Hell and Gone Murder Line: Taylor Barksdale Part 4

Hell and Gone

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🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Last week, we talked about the mystery regarding whether or not Deputy Blake Hassell ever went out to the area in Kingston where on August 5th at 12:34 AM, a 911 caller reported that she heard a woman screaming - that it sounded like she was being raped or tortured.

The dispatch report reads, "A caller advised she believes that she heard a woman in the woods behind her house yelling. Stated she believes at one point the woman screamed for help. Caller advised there is not a physical address but it is in area where a bunch of homeless people were camped out.”

We know that the caller waited all night for the Madison County's Sheriff’s Office to respond, but no one ever came.

And that a few weeks later on September 9, Taylor Barksdale’s remains were found just a few hundred feet from where that 911 call was placed. Her death was labeled a homicide. The Madison County Sheriff’s Department said that only one deputy, Blake Hassell was working the overnight shift from August 4 to August 5. And Sheriff Ronnie Boyd said that Blake Hassell told dispatch that he responded to the call when he didn’t.

Later that same day, August 5 when his supervisor Sergeant Drew Scott questioned him, he said that he didn’t respond to the call because he ‘had just been out to that area 30 minutes or an hour earlier.” But is that true?

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0:00.0	School of Humans
0:04.0	Last week we talked about the mystery regarding whether or not Deputy Blake Castle of the Madison County Sheriff's Office
0:14.0	ever went out to the area near Highway 21 and Madison County 2535.
0:20.0	That's where on August 5th at 1234 a.m.,
0:23.6	a 911 caller reported that she heard a woman screaming,
0:27.6	that it sounded like she was being raped or tortured.
0:31.1	The dispatch report reads, quote,
0:33.4	A caller advised she believes that she heard a woman in the woods
0:36.3	behind her house yelling, stated she believes at one heard a woman in the woods behind her house yelling.
0:41.2	Stated she believes at one point the woman screamed for help.
0:47.2	Caller advised there is not a physical address, but it is in an area where a bunch of homeless people were camped out, end quote.
0:49.9	We know that the caller waited all night for the Madison County Sheriff's Office to respond, but no one ever came.
0:57.1	And then, a few weeks later on September 9th, Taylor's remains were found in a field near where the 911 call was made.
1:04.6	The Madison County Sheriff's Office has said they are investigating Taylor Barksdale's death as a homicide.
1:10.7	And the Madison County Sheriff's
1:12.2	Department said, only one deputy, Blake Hassel, was working the overnight shift from August 4th to
1:18.6	August 5th. Madison County Sheriff Ronnie Boyd said that Blake Hassel had told dispatch that he had
1:25.5	responded to the call when actually he didn't.
1:28.4	Later that same day, on August 5th, when Blake Castle's supervisor, Sergeant Drew Scott,
1:33.7	questioned him, he said he didn't respond to the call because, quote,
1:38.1	he had just been out to that area 30 minutes or an hour earlier, end quote.
1:42.8	But is that true?
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