Ep.7: Closing In - Who Took Misty Copsey?

Who Took Misty Copsey?

Warner Bros. Discovery

True Crime

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Sarah meets with a woman connected to Rheuban Schmidt’s family who shares chilling, decades-old allegations against Rheuban, his notorious family, and a shocking rumor from the night Misty disappeared. When Sarah visits the current owners of the former Schmidt family farm, she learns of a series of mysterious break-ins at the property… in which the intruders seemed less interested in stealing valuables than in finding something specific, buried in the barn’s rafters. Back home in Philadelphia, Sarah consults with her mentor Dr. Ann Burgess, who helps her realize that a new field of forensics may help Sarah potentially locate Misty's remains and solve this 33-year-old mystery.

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0:00.0	Previously, on who took Misty Copsie?
0:07.0	She'd go along with everybody, super friendly, kind, gentle soul.
0:11.0	Does he go to pick her up?
0:15.0	It's just not clear.
0:17.0	And we just don't know.
0:20.0	Could he have abducted and killed her?
0:22.9	Absolutely.
0:24.6	From ID and Arc Media, I'm Sarah Kalin.
0:27.8	And this is Who Took Misty Copsie?
0:34.9	After everything I've learned about Ruben Schmidt, the 18-year-old friend who Misty called for a ride home the night she went missing,
0:43.4	I truly cannot understand why police haven't gone after him harder as a suspect,
0:49.7	especially the original Puyallup Police Department detectives.
0:54.4	Those investigators knew that Rubin made incriminating statements to his boss,
0:59.2	things like how far off they were in their searches.
1:02.8	They had Rubin's roommate, James Tinsley, telling them that the night of the fair,
1:07.3	Misty called looking for a ride home, and shortly thereafter, Rubin left the house without explanation.
1:14.2	And when Diana spoke to Tinsley, the day after Misty disappeared, he explicitly stated that Ruben left to go get Misty.
1:24.0	What's more, Rubin openly admitted to those officers that he went to his grandmother's remote farm the day after Misty disappeared,
1:32.7	but said he blacked out and couldn't remember why he drove there.
1:37.6	He added that he'd been having blackouts since he was five years old.
1:42.2	The farm just so happens to be about 15 miles from the fairgrounds, on the way down 410
1:49.1	in the direction of Misty's genes.
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