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This week, I'm going to talk about a murder story that would become probably the biggest murder mystery that Madison County, Arkansas, has ever seen, and I'll never forget. When I first read about this case, I read an article in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette and it had a pretty unforgettable opener. It read, quote, Billy Jean Phillips road life like a sexual jet ski death seemed to trail in her wake. That really struck me as a strange and pretty derogatory
way to refer to her murder victim. At the same time, it did make me want to learn more about Billy Jean phillips life and to find out what happened to her. And apparently a lot of people feel that way, because I probably got more emails, messages, and calls about this case than any other case in Arkansas. I have had it in my folder for a long time. I've had people reach out to me wanting to talk about it.
But there have been a few issues.
Sometimes people back out, or someone will be connected to a member of the family who understandably might not want to relive the trauma of talking about this, all of which I totally understand, but I still hear about this case a lot, and I would still love to help answer some of the questions about what happened to Billy Jean Phillips. The story started back on Saturday, September third,
nineteen ninety four. A federal poultry inspector named Chick Phillips was taking his seven year old son, Mackenzie back to his mother's house. Mackenzie's mother and chick SAC's wife, was thirty five year old Billy Jean Phillips.
Billy Jean lived in.
Album, a small unincorporated area about six miles north of Huntsville, Arkansas. Even though Billy Jean and Chick had separated in nineteen ninety two, they still cope parent died well. Chick was dropping Mackenzie off for a scheduled visit. I found out while researching this case that Madison County has a weird nickname. They call it Booger County. I don't know what this really means. Some people say it's a reference to ghosts.
Other people say it refers to moonshine. Some people say it's because people in the Ozarks are rough, like a booger on the inside of your nose. And I kind of get that because one thing I know about the people in this region is that, especially back in the day they were on their own, you had to be very tough to make it up there. Anyway, Billy Jean's son ran inside the house and walked back to her bedroom. That's when he saw his mother lying on the floor a few feet from her bed.
She was dead.
Her head was propped up against a wall. So Mackenzie ran back outside to the car and told his dad, mommy fell painting. Chick didn't really understand what was going on, so he put his son back in the truck and walked in, and that's when he found his former wife's body. He realized, to his horror that his son had thought that the blood that was spattered all over the bedroom was paint. Billy Jean was wearing a white T shirt,
underwear and all of her jewelry. Chick ran back out, drove down the road and found Billy Jean's parents, Earl and Edna mckknight.
They lived close by.
Then from there they called the Madison County Sheriff's Office. The Sheriff's office got that call at eleven fifty eight am Now. Of course, the house immediately turned into a crime scene, and it was not long before the whole town heard what happened. Billy Jean had been brutally murdered. She had been beaten to death, and investigators believed the murder weapon was her son's tea ball bat. It was
lying near her body, splintered into pieces. Now, a tea ball bat is pretty light and short, about half the size and weight of a regular bad Apparently it didn't finish the job, because after beating Billy Jean, her killer dragged her across the room and strangled her.
There was a lot of blood.
It was splashed up high on the walls, almost to the ceiling. In a town with fewer than two thousand people, I know, we always say everyone knows everyone, but really everyone in Madison County knew Billy Jean Phillips, or at least knew of her. She was beautiful, with really big eyes and blonde hair and just a really pretty smile. But she was also feisty. She had a lot of lovers, and she was not shy about speaking her mind, which
can be a fatal combination in a tiny town. A lot of men loved her, and a lot of women hated her, and a woman who can inspire that kind of obsession made a lot of enemies. There was a long list of suspects, including a sheriff who was living a double life, the prosecutor and his who had both slept with the victim, and pretty soon the whole town was talking about conspiracy theories that included meth, caves, arson, and murder in Arkansas. So what really happened to Billy
Jean Phillips. I'm Catherine Townsend. Over the past five years of making my true crime podcast, Helen Gone, I've learned that there's no such thing as a small town where murder never happens. I have received hundreds of messages from people all around the country asking for help with an unsolved murder that's affected them, their families, and their communities.
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And my team to look into, you can reach out to us at our Helen Gone Murder Line at six seven eight seven four four six one four five. That's six seven eight seven four four six ' one four or five. This is Helen Gone Murder Line. After Billy Jean was found dead Madison County Sheriff Randy Baker called the Arkansas State Police. He talked to an investigator named Doug Fogley. And this, by the way, is according to
an amazing investigative article in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. When Sheriff Baker called the ASP investigator and told him that Billy Jean was dead, he said, quote, Rusty Kane has been fucking her. How do you keep the deputy prosecutor out of the crime scene. Sheriff Baker was referring to the fact that Rusty Kane, the deputy prosecutor for Madison County, had been having a very public affair with Billy Jean Phillips for several years. I talked to Terry Jones, the
prosecutor for Madison County, Rusty Kane's boss. Terry Jones is the person who ended up prosecuting Billy Jean's case, and he said it is a case he will never forget. In fact, he later wrote a book called Mister Prosecutor, in which he discussed at length all the crazy twists and turns that happened in the case.
I mean, we played with this for it seems like three years, and we went down and had all the top detectives in the state gathered down at a little roye in the state Police office, and brains stormed the defenses and the evidence. I mean, this case was looked at more than any case I ever had in my entire life.
After the police were called, Billy Jean's parents called Billy Jean's sister. Her name was Una, and she was a nurse. So Una raced to the house and she walked in and saw what she described to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette as a horrible.
Bloody scene.
But because Una was a nurse, even though I cannot imagine how traumatic this must have been for her, she was from the beginning kind of looking at the scene with an investigative eye. She was noticing details that other people missed. It was clear that Billy Jean fought hard for her life. Two of her fingernails had been ripped completely out. Yuna actually found a piece of her sister's middle finger on the bed. She noticed that Billy Jean's
body was stiff already in rigor mortis. Full rigor mortis can happen in around four to six hours, then the body remains stiff for twenty four to forty eight hours and then relaxes again. Using the physical evidence of the scene and after piecing together timelines, investigators were able to narrow down billy Jean's time of death to approximately between ten thirty pm and six thirty am the next morning.
There was also a bedroom clock that had been ripped out of the wall at exactly three thirty five am. All hell was breaking loose at the Madison County Sheriff's office again because Billy Jean had been having an affair with the local deputy prosecutor, Rusty Kane. This was a major conflict of interest. Rusty was in charge of prosecuting the case, and now they needed to keep him out
of the crime scene. Rusty Kane did show up at Billy Jean's house and a couple of police officers later signed statements that said that Rusty Caine had something on his shoes. They said they looked like it could be spots of blood. Those shoes were taken into evidence, but not until later that day. And to be honest, I've never found anything else in anything I've read about this
case about what happened to those shoes. Yuna and her brother, Robert McKnight who was Billy Jean's baby brother and very close to Billy Jean, told The Democrat Gazette that Rusty looked disheveled, like he hadn't slept, and they believed he was acting strange. They immediately suspected him, and they weren't the only ones. But this case was tough because Rusty Caine was far from the only suspect here. He was
not the only man in Billy Jean's life. Billy Jean Phillips was born Billy Jean Knight in nineteen fifty nine. Her parents, Earl McKnight and Edna McKnight, were successful. They ran several businusinesses in Huntsville, including a mini mall and a drive in movie theater. They also ran the Ozart Shop, a convenience store. Billy Jean worked there, which put her in contact with a lot of people.
A lot of people love Billy Jean, but she also got into a lot of conflicts.
Pretty Much every media report you read talks about how sexually precocious Billy Jean was, and I can imagine that would have caused Billy Jean a lot of friction at that time, and in that neck of the woods, I just want to read a quick passage from one of those articles. This is from an article in Ay magazine. And this article, by the way, is from twenty twenty three,
and it reads, quote pack tight. In her thirty five years were three marriages, involvement in two deaths, and a sex life that spanned Madison County from lawman to bad boys one of the Mgnite family. Billy Jean was a hard worker, just like her folks, but she wasn't interested in their church going ways. She had more than the
Bible on her mind. That became evident when at age fifteen, Billy Jean was caught by her daddy in a state trooper's car, there being nothing lawful about the encounter between her and the older guy end quote.
And that's referring to.
The same incident that the Democrat Gazette mentioned, which is that at age fifteen, Billy Jean was involved with a state trooper.
I love the Democrat Gazette.
I think they did a brilliant investigation, by the way, but I don't love the way that a sexually active young woman is referred to. I've talked about this before. I call it post mortem slut shaming. And I don't think it's right. I don't like the fact. For example, they used the phrase took her first lover about a fifteen year old and a grown man who was twenty three years old at the time. And since this happens a lot with this case, I'm going to keep calling
it out. Billy Jean had three sisters and a brother. She was closest to her baby brother, Robert mc knight. They seem to have a really special bond. And when Robert mcnight developed a drug problem and got addicted to methamphetamines, Billy Jean was there for him.
She would pay his drug debt.
She let him sleep at her house and sometimes, and this is a little bit weird but becomes important later, he would crawl in through the window and sleep in her guest room. And everyone said that this behavior continued right up until the time when Billy Jean died. Billy Jean married young. While she was still a teenager. She married Randall Wayne Sharp, and they apparently said I do
on the diving board of a swimming pool. Randall, Billy Jean's first husband, had a gambling problem, and they would get into violent arguments.
Once the newspaper.
Reported he tied her up and threw her into a closet while he went out with his friends. And again this went both ways. Because Billy Jean was not a shrinking violet, she had a temper. Eventually they set rated. Randall was twenty nine at the time, and he went to Alaska to work on a pipeline. Now during this time, according to Ay magazine, Billy Jean was having affairs, including some flings with members of law enforcement. Randall came back
to town on December tenth, nineteen seventy nine. He checked himself into the Jan Ran Motel in Huntsville. He was there hanging out with a friend when Billy Jean and her brother Robert showed up. Now what happened next is still controversial, but a few minutes after Billy Jean and
her brother arrived, Randall was dead. Randall's friend told police that at some point he and Billy Jean's brother Robert, went outside, leaving Billy Jean and Randall alone in that motel room, and then, apparently while she watched, Randall grabbed a Colt forty five he had in there and shot him mself in the head right in front of billy Jean. When police showed up, she was cradling his head in
her lap and screaming, I love you. She seemed extremely distraught. Now, Randall's family have said over the years they do not believe that Randall took his own life. They believe either Billy Jean did it or that she somehow goaded him into shooting himself. Randall had been shot through the right temple and the gun was in his right hand, but randall Sharp's mother said Randall was left handed. She said he could not have shot himself with his right hand
like that. Arkansas State Police criminal investigator Dug Fogley, who would investigate billy Jean's death much later, did test for gunpowder, residue, and metal on Randall's hands. Police said that billy Jean tested negative for residue. So police came to the conclusion that Randal did shoot himself, that he had been using
both hands kind of wrapping one over the other. They believed that Randall and billy Jean were having an argument, things escalated and he may have done something like threatened to shoot himself or maybe try to fake her out, but he ended up somehow doing it for real.
But over the.
Years, rumors have persisted that the sheriff Ralph Baker, who by the way, was a friend of Billy Jean's, and some said more than a friend, but there was never any evidence of that had not looked too hard into Randall's death. On a side note, Sheriff Baker himself is a very controversial figure, and you can't really tell this story without going into some of the history in Madison County. We'll come back to that in a few minutes. Back to Billy Jean and Randall. Billy Jean was traumatized after
Randall's death. She moved back in with her parents, and it wasn't long before Billy Jean met her second husband, a truck driver for Tyson Foods named Dale Harp. They got married in nineteen eighty one. Dale later talked to a journalist named Michael Whiteley, the writer who did this great investigative piece for the Arkansas Democrat. Zette. Dale said Billy Jean liked the finer things in life, she liked money, and he felt like he just never had enough for her.
He also said they had gotten into violent arguments. He admitted to the journalists that one of their arguments ended with him holding a gun to Billy Jean's head. He said, quote, she could play me like a drum. She was good to look at, and she'd flirt around and make me jealous. She could cut you so low it would take a step ladder to climb onto a matchbox.
End quote.
Of course, I would never blame the victim. No one deserves to be physically abused. But we can see that there's this pattern where she's very confrontational. She has no problem getting up in people's faces, and when you combine that with someone with violent tendencies, you've got a very voutle situation. Billy Jean and Dale eventually divorced, and then she met Chick Phillips, the Federal Poultry plan inspector who
became her third husband. Billy Jean and Chick were together for a few years, and over that time he was the one person who kind of seemed to be able to handle Billy Jean. She was still confrontational and she could be verbally abusive, but Chick was different. He would walk away or drive away in a four wheeler. They stayed together for eight years and had their son, Mackenzie. And it's also interesting to note that Chick is the one former partner of Billy Jean who, when he was
contacted by journalists, said nice things about her. The rumor around town was that Billy Jean was dating Rusty Kane while she was still married to Chick, and that he knew about it. Eventually, Billy Jean and Chick's marriage broke up, and after they split, Billy Jean's affair with Rusty Kane heated up even more. She was pressuring him to leave
his wife, Sharon Kane. The prosecuting attorney, Terry Jones, said that Billy Jean's love life made the murder difficult to investigate because there were a lot of pissed off people, including a lot of wives and girlfriends.
She had a sexual contact with a lot of people, so there were a lot of suspects, people that might have had either had sex with her or whose husband may have been having sex with her. We had a couple of cases where she was having sex with a woman's husband and she'd call them on the damn phone, the wife while they were in the act, and so she had offended a whole lot of people in Madison County.
Not only did Billy Jean know some of these men's sexual secrets, but she also knew a lot of their other secrets. Outside the bedroom, she reportedly told people that she had a briefcase with dirt on a lot of prominent men and prominent figures in town. Billy Jean was involved with another mysterious death. One night, she was partying with some friends, including a woman named Christy Box, the daughter of a local doctor. Billy Jean was at Christie's
place with Christie's boyfriend, a guy named Thomas Garrett. Thomas worked at the Ozark shop with Billy Jean. While they were driving, there was a horrible car crash. Christie Box was killed. Both Thomas Garrett and Billy Jean were seriously injured, but when the police got to the scene of the accident, Billy Jean was nowhere to be found. The rumor around town was that Billy Jean was the person who was driving the car, but that was never proven. Instead, Thomas
was prosecuted as the driver. He ended up getting four years probation and a fine, no jail time. Billy Jean was never charged with anything, and Rusty Kane was the prosecutor on that case, so not only did Billy Jean not have any criminal penalties? Apparently, Rusty Kane also got Billy Jean a twenty one thousand dollars settlement from Thomas's insurance company. The word around town was that Rusty had
fixed that situation for Billy Jean. I'm guessing either because he loved her, or he was a little bit afraid of her, or maybe both. Leading up to the time of her death, we know Billy Jean potentially had a lot of enemies.
But let's go back to the evidence.
What was Billy Jean doing on September second, the last day she was alive. Police say Billy Jean spent that entire day with her mom, Edna. Billy Jean was buying Rusty Kane some presents. She went to Sam's Club and Dillard's.
She was supposed to have a.
Date with him that night, but according to Rusty Kane's former attorney, that date never really happened. Rusty had said he did stop at Billy Jean's house at around five pm. While he was there, he gave her two hundred dollars.
Rusty told police.
That Billy Jean gave him his gifts, but he said he wasn't going to be able to see her later because he had family in town. But investigators did find a card from Rusty Kane out on Billy Jean's kitchen counter, which seemed to indicate he had been there and they had exchange gifts. After Rusty left, Billy Jean drove to the Ozark shop, where she started her shift at six pm. She was closing up at ten pm when her mom stopped by. She and her mom just had a brief talk.
Her mom said it was nothing out of the ordinary, but Edna did say that they did have a brief conversation about Billy Jean's safety deposit box. Now, apparently Billy Jean shared multiple safety deposit boxes with Rusty Kane, and she told her mother something a little bit strange. She had mentioned that she and Rusty had a safety deposit box that only had a single piece of paper in it.
At some point after Billy Jean was done closing up, she apparently told her mom, you need to get out of here now, which her mom took to me, you need to head out. I've got to finish up, I've got plans. Billy Jean never told her mother what she was planning on doing. Now, there was someone else, another witness, someone who said Billy Jean left the Ozark shop at around ten forty five pm, and that billy Jean's car was driving behind this person's car for about fifteen minutes.
Then this witness, who was familiar with Billy Jean and her car, saw Billy Jean turn off toward her house, which would mean, if that's accurate, that Billy Jean would have gotten home shortly after eleven pm.
When the reporter for.
The Democrat Gazette did his article, he did ask billy Jean's parents, Earl and Edna, about the safety deposit box, the one that supposedly had the single sheet of paper in it. Earl and Edna said they never found it. So what happened to that? I wonder was it never there? Could someone have removed it? Maybe someone in law enforcement. I do think it's strange. Why would Billy Jean say there was one piece of paper inside a box if
there wasn't. During the investigation into Billy Jean's death, colleagues were noticing Rusty Kane's behavior started to get strange. Remember, he was not supposed to be involved. This was a conflict of interest.
He was supposed to.
Stay out of the case, yet a few days after billy Jean's murder, he called the state crime Lab to ask about progress. After that, his boss, Terry Jones, took Rusty off the case on September ninth.
Rusty had called to try to find out what some of the medical evidence had been and so I fired it immediately. And we had all those leads, and we had people that all had theories about who killed her. I mean a lot of people had a theory that the sheriff had done it, Rusty had done it. I mean, there were just so many rumors flying around.
At the same time, police were looking at other suspects, including Billy Jean's brother, Robert m knight. After Billy Jean Phillips murder, police were taking a closer look at her brother, Robert McKnight. When toxicology reports came back. They found Billy Jean had had methamphetamine in her system on the night
she died, and Robert had a drug problem. One theory that law enforcement bounced around was that maybe Robert got into trouble, maybe he owed people money, maybe they came there to collect and things got ugly, But the more investigators studied the scene, the more they realized this looked like it had been staged. There was actually no sign of forest entry. There was a screen that had been taken off of Billy Jean's bedroom window, but the window sill had dust on it, so it looked like the
windows sill hadn't been disturbed at all. Someone had just taken the screen out to make it look like someone.
Got in that way.
Someone also cut the screen to the living room doors, but the doors themselves were bolted shut and they were locked, so it seemed like the killer had gotten inside the house and then taken off those screens to perhaps make it look like a break in. Meanwhile, Billy Jean's sister, Una, who remember was a nurse, was also realizing more and
more details that did not seem to add up. Billy Jean was wearing a gold necklace when she was found, and all of her jewelry, including an ankle bracelet and a ring that Rusty gave her now Yuna said Billy Jean only wore jewelry when she was expecting company or when she was going out. She never wore jelry to sleep, and there was three hundred and one dollars in Billy Jean's wallet, so surely a robber or drug dealer would have stolen that, and for that matter, would have stolen
her jewelry. Then there was the murder weapon itself. Billy Jean had been hit with her son's tee ball bat. It seemed that the killer did not come over with the intention of murdering her, because that's not the weapon that you would choose. This was not a professional hit man. This seemed to be a crime of passion. There was also the bedroom clock, which been pulled out of the wall at exactly three thirty five AM.
Law enforcement seemed to be conflicted on this.
Some people believed it might be the time of death, but others wondered could this be another stage clue. Maybe the killer wanted everyone to think that had happened at three thirty five am so that he or she or they could manipulate the timeline. There were some other irregularities. According to the Democrat Gazette, there was a videotape taken of the crime scene, and apparently it showed there was a vacuum cleaner out like it had just been used
to vacuum but the bag was missing. It wasn't in the trash, it wasn't anywhere, so who took the vacuum bag? There was also a black case that was visible in some of the photos according to the newspaper, but the family never saw that black case. Apparently it never made it into evidence. Could this have been the briefcase that Billy Jean was talking about, the one with dirt on the police inside it? And if so, what happened to it? And then there was the card, the one to Billy
Jean from Rusty Kane. Now Euni said normally that was not the kind of thing that her sister would just leave lying out. Again, investigators wondered could someone have staged that to try and frame Rusty Kane. There was also other evidence that was never properly investigated, like an unmade bed upstairs in a room that people didn't really sleep in, but police apparently never took the sheets or anything else from that bed into evidence. The police analyzed the physical
evidence from Billy Jean's body. They took skin from underneath Billy Jean's fingernails and they tested it. From that, they were able to exclude several suspects, including Billy Jean's brother, Robert McKnight and her son Mackenzie. Apparently they tested Billy Jean's son because she sometimes liked to scratch his back and they wanted to exclude him. So both Billy Jean's brother Robert and her son Mackenzie were ruled out, which
meant that Robert mca was cleared. Now, I want to go back to Sheriff Baker and the good old boys system in Arkansas. In that neck of the woods, Sheriff Ralph Baker is definitely a love hate figure. So it turned out that Sheriff Baker, in addition to being a law enforcement.
Officer, also had a criminal background.
Back in the late nineties, when pseudo fedrin, the main ingredient in methamphetamine, was legal, you could pick up everything he needed at Walmart or the drug store to make a meth lab. So these local small meth labs were everywhere, and in Madison County, a lot of people claim that certain members of local law enforcement worked with the meth dealers. Again,
the Arkansas Democrat Gazette did this massive investigation. They interviewed over one hundred people, including drug dealers, friends, family, and a lot of people who work in law enforcement, and they had some strong evidence that Sheriff Baker knew about the man dealing and that he allowed some of it
to operate unchecked. Michael Whiteley wrote in the Democrat Gazette that Ralph Baker grew up in Madison County, and in addition to Sheriff Baker's criminal background, there were also allegations of voter fraud. Things took a darker turn in nineteen eighty seven. That's the year when Sheriff Baker in one of his colleagues arrested a nineteen year old mentally handicapped man who had been accused of stealing some baseball cards.
They beat him, and the victim's family sued. A judge ruled that Sheriff Ralph had to pay just over one hundred thousand dollars to that victim's family. And there were other allegations that Sheriff Baker took drugs that had been seized as evidence and that he.
Didn't really keep careful inventory.
They talked about how he allegedly took cash from dealers who told the newspaper that they paid the sheriff so they could stay out of jail. Now of course, Sheriff Baker denied all these allegations, and a lot of people said good things about him in law enforcement. But the article in the Democrat Gazette pointed out Ralph Baker was paid a salary of thirty one thousand dollars per year, but somehow was able to buy two four hundred acres of land for a total of almost five hundred thousand
dollars without taking out any mortgages. Sheriff Baker always denied any wrongdoing, but the stuff going on in the background when Billy Jean's murder happened fueled the local rumor mill and made the case even more complicated because they were friends.
So let's go back to Billy Jean's case.
Terry Jones has taken Rusty Caine off of the case and filtering out all the rumors. This appeared to be an unplanned attack. This was someone who flew into a rage. Everyone was suspicious of Rusty Kane, but we also have to look at the rest of the Caine family, especially once the community found out Billy Jean had sexual encounters
with Rusty's son, Trey. An ASP investigator would later testify that Billy Jean groomed and had a sexual encounter which he described on the stand as seducing Trey when Trey was just twelve years old. Now, obviously this is shocking, and it's even more shocking because the very few media reports that I've seen about this just kind of casually throw that in there.
Once again.
I'm shocked and very saddened by this cycle of young people being preyed on by much older adults.
All of this is obviously shocking.
That she did this to Trey, and by the way that Trey's father, Rusty Kane, could continue to have a relationship with her after that. I'm wondering what did Rusty Kine know about Billy Jean and his son and when did he find out? But both Rusty and Trey Kine were given DNA tests and apparently they were not a match, so they were cleared. Then there was Rusty's wife, Sharon Kane. Sharon Kane was a music teacher and looked like just
your average soccer mom. But as the affair between Billy Jean and her husband heated up, things were starting to get very ugly in the Caine household. Billy Jean wanted Rusty to leave Sharon, and she was not playing around again. She was very confrontational. According to the Democrat Gazette, the Christmas before she died, Billy Jean got a Christmas card from Sharon kin that said, go fuck somebody else's husband.
And then just a few weeks before the murder, Billy Jean got into an argument with Sharon Kane when she showed up to the Caine home. On another day, Sharon caught Rusty and Billy Jean together in his car and hauled off and punched Rusty in the face. And in addition to Billy Jean's sleeping with her husband and being
very public about it and unapologetic. I don't know if Sharon Kane knew about Billy Jean grooming her son at that point, but if she did know, I cannot imagine the anger and rage that she must have felt at that time. Sharon was questioned by detectives, but she claimed spousal.
Privilege and took the fifth.
Billy Jean's parents, Earl and Edna McKnight, offered a twenty five thousand dollars reward for any information that.
Could help lead to her killer.
Over the years, they did whatever they could to follow up on tips, They put up billboards, they even handed out bumper stickers with who killed Billy Phillips printed on them, And as it happens in so many of these cases, of course, these poor parents have had to deal with so many local rumors over the years, and they still have no answers about what I actually happened to their daughter. But finally, in two thousand and two, there was an arrest in Billy Jean's case.
And it wasn't the.
Sheriff or her brother or anyone else that people have been whispering about.
In fact, this name shocked everyone.
Well, we didn't suspect him at all. We didn't even know anything about him until we got the DNA evidence back.
I'm Catherine Townsend.
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