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Timeline: The Disappearance of Cassie Compton

Episode 8

Timeline: The Disappearance of Cassie Compton

KATV News

True Crime

3.9585 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Kaila and Tina go to the Independence County Jail to meet with suspect Brandon Rhodes face-to-face. They break down what was said, and share possibilities of what happened to Cassie Compton and if Brandon was involved. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

I found a gray and blue woman's boot just laying there in a grass.

0:18.0

It shouldn't have been there.

0:20.0

There's no reason for a gray and blue or any woman's boot

0:23.6

to be back there where I was.

0:25.6

I showed a picture of it to the mother.

0:28.6

The mother says that's not hers.

0:31.6

You had been saying she's never been ruled out as a suspect, so...

0:35.6

It is being resubmitted for a DNA.

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 Hello, everybody. This is Kayla Lafferty. About a month after the podcast was released, my news director, Nick Genti got a call from

1:47.2

the Independence County Sheriff Sean Stevens.

1:50.1

He left a voicemail saying he wanted to talk about how his office was being portrayed

1:54.0

in the stories that ran on our station, and Nick told him to call me.

1:58.1

It had been about three months since I first reached out to the

2:00.8

Independence County Sheriff's Office about setting up an interview with Brandon Rhodes. As I'm

2:05.2

sure you remember, he was in a relationship with Cassie Compton's mother at the time she

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