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There's a house here in Walton County that came up associated with the cartel living there. I'm not sure how I got the location of the house.

I think I came up with this location from another case.

Because you'll hear rumbling.

That was a home invasion, you know, or the drug guys were sitting on a house

because they heard it was a stash house.

That is fairly common out here.

They've not really hit anything big yet, but they're out here. That's investigator Mike Rising. After months of us talking, he finally opens up about what is likely the darkest theory yet surrounding Justin's case.

About maybe a year ago, our guys were either chasing somebody or someone called in with a complaint.

Oh, it was a report of a shooting, a suicide at this house.

So the sheriff's office goes out there.

They were there for a party.

This one guy had walked away from the party and there were several buildings there

and had gone out behind the building and shot himself in the head

So it gets worked well then it starts these names start getting checked and like oh oh

These guys are with people okay like Mexican mafia and then the stories aren't kind of making. So there's some suspicion the guy might not have committed suicide

other than by ripping some but the wrong person off and being killed. So this is a, this is definitely an organized group out there.

But this house comes up in the Justin Gaines case as far as the owners of the property and that as having been connected with the players in the Justin Gaines case.

The From Waveland, I'm Sean Kite, and this is Drowning Creek.

The bomb that was dropped on me recently that the Mexican cartel could ultimately be involved in Justin Gaines' disappearance and death was absolutely mind-blowing.

The whole incident, the people that own the property associated with the property,

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