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Timeline: The Disappearance of Cassie Compton

Episode 7

Timeline: The Disappearance of Cassie Compton

KATV News

True Crime

3.9585 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Kaila gets a letter from Brandon Rhodes with his response to what happened when she and Tina visited the Independence County Jail. She talks to Chief Duke about where they are in the investigation and looks into a tip about a man who found something suspicious in the woods near where Cassie's phone last pinged. 

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0:00.0

In the last episode of Timeline, the disappearance of Cassie Compton.

0:07.0

We've been standing outside the Independence County jail for about an hour.

0:16.0

They told us that he was not here.

0:19.0

What are your hopes in regards to her still being alive out there?

0:23.6

Very slim.

0:25.6

Even if you're in the trafficking industry, they say seven years.

0:29.6

People have called and said, well, I think I saw her.

0:32.6

It's all been run down and it's not her.

0:35.6

I worry about her being hunting sex trafficking.

0:43.3

There is still no sign of Stuttgart teenager Cassie Compton.

0:46.3

It's like part of me is missing because she is my blood.

0:50.3

No one has been ruled out as a suspect.

0:53.3

I mean literally half a block away, poof, vanish nothing.

0:59.0

We love you, and we just want you home safe.

1:04.0

After five years, the tips have really dwinded.

1:09.0

He just did so many things that were suspicious. I feel like somebody knows and they just won't tell. I'm Hey everyone, Kalo Lafferty here. In the last episode, Tina Stores from Halo's investigations

1:47.2

and I went to the Independence County Jail to talk to Brandon during visitation. We were told

1:52.1

he was no longer in custody at the jail. As soon as I was back in Little Rock, I went to the

1:56.7

newsroom and wrote Brandon a letter. I explained to him that we went up to see him on that

2:01.1

Saturday and were told by a jail employee that he wasn't there and they wouldn't tell us where

2:05.4

he was for privacy purposes. And I got a response. This letter looks much different from the

2:10.7

original letter Brandon sent me. In that letter, Brandon said he wanted to bring closure to Cassie's mom,

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