Ep.6: A Person of Interest - Who Took Misty Copsey?

Who Took Misty Copsey?

Warner Bros. Discovery

True Crime

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Sarah meets with Puyallup Police Captain Jason Visnaw to learn about his efforts to reinvestigate the case of Misty Copsey, but he is tight-lipped, not wanting to jeopardize future convictions. Digging deeper into Rheuban Schmidt's story with local reporter Sean Robinson, Sarah finds glaring holes and red flags in his statements to police – including suspicious comments about knowing where Misty was buried. On the way to scope out the remote family farm that Rheuban admitted driving to around the time Misty disappeared, Sarah stumbles upon a social media post from someone claiming to be Rheuban's nephew with explosive accusations about his uncle.

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0:00.0	Previously on Who Took Misty Copsie?
0:04.0	She'd go along with everybody. Super friendly, kind, gentle soul.
0:09.0	Western Washington was a veritable killing field for young women.
0:13.0	Like, I don't think people can even wrap their brains around how many serial rapists
0:19.0	and predators were out running around.
0:22.3	It's insane.
0:23.5	She changed in the car from her school clothes to play clothes,
0:27.9	and then her mom dropped us off.
0:30.2	The day was a great day.
0:31.7	We were together.
0:32.8	We were having fun.
0:34.6	You know, for years, my mom felt like people thought she was crazy.
0:40.3	I mean, every time she would even talk to the Puyall Police Department, it was like, you guys think I'm crazy and I'm not crazy.
0:43.3	The original plan was our friend would pick us up that drove, and that was Ruben.
0:48.3	From ID and ARC Media, I'm Sarah Kalin.
0:51.3	And this is Who Took Misty Copsie?
1:07.1	After meeting with Misty's best friend, Trina, I feel fairly confident that she's not holding anything back. And while I can't rule him out completely,
1:11.9	I also feel pretty confident that Michael Reiner
1:14.5	did not play a role in Misty's disappearance,
1:17.5	based on the way Trina described their time together that night.
1:21.5	Still, there's a sea of sharks circling around Misty,
1:25.4	including the man in the yellow Chrysler Cordoba.
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