy is?
Dwayna Beebe
Right.
Jimmy Wissman
Or she.
James Petregallo
I'm sorry.
Jimmy Wissman
She asked them, do you know where Troy is?
James Petregallo
I thought he was going to your house.
Jimmy Wissman
Cynthia replies that Troy had shown up at her house, but she told him to leave.
James Petregallo
Doesn't say anything about. Then we duct taped him and put him in the back of a fucking.
Dwayna Beebe
In a trunk in the fucking driveway. Right.
James Petregallo
If you listen real hard, you can hear like beating against the trunk right now.
Dwayna Beebe
Trunk lid of my 200 SX.
Jimmy Wissman
At this point, they start. Troy, Tori Teigen and Cynthia Kendall start.
James Petregallo
Going through, rummaging through the room through all of Troy Klug stuff. At one point here, Teagan, Tory Teigen.
Jimmy Wissman
Takes a bottle of Troy Clark's cologne and says, well, if it's Troy's, it's.
James Petregallo
Ours now, and just pocketed it.
Jimmy Wissman
And they were like taking his things and saying similar shit. Cynthia was saying the same thing. Well, if this belongs to Troy, it.
James Petregallo
Belongs to us now. Because he owes them. Because he owes them money.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah.
James Petregallo
Wait till you hear the amount that is owed here. This is not.
Dwayna Beebe
Did that bottle of cologne probably cover it?
James Petregallo
This isn't half a million dollars. This isn't. You know what I mean? Like, he owes us. He went big on the fucking. He went big on the Browns for the super bowl and now he's. He's a half a million in the hole or whatever. It's not one of those things at all. So we'll talk about it. So now bb, Dwayne BB Asks, you.
Jimmy Wissman
Know, what the fuck?
James Petregallo
Basically. And you know, where is my.
Jimmy Wissman
Where is Troy Klug? Where is he? So Cynthia Kendall says, don't worry, he's not no longer a problem. And then said, isn't that right, Tory?
James Petregallo
To Torrey Teigen.
Jimmy Wissman
And then Torey responded, yes.
James Petregallo
And Dwayne and Bebe said they were smirking while they said this and, like, making weird eye contact with each other. And then Dwayne and Bebe asked them to leave. Get the fuck out of my house is what she said, probably more accurately. So they do leave and they drive.
Jimmy Wissman
To someone else's house.
Dwayna Beebe
Whose house?
Jimmy Wissman
Jamie Korean.
James Petregallo
Jamie Korean. It's the word Korean with a C, C, O, R, E, a N. She is definitely not Korean, by the way, as a white girl. As they come this is amazing. This is great.
Dwayna Beebe
So the names make it everything.
James Petregallo
It really helps.
Dwayna Beebe
So good.
James Petregallo
So we have Don Beebe's daughter over there. Now we're going to Jamie Corian's house, who's a white woman. Jamie Corian. Okay. Jamie Correa sounds like Jeff Tywon's house. It sounds like a made up online name that somebody has. You know what I mean?
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah.
James Petregallo
Didn't Jamie Correa tell you about the.
Dwayna Beebe
Best recipe, Ron Mexico.
James Petregallo
Like somebody used that shit. Yes. Whatever the fuck it was. I think it was like Benny Tijuana or something, I don't remember.
Jimmy Wissman
So Jamie Corian's house.
James Petregallo
Now at Jamie Corian's house is Jamie Corian and her boyfriend Jason Kuzik. K U S I C K. So the word sick is in his name. So these people are aptly named. Now a little bit about Jamie Karian.
Jimmy Wissman
She said she grew up in a good family, had a very sheltered upbringing. In high school she was studying hard.
James Petregallo
And doing sports and everything like that.
Jimmy Wissman
She said her mother started to change and her parents marriage broke up. So she moved with her father to Belle Fourche.
James Petregallo
And she said at that point I.
Jimmy Wissman
Was dabbling and drinking, smoking a little pot. At the beginning of my sophomore year, meth came around.
James Petregallo
The sad part is I liked it.
Dwayna Beebe
Oh, that is sad. Yeah.
James Petregallo
Yeah. So a lot of these people have the same story achievers and then meth came around and they're like, oh, well, this is great.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah.
James Petregallo
And a lot of people start things like a speed type thing to be able to keep achieving. That's why they do it. And then once they're too far into it, then that all goes away. There's nothing in the. Yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
She said that she became a professional.
James Petregallo
Liar, told her father she had no.
Jimmy Wissman
Problems, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't do any of that. She ended up dropping out of school.
James Petregallo
She had a boyfriend, they began dealing meth together.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah.
James Petregallo
And she said it worked out well. She said, we bought a house.
Jimmy Wissman
I was a functioning meth addict. I kept a job, paid my bills.
James Petregallo
Nobody knew, nobody asked. Like those people in that documentary where they're like, they go like, do roofing all day and then just do smoke meth at night. Remember that one? It's an HBO documentary. But she ended up getting deep into the whole meth culture because you can't just dabble in the meth culture, especially if you're selling it.
Dwayna Beebe
I'm sure there's somebody out there that disagrees that's done it. But like you're not doing just a little bit, then if you're doing shitloads of meth, you only do shitloads of meth.
Jimmy Wissman
You can't.
Dwayna Beebe
You can't just do a little bit.
Jimmy Wissman
No, because.
James Petregallo
And how you are in between all.
Jimmy Wissman
Of that is a mess. So you can't be a normal person. So.
James Petregallo
Now, Jason Cusick said that Torrey Teigen arrived at the house here on Tuesday morning about 6 to 7am so they left Dwayne and Beebe's house at 9.
Jimmy Wissman
O' clock, and then they're early.
James Petregallo
I think they haven't slept. Yeah, you know what I mean? They have access to plenty of meth and they have a guy duct taped in their trunk. I don't think they're sleeping much here. So Tory Teigen drove Kendall's car into.
Jimmy Wissman
The garage, into Jamie Corian's garage.
James Petregallo
Once inside, Torrey Teigen opened the trunk.
Jimmy Wissman
And there was Klug in the trunk with.
James Petregallo
Again, bound with duct tape. Cusick said that he couldn't see, that Klug couldn't see, so he had his eyes covered.
Jimmy Wissman
His arms were duct taped, his legs were duct taped. He said that Tegan pulled him out of the trunk and threw him on the floor. Threw Klug on the floor.
James Petregallo
Torrey Teigen then indicated to everybody that.
Jimmy Wissman
Klug is a rat and a snitch.
Dwayna Beebe
Okay, same thing.
James Petregallo
But. Okay, same thing. So then Torrey Teigen kicks him in the stomach, and Cusick said he could hear Trey Klug moan. So he knew he was alive.
Dwayna Beebe
Should have kicked him in the tummy, too. Yeah, right in the belly. Also.
James Petregallo
Possibly in the midsection, but we're not sure.
Dwayna Beebe
The breadbath.
James Petregallo
So when Cusick went back inside, he told Korean, who's inside, that Torrey Teigen had somebody with him out there.
Jimmy Wissman
Now, Korean doesn't say anything.
James Petregallo
She's just like, whatever meth makes you not curious, apparently, about shit going on in your own garage.
Dwayna Beebe
Is that right? I got meth right here.
James Petregallo
Yeah, I don't know what I'm doing there.
Jimmy Wissman
So Tory Teigen put Klug in a large toolbox in the garage.
Dwayna Beebe
Okay.
James Petregallo
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Jimmy Wissman
Cusick said that he wanted, quote, nothing.
James Petregallo
To do with the situation, so he just went to work. I don't want anything to do with. Let me get. You already have something to do with it. No matter whether you leave now or not, you are. You have a lot to do with this.
Jimmy Wissman
Mr.
Dwayna Beebe
I'm punching in for my shift and recusing myself from this whole thing.
Jimmy Wissman
I'm done.
James Petregallo
So Korean Jamie Korean said that after.
Jimmy Wissman
So she went to work, too.
James Petregallo
Everybody went to work and they just left these strange meth people in their house with a duct tape man and a toolbox. That's fine.
Dwayna Beebe
This is not my problem.
Jimmy Wissman
Not curious. After she went to work, she returned to see if Torrey Teigen was gone. She saw that he was gone, the.
James Petregallo
Car wasn't in the garage anymore, so she locked the garage. Okay, now, there's a guy named Eric Haar.
Jimmy Wissman
H A A R. Har.
James Petregallo
Everybody's name is hilarious in this episode. So on the way home from work that afternoon, Cusick, now Korean's boyfriend, Cusick in Korean. That sounds like a cop show from the 80s, Cagney. Yeah, Cusick and the Korean, he's an all American boy who's been fighting crime since he was 18. She's a recently arrived Korean immigrant.
Dwayna Beebe
Actually, this is the alternate name for Russia.
James Petregallo
Yeah, maybe it was. So anyway, Cusick tells Eric Har that.
Jimmy Wissman
Torrey Teigen had left Troy Klug at Korean's house. Cusick asked Har, hey, do me a favor, Will you check the toolbox in.
James Petregallo
The garage for me? I don't want to do it. I said I didn't want to get involved.
Jimmy Wissman
So Cusick said that he heard that Har opened the toolbox and Cusick was.
James Petregallo
Standing by the door and could see somebody in it. So Tory Teigen left and just left Troy Klug in this fucking. In this toolbox.
Jimmy Wissman
Cusick says when Jamie Corian arrived home.
James Petregallo
From work that afternoon, he said, quote.
Jimmy Wissman
I remember us telling her that Tory.
James Petregallo
Left this guy and he's still here. Korean, by the way. No one out of the three people here, none of whom put him in.
Jimmy Wissman
This fucking box or have any beef.
James Petregallo
With this guy, none of them say.
Jimmy Wissman
Hey, we should check on this guy.
James Petregallo
See if he's okay and maybe get a medical attempt. Nobody suggests that. Everyone just goes, shoulder shrug, leave him in the toolbox. Let's go do meth. Yeah, that's literally what happens here. This is. Which is. They just ignore it.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah, we didn't hurt anybody. He's just in the toolbox.
James Petregallo
So it's not our fault. Enter Abby De Jong. D, E, J, O, N, G. De Jong. That is Jamie Korean's best friend, Abby De Jong. Neither of them are Asian. They both sound Asian. Why is that? So this is, like we said, Jamie Korian's best friend.
Jimmy Wissman
She said she arrived at Jamie Corian's house on Tuesday, July 13.
James Petregallo
So this is the next day, because we know at about 6:30pm so they.
Jimmy Wissman
Arrived there with Troy about 12 hours.
James Petregallo
Earlier, and he's been in the toolbox the whole time. So Korean told De Jong that Torrey.
Jimmy Wissman
Teigen or Teigen had put a person in a box in her garage. De Jong said that Jamie Korian also told her that the person was being held against his will because most people.
James Petregallo
Voluntarily like to Stay in boxes in the garage. That's normal.
Dwayna Beebe
It's not the weirdest game of hide and seek ever.
James Petregallo
I think it's a sexual thing. He said he really. It's like he gets off on it or something.
Jimmy Wissman
I don't know.
James Petregallo
I don't understand it. But I just let him do it because, what the hell, you know, me garage, you garage. You know what I'm saying?
Dwayna Beebe
It's a much slower form of autoerotic asphyxiation.
James Petregallo
Yeah, she's real into it.
Dwayna Beebe
Just no tension on the throat. It's just slowly cutting off the air supply.
Jimmy Wissman
So De Jong tells Jamie Corian, I think we should do something. And Jamie Corrine said, no, the cops will get them.
James Petregallo
Not our problem, basically.
Jimmy Wissman
So De Jong, the only person here.
James Petregallo
Who'S got any moral compass at all.
Jimmy Wissman
Attempts to convince Jamie Korian to call the police.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah.
James Petregallo
She said, we gotta call the police.
Jimmy Wissman
We gotta call the police. And she said, no, no, no. And then De Jong said, I'll call the police then.
James Petregallo
This is crazy.
Jimmy Wissman
And Korean told her, no, you're not going to. So when De Jong told Korean that if De Jong were. If I was me in the toolbox, I would want someone to help me.
James Petregallo
She said. And Korean just said, now the cops will get them. It's fine.
Dwayna Beebe
All right.
James Petregallo
Okay. So later that evening, Tegan and Kendall here returned to Jamie Corian's house.
Jimmy Wissman
You know, they've left a package here.
James Petregallo
So. Yeah, De Jong said that when Kendall and Tegan, or Tegan and Kendall arrived.
Jimmy Wissman
They had meth with them and everybody just did meth. All of them?
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
Tegan, Kendall, hard, De Jong and Jamie.
James Petregallo
Corian all doing meth. I don't know where Cusick is. Yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
According to De Jong, she asked Tegan in the presence of everybody, why are.
James Petregallo
You keeping that man in the toolbox? Which is a really reasonable question. Yeah.
Dwayna Beebe
Why do you keep him with your.
James Petregallo
Ball peen hammer so. With your fucking Allen wrenches? What's going on? Why?
Dwayna Beebe
Torque wrench, man. What's going on?
Jimmy Wissman
So dejong testifies later on that Kindle spoke up and said that, quote, Klug had owed them money.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
How much money? They owe somewhere. He owes somewhere between 2 and $300.
Dwayna Beebe
He already took his polo sport, man. I think.
James Petregallo
What are we talking about, dude? This is not a lot of money. I get it's meth and all that kind of thing, but this is crazy. Like, you know, the mob would do.
Jimmy Wissman
Less to you for 200 grand.
James Petregallo
This is ridiculous. So Tegan and Jason Cusick went on.
Jimmy Wissman
A car ride later that evening, and when they returned to Jamie Corian's house.
James Petregallo
Everybody was still in the living room. Korean, De Jong Har and Kendall, before going to bed that evening, Q6 saw Tori Teigen and Jamie Correan talking together in the kitchen. Now, about 2 to 3am in this mess here. Okay, Tell Cook is a guy.
Jimmy Wissman
Tell T E L L is his first fucking name.
James Petregallo
Tell Cook goes by Chopper.
Dwayna Beebe
Why? You've already got a cool nickname.
Jimmy Wissman
It's Chopper and the Mad Hatter.
James Petregallo
Now he got.
Dwayna Beebe
I guess Tell is insinuating that you're snitch. So Chopper Cook needs sounds cooler. Chopper.
James Petregallo
Chopper Cook sounds like you're like A World War II, you know, army guy or something. That's Chopper Cook right there. Don't mess with him. He has like a patch over his eye, but he still flies a plane somehow.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
So Tell Cook also lives in Belle.
James Petregallo
Fourche, and I guess Tegan and Kindle arrived at his house at 2am yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
Now the times on this whole thing.
James Petregallo
Are going to be disputed by a.
Jimmy Wissman
Bunch of people who have been doing meth for days.
James Petregallo
So take the time with a grain of salt because we don't know if it's.
Dwayna Beebe
Who the fuck knows?
James Petregallo
Yeah, who knows here? The days are going by with meth, so we don't know if this was. We think it's Wednesday night, though. So anyway, they said that once they were there, Tegan used some meth.
Jimmy Wissman
Obviously. Then he and Cook, now Chopper Cook.
James Petregallo
Mad Hatter and the Chopper get in.
Jimmy Wissman
The car and drive Troy Klug out to a gravel road to scare him some.
Dwayna Beebe
Oh, my God.
James Petregallo
So I guess Tegan says that during.
Jimmy Wissman
This time, Tell Cook punched, kicked and hollered at him some.
James Petregallo
The new guy in the picture here, Tell doesn't owe him money. I don't know what he cares.
Jimmy Wissman
Then they put him back in the trunk of the car and return to Tell Cook's house.
Dwayna Beebe
Is he scared? Did they scare him some?
James Petregallo
I think they scared him some.
Jimmy Wissman
Probably some.
James Petregallo
We'll see.
Jimmy Wissman
So according to Tegan, he and Kendall went to Korean's house sometime between 6 and 7.
James Petregallo
And they said that Kindle said later.
Jimmy Wissman
On that because of the drugs and.
James Petregallo
The fact that she didn't sleep for days, that she was not certain of.
Jimmy Wissman
The days and dates and times during.
James Petregallo
This period and that she did not remember dates very well and that she.
Jimmy Wissman
Did not remember Monday and said, I.
James Petregallo
Don'T remember the dates. So she's a mess, obviously. So apparently here, though, Tell Cook said that Tegan and Kendall arrived at his house Wednesday morning, not the Tuesday that they they had said. Some of the methy people have said cooked.
Jimmy Wissman
Cook was asked, is there anything you.
James Petregallo
Can think of or is there any reference as to why it was early Wednesday morning later?
Jimmy Wissman
And he says, because I was going on vacation, I had Friday off work.
James Petregallo
So that's a good reference point for the whole thing. I had plans to go to Denver to a racetrack, and that was just.
Jimmy Wissman
Two nights before I was leaving.
James Petregallo
So we're gonna say it's Wednesday night, probably. So now Cook says he never struck Klug. That's just Torrey Teigen making shit up. So I don't know this fucking guy. I don't have any beef with him.
Jimmy Wissman
Cook said he allowed Tegan and Kendall.
James Petregallo
To stay at his house, and then.
Jimmy Wissman
Cook left for work the next morning around 5. These people are very comfortable with leaving for work and leaving meth addicts in their house.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah, it's amazing how early these people are. Risers too. Slept yet?
James Petregallo
No, I don't think they've slept yet, no.
Dwayna Beebe
God damn.
James Petregallo
They went out.
Jimmy Wissman
They were in a gravel road in.
James Petregallo
The middle of the night. So I don't think they've slept. So according to Cook, Tegan took Cook.
Jimmy Wissman
Outside to Kindle's vehicle and showed him that Klug was in the trunk.
James Petregallo
This was before the road thing.
Jimmy Wissman
Hands and feet were bound with duct tape.
James Petregallo
He was laying face down in the trunk. He said that Cook said that Klug.
Jimmy Wissman
Was still alive because he heard him moan and saw him reflex.
James Petregallo
When Torrey Teigen punched him in the back, he said that everything was bound. He was face down with his feet.
Jimmy Wissman
In the air, stripped naked except for his boxer shorts. Torrey Teigen punched him in the back and yelled, wake up, motherfucker.
James Petregallo
And then Troy Klug made muffled noises and Tegan told Cook that he was either going because Cook said, what the fuck are you going to do with this guy? I mean, we got a reservoir dog situation here. Like, what are you doing with the guy in the trunk?
Jimmy Wissman
This is crazy.
James Petregallo
He said, well, I'm either gonna go to Denver to turn Klug into his parole agent. Which I feel like your parole agent might have some sympathy for you if you're dropped off on his doorstep naked and duct taped. Probably he might overlook the meth in your system for the fact that trying.
Dwayna Beebe
To get away with meth, I'm bringing a kidnap.
James Petregallo
Yeah, that's interesting.
Jimmy Wissman
Or he is going to drive to North Dakota and to Dig a hole in Berryclug.
James Petregallo
Either one tournament or kill him now. Okay, Back to Jamie Korean's house.
Jimmy Wissman
Kendall and Tegan returned to Jamie corian's.
James Petregallo
House about 5:30am they said later that morning, Tegan would tells Cusick that Tegan had woke Clog up and that he was leaving. I woke up my hostage and I'm taking off now.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
Har.
James Petregallo
The Har guy. Har. He said that are right.
Jimmy Wissman
Har.
James Petregallo
Sorry. Yeah. H A R testified later on that.
Jimmy Wissman
He remembered asking Cusick later, you know, what happened and was clog okay or what was up? And that Cusick said that Tegan told him that it took a while to.
James Petregallo
Get Clug up, but he got him up. So I'm not. He's. He's not dead. So before Teagan left, he instructed Cusick.
Jimmy Wissman
To wash the toolbox out. So Cusick washed the toolbox at a.
James Petregallo
Car wash, but he said there was.
Jimmy Wissman
Absolutely nothing inside the toolbox to wash.
James Petregallo
And according to Cusick, it looked like it had already been cleaned.
Jimmy Wissman
So Wednesday evening, Cusick and Korean were.
James Petregallo
At the house with De Jong and Har. According to Cusick, Cusick said he wanted to tell the cops.
Jimmy Wissman
He said, but we had a conversation that none of us would ever talk.
James Petregallo
About it and we'd never say anything. They swore each other to secrecy.
Jimmy Wissman
Cusick also remembers hearing Korean say, we need an alibi. Let's work on an alibi.
Dwayna Beebe
I mean, you already know you're in trouble then if you have.
James Petregallo
Fuck, yeah. And De Jong, because, I mean, they know he left.
Jimmy Wissman
People know where he went that night.
James Petregallo
So it's like they're gonna look cross.
Dwayna Beebe
No way of making an alibi at this point?
Jimmy Wissman
No. So then De Jong said that when she talked to Jamie Korean Karian informed.
James Petregallo
De Jong that Torrey Teigen was concerned.
Jimmy Wissman
About whether he could trust De Jong.
James Petregallo
You might end up in a toolbox too.
Jimmy Wissman
So according to De Jong, Karion reassured Tory not to worry about De Jong and that Karian would, quote, take care of him. So I'll make sure she doesn't say anything.
James Petregallo
Now that Wednesday is when he's reported missing, Dwayne A.B.
Jimmy Wissman
And Troy's mother, Joyce, filed a missing persons report.
James Petregallo
Oh, well, like, yeah, officially. So Wednesday night at about midnight, Dwayne.
Jimmy Wissman
Ab had a friend staying with her.
James Petregallo
To help her with the surgery stuff. So she had somebody there. Just after midnight, Kendall and Tor and.
Jimmy Wissman
Torrey Teigen show up at her home again.
Dwayna Beebe
Really?
Jimmy Wissman
She's already called the cops filed a.
James Petregallo
Missing person person report and, you know.
Jimmy Wissman
Included them in the whole story.
James Petregallo
So they entered through her living room.
Jimmy Wissman
Window and came running up the stairs.
James Petregallo
This is.
Jimmy Wissman
They didn't knock on the door and she let them in.
James Petregallo
They broke into her fucking house and now they're charging up the stairs.
Jimmy Wissman
Kendall went into BB's room and kept asking, BB, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?
James Petregallo
Why are you in bed? Why aren't you moving around? And she said that she's in recuperating.
Jimmy Wissman
From a fucking operation. That's why.
James Petregallo
So her incision had been become infected. BB said, Ew.
Jimmy Wissman
Ugh.
James Petregallo
So BB's friend asked them, what happened to Klug? That's the other person there. And Kendall responded, I don't know where he is.
Jimmy Wissman
Then she said to Dwayne, ab, honey, I need you to come with me.
James Petregallo
I got to go away for a.
Jimmy Wissman
While and I need you to go with me.
James Petregallo
You think she's coming back? No, I don't know. They're covering her tracks. Baby said, no, fuck that. So apparently Kindle here said, oh, honey, no, it's okay.
Jimmy Wissman
Don't worry about it. Just come on, get up. I need you to come with me, honey. I'm going to go to a cabin for a little while. I need you to come with me. Well, if anything happens or you get.
James Petregallo
In any worse shape or anything, you know, it's okay. We'll take care of you. So then BB said, at some point of this going back and forth, finally.
Jimmy Wissman
Tegan said, we don't have time for this.
James Petregallo
We gotta go.
Jimmy Wissman
Just leave her.
James Petregallo
She's not worth it. We gotta go. So, yeah, during this back and forth.
Jimmy Wissman
BB said that she filed a missing.
James Petregallo
Persons report and she can't go because she's probably on 24 hour surveillance at this point. Oh. Which isn't true at all, but you don't want to kidnap a person who is being surveilled by the police. Yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
And meth.
James Petregallo
People hear that and they're like, oh, God, yeah. Oh, she's being watched. Everybody's watching me. You know, they're paranoid. Anyway, so now, Thursday, July 15th. This started three days ago.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
Tegan and Kendall show up again at Cook's house. At Tell Cook's house, Old Chopper's house.
James Petregallo
Cook asked Tegan what he had done.
Jimmy Wissman
With the man in the trunk. Tegan replied that he put him in.
James Petregallo
A toolbox and left him there all day.
Jimmy Wissman
Cook asked if he gave him water.
James Petregallo
Because it was hot.
Jimmy Wissman
Reasonable question.
James Petregallo
Tegan replied, no, and it's too late for all that anyway.
Dwayna Beebe
It's too late for water.
Jimmy Wissman
For water.
James Petregallo
So Cook recalled that Tegan said that.
Jimmy Wissman
He had gone to the toolbox a few times throughout the day and was beating the man.
James Petregallo
He said that.
Jimmy Wissman
Tegan tells Cook that he felt bones crush in Troy's face and he thought.
James Petregallo
That'S what did him in. Then that day, Teagan and Kendall took off and said they were going to Montana with Troy in the trunk. By the way, Kendall indicated at that.
Jimmy Wissman
Time that Troy was finally dead and.
James Petregallo
Still in the trunk of the car. So. July 17, 2004. 4:00am okay.
Jimmy Wissman
Kendall and Tegan arrive in North Dakota at a guy named Ross Thomas's house. Someone named Jamie Keefe saw both of.
James Petregallo
Them there at 9:30pm and said that.
Jimmy Wissman
Troy Teigen was cutting fringes on a blanket and Kendall was doing laundry. Teghan asked Kendall if she was doing laundry in cold water, which she responded, yes, I washed it in cold water.
James Petregallo
You know, you don't want shrinking when you're running from a murder. You don't want to shrink your jeans. That's tough.
Dwayna Beebe
Also. That implies there are stains on this.
James Petregallo
Exactly. That's the other thing. So, July 18, 2004. Kendall and Tegan are still at North Dakota. There at that guy Thomas's house.
Jimmy Wissman
The Keith person helped them clean out Kendall's car.
James Petregallo
According to Keith, the inside of the.
Jimmy Wissman
Car was stripped down to the metal frame. No one can. No one can take a car apart.
James Petregallo
Like a fucking meth addict. First of all, nobody.
Dwayna Beebe
Fascinating detail, man.
Jimmy Wissman
Oh, they will have every fucking bolt.
James Petregallo
And screw off of that goddamn thing. It'll be just a bare fr. They're good at that.
Dwayna Beebe
They love taking shit apart. Are not that thorough.
James Petregallo
No, no, no. They're not on enough math.
Jimmy Wissman
She said that bleach had been poured in. Maggots were floating on a solid layer on the bleach.
Dwayna Beebe
What?
Jimmy Wissman
Tegan told her he poured about 3 gallons of bleach in the car and that the maggots were from a milk spill.
James Petregallo
Some soy, some spoiled milk was back there.
Dwayna Beebe
Okay.
Jimmy Wissman
Keith helped Teagan by scrubbing and using a shop vac to suck up the bleach. The rags they used to clean the car were taken to a fire and burned. According to Keef, at some point, Kindle yelled at Torrey Teigen that the car should have been cleaned five fucking days ago. Keefe recalled that Torrey attempted to clean the car's upholstery with Febreze and Woolite. They also scrubbed the Floorboards which had.
James Petregallo
A rust colored stain on them. Wonder what that is. Now an investigation is going on into.
Jimmy Wissman
Where the hell is Troy?
James Petregallo
Yeah, there's a guy named Brett Gromer.
Jimmy Wissman
Who is a special agent for South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation and it's.
James Petregallo
His job to look for fucking Troy.
Jimmy Wissman
And at the time.
James Petregallo
Tegan had been identified as a suspect based on an interview that they did with Dwayne Abibi.
Jimmy Wissman
So they go on July 20, 2004, him and two other officers interview tell Cook.
James Petregallo
Cook told them of seeing Troy, our.
Jimmy Wissman
Tory Tegan and Kindle at his house, but repeatedly denied seeing anyone in a car trunk.
James Petregallo
I don't know what you're talking about. I don't what you're talking about.
Jimmy Wissman
He did admit, however, that Tory Tegan mentioned going back to Rapid City and snatching some guy.
James Petregallo
And well, you never know, I might.
Jimmy Wissman
Have already done it. Could be in the trunk, outside.
James Petregallo
That's what he said.
Jimmy Wissman
Cook recalled that the name Troy was mentioned.
James Petregallo
I didn't know he was in the.
Jimmy Wissman
Trunk, but he told me a guy.
James Petregallo
Named Troy was in the trunk is what they said.
Dwayna Beebe
I didn't know exactly that Troy, you.
James Petregallo
Know, the cop said, I don't think you're telling us everything right and basically we'll talk about it. But made some comments that are to try to motivate him to say more.
Jimmy Wissman
July 22, Cook is interviewed again by two different cops. This time he told them that Troy Klug was over at Kendall's house and Teagan was using Klug to move things in the basement and that they had hit him and duct taped him.
James Petregallo
So they arrest Cook. Old Chopper Cook here, he's placed in the county jail.
Jimmy Wissman
July 22, that same day that they.
James Petregallo
Interview that they arrest Cook or they interviewed Cook, they arrest Tegan. So they go and they get him in North Dakota. He's charged with kidnapping Clug because they don't know anything else. They just know he's been kidnapped, most likely. So that's what they charge him with.
Jimmy Wissman
He's indicted on one count of kidnapping, one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Placed in the county jail, the Pennington County Jail, in a cell adjacent to.
James Petregallo
Tell Cook's old Chopper. So we got Mad Hatter and the Chopper reunited here. When they were there, Cook, they contacted each other through kites, jail notes. That's what they're doing. So the porter or somebody will deliver it. And that's how it works. So Chopper Cook had written that Tegan wrote Teagan, Tegan wrote back. Teagan always used the name Chopper when referring to cook, and Cook always used Mad Hatter when referring to him.
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Jimmy Wissman
Cook ended up telling his lawyer about the notes he got and said it.
James Petregallo
Contained incriminating information about Teigen. So get me a deal. And that's what he gets.
Jimmy Wissman
September 30, 2004.
James Petregallo
Tell Cook takes a deal. Oh, he takes a plea deal.
Jimmy Wissman
He decided to tell everything he knew and a plea agreement is reached. He told the officers of seeing Klug in the trunk, recounting the statements of Tegan and Kendall and turned over some.
James Petregallo
Of the jail notes that were written as well. Oh, made a plea agreement here, there. By the way, they're gonna.
Jimmy Wissman
They arrested Kindle too, and they were gonna try them together.
James Petregallo
But the court grants a motion to sever their trials. Teagan and Kendall. So Tegan wants to challenge. Basically Kendall's out of court statements.
Jimmy Wissman
Kendall is not going to be available to testify because she is found incompetent.
James Petregallo
To stand trial and kind of putting a.
Jimmy Wissman
Put in a place.
James Petregallo
Yeah. So anyway, they rule that some of.
Jimmy Wissman
The statements will be admissible and some.
James Petregallo
Of them won't be. That's fine.
Jimmy Wissman
Kendall, like we said, ruled incompetent for trial.
James Petregallo
Back to Tegan.
Jimmy Wissman
Okay.
James Petregallo
In the notes, Tegan said, here's one.
Jimmy Wissman
Of them, quote, oh yeah, even if they do find some so called physical evidence, where the hell are they gonna get DNA to compare it to?
James Petregallo
You don't know very much. Stupid. His family, a fucking hair in his brush at home lots of places.
Jimmy Wissman
And believe me, they ain't gonna find no body unless someone else planted somebody.
James Petregallo
Why, it's ridiculous.
Jimmy Wissman
It may have taken me a while to decide what to do, but once I figured it out, it was the.
James Petregallo
Best thing plan and I executed it with grinding precision.
Jimmy Wissman
Don't worry about them finding a body. Then in another note he said, yeah, you know, that was one of the nastiest things I've ever done. One of the nastiest. If a guy is going to make.
James Petregallo
Fish food, he just as well put the put.
Jimmy Wissman
He just as well put it in bite sized pieces, right? What the hell, it wasn't my first rodeo and I'm sure it won't be my last if I stay in the business I'm in.
James Petregallo
So I've killed before is what he's saying now. That might be jealous.
Dwayna Beebe
So nobody.
James Petregallo
No crime, no body. Now, I was getting to that because somebody actually said that in the. Yeah, a lawyer. Oh, they do, yes. So it's coming up. It's no body, no crime, as Bob Marley sings it. So anyway, these notes are gonna be allowed into the whole thing.
Jimmy Wissman
Cook was concerned that he may be implicated in the crime.
James Petregallo
And the reason he did this, that he cooperated, is basically, he asked the cop, if you could make this all go away for me, can you help me here? So the cop said he couldn't make any promises, but I can talk to the prosecutor. But he told them, if you want to make yourself liked by these people.
Jimmy Wissman
To pound the pavement and do every.
James Petregallo
Goddamn thing you could to get me info on these two idiots over there. So, yeah, they said he's not an informant. The cop replied in court that, but he's not necessarily to be an informant, but to help us gather intelligence type of thing, which is an informant anyway.
Jimmy Wissman
So, yeah, they end up letting all of that stuff in.
James Petregallo
He said that they also said that there was a joking reference that they talked about about the adjacent cells.
Jimmy Wissman
And the cop made a comment about using every trick in the book. And Cook remarked that he was playing cop.
James Petregallo
So there's also stuff like that, which you can't do that.
Jimmy Wissman
The agent Gromer also said that he.
James Petregallo
Did not direct anyone in the jail to place Tegan and Cook in adjacent cells. He said that was just dumb luck. And he said, I didn't tell him to elicit information from the defendant. I just told him if he wants to get off on this, he'll get.
Jimmy Wissman
All the information he can.
James Petregallo
Yeah, but technically, I didn't tell him to get that information, so I didn't.
Dwayna Beebe
Say it, just insinuated.
Jimmy Wissman
Now, Cook said that no one asked him to solicit incriminating responses from the.
James Petregallo
Defendant, and he never considered himself to be an informant, even though he was exchanging information for, you know, informing.
Jimmy Wissman
He said that after his arraignment, which was held along with Kendall's and Teagan's, he felt the impact of the crime when he saw one of Klug's family members crying in court. And then he. And then he then suggested his cooperation to his attorney.
James Petregallo
That's what happened. Now, Kendall's statements here, some of the statements that were allowed in were.
Jimmy Wissman
Kindle just laughed and was real jovial.
James Petregallo
About it and calling Klug a pussy and that he was weak. That's another note, I guess she said. I guess he said in a note.
Jimmy Wissman
That Kindle was really thought plug was weak, and she was really hung up about her money. She's cold, man. Jesus Christ.
James Petregallo
So they said that also. They said that Teghan and Kendall started talking about going to a guy in.
Jimmy Wissman
Rapid City, that they knew that it.
James Petregallo
Owed him money and that this kid owed him money. And that's this kid, obviously. Now, Tegan argues that none of this shit should be allowed in these jail notes.
Dwayna Beebe
Okay?
Jimmy Wissman
He says, number one, the statement, while.
James Petregallo
Made when the conspiracy was continuing, was.
Jimmy Wissman
Not made to enlist someone to join.
James Petregallo
The conspiracy, to advance the aims of.
Jimmy Wissman
The conspiracy to allay suspicion, or as.
James Petregallo
A narrative statement by one conspirator to another about what each had done. Which seems like it's exactly what that was.
Dwayna Beebe
Exactly.
James Petregallo
I'll take number four on that one all day. That's exactly what that was.
Dwayna Beebe
I don't know what they're trying to muddy with.
Jimmy Wissman
I don't know.
James Petregallo
So July 2005, Tegan goes to trial for kidnapping because they don't know where.
Jimmy Wissman
Troy is at all.
James Petregallo
There's no body, no crime at this point. So Kendall does not testify at his trial because she's still in the loony bin there.
Jimmy Wissman
Many of her statements previously determined by the court to be admissible were admitted.
James Petregallo
And also the jail notes were admitted as well. So Chopper testifies, testifies about the maggots.
Jimmy Wissman
Testifies about the car should have been.
James Petregallo
Cleaned five days ago, all that kind of shit.
Jimmy Wissman
Says that he was home sleeping when Teagan and Kendall woke him up early Wednesday morning and offered to sell him methods.
James Petregallo
You ever get woken up and someone's like, you want some meth? No, I want the opposite of that.
Jimmy Wissman
I'm sleeping.
Dwayna Beebe
This is the worst cold call ever.
James Petregallo
Wow. Hey. Hey, dude.
Jimmy Wissman
You want to buy some meth? Holy shit.
Dwayna Beebe
At least my phone says scam likely.
James Petregallo
Yeah, this is. They broke in through your front window and are standing over your bed asking if you want to be.
Jimmy Wissman
Want some meth here.
James Petregallo
So Cook testified about saying that you should give him water because he said at one point that he had checked.
Jimmy Wissman
On him during the day.
James Petregallo
Tegan had checked on clugging the toolbox. And Cook asked him why.
Jimmy Wissman
To give him water.
James Petregallo
And he said no, to beat on him. That's what Tegan replied with, yeah. And then he told about the feeling.
Jimmy Wissman
Bones crushing his face and thinks that's.
James Petregallo
What did him in and all that kind of shit. So all this evidence is that Troy was dead, but they don't have evidence of a body, and they don't have evidence to charge him for that. So it's still kidnapping.
Jimmy Wissman
And the verdict comes in. Guilty of kidnapping, obviously.
James Petregallo
I mean, come on. The sentencing comes around and they're gonna bang him extra hard on sentencing because they know he killed this fucking kid. They just can't do it. So they're gonna give him that. You, sir, may fuck off. 100 years in prison with no body, nobody.
Jimmy Wissman
Hundred years.
James Petregallo
Wow. Yeah, that's a good one.
Jimmy Wissman
Now Kendall is going to plead guilty, but mentally ill to kidnapping.
James Petregallo
Okay, that is a negotiated plea right there. So during sentencing here, Cynthia Kindle, I guess, is there trying to do this. They're trying to mitigate.
Jimmy Wissman
And she talks at length about her history of mental problems, including being bipolar.
James Petregallo
Having PTSD and anxiety disorder.
Jimmy Wissman
She said after her marriage ended in the mid-1990s, her life just fell apart. Her parents lost track of her for years. She moved to Washington and began using meth. And after she was assaulted in 1999.
James Petregallo
She returned to South Dakota where she saw various doctors for her mental illnesses and drug treatment.
Dwayna Beebe
A lot of excuses.
James Petregallo
Be nice to her is what they're saying. Now Troy's mom testifies and she doesn't have the same fucking thought.
Jimmy Wissman
She said, I have been tormented and grieved beyond, beyond comprehension. I will never excuse your so called mental illness as part of this.
James Petregallo
Yeah. She said that you have children too.
Jimmy Wissman
And you're being taken away from them.
James Petregallo
But it's not as traumatic as the.
Jimmy Wissman
Way that my kid was taken from me. She said Kendall has shown little remorse. She said, you think only of you.
James Petregallo
She said, sure, you cooperated and everything.
Jimmy Wissman
But my son's body still hasn't been found. She said, I want my son's remains to lay beside his father in a proper burial. She said she finds it hard to.
James Petregallo
Forgive Kendall for not telling anyone when Torrey Teigen bound her son and put him in the trunk of a car. The prosecutor said that this is a.
Jimmy Wissman
Good line here, characterized the crime as one where, quote, drugs, childlike self absorbance and evil mixed together.
James Petregallo
Oh, my meth, narcissism and pure evil.
Jimmy Wissman
Is all that is.
James Petregallo
So now they agree to a cap on her sentence, though, because of the mental illness and all that kind of shit. Now Kendall says, she says, I'm remorseful.
Jimmy Wissman
For what's happened to my friend. He was my friend.
James Petregallo
I asked that I be forgiven and that I can learn from this mistake in my life.
Jimmy Wissman
I'm remorseful and I'm very sorry.
James Petregallo
I pray you forgive me.
Jimmy Wissman
I understand how hard it is to lose your children.
James Petregallo
I'm Sorry. And they say, you, ma' am, may fuck off. 20 years in prison.
Dwayna Beebe
That's better than 100.
James Petregallo
Yeah, that's better than 100, but not nearly as much.
Jimmy Wissman
The whole thing stemmed from he owes me money.
Dwayna Beebe
She deserves way worse.
Jimmy Wissman
Her and Tori should have the same.
James Petregallo
Sentence because they're the ones who did this together and started Whoever did the details of whatever.
Jimmy Wissman
Doesn't matter.
James Petregallo
It's the same sentence, so.
Jimmy Wissman
Wow.
James Petregallo
Yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
20 years and $2,738.34 in restitution, $27,000 in attorney's fees and court costs. And recommended that Kendall receive counseling, medical manage medication management and chemical dependency treatment while in prison.
James Petregallo
She said that she. So, yeah. And she, in return, said that she had already began following a 12 step program.
Dwayna Beebe
Oh, that's good.
Jimmy Wissman
She could be eligible for parole as early as 2014. Jamie Cusick is also going to plead guilty to accessory to murder and perjury.
James Petregallo
And is sentenced to. You, sir, may. Fuck off.
Jimmy Wissman
He just wanted to go to work. Remember this guy? 20 years in prison.
Dwayna Beebe
Okay.
James Petregallo
I mean, yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
Under the plea agreement, he agreed to take a polygraph test and to testify truthfully if called upon in future trials or court proceedings. He'll remain free on bond pending a sentencing hearing. Faces up to five years in prison.
James Petregallo
On one thing, and then 10 years in prison on something else.
Jimmy Wissman
And then a previous drug conviction increases the penalty.
James Petregallo
That's why you got 20 years. Jamie Corrion TRIAL Okay. Now, Tegan was subpoenaed to testify at this trial, but took the fifth.
Dwayna Beebe
Really?
Jimmy Wissman
Yeah.
James Petregallo
He didn't testify. He took the fifth. Now, for some reason, the time and date dispute on when they were where becomes a big deal in this trial. I don't know why.
Jimmy Wissman
So they said the jury was required.
James Petregallo
To resolve the factual dispute.
Jimmy Wissman
From Cook's testimony, the jury could have found that Klug was still alive Wednesday morning. Even if Tegan and Kendall were at Cook's house sometime Tuesday morning.
James Petregallo
There's no dispute that Tegan and went.
Jimmy Wissman
To Korean's house on Tuesday morning. And there's substantial evidence that Korean acquired knowledge on Tuesday that Klug was alive and being held against his will.
James Petregallo
They let everything in.
Jimmy Wissman
The verdict comes in here.
James Petregallo
She is found guilty of accessory, accessory to murder. Now, they found guilty.
Dwayna Beebe
Not even after the fact.
James Petregallo
No, they don't have a body. And they actually have a murder charge now. They tried it.
Jimmy Wissman
Yeah.
James Petregallo
And also aiding and abetting kidnapping. Okay, she is sentenced to. You, ma' am, may fuck off.
Jimmy Wissman
Life without parole.
Dwayna Beebe
Holy shit.
James Petregallo
Yeah, that Is without.
Jimmy Wissman
Life without. Korean got life without.
James Petregallo
But Kendall only got 20 years. I don't understand that.
Dwayna Beebe
What is going on?
Jimmy Wissman
Nobody. No Crime, my ass.
James Petregallo
That's something.
Dwayna Beebe
A lot of crime.
Jimmy Wissman
That's a lot of crime. Chopper Cook now.
James Petregallo
Tell Cook he pleads guilty to a misdemeanor charge of misprison, which is failure to report of a felony.
Jimmy Wissman
In exchange for prosecutors dropping the kidnapping charge. He got the lightest of everything because.
James Petregallo
He was the first to cooperate and, like, help them.
Dwayna Beebe
That's the answer.
James Petregallo
He testified for the state at Tegan's trial.
Jimmy Wissman
He was given.
James Petregallo
You, sir, may fuck off.
Jimmy Wissman
Two years probation.
James Petregallo
What? 500 hours of community service and $1,000 fine.
Dwayna Beebe
What criminal? Speeding.
Jimmy Wissman
If he just had meth on him.
James Petregallo
He would have got more than that.
Dwayna Beebe
If he ran from the cops for anything. He gets worse than that.
James Petregallo
It's crazy.
Jimmy Wissman
So 2008, they're gonna try Tegan for murder.
James Petregallo
Now they got him for kidnapping, now they're gonna try him again for murder. They have everybody is testify basically willing to testify against him now to make deals for themselves.
Jimmy Wissman
So he ends up pleading guilty.
James Petregallo
And part of the guilty plea is.
Jimmy Wissman
To lead authorities to Troy's body as well.
James Petregallo
They will not accept the plea without that in there. So during sentencing here, Tegan's parents tried to defend him. Fucking wow. I wouldn't. I'd be like this.
Jimmy Wissman
My son's a monster.
James Petregallo
I don't know what happened. It wasn't my fault.
Dwayna Beebe
He's a moron.
James Petregallo
He's a moron and a monster. He said, quote, troy, this is the. I don't know if this is the mother or father, but Tory is an intelligent, hard working man and the Teigans.
Jimmy Wissman
Are a strong, close family. He was brought up in a Christian home, taught to know kindness and caring to others.
James Petregallo
But she said, as an adult, she said Tori was different.
Jimmy Wissman
She said, we don't like the choices he's made recently, but I love him.
James Petregallo
Unconditionally and I'll always be here for him.
Jimmy Wissman
Troy Klug's mom had a great speech.
James Petregallo
Here because this is the guy who did everything. So she gets to unload finally on this guy.
Jimmy Wissman
And she.
James Petregallo
This is Joyce Klug said, God, please.
Jimmy Wissman
Forgive me for some of the things.
James Petregallo
I'm going to be saying today. That's how she started her.
Dwayna Beebe
Oh, I'm about to. I'm about to roast my own son.
James Petregallo
I'm about.
Jimmy Wissman
No, no, no, no.
James Petregallo
This is Tegan talking about Tegan. This is the dead guy's mom talking about the Guy who roast Teigen. Right. So roast Teigen at his sentencing. Yeah. Okay.
Jimmy Wissman
She said that Tegan is a cold, calculating animal monster.
Dwayna Beebe
Yeah, Those are two different things.
James Petregallo
Great. Both she Klug refers to letters that.
Jimmy Wissman
Tegan wrote in which she described making fish food and executing his plan with grinding perfection. She said, nobody can imagine what this has done to me as Troy's mother. The grinding bothers me.
James Petregallo
She said. She said that I know you've suffered medical problems and you've had counseling and all that kind of shit, but I.
Jimmy Wissman
Can'T bury my son beside my father.
James Petregallo
Which is tragically devastating.
Jimmy Wissman
She said, I wonder if you know that you've got a twin brother running.
James Petregallo
Around and it's Satan.
Jimmy Wissman
Boom.
Dwayna Beebe
Unless he was roasting his family, talking.
Jimmy Wissman
About, your mom's a whore.
James Petregallo
When I first read this, I was like, oh, she's going into the family. Nope, your brother is Satan.
Dwayna Beebe
She shouted, expose all your family secrets.
Jimmy Wissman
Brother's got horns.
James Petregallo
So she then said Tegan deserved more.
Jimmy Wissman
Than the maximum sentence of life in prison, but would be held to answer to a higher power. She said, God forgive me. Damn you, you cowardly monster. I hope you fry in hell with your twin brother.
James Petregallo
Say, damn you. Obviously, my final statement is, tell us where Troy is.
Dwayna Beebe
Great answer. Yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
Tegan says, I'd just like to say that I'm sorry to Joyce and Troy's family and my own family.
James Petregallo
I don't know what else to say.
Jimmy Wissman
There's no excuse, though.
James Petregallo
I'll be completely honest from here forward, that's all.
Dwayna Beebe
Well, where is he?
James Petregallo
They said, well, you, sir, may fuck off.
Jimmy Wissman
Life without parole for you.
James Petregallo
Tack that on your hundred years. There you go then.
Jimmy Wissman
In May 2009, at the Sheep Mountain.
James Petregallo
Range in eastern Montana, South Dakota state investigators, along with Tory in the area here, found what they believe were the.
Jimmy Wissman
Skeletal remains of Troy.
James Petregallo
This is, you know, four years later here, they said, we're quite certain that.
Jimmy Wissman
Troy has been found.
James Petregallo
It brings closure to a five year.
Jimmy Wissman
Investigation of this horrific crime.
James Petregallo
They said that they'd been over.
Jimmy Wissman
Search teams had previously been over the.
James Petregallo
General area but didn't find him. They said that Tegan was able to narrow the search, though, and the investigators eventually spotted a depression in the ground and that turned out to be the grave. They described the site as being in a remote, rugged, treacherous country. They needed Tori to tell them where it was or they wouldn't have found it.
Jimmy Wissman
They uncovered boxer shorts, a belt, shoes, and a wallet consistent with the descriptions of of Klug's possessions and what he was Last seen wearing. They also found duct tape, barn lye.
James Petregallo
And alkaline cleaner on him and in the area. The forensic lab at the site were able to identify him conclusively through DNA as well. Troy's mom, Joyce, said that it was a long day, and she knew that they were looking in Montana and they.
Jimmy Wissman
Knew that they found her son. And she said, we've been waiting five years for this, and it's a real relief, but it still just doesn't seem real.
James Petregallo
And she said she planned to hold a memorial service for her son soon as well. Tegan did some appealing.
Dwayna Beebe
Really?
Jimmy Wissman
It's crazy. Yeah, he did some appealing saying that.
James Petregallo
His right to a speedy trial was.
Jimmy Wissman
Violated because the trial didn't come till.
James Petregallo
About a year after he was put in. But if he didn't fight for a speedy trial, though, then you have to. You have to put in for a speedy trial, I think so. His sixth amendment right to counsel was violated when law enforcement used Cook to.
Jimmy Wissman
Elicit information from him in prison. The court erred when it admitted a co conspirator. Statements of Kindle.
James Petregallo
Remember all those Kindle statements?
Jimmy Wissman
The court erred in finding that a conspiracy existed between Kindle was found incompetent to stand trial. And one cannot have a conspiracy with.
James Petregallo
Someone that is incompetent legally, I guess.
Jimmy Wissman
He was also denied the right to cross examine.
James Petregallo
Kendall. They just allowed her out of court station statements to come in, so there's no cross examination.
Jimmy Wissman
And the court erred when it grossly imposed. When it imposed a grossly disproportionate sentence by considering facts that are not part.
James Petregallo
Of the kidnapping charge.
Jimmy Wissman
He said it's grossly disproportionate to the crime of kidnapping.
James Petregallo
The hundred years he's not doing the murder one. He said, according to the defendant.
Jimmy Wissman
The court expressed that the defendant likely killed Klug and destroyed the body, and that the court went beyond the scope permitted in sentencing for a kidnapping conviction.
James Petregallo
But by the time he's doing this.
Jimmy Wissman
The body has been found, he is.
James Petregallo
Dead, so it doesn't matter. The judge was right. He might have made a guess at the time, but now he's right.
Dwayna Beebe
He assumed. But, hey, give him a. Give him a gold star. He won.
James Petregallo
Yeah. What the fuck, man? They said that a court is permitted.
Jimmy Wissman
To consider uncharged conduct when acquainting itself with the character of the defendant for sentencing.
James Petregallo
That's in the law. So tough shit. The decision said here that they said.
Jimmy Wissman
In your statement to the court, you told the court, yes, I should take responsibility. You told the court you use methamphetamine. Beyond that, you did not take responsibility for the crime. Now, the court considers as perhaps one.
James Petregallo
Of the reasons is the fact that.
Jimmy Wissman
Further criminal charges for murder or manslaughter could be brought against you. The court considers that this is a possible explanation. Nevertheless, your decision not to accept responsibility, not to disclose the location of the.
James Petregallo
Body is a factor that that can and is considered, can be and is considered by this court.
Jimmy Wissman
Your conduct thus far indicates to the court that your plan for rehabilitation is to persist in your denial, bully others while in prison, and keep secret the.
James Petregallo
Location of Troy's body. Because this is before he put it out.
Jimmy Wissman
The jury found that you kidnapped Troy Klug. The legislature imposed widespread discretion for trial courts and sentencing.
James Petregallo
And you can keep on fucking off. Mr. 2010, the Korean appeal. Jamie Korean, she appeals here and her conviction is upheld. And in 2017, there's a big fluff piece on Jamie Korian in the newspaper here saying that Jamie Corian is part of a.
Jimmy Wissman
She joined a program against meth program.
James Petregallo
There's a program that some guy started called Fam First.
Jimmy Wissman
Fam First.
James Petregallo
Fathers Against Method.
Dwayna Beebe
Oh.
Jimmy Wissman
Somehow they went to the women's prison.
James Petregallo
And they ended up getting Korean in there and everything like that. So Korean said, that's why I'm here.
Jimmy Wissman
I sold drugs. I never thought it would affect how other people.
James Petregallo
I never thought how it would affect other people. It's sad.
Jimmy Wissman
Lives have been lost.
James Petregallo
I get to see my son. Others involved with this don't have that choice anymore.
Jimmy Wissman
She says, nobody ever offered me treatment.
James Petregallo
And I never asked for help.
Jimmy Wissman
Don't let the drugs take you down.
Dwayna Beebe
Don't let him. Yeah.
Jimmy Wissman
Don't let him.
James Petregallo
So there you go, everybody. That is Belle Fourche and a hell of a fucking horrible, heartless.
Jimmy Wissman
That's one of the worst murders we've.
James Petregallo
Ever heard because it's just. You let him basically die of thirst, and in a box like that is torturous torture.
Dwayna Beebe
You killed a man by not giving him nourishment. That's all.
James Petregallo
And beating him, who knows?
Jimmy Wissman
It's fucking horrifying, man. It's. These people make Sarah Boone look like a fucking saint.
James Petregallo
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Release Date: May 16, 2025
Hosts: James Pietragallo & Jimmy Wissman
In Episode #596 of Small Town Murder, hosts James Pietragallo and Jimmy Wissman delve into the dark and twisted tale of the Messy Methy Murder Conspiracy in Belle Fourche, South Dakota. Combining meticulous research with their signature comedic flair, James and Jimmy unravel the complexities of a heinous crime that shook this small community to its core.
Belle Fourche is a quaint town nestled in southwestern South Dakota with a population of approximately 5,561 (07:29). Known for its picturesque landscapes and rodeo culture, the town faces economic challenges, evident in its median household income of $46,151, significantly lower than the national average (07:38). Despite its charm, Belle Fourche's tranquility was shattered by a series of events leading to a gruesome murder intertwined with methamphetamine addiction.
A former Boy Scout and sports enthusiast, Troy led an all-American lifestyle until post-high school years saw him spiraling into severe meth addiction by 2004 (15:25). Despite his struggles, Troy maintained relationships with his family and girlfriend, Duana "Dwayna" Beebe (16:31).
Troy's supportive girlfriend who becomes increasingly concerned as Troy's addiction deepens. Her relationship with Troy is tested when he decides to seek more meth, leading to catastrophic consequences (16:36).
Dwayna's brother and a fellow meth addict, Robert becomes entangled in the conspiracy by accompanying Troy to procure more drugs, exacerbating the situation (17:32).
A volatile meth addict known for his erratic behavior, Torrey plays a pivotal role in the kidnapping and presumed murder of Troy Klug (22:03).
Jamie, originally from a sheltered background, sinks into the meth-dealing world alongside her boyfriend Jason. Their involvement adds layers to the conspiracy, highlighting the widespread impact of meth addiction in Belle Fourche (27:40).
Jamie's best friend who becomes the moral compass in the story, pushing for police involvement despite resistance from others entrenched in the meth culture (36:26).
Law enforcement officials tasked with investigating the disappearance of Troy Klug, navigating the murky waters of small-town loyalty and drug-induced chaos (34:18).
On July 12, 2004, Troy Klug, deeply indebted for meth, plans to procure more drugs with his brother Robert and friend Torrey Teigen. However, this decision leads to a series of manipulative and violent actions:
The Setup (18:18):
Troy and Robert visit Cynthia Kendall's house to acquire meth. Tensions escalate as Robert insists on leaving, leaving Troy to call Dwayna multiple times without success, heightening her anxiety and fear.
Abduction (23:06):
Cynthia Kendall and Torrey Teigen ambush Troy, binding him with duct tape and placing him in the trunk of a black Nissan car, intending to intimidate or possibly eliminate him over his debts (23:47).
Further Complications (29:32):
The plot thickens as they involve Jamie Corian and Jason Kuzik, leading to Troy being transported to Jamie's garage where he remains trapped and beaten, showcasing the brutality of the conspirators (30:16).
Missing Person Report and Surveillance (46:07):
When Troy fails to return, Dwayna files a missing person report. Despite this, the conspirators continue their activities, leaving Troy concealed without urgency, reflecting their disregard for life (46:11).
Discovery of Remains (73:18):
Five years later, in May 2009, skeletal remains believed to be Troy's are found in a remote area of Montana, providing closure to the protracted investigation (73:18).
Special Agent Brett Gromer leads the investigation into Troy's disappearance. Interviews with key individuals like Tell "Chopper" Cook reveal discrepancies and lead to mounting evidence against the conspirators (35:08).
Tell "Chopper" Cook:
Initially charged with failing to report a felony, Cook cooperates with authorities, providing incriminating details about Tegan and Kendall's involvement. He ultimately receives a minimal sentence in exchange for his testimony (56:47).
Tegan and Kendall:
Facing charges of kidnapping, both are implicated in Troy's disappearance. The trial is fraught with conflicting testimonies and disputes over timelines, eventually leading to their conviction. Kendall pleads guilty to kidnapping, citing mental illness, and receives a 20-year sentence with provisions for parole (66:42).
Jamie 'Korean' Corian:
Convicted of accessory to murder and perjury, Jamie faces severe sentencing. Appeals are made but ultimately upheld, with her involvement deeply entwined with the meth distribution network in Belle Fourche (77:14).
Throughout the trial, the courtroom becomes a battleground of emotions and legal maneuvering:
Prosecutor vs. Defense:
The prosecution presents a damning case of conspiracy and murder, emphasizing the cruelty of leaving Troy bound in a trunk. The defense attempts to mitigate sentences by highlighting mental health issues and the defendants' troubled backgrounds.
Troy's Mother's Testimony:
Joyce Klug delivers a heart-wrenching testimony, condemning Tegan's actions and expressing unwavering grief. Her powerful statements underscore the personal toll of the crime (71:02).
Sentencing Outcomes:
Quotes:
Joyce Klug (Troy's Mother) [71:21]:
"I will never excuse your so-called mental illness as part of this. I want my son's remains to lay beside his father in a proper burial."
Prosecutor [65:48]:
"Drugs, childlike self-absorbance, and evil mixed together."
Tegan [71:38]:
"I don't know what happened. It wasn't my fault."
Five years later, the discovery of Troy's remains brings a semblance of closure to the case, though the scars remain deeply etched in the community and the victims' families. The episode concludes with reflections on the destructive power of meth addiction and the irreversible consequences of unchecked conspiracies in small-town dynamics.
Small Town Murder Episode #596 masterfully intertwines the grim realities of crime, addiction, and legal battles with the hosts' unique comedic perspective, offering listeners an engaging and thought-provoking exploration of the Belle Fourche murder conspiracy. Through detailed storytelling and candid discussions, James and Jimmy shed light on the human failures that culminate in tragedy, making this episode one of the most compelling installments in the series.
Notable Quotes:
James Pietragallo [06:05]:
“Now if I gave you 10 tries on the spelling of Belle Fourche, South Dakota, you would need 20 because it's ridiculous.”
Jimmy Wissman [78:40]:
“It's fucking horrifying, man. It's."
Dwayna Beebe [78:33]:
“You killed a man by not giving him nourishment. That's all.”
Note: Time stamps correspond to moments within the transcript to aid listeners in referencing specific segments.