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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Who killed Missy Bevers? Church murder unsolved a year later

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Whoever murdered Missy Bevers inside a Texas church is still unknown and at large despite video recorded before and after the brutal attack a year ago. Security cameras captured the murderer walking the church hallways, carrying the hammer used to bludgeoned Bevers to death as she arrived to conduct a sunrise fitness class April 18, 2016. If investigators are close to catching the fitness instructor’s killer, it is a closely guarded secret.

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0:00.0

I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.

0:04.1

We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized

0:09.1

experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on

0:13.6

to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.

0:18.0

We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,

0:25.2

the Apple Podcast app or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.

0:38.5

In the early morning hours of April 18th, Beaver's, a fitness instructor, a mom and wife,

0:43.8

showed up at this church to teach a class. Police says she was killed by puncture wounds to the head

0:49.1

in chest. This is crime stories with Nancy Grace. This person intended to do exactly what they did

0:58.5

when they did it and whom they did it too. The former Murphy Police Chief says the circle of people

1:05.3

who may know what happened is likely very small. There has to be some link between her death and

1:13.3

her death. Investigators have poured over Beaver's internet history and executed multiple warrants.

1:20.0

Let's say today the ID on this suspect will come from a tip they still haven't received.

1:27.1

April 18th, 2016. Missy Beaver's a beautiful young wife and mother of three little girls

1:36.7

up bright and early, even earlier than me. You know, I think I'm all that because I get up at

1:42.0

five. Uh-uh. She's up at three o'clock in the morning. Why? Because she goes and teaches a

1:50.7

gladiator type exercise class at a mid-lothian church early early in the morning for moms that

1:58.7

need to then go to work, get their children to school long time, you name it, all the things that

2:05.6

moms do in the morning. No offense dads, but it's a lot. It is a lot. She goes into the mid-lothian

2:14.3

church like she always does and she's never seen alive again. She is brutally murdered inside

2:24.5

that mid-lothian church. April 18th, 2016. And today I wonder, are we any closer to catching

2:35.6

her killer than we were on that day? I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories and we want justice.

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