2. The Target List

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Unforgotten, S6E2 — "The Target List"

Podcast: The Unforgotten (Free Range Productions)
Host: Zoe Culkin
Air Date: June 8, 2026
Episode Theme:
This episode dives deep into the investigation of the 2016 murder of Missy Bevers in Midlothian, Texas. The focus is on debunking the burglary theory, examining police handling of the case, introducing the so-called "Target List" of potential suspects, and highlighting flaws in both the investigation and public rumor mill.

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Main Themes & Purpose

• Dissects prevailing theories—especially, the burglary hypothesis—and why it's likely flawed
• Explores the silence and secrecy of the Midlothian Police Department
• Introduces the "Target List" search warrant and its surprising named individuals
• Examines how online sleuths, friends, and the investigation community have navigated speculation, rumor, and withholding of evidence
• Analyzes the ripple effects of the crime on the Creekside Church and Midlothian community

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Revisiting the Crime Scene at Creekside Church

• Zoe Culkin visits Creekside Church to understand the space and speak with Pastor Clint Rhodes about Missy's murder.
  "I took a second to imagine Missy walking those same halls, not knowing what was waiting for her." – Zoe Culkin (01:06)

• Pastor Clint Rhodes on security pre- and post-murder:

  • No history of break-ins at the church:

    "As far as a break in, my understanding is no." – Pastor Clint Rhodes (04:01)

  • Skeptical of the burglary motive:

    "If it was a burglar, which I don't believe that it was, they were very slow... They did not seem intent on getting anything and certainly not intent on getting out on any certain timeline." – Pastor Clint Rhodes (04:16)

  • On what was taken:

    "There was nothing taken." – Pastor Clint Rhodes (05:02)

  • Tithes are removed same-day, nothing valuable left:

    "Those were removed from the building on the day of." – Pastor Clint Rhodes (05:18)

• Church’s Response:
  After the murder, stepped up police presence and security, but the mission persists:

  "We still have a mission to do... we are our day in and day out." – Pastor Clint Rhodes (05:49)

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2. Police Investigation—Secrecy and Missteps

Lack of Transparency:

• Police released minimal info, never named a suspect, and cleared Brandon Bevers (Missy’s husband).
• Brandon’s cooperation:

  "He gave them everything. He was like, here, here's my bank. Here's my computer. Here's my house. Knock yourself out." – Crystal (08:47)

Withholding the Cause of Death:

• For years, the official cause of death was withheld—public didn’t even know she’d been shot.

  "Ten years later and still no clear cause of death. No autopsy report." – Zoe Culkin (08:58)

• Online sleuths and podcasters eventually discovered gunshot wounds via the Murder Accountability Project database:

  "There was a 45 year old woman who was killed in Midlothian by handgun on April 18, 2016. Well, who else would that be?" – Crystal (11:01)

• Police may have withheld this for evidentiary purposes, but skepticism lingers:

  "I don't really understand the reason to hold back." – Renee Rodden (10:13)

• Podcasters sat on this key info "for a long time" out of respect for the investigation.

  "We sat on the gunshot information for a long time because we didn't want to be the ones that broke that in case the police were using that as holdback evidence." – Crystal (11:37)

Incorrect Tip Line in Public Footage:

• Crime Stoppers tip line on key public video was wrong for years; thousands of views, potential missed tips:

  "I know the phone number by heart and I look at the number and I go, while we're recording, I go, wait a minute, stop that. That number's wrong." – Renee Rodden (17:59) "This has 5, 600,000 views and the wrong numbers on me and it's still up." – Renee Rodden (19:14)

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3. The "Target List" and Suspect Focus

April 24 Search Warrant:

• Sought phone data from Brandon, his father, and surprising figures—notably Camp Gladiator colleagues AJ and Courtney Tucker.

AJ Tucker’s Story:

• Rumored to have had an affair with Missy, which he flatly denies:

  "There was a strong rumor that Missy and AJ had an affair. He denies it vehemently." – Crystal (21:56)

• AJ describes how he learned of Missy’s death and his indirect professional connection with her:

  "My class was about five miles down the road from Missy's class, and we started at the exact same time..." – AJ Tucker (22:30)

• Missy and AJ were fitness instructors in the same community, but acquaintances at best:

  "So according to AJ, he and Missy didn't really know each other well. They were acquaintances and crossed paths in the fitness community, but that was it." – Zoe Culkin (24:37)

Courtney Tucker’s Name on the List:

• No clear link between her and Missy. Crystal hypothesizes it could be as innocent as a misattributed text:

  "My husband will be at a conference or something, he will text me from somebody else's phone..." – Crystal (25:19)

• AJ still baffled about his and his wife’s inclusion:

  "I've always asked, you know, if somebody could tell me the origins, because it had to come from somewhere. Right?" – AJ Tucker (26:09)

• Online rumors persisted about the Tuckers, but addressing the logistics debunks them:

  "She had a baby and three young children, and she doesn't seem like the type of person that would leave them... I'm just trying to picture her jumping out of bed and doing that..." – Crystal (27:45)

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4. The Nissan Altima and Ongoing Frustrations

• Surveillance Video: Reports of a suspicious Nissan Altima in the parking lot before the murder—police alternately dismissed and pursued this as a lead.

  "If they told him in 2016, they weren't interested in it. Well, that's not even true because they've been asking to just speak to the driver for all these years." – Renee Rodden (15:37)

• Pattern of inconsistent or confusing police communication and approach.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Pastor Clint Rhodes on the burglary theory:

  "They are simply breaking a few things here and there to bring up the question of the possibility of a burglary. They did not seem intent on getting anything..." (04:16)

• Crystal on police secrecy:

  "This has been the most silent murder case I've ever followed." (07:55)

• On the incorrect tip line:

  "All these years, the police department's YouTube with... the person walking around the church telling people to call Crime Stoppers... is the wrong freaking number. That's an issue." – Renee Rodden (18:13)

• Crystal on rumors about the Tuckers:

  "It's compelling, but you have to make a lot of assumptions. You have to assume they were having an affair. You have to assume Courtney found out and was upset. You have to assume that she found some way to leave her kids." (28:36)

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Segment Timestamps

• 01:06 – Zoe’s arrival at Creekside Church and first impressions
• 04:01–05:49 – Pastor Clint Rhodes discusses church security and the burglary theory
• 07:28 – Comparison with Delphi murder case, and police communication issues
• 08:47–11:47 – The secret cause of death, how amateur sleuths discovered it, and discussions about holding back evidence
• 15:10–16:52 – Suspicious car in the parking lot and inconsistent police statements
• 17:59–19:21 – The revelation of the incorrect Crime Stoppers tip line and its long-term impact
• 21:16–27:28 – Deep dive into the "Target List," AJ and Courtney Tucker’s involvement, and related rumors
• 28:36 – Discussion on the implausibility of the Courtney Tucker theory

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Tone & Approach

• Respectful, methodical, and empathetic—the host and guests acknowledge their limitations and avoid sensationalism, carefully fact-checking and offering plausible, benign explanations for rumors.
• Clear focus on community effects and the need for transparency over dramatic speculation.

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Conclusion

"The Target List" lays bare the complications of true crime inquiry where official secrecy, investigative missteps, and local rumor collide. It invites listeners to reconsider online narratives, reminds them that real people—often wrongly suspected—live with the aftershocks, and underlines the importance of professionally sound police work and public communication.

Next episode tease: The focus shifts to Brandon Beavers’ father, Randy, with new questions and developments.

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Transcript

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[Zoe Culkin]

When I was driving to Midlothian from Austin to see the town for myself, I knew my very first stop would be Creekside Church, the place where Missy was killed over a decade ago. I wanted to see where this brutal crime had taken place. Walk the halls just like Missy had the morning of April 18, 2016. I drove up on a Saturday morning and went straight to Creekside. Okay, not the church, not Creekside. You can hear the cars flying by. The church is practically on the highway, fully visible to every commuter driving down 287. I had reached out to the church's lead pastor Clint Rhodes via email in the weeks prior, but never got a response. I wanted to talk with him about Brandon's theory that Missy had walked in on a burglary. Wrong place, wrong time. When I arrived, the service had already started so the halls were empty even though it was broad daylight and the whole congregation was just on the other side of the wall. I took a second to imagine Missy walking those same halls, not knowing what was waiting for her.

[Pastor Clint Rhodes]

He was a miracle worker.

[Zoe Culkin]

I grew up Catholic and didn't really go much aside from the yearly Christmas Eve Mass, but it looked like my best bet at talking with Clint was going to Sunday service.

[Pastor Clint Rhodes]

The path of radical belief always ends in victory. It may be something that we experience here on earth that points to God's greatness and God's goodness right where we're able to say, God be praised for what you've done in my life. And it points people to Jesus and it points people to the kingdom, which was the point of the miracles in the first place.

[Zoe Culkin]

After the service, I waited patiently and watched Pastor Clint take his time speaking to anyone that stopped him, either because they needed advice or just wanted to share a life update with him. It was clear that this was a close knit congregation. Everyone lingered, spent time catching up with each other. Finally, it was my turn.

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[Crystal]

Clint Rhodes.

[Zoe Culkin]

Hi, I'm Jody.

[Renee Rodden]

Nice to meet you. It's the first time.

[Zoe Culkin]

Yes. Earlier, get your good seat. Like hi, Clint, good to meet you. I'm that journalist you've been dodging.

[Pastor Clint Rhodes]

I appreciate that.

[Renee Rodden]

I'm really not kidding.

[Zoe Culkin]

Who would have thought that the lead pastor at a church would be busy on a Sunday? Luckily, Clint agreed to catch up with me over the phone later in the week. He'd been at Creekside for a little less than a year when Missy was killed. He saw the church before and after her death. I was most curious about the before. Were break ins a regular occurrence? Is it something staff worried about?

[Clint Rhodes]

No, not really. You know, just like any church, there's been stuff stolen off our property and things like that. But as far as a break in, my understanding is no.

[Zoe Culkin]

So what did Clint think of Brandon's burglary idea?

[Clint Rhodes]

The timeline from when the perpetrator gained entry into the building to the time she was discovered, there was a long time. And so if it was a burglar, which I don't believe that it was, they were very slow. As you can see the footage of the person walking around, it appears that they are simply biding their time. They are simply waiting. They are simply breaking a few things here and there to bring up the question of the possibility of a burglary. They did not seem intent on getting anything and certainly not intent on getting out on any certain timeline.

[Zoe Culkin]

And the biggest hole in this theory,

[Clint Rhodes]

there was nothing taken.

[Zoe Culkin]

A line of thinking I've seen online in support of the idea that it was a burglary is that the perpetrator could have been looking for tithes. It was a Monday after all. But Clint told me that that would have been a fruitless mission.

[Clint Rhodes]

Those were removed from the building on the day of.

[Zoe Culkin]

Was there anything else worth stealing that this person could have been on the hunt for?

[Clint Rhodes]

Obviously there's office equipment and things like that, but nothing really super high tech or anything that somebody would. Wow, that's a. That's a big gap for A burglar

[Zoe Culkin]

talking with Clint strengthened the idea in my mind that this person was in fact on the hunt for Missy. I asked him what the lasting effect of this awful tragedy has been on Creekside.

[Clint Rhodes]

Definitely a feeling of are we safe here? And things like that. You know, we did the best that we could to address those kinds of questions. You know, in the weeks following, we made sure that there was some police presence and things like that at our services, and we do have ongoing security team that is trained and things like that. But it felt like at that time we wanted to definitely make sure we had uniformed officers and marked cars and things like that. You know, I think our church has really bounced back through the years. Really well. It's not front of mind all of the time, and that doesn't mean we're not mindful of it, because we certainly are. But, you know, ultimately we still have a mission to do. And what we feel like God has called us to do here in this area and so we are our day in and day out, is that we're trying to. To do those things.

[Zoe Culkin]

While the Creekside community has found a bit of closure, the people in Missy's life continue to search for it. But is closure possible with so much out there still unexplained? Not just about Missy's killer, but Missy's personal life and relationships before that fateful morning. From Free Range Productions, this is the who killed Missy Bevers? I'm Zoe Culkin. Episode 2 the Target List. Renee Rodden, who knew Missy, followed the Midlothian Police Department's investigation closely. She compared it to other cases she was familiar with.

[Renee Rodden]

I use this example all the time. Doug Carter in the Delphi murders, he got up on the podium and he was like, we're coming for you. And we, you know, this and this and this and this. I mean, they just talked and did their thing, you know, like they really wanted to solve it. Mid Lesbian police doesn't do that.

[Zoe Culkin]

The first thing I noticed when researching this case was just how little information had been released by the police department. Here's Crystal, Renee's co host on their podcast True Crime Broads.

[Crystal]

This has been the most silent murder case I've ever followed.

[Zoe Culkin]

In the 10 years since the murder, they have never named a suspect and have officially cleared very few people, one of them being Brandon Beavers. As far as Brandon being the person under all that tactical gear, he had an airtight alibi that the police had checked out.

[Crystal]

He flew to Biloxi. He was supposed to be getting on a Charter boat to go to the chandelier islands for a fishing trip. But he never got on the boat because he got the call that Missy had been murdered.

[Zoe Culkin]

But that doesn't mean the Facebook groups leave him alone.

[Crystal]

There are people to this day in our group that will swear up and down that Brandon ordered this hit.

[Zoe Culkin]

But despite the fact that Brandon was closed off with the press, with police, he was an open book.

[Crystal]

He gave them everything. He was like, here, here's my bank. Here's my computer. Here's my house. Knock yourself out.

[Zoe Culkin]

No evidence has been released that suggests Brandon had anything to do with his wife's death. And the police seemingly crossed him off the list of worthwhile avenues. But for the first weeks following the investigation, they did not share what avenues they were choosing to go down. They were being secretive and purposefully vague. A search warrant dated on the 18th stated Missy was deceased from a head wound and that the person in the video used an unknown instrument to cause the death. The medical examiner's office did complete an autopsy, but police did not release her cause of death. It's not in any documents I found or any that were given to me through public records requests. This was sketchy to me. Ten years later and still no clear cause of death. No autopsy report. I mentioned it to Crystal and Renee, and they enlightened me.

[Crystal]

I believe that the police kept that vague on purpose because it's puncture wounds to the head and chest. And we all jumped to the conclusion at first, okay, she was stabbed. No, wait a minute. It was a hammer. And come to find out, she was shot.

[Zoe Culkin]

Wait, shot? Why would they keep this a secret?

[Renee Rodden]

I guess they were trying to do that thing, you know, they try to withhold it. So when they do find the real person, that they can basically prove that it was that person. Like, maybe they would say something only that person would know. Like, for instance, well, I shot four times. I'd be like, okay, well, that's the only person that knew she was shot four times. I'm just making that up. But at the end of the day, nobody is running around screaming, they did it. So I don't really understand the reason to hold back.

[Zoe Culkin]

Crystal told me they found this information out from the murder accountability project, A nonprofit that tracks homicide data to try and identify potential serial killer clusters. It doesn't release names, but you can search homicides all across the country based on city, year, the victim's age, and gender. Crystal said it wasn't hard to find Missy's case.

[Crystal]

There was a 45 year old woman who was killed in Midlothian by handgun on April 18, 2016. Well, who else would that be?

[Zoe Culkin]

I checked the site out myself and sure enough, Crystal was right for the only homicide to take place in Midlothian in 2016. The weapon listed was handgun, pistol, revolver, etc. But even though Crystal and Renee knew this information, they did not broadcast it. They were and are very mindful of the police's work and are wary of doing anything that could disturb the investigation.

[Crystal]

We sat on the gunshot information for a long time because we didn't want to be the ones that broke that in case the police were using that as holdback evidence. So we kept our mouth shut a long time.

[Zoe Culkin]

But eventually, the cat was out of the bag. Right around the fourth anniversary of the murder, Renee was listening to a local news broadcast that stopped her in her tracks.

[Pastor Clint Rhodes]

Four years since fitness teacher Missy Beavers was discovered dead at the Creekside Church in Midlothian, there's still a mystery over who that was in the tactical gear, who pulled the trigger.

[Renee Rodden]

And everybody was like, holy cow. Like that. I mean, we knew she was shot, but a lot of people didn't. And we were like, we did not tell that story. We didn't.

[Zoe Culkin]

Now, Crystal and Renee were certainly not the only sleuths or journalists that had stumbled upon this information. But still, they did not want any bad blood with the cops. They wanted to believe they all had the same goal, get justice for Missy. But the more they dug, the less convinced they were that they all shared this common goal.

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[Zoe Culkin]

early on was a possible vehicle associated with the perpetrator. The church parking lot. Security footage showed a silver niece on Altima sitting in the parking lot not long before the murder took place. Now, the car wasn't actually there at the time of the murder, but nevertheless, it was suspicious for a car to be there at all at that time of day. Renee told me someone even reported seeing the car to police before even knowing about the tragedy that had occurred.

[Renee Rodden]

And he was just like, I just thought it was weird because it was sitting in the parking lot at 4am and you don't typically see people sitting in parking lots at 4am that's just not normal. So I guess he went up there and talked to the police department several times. They were really interested in it. And then later, you know, I guess he reached out to them and they were just like, oh, it wasn't involved. Never mind. That's very interesting because they've been looking for that person that drove that car forever. So if they told him in 2016, they weren't interested in it. Well, that's not even true because they've been asking to just speak to the driver for all these years. So I don't really understand what that was about.

[Zoe Culkin]

It's still not clear whether or not the Nissan Altima is tied to the perpetrator in any way, but this pattern of the police saying one thing and doing another kept up. But to be fair, this was not an experienced homicide team. Missy's was the first homicide case in Midlothian in seven years. Meaning this was a first for many on the team. That's important to keep in mind. These suspicious strategies could just be a result of lack of experience. But the slip ups just kept on coming.

[Renee Rodden]

When they first did it, they put out eight seconds of video and it was just like a just input.

[Zoe Culkin]

Renee is referring to when the MPD first put out the footage from the church surveillance cameras, the video of the perp roaming the halls.

[Renee Rodden]

And then they put 20 seconds of video and then they put together, I think 2 minutes and 20 seconds of video. And so at the end of it, there's like a little scrolling thing, you know, if you have any information about this crime, blah, blah, blah.

[Zoe Culkin]

Years later, when Crystal and Renee had their podcast up and running, they decided to do an episode critically analyzing the footage frame by frame.

[Renee Rodden]

We did like a, you know, where we're where the video's playing and then we're stopping it and we're like, see right there, blah blah blah. Or see right there, blah blah blah.

[Zoe Culkin]

Like Renee mentioned, at the end of the video, there's a call out for a tip line. This tip line was for Crime Stoppers, a non profit that allows people to submit anonymous tips. This can be really helpful for people who may not feel comfortable going to the police directly. Renee is actually the co chair for the Crime Stoppers of Ellis County.

[Renee Rodden]

I know the phone number by heart and I look at the number and I go, while we're recording, I go, wait a minute, stop that. That number's wrong.

[Zoe Culkin]

And remember, the video had been up for years.

[Crystal]

At this point, I reach out to

[Renee Rodden]

Crime Stoppers, you know, and I'm like, hey, has this ever been the Crime Stoppers number? And she's like, no. So she texts some people, never been the number. So all these years, the police department's YouTube with the whole thing with the person walking around the church telling people to call Crime Stoppers if you have any information is the wrong freaking number. That's an issue. If you have the wrong phone number for Crime Stoppers for a brutal crime that happened in Ellis county and you're trying to get tips and you got the wrong number, that's a problem.

[Zoe Culkin]

I asked Renee what the police said about this once they were notified.

[Renee Rodden]

They said that they don't have access to the YouTube. Somebody that used to work there did it and they don't have access. And I said, let me get this straight. Middelothian police department gave somebody the ability to make a YouTube video, but they don't have access to it? Don't even make any sense. But if you wanted to solve the crime, don't you want to redo it?

[Zoe Culkin]

Yeah. At the very least, take that one down and post a new one. Like at the very least, this has

[Renee Rodden]

5, 600,000 views and the wrong numbers on me and it's still up. Oh yeah, go look at it.

[Zoe Culkin]

She was right. The footage with the incorrect tip line is still up on YouTube. Many Internet sleuths chatter online about how mistakes like this aren't mistakes. They think it's deliberate, corrupt, an attempt to make sure the case is never solved. But even if it is just carelessness, it raises questions about the MPD's competence handling this case, as does what they did on April 24, less than a week after Missy's murder.

[Crystal]

Here's the part I don't and will never understand as long as I live is how he and his wife got on Missy's target list.

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[Zoe Culkin]

This is what those who follow Missy's case called the April 24 search warrant that requested the phone data of a select group of people, mostly family. Brandon, Brandon's father, but also some shocking people, people the public certainly did not have their eye on prior to the release of this list. For one, A.J. tucker and his wife, Courtney Tucker.

[Crystal]

He was in Camp Gladiator as a trainer and had just started.

[Zoe Culkin]

Missy and AJ were both instructors for Camp Gladiator, the fitness program Missy was coaching at Creekside the weekend before she died. They had a training in Austin. Both AJ and Missy attended the training.

[Crystal]

There was a strong rumor that Missy and AJ had an affair. He denies it vehemently. We've talked to him several times over the years. He says, absolutely not. I don't know where that came from.

[Zoe Culkin]

When the police first seized Missy's electronics, they cited finding text messages between AJ and Missy, hence the search warrants. We don't know what was in those messages, but many people believe it had to be something fishy for AJ to end up on that list. AJ was on the True Crime Broads podcast not once, but twice. Here's a clip from his second appearance.

[A.J. Tucker]

My class was about five miles down the road from Missy's class, and we started at the exact same time. And so I did my first class. Everything is going good. The second class, that's when it started to get a little weird.

[Zoe Culkin]

AJ's first day teaching his own Camp Gladiator class was April 16th.

[A.J. Tucker]

As I'm teaching the class, my phone was dinging. I kind of noticed, but I'm like, you know, I'm just gonna keep teaching class. And then one of my longtime clients, she burst into the class, and she looks distressed, and she's like, oh, my God, you okay? And I'm like, what are you talking about? And she was like, oh, you know, somebody I just heard on the radio or the news that a Camp Gladiator trainer in Midlothian was murdered. And so, you know, I looked at it. I'm like, what are you talking about? You know, I'm kind of laughing it off. I'm like, man, that was. That was a hoax. That's not true. And so as I was teaching, my phone just. It just kept dinging. And then I looked at my phone, and that's when I found out.

[Zoe Culkin]

During the episode, Crystal inquires about his and his wife's relationship with Missy.

[Crystal]

Now, did you guys know Missy? I mean, did you guys, like, all go out and have drinks or dinner? Or was your relationship With Missy, little standoffish, like. Did your wife and Missy know one another?

[A.J. Tucker]

No, they didn't. They did not know each other. I knew her because whenever she first started training, I didn't meet her. And I believe her daughters, either one or two of her daughters came out to one of my classes.

[Zoe Culkin]

AJ had done a bunch of different things before, starting with Camp Gladiator, for one. He taught and still teaches self defense classes, raising red flags to some people who think he could have had access to the tactical gear Missy's killer was wearing in the video. He also used to teach a girls conditioning class over the summer. Missy had seen the girls class and was intrigued considering she had three daughters of her own.

[A.J. Tucker]

She was training like right across the street from where I was doing the class.

[Crystal]

Right.

[A.J. Tucker]

And that's basically. That's basically how I met initially with her.

[Crystal]

Oh, that's neat.

Yeah, they're the daughters.

That makes sense.

[Zoe Culkin]

So according to aj, he and Missy didn't really know each other well. They were acquaintances and crossed paths in the fitness community, but that was it. Crystal pushes a little further out of what I think is genuine curiosity. Does AJ have any idea how he and his wife ended up on that list?

[Crystal]

We had heard from you before and other people that your wife and Missy didn't know each other, but we were just so confused about why her name came up on the target list as being on the search warrant in her phone.

[Zoe Culkin]

Crystal throws A.J. a lifeline here. She's done some mental math on a non nefarious reason that he or his wife could have ended up in Missy's phone.

[Crystal]

And I always used to say when people would ask that, I would say, probably AJ and Missy work together. And this has happened in my family so many times. My husband will be at a conference or something, he will text me from somebody else's phone. He'll say, hey, my phone is about to die. This is me, you know, from this random phone number. And I just want to let you know that I'll charge it when I get back to the hotel, that everything's cool, I'm alive, you know. So I was thinking maybe something like that happened. Like we don't understand that search warrant because there's no reason why your wife and Missy would have been communicating.

[A.J. Tucker]

I don't understand it. Yeah, I don't understand.

[Crystal]

And I had to bring it up because we get so many questions about that. So that's the only reason we're going there is just like.

That is so bizarre.

[Zoe Culkin]

I appreciate this about Crystal and Renee they really are not out to get anybody, and they want to give everyone a platform to clear their name.

[A.J. Tucker]

Well, if somebody. I've always asked, you know, if somebody could tell me the origins, because it had to come from somewhere. Right?

[Crystal]

Right.

[A.J. Tucker]

Like somebody somewhere had to bring it up. And so I'm just like, how did it start? That's. That is another mystery to me, like. Cause there's always normally a source where that person will. Somebody will come out and say, yeah, I know this person. And, you know, I saw them hanging out or this and that, but it was almost like the story was there, and I was just like, huh, like what?

[Zoe Culkin]

AJ sticks to his guns. He didn't have really even a friendly relationship with Missy, let alone romantic. He's just as clueless as the public about how he became a target.

[A.J. Tucker]

You know, if we were like. Like you said, if we. If our families knew each other and we kind of hung out or we've all been to, like, some type of event together or whatever, then it would make more sense. Or if me and her hung out, like, if I worked closely with her or something like that, then I will. Okay, I will understand, like, the questioning and stuff, but it came out of nowhere. And I'm still trying to figure out to this day, if you look at the phone records or whatever, you won't see any calls, and I don't have any burner phones or anything like that. But, you know, but you don't see, you know, like a bunch of calls between us or us in the same location or anything like that.

[Zoe Culkin]

I talked with Crystal about what she thinks the police's theory was here.

[Crystal]

The theory was that Courtney had dressed up in all that garb and gone over there and killed Missy because she was upset about AJ but this didn't

[Zoe Culkin]

hold up to her. The logistics just didn't make sense.

[Crystal]

She had a baby and three young children, and she doesn't seem like the type of person that would leave them because they live in Mansfield. That's not super close to Midlothian. That'd be like at least a 20 minute drive, probably longer in that pounding rain. I'm just trying to picture her jumping out of bed and doing that and leaving a nine month old and then a toddler, a preschooler, and then like a. A grade schooler.

[Zoe Culkin]

This is a good point. If AJ Was teaching a class at the same time as Missy, he would have been out of the house at around the same time of the murder, or at least awake, noticing his wife was gone. So if AJ was gone how would Courtney escape the house full of her young children to go murder her husband's alleged mistress and get away unscathed? It just didn't seem strong.

[Crystal]

It's compelling, but you have to make a lot of assumptions. You have to assume they were having an affair. You have to assume Courtney found out and was upset. You have to assume that she found some way to leave her kids.

I don't know.

[Zoe Culkin]

I reached out to both AJ and Courtney. Neither of them got back to me.

[Crystal]

I would say Courtney Tucker is still part of the rumor mill.

[Zoe Culkin]

This is definitely true. In the Facebook groups, everyone refers to people involved in the case by their initials and if you search CT in the group, hundreds, maybe even thousands of posts will pop up. But luckily for the Tucker family, the heat was about to come off of them and and onto our B Randy Beavers Brandon Beavers father so you've got

[Crystal]

a Beavers, same spelling coming in here with a shirt with blood all over it.

[Zoe Culkin]

She calls the police on the next episode of the Unforgotten who Killed Missy Beavers? A lot of questions been swirling through this afternoon.

[Clint Rhodes]

That blood couldn't be tied to the

[A.J. Tucker]

murder of Missy Beavers.

[Zoe Culkin]

The Unforgotten is a free range production. Season 6 who Killed Missy Beavers? Is written and hosted by me, Zoe Culkin. Our executive producer is Wes Ferguson. Audio editing by Aislin Gaddis Engineering and sound design by Austin Sisler with Eastside Studios. Get our [e-mail] thanks for listening.

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