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True Crimecast

Highway 484 - Caden Speight

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, Personal Journals

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On September 25, 2025, a terrifying text message sent the state of Florida into a frenzy: "I need help being shot at... I'm hit." Seventeen-year-old Caden Speight’s truck was found abandoned in Dunnellon with a bullet hole in the windshield and blood in the cab. But as an Amber Alert pinged on millions of phones, Caden wasn't in a white van with four kidnappers. He was in the woods with a tent, a bicycle, and a .45-caliber pistol.

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0:00.0

Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.

0:05.0

Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?

0:16.0

You know, like an abduction that kind of looks like an abduction, but it might not be an abduction, but you might consider an abduction. It's very abductive.

0:24.9

Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.

0:32.5

Welcome to true crime to go. Jamie, I got to ask. Did they get your order right?

1:12.7

They always don't. I was trying to channel Vince Vaughn from Wedding Crashers when he does that scene of, I'm not interested, but she's interested. Now, she's starting to get interested, but I don't want to be interested, and she's not interested, but then I start to get interested. It's a really good scene. I love my mother so much, but I remember vividly in high school, she would go through a drive-thru and say things in the most confusing way and then get really salty when they messed it up. And I was like, I don't think they're the problem. If it happens at every drive-thru, mom, it's on you. All right, man. What are we talking about today? Yeah, I mean, it is what it sounds like.

1:21.2

Let's get rolling around 4 o'clock in the afternoon on September 25th, the 2025 in Marion County.

1:21.9

Where?

1:23.6

Oh, God, are we going to Florida? Florida.

1:25.1

A text message arrived on a mom's phone and it was from her 17 year old son.

1:29.7

It read, I need help.

1:31.6

I'm being shot at four Hispanics armed white van, one driver.

1:37.8

I'm hit.

1:39.4

You have a son who's awful.

1:42.8

Yeah.

1:43.6

Who's almost seven. Is he Yeah, who's almost 70.

1:44.5

Is he 17?

1:45.2

He's almost 17.

1:46.2

Anyway, around this age, like that, how scary would that be?

1:49.8

And also, maybe you don't text.

1:51.2

That's a phone call situation.

1:52.9

That shows you just how much we hate calling.

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