5.  Tammy and the Tribute Bands

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Unforgotten

Episode 5: Tammy and the Tribute Bands
Host: Zoe Culkin (Free Range Productions)
Date: June 29, 2026

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Brief Overview

This episode dives into a persistent theory surrounding the unsolved murder of Missy Bevers, centering on Tammy Lejeune Heap Welch—an individual frequently discussed in online forums but not officially named by police or the media. Reporter Zoe Culkin follows the trail left by rumor, amateur investigators, and members of Dallas's tribute band scene, exploring how Tammy's name became entwined with the case. The episode relies heavily on first- and second-hand accounts, highlighting the interplay between subcultural gossip, personal suspicion, and internet sleuthing in shaping a murder investigation's unofficial narrative.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Dead End of Official Leads

• Zoe revisits the police’s failed leads: “The police's leads were not really leading anywhere. There were the LinkedIn messages, the creepy ones, and the flirtatious and familiar ones. Then there was Bobby Wayne Henry... and then April Sandoval...” (01:06)
• Police continue withholding information due to the investigation’s open status, forcing reporters and the public to speculate and seek information elsewhere.

2. Facebook Sleuths and the Rise of “TW”

• Multiple large Facebook groups have discussed Missy Bevers' case, with the initials “TW” (Tammy Welch) arising frequently among amateur investigators—yet unmentioned in official reports.
• “One name had been mentioned over and over again in these groups... the only people I had seen really dig into this person… the true crime broads, Crystal and Renee.” (02:37)

3. Susan Fortier’s Account: Tammy’s Alleged Confession

• Susan Fortier, whose husband is in the Ozzy Osbourne tribute band Blizzard of Oz, recounts an unsettling hangout with Tammy where, during a makeup session, Tammy allegedly implied she knew who killed Missy:
  • “That's when she told me things that led me to believe that she was a person that may have committed a crime.” (04:58, Susan Fortier)
  • Susan claims Tammy never names the killer, but her tone felt threatening: “And if you tell anybody about this, then I'll know it was you.” (05:26, Susan Fortier)
  • Susan took this as a roundabout confession and felt threatened.

4. Rumored Motives and Backstory

• Susan suggests a possible motive: “There was something between her husband and Missy Bevers.” (06:54, Susan Fortier)
• Christopher Paul adds context: Tammy was married to David Welch, a Dallas police officer, and the two were swingers who hosted parties; both Susan and her husband recall being invited.
• Christopher reports rumors that Missy and David (Tammy’s husband) had been involved, which may have triggered Tammy’s jealousy: “I heard that Missy had... swung with her husband.” (23:30, Christopher Paul)

5. Inside the Tribute Band Scene

• Zoe attends a Blizzard of Oz show to find more leads but is unable to connect directly with key figures—spotlights the tight-knit but gossipy tribute band community.
• Christopher Paul, performer in Kiss tribute band Rock and Roll Over, provides detailed insight into Tammy’s arrival and behavior in the scene:
  • Of Tammy: “She wanted it to be blonde, but it looked like it had been through something... She's wearing rocker chick clothes... trying to make the scene.” (14:59, Christopher Paul)
  • Christopher recalls Tammy pressuring him to help get gigs for her boyfriend Scott’s band, which left a negative first impression: “Her eyes are just, like, bulging out of her skull... you need to get them gigs.” (15:49, Christopher Paul)

6. Deterioration and Rumors of Drug Use

• Multiple sources notice Scott Floyd, Tammy’s boyfriend, physically and mentally declining after their involvement:
  • “The more he was with Tammy, the more erratic his behavior became. He looked like he was going to die the last time I saw him.” (17:45, Christopher Paul)
  • Rumors—never verified—of meth use swirl, contributing to the band scene’s suspicions.

7. Tammy’s Possible Link to the Crime

• Details supporting amateur speculation:
  • Tammy’s husband was a cop, possibly giving her access to tactical gear similar to that worn by the church intruder on surveillance.
  • “She could have had access to the gear the perp was wearing in the surveillance footage, went into her husband's closet and got all that ill fitting tactical gear and went over there and did something.” (25:07, Christopher Paul)
  • Observers believe Tammy’s walk matches the person in the church video: “She was walking around and she had the same kind of limp that is shown in the video.” (25:18, Christopher Paul)

8. Rising Pressure and Tammy’s Response

• Tammy allegedly makes a threatening call to Christopher Paul after hearing he’d spoken about her:
  • “It was very icy, very threatening, and it was cold. This is Tammy Lejeune Heap Welch. Can I help you?" (26:03, Christopher Paul)
• Soon afterward, both Tammy and Scott leave Texas, reportedly relocating to upstate New York and cutting off most local ties.

9. Law Enforcement’s Inaction and Possible Protection

• Despite rumors and social media chatter, there is no public record of Tammy being named an official suspect.
• Zoe’s inquiries to police go unanswered: “The answers to most of those questions would not be beneficial to the investigation and may actually be harmful. So we will not answer anything further at this time.” (31:13, Zoe Culkin quoting MPD)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “She didn't come right out and say I'm the one that did it, but it's the fact that she said things... that leads us to believe that she's confessing.”
  — Susan Fortier, 04:55

• “I heard that Tammy got extremely jealous and did something about it.”
  — Christopher Paul, 23:57

• “She apparently heard that I was telling the story and wanted to shut me up.”
  — Christopher Paul, 25:40

• “I'm not saying he's a bad person, but influence is the word I would use by Tammy... Velcroed together.”
  — Christopher Paul, 17:32

• “Where there's smoke, there's fire. And if it's not her, then why hasn't she been cleared? Why doesn't she come out and address this?”
  — Christopher Paul, 29:20

• “Everybody around here likes to talk behind backs... There's a definite shoot the messenger mentality in Dallas Fort Worth, and that's just the way it is.”
  — Christopher Paul, 27:20

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 01:06: Zoe on the dead-end leads and turn to Facebook sleuths
• 02:33 – 06:46: Susan Fortier’s story and Tammy’s alleged confession
• 07:50: Zoe attends the Blizzard of Oz concert
• 09:34 – 12:25: Christopher Paul’s introduction and his experience of the Missy Bevers case
• 13:40: Christopher’s account of meeting Tammy
• 15:49 – 18:01: Tammy’s behavior, the effect on Scott, and the band scene’s shifting view
• 19:23: Substance abuse suspicions
• 22:17 – 25:16: Tammy’s backstory, swinger parties, and possible motive
• 25:18 – 26:03: The limp, confession rumors, and Tammy’s threatening voicemail
• 27:06: Culture of gossip, local reluctance to confront
• 28:08 – 29:08: Tammy and Scott abruptly leave town
• 31:13: Law enforcement’s noncommittal response to Zoe’s queries
• 32:08: Emotional toll on people in the community (anger, uncertainty)

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Conclusion

Episode 5 uses the microcosm of Dallas’s tribute band scene to illuminate the complex and at times messy relationship between rumor, suspicion, and fact in high-profile unsolved cases. The episode paints a vivid picture of how the lack of official closure is filled by hearsay, secret-keeping, and internet speculation, maintaining the air of mystery—and distrust—surrounding the Missy Bevers case.

Next episode preview: Brandon Bevers and his daughters break their silence in an interview for the tenth anniversary of Missy's murder.

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Transcript

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[Zoe Culkin]

when reporting on the unsolved murder of Missy Bevers, I tried to follow the police's leads as closely as I could through search warrants press conferences. But as we learned in the last episode, the police's leads were not really leading anywhere. There were the LinkedIn messages, the creepy ones, and the flirtatious and familiar ones. Then there was Bobby Wayne Henry, the disgraced police officer with a violent past. And then April Sandoval, the single mother and gas station attendant who had attended Missy's class. All of these leads were followed but eventually fizzled out. And since the police wouldn't talk to me directly, they told me they couldn't speak to me. Since this was an open investigation, I had to turn to the amateur investigators, the Facebook sleuths. As I've said, there are multiple Facebook groups dedicated to Missy Bevers case with thousands of members posting every single day with new perspectives, ideas and thoughts about who the killer could be. One name had been mentioned over and over again in these groups since I first joined them, but to my knowledge the police had never publicly mentioned this person and I'd never seen them pop up in any of the well researched articles on this case. The only people I had seen really dig into this person. So I guess you can just tell

[Christopher Paul]

us about when you first met Tammy.

[Zoe Culkin]

You guessed it, the true crime broads Crystal and Renee. One of the main sets of initials that is constantly brought up on online forums is Is TW, which stands for Tammy Lejeune heap Welch. A few years ago, the true crime broads had on a woman who knew Tammy to try and learn more about her and why people think she could have killed Missy. Her name is Susan fortier. She remembers meeting Tammy at a music venue.

[Susan Fortier]

She was there with her husband at the time, and I think she had a crush on the bass player.

[Zoe Culkin]

Susan is married to the Ozzy Osbourne of an Ozzy Osbourne tribute band based in Dallas called Blizzard of Oz. She's telling the true crime broads the story of Tammy, who found her way into the tribute band music scene of Dallas and apparently really made herself known.

[Susan Fortier]

She was trying to get together with him, and I don't think her husband was real happy with that.

[Zoe Culkin]

Around 2016, 2017, Tammy had started dating the bass player of blizzard of Oz, which meant she had entered Susan's orbit, for better or for worse.

[Susan Fortier]

I really didn't want to hang out with her because she just wasn't the type of person I wanted to hang out with.

[Zoe Culkin]

It was a friendship of circumstances, and friendship may even be taking it a step too far.

[Susan Fortier]

We hung out because the guys were a band, so we were together. I just didn't have good vibes around her. She's just strange to me. There's just something weird about her.

[Zoe Culkin]

They weren't close, but Susan and her husband would hang out with Tammy and the bass player. Susan's husband, who goes by the nickname shame, had known the bass player Scott since they were young. Scott was a teenager when they met.

[Susan Fortier]

Me and Shane went over there to Tammy's house one day. We just went over there to hang out.

[Zoe Culkin]

But on this hangout, Tammy was being even stranger than usual.

[Susan Fortier]

I said, hey, Tammy. I said, are you busy? And she said, well, I'm just gonna put my makeup on. Come on in. Have a seat. She said, get up on the bed. And so I did. I sat up on the bed, and she's got all her makeup all scattered around the bed.

[Zoe Culkin]

She brought up Missy Bevers.

[Susan Fortier]

That's when she told me things that led me to believe that she was a person that may have committed a crime.

[Zoe Culkin]

It's a little hard to follow. And Susan explains to the true crime broads that it's hard to remember the details, given this was 10 years ago. But she remembers Tammy explaining in very vague terms that she knows who killed Missy Bevers. And she ended it with, and if

[Susan Fortier]

you tell anybody about this, then I'll know it was you.

[Zoe Culkin]

Susan said Tammy never gave a specific name of who she knows did it. But Susan felt threatened by her tone and by that ending line. So much so that she took it as a confession.

[Susan Fortier]

She didn't come right out and say I'm the one that did it, but it's the fact that she said things things that leads us to believe that she's confessing.

[Zoe Culkin]

Now, it may seem crazy that a vague comment like this would come off as a confession, but it wasn't out of the blue.

[Susan Fortier]

We had hunches because of the fact that Scott said something to Shame that she was the one that did it.

[Zoe Culkin]

Tammy's boyfriend, bass player Scott, had apparently already confided in his longtime friend Shane. Allegedly, Scott told Shane that Tammy had killed Missy.

[Susan Fortier]

That's why we had our suspicions. And when she told me that story, then it made me believe that she was the one.

[Zoe Culkin]

Susan took Tammy's vague story as more of a threat, like I know what you know and you better stay quiet.

[Susan Fortier]

All the pieces of the puzzle keep leading us to believe that it was really Tammy.

[Zoe Culkin]

But what motive would Tammy have to kill Missy? Well, Susan says Tammy gave her one.

[Susan Fortier]

There was something between her husband and Missy Bevers

[Zoe Culkin]

From Free Range Productions, this is the unforgotten who Killed Missy Beavers? I'm Zoe Culkin. Episode 5 Tammy and the Tribute Bands. When I went to Midlothian and visited Creekside Church, there just so happened to be a Blizzard of Oz show in Frisco, about an hour away from Midlothian. I was curious about this Tammy theory and I wanted to hear more. I had tried to get in touch with Shame, Susan's husband and leader of the band, but he hadn't gotten back to me. So I headed into the belly of the beast and this morning I ended

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up with a bad hangover.

[Zoe Culkin]

I drove to Frisco to see Blizzard of Oz live and in person. The show was packed. A couple hundred people I'd say, so stuffed in a bar restaurant off the highway. It was obvious Blizzard of Oz had groupies. The crowd consisted of middle aged men and women all dressed in black or some kind of rock band. Tee Metallica, AC DC and of course Black Sabbath. There was a group of women in their 40s or 50s up close to the stage. They had bleach blonde hair and were dressed for a night out. The band was in full Black Sabbath drag. Unfortunately, I didn't see Susan in the crowd and I didn't find Shame. After the show. I couldn't exactly interrupt Crazy Train to ask about Tammy. Shame never answered my emails or Social media messages, even though I could tell he read them, and I had heard that he probably wouldn't be open to talking.

[Christopher Paul]

I think that when he did the podcast with the True Crime Broads, that was enough for him.

[Zoe Culkin]

Shame had done an episode with the True Crime Broads before his wife Susan, had. And like many who go on the show, it brought them a lot of unwanted attention.

[Christopher Paul]

A lot of people just don't want to talk about anything around here, you know, be it small or large, they just would rather talk behind everybody's back.

[Zoe Culkin]

But if you can believe it, there was another tribute band leading man that had intel on Tammy.

[Christopher Paul]

I portray Paul Stanley. I have a star painted on my right eye. He's kind of the lead singer, the guy that shakes his butt mostly.

[Zoe Culkin]

This is Christopher Paul. He's in a Kiss tribute band called Rock and Roll over, not to be confused with a KISS cover band.

[Christopher Paul]

The tribute bands, you know, there's cover bands that will just get together and they'll play a Rick Springfield song, for instance, and then they'll play a Duran Duran song. They're all over the place. Those are cover bands. Tribute bands that are real tribute bands perform the music of one artist, and they dress up like the artist. I have a Kiss tribute band, so we do the full KISS makeup, you know, tease the hair up, wear the platform boots, the costumes. Gosh, I could go on and on. As far as how thoroughly I tried to be with my band.

[Zoe Culkin]

I haven't had the chance to see Christopher's band, but I definitely felt this at the Blizzard of Oz show. They had the hair, the glasses, the voice. Shaym and Christopher take their art seriously.

[Christopher Paul]

I guess I'm a bit of a purist. Kiss is my favorite band, so I try to go as hard as I can as far as being honest to the aesthetic and stuff.

[Zoe Culkin]

Christopher Paul had known the guys from Blizzard of Oz for years. They ran in many of the same circles.

[Christopher Paul]

Sometimes we'll end up on the same bill, meaning we perform together. So you end up basically, most of the time, sharing a dressing room. There are logistics, like your amp needs to be over here and mine over there. Okay, are we sharing a drum kit? So there's interaction. We've run across each other quite a few times over the last 15 years.

[Zoe Culkin]

Christopher had been ingrained in the Dallas metro community with his band for a long time. I asked him if Missy Beavers murder had entered his consciousness while it was unfolding back in 2016.

[Christopher Paul]

How could you miss it? It was everywhere. You would turn on the evening news and bam, there it was. And it was just when you watch the footage, especially when it was fresh and brand new, it's like a frickin horror movie. It's really terrifying. You just can't believe what you're seeing.

[Zoe Culkin]

He'd been familiar with a lot of the same incidents I'd been reporting on.

[Christopher Paul]

It didn't fade from memory either. And I also saw follow up footage where Brandon Beavers, the husband, his father, took a bloody shirt into the store into a dry cleaner shortly thereafter. And that definitely made everybody's spidey sense tingle. Like what the hell's this about?

[Zoe Culkin]

He never knew Missy, but he never forgot about her either.

[Christopher Paul]

I've just always had it in the at least in the back of my mind what had happened and that it has remained unsolved.

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[Zoe Culkin]

I wanted to talk with Christopher because he had been open online about how he thinks Tammy is the one in that surveillance video from the church dressed in all that tactical gear. He remembers when Tammy entered the tribute band Circle.

[Christopher Paul]

Tammy infiltrated because she began dating this

[Zoe Culkin]

guy named Scott Floyd, bass player Scott.

[Christopher Paul]

That's kind of where she came into the loop.

[Zoe Culkin]

He remembers the first time he met her. He's a little fuzzy on the exact year, but he knows it was after Missy had been killed.

[Christopher Paul]

I sat down to prepare for the chore and it is a chore of putting on the kiss makeup and I'm not the best graphic artist so it takes me a solid if I can have my way I like to have two hours to get it all going. The makeup, the hair, the costume, the boots, the belts, the. It just. There's a lot of stuff to do.

[Zoe Culkin]

But as he sat down to start his makeup, he was interrupted.

[Christopher Paul]

This is a pretty expansive dressing room. I'm kind of over here in the corner. There's just plenty of room for her to be over there, leaving me the hell alone.

[Zoe Culkin]

Christopher didn't like Tammy from the jump. There was vitriol in his voice when he spoke about her. When I asked him to describe her

[Christopher Paul]

appearance, it's hard to call it blonde hair. You could tell she wanted it to be blonde, but it looked like it had been through something. She's wearing rocker chick clothes. Kind of got her bosom hefted up. She was trying to make the scene. Trying to. Trying to be a rocker chick.

[Zoe Culkin]

It's safe to say Tammy made a bad first impression on Christopher.

[Christopher Paul]

I've never met this person. She proceeds to sit down directly across from me and begins badgering me about getting Blizzard of Oz shows.

[Zoe Culkin]

Rock and Roll over had found a lot of success. They were touring across the country and had done some gigs in casinos along the West Coast. Tammy wanted Christopher to help Blizzard of Oz, the band her boyfriend was in, find the same kind of success.

[Christopher Paul]

Her eyes are just, like, bulging out of her skull, and she's, you don't understand. You need to get them gigs. And she's starting to wag a finger at me, and I'm just telling her I don't have that kind of pull. That is an agent call. I've told them about the band. I. I know they're the best. I agree. Just anything to shut this woman up.

[Zoe Culkin]

Christopher may have gotten a bad feeling from Tammy straight away, but he had a soft spot for her boyfriend, Scott.

[Christopher Paul]

When I first met him, he was fine. He was a good dude.

[Zoe Culkin]

Scott had been kind to him after Christopher helped get Blizzard of Oz a gig out in New Mexico. Even when Scott's bandmate Shane had been, according to Christopher, a little flaky.

[Christopher Paul]

And all I asked for from the Aussie singer was, hey, man, I know it's a pretty lucrative show. Just shoot me 50 bucks as a little agent fee or whatever. And he kept dodging me on the 50 bucks, and I just finally gave up. Well, I come up to a Rock and Roll over show, my Kiss tribute band, and there's Scott. And I didn't think anything of it. He stops me and he goes, hey, man, here's that 50 bucks. I don't want any bad Blood and all this. So I was like, oh, that was very nice of him.

[Zoe Culkin]

This integrity was a pattern for Scott, at least before Tammy came along.

[Christopher Paul]

And then for another show. There's some special effects that he had loaned my band and didn't charge us. That was very nice as well. He was very nice and cordial on a professional level and that's really all I can ask.

[Zoe Culkin]

But after Scott had been with Tammy for a bit, Christopher noticed a change.

[Christopher Paul]

I'm not saying he's a bad person, but it's influenced is the word I would use by Tammy.

[Zoe Culkin]

He says Tammy and Scott got really close really fast.

[Christopher Paul]

They were velcroed together. He couldn't make a move without her. The more he was with Tammy, the more erratic his behavior became. He looked like he was going to die the last time I saw him.

[Zoe Culkin]

Christopher said Scott's change was drastic.

[Christopher Paul]

It was a scary looking dude. Not like he wanted to hurt somebody, but he looked like he could have been on a street corner.

[Zoe Culkin]

Shame had said something similar in his episode with the True Crime Broads, that Scott's mental and physical health started to deteriorate when he was with Tammy. He even alleged that they were doing crystal meth. Christopher said he couldn't confirm this, but there was definitely something going on with Scott.

[Christopher Paul]

I didn't see him doing drugs, but I know the look. I would say that he was pretty deep into something that wasn't just marijuana or drinking.

[Zoe Culkin]

To be clear, Tammy has no criminal record and has never been charged with using drugs. Scott, on the other hand, has quite the rap sheet going all the way back to the 80s. Charges of assault, injury to a child, theft. He was also once arrested for possession of marijuana. And in 2007 he caught two criminal charges of possession of drug paraphernalia. But despite Scott being the one with the record and history of drug use, there were rumors flowing that Tammy had been involved with drugs. So when Scott started to change, the rumors started flowing even more. And Christopher says it was wasn't a huge jump to make.

[Christopher Paul]

When you run in an entertainment circle, you can see it a mile away when somebody's on something, oh, you know that he's just drunk. That's one thing. They're saying spacey stuff because they're stoned. No, this was, whoa, what the hell? What? What are you doing? And I've seen a lot of stuff. You know, it's very erratic behavior and the circles under the eyes and the skin starts to droop and you have the circles and then the yellow under that. It just you can tell.

[Zoe Culkin]

But Christopher said that there's only so long someone can survive in the music community while using. He's seen it many times.

[Christopher Paul]

If you want to just perform once in a while and this is just a good time party for you and you don't care where you perform and how well you do in, your reputation sinks. Then you can get away with drug use for a little while. But sticking around having any longevity, it's not going to happen. And Scott Floyd is a prime example because he sank like a stone pretty rapidly. And it's unfortunate because as I said, Scott's a good guy deep in his heart and it's just unfortunate that he took his cues from somebody like Tammy who just sank him.

[Zoe Culkin]

But just like how a cheater doesn't make a murderer. Neither does a drug user. And again, it's unclear if Tammy and Scott really were on drugs. But Christopher says alleged drug use is not the reason he swears Tammy killed Missy. Far from it.

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[Christopher Paul]

Plutos agilisa tus proyectos mien trasigues.

[Zoe Culkin]

So how would Missy have gotten mixed up with Tammy? Missy, a fitness instructor and devoted mother hanging around an alleged meth user rocker groupie? To fully understand how Missy could have gotten tangled up with Tammy, you have to understand a bit more about Tammy's backstory.

[Christopher Paul]

I can tell you what I've heard as far as There was a lot

[Zoe Culkin]

of swinging going on when Scott and Tammy first met. Tammy was married to someone else entirely. His name is David Welch. They lived together in a nice house in Midlothian. He was a police officer in Dallas and Christopher says they were swingers. Both Susan and Shame said on their True Crime broad episodes that they were invited to swinger parties at Tammy's house, but they never attended Scott.

[Christopher Paul]

However, Scott Floyd was invited to one of these swingers parties and swung they did.

[Zoe Culkin]

Apparently Tammy and Scott really hit it off.

[Christopher Paul]

Tammy left her police officer husband for Scott Floyd.

[Zoe Culkin]

Christopher heard through the grapevine that Tammy's husband, David had known Missy.

[Christopher Paul]

I heard that Missy had, I hate to speak ill of the dead, had swung with her husband.

[Zoe Culkin]

And according to Christopher, Tammy did not like that.

[Christopher Paul]

I guess it's okay for Tammy to sling but not her husband. What's good for the goose was not good for the gander.

[Zoe Culkin]

Those who are familiar with Tammy think this would have been reason enough for her to go after Missy.

[Christopher Paul]

I heard that Tammy got extremely jealous and did something about it.

[Zoe Culkin]

Then word of Tammy's so called confession to Susan started making its way around town.

[Christopher Paul]

My current drummer and his friend who plays guitar, they were working with the Aussie band. And Robert Shane Fortier, according to them, started telling them that she confessed to his wife, to Robert's wife, that she had done this. And then if you tell anybody, I'll know it was you and there's going to be consequences.

[Zoe Culkin]

Now you can choose for yourself whether what Susan described to the true crime broads should really be labeled as a confession. But as she explained, Susan felt she was reading between the lines with Tammy. Susan felt that Tammy knew she knew something and Tammy did not want Susan asking any more questions. Once people were talking about Tammy, they put more and more puzzle pieces together, like the fact that her husband was a police officer. She could have had access to the gear the perp was wearing in the

[Christopher Paul]

surveillance footage, went into her husband's closet and got all that ill fitting tactical gear and went over there and did something.

[Zoe Culkin]

They started to examine her walk.

[Christopher Paul]

Robert had shown them video of an Ozzy Osbourne near the Blizzard of Oz show. And she was walking around and she had the same kind of limp that is shown in the video.

[Zoe Culkin]

Christopher said he thought for sure Tammy killed Missy and he wasn't shy about saying it. But word got back to Tammy.

[Christopher Paul]

She apparently heard that I was telling the story and wanted to shut me up.

[Zoe Culkin]

Tammy wanted to get in touch with Christopher or at least let him know that she knew he'd been talking out of the blue.

[Christopher Paul]

Somehow Tammy gets my phone number and she calls me.

[Zoe Culkin]

Christopher didn't get the call, but Tammy left a voicemail.

[Christopher Paul]

It was very icy, very threatening, and it was cold. This is Tammy Lejeune Heap Welch. Can I help you? And then she didn't hang up the phone. It just was silence for like two or three minutes of voicemail. And finally I just hung up and erased it.

[Zoe Culkin]

For Christopher, this cemented his thoughts on Tammy. He even further.

[Christopher Paul]

There was a sense of dread involved with that.

[Zoe Culkin]

I understand why Tammy would call. If someone was going around saying I murdered someone, I'D want to talk to them, too. I asked Christopher if he ever did get the chance to speak with Tammy or if he ever thought about bringing up his concerns with Scott.

[Christopher Paul]

I never saw them again to bring it up to them. By the time I got that voicemail, that's the last contact I ever had with them. I never saw or heard from them again, but I don't know that anybody in the scene ever confronted them. That's just not how it operates around here, unfortunately.

[Zoe Culkin]

This is something I have, of course, already learned. A lot of people will gossip or share their thoughts online in the Facebook groups, but they don't always have the facts to back it up or they don't want to talk publicly.

[Christopher Paul]

Everybody around here likes to talk behind backs and backstab each other rather than tell people straight up what the deal is. And I had to learn, just keep your damn mouth shut about stuff. Because there's a definite shoot the messenger mentality in Dallas Fort Worth, and that's just the way it is.

[Zoe Culkin]

Multiple people brought up the Tammy theory to me, and even more people discuss it online. But Christopher was the only one willing to speak on the record.

[Christopher Paul]

I wasn't personally scared, and I'm still not scared. That's why I'm speaking to you today.

[Zoe Culkin]

Tammy lost a lot of her scare factor when she and Scott hightailed it straight out of town. Not too long after they started getting heat about Missy.

[Christopher Paul]

The word started spreading and. And I'm guessing that she felt the heat and they beat it out of town. They were gone. They just vanished.

[Zoe Culkin]

From what I could find, they seem to be in upstate New York somewhere. People I spoke to say neither of them have family there, so it felt like a random move. I tried getting in touch with both Scott and Tammy, but never got through to either of them. Tammy hasn't posted on her social media accounts since 2022, but her Facebook status does say in a relationship with Scott Floyd. The last thing Christopher heard about them was a business card Scott had posted on social media years ago.

[Christopher Paul]

Scott has started his business up there, which is like a handyman business. And I've seen the business card, and it's a hand holding a hammer up like it's about to come down on somebody rather than nailing something into a wall. Looks like they're about to club somebody in the head

[Zoe Culkin]

again. Tammy has never been charged or convicted of any crime, but Christopher thinks there are just too many coincidences in this story for it to have no merit.

[Christopher Paul]

I think Tammy did it where there's Smoke, there's fire. And if it's not her, then why hasn't she been cleared? Why doesn't she come out and address this? If she didn't do it, tell us you didn't do it.

[Zoe Culkin]

He believes Susan's account of Tammy's vague confession.

[Christopher Paul]

I don't see any reason why Susan, the Aussie dude's wife, would make that up. I've met her many times. She's a sweetheart. She seems of sound mind and body. Why would she do that? There's no reason.

[Zoe Culkin]

Christopher also doesn't think it's a coincidence that Tammy's ex husband was in the police force. And the Midlothian Police Department has not publicly stated they've looked into Tammy as a potential suspect.

[Christopher Paul]

Police officers stick together whether they're in the same department or not. They're a brotherhood. They'll tell you that under any circumstances. Pretty much that they're a fraternal brotherhood. That's how it is. So do they want it solved?

[Zoe Culkin]

This reminded me of what Crystal told me about Bobby Wayne Henry, the former police officer who was thoroughly searched but ultimately cleared by the Midlothian Police Department.

[Susan Fortier]

Midlothian police worded it like this. I remember this very well.

[Christopher Paul]

They said they have cleared Bobby Wayne

[Susan Fortier]

Henry, retired Lancaster police officer.

[Zoe Culkin]

But if you remember, Bobby Wayne Henry didn't exactly retire. He was suspended over an aggravated assault allegation. He wasn't an officer in Midlothian or an officer at all at the time, yet the MPD still protected him. In their statement, Christopher said he did hear the police reached out to Tammy.

[Christopher Paul]

I heard that she was questioned, but nothing came of it. Why hasn't she been questioned again? Let's just do that.

[Zoe Culkin]

In an email to the Midlothian Chief of Police Carl Smith, I asked a series of questions trying to confirm details on the case. He told me he'd be, quote, pleased to share my thoughts and questions with the staff. I asked, did you ever look into Tammy Lejeune Heap Welch? Was she questioned? Was she cleared? My questions were ignored and when I pressed, I got this response from someone on the MPD staff. The answers to most of those questions would not be beneficial to the investigation and may actually be harmful. So we will not answer anything further at this time. Next week on the finale of the Unforgotten who killed Missy Beavers? Brandon and his daughters sit down with local news to do their first formal interview in years for the 10 year anniversary of Missy's death.

[Christopher Paul]

My default emotion in all of this is anger and I don't know how I've been able to kind of keep myself together.

[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.