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00:00Oh, okay, I guess we're live, so I just wanted to show you guys I'm out here in the neighborhood,
00:07um, posting flyers of the last place I saw Bailey.
00:12My heart's beating so fast.
00:14I try not to get emotional when I think it's been seven months and I haven't seen my daughter.
00:20I don't know where she is.
00:22Look, they can't search at all.
00:26We just need your help.
00:27But the monster did this away forever.
00:33You have probably seen the posters around Bakersfield with the name Bakersfield 3.
00:39Three friends who either went missing or were murdered within a month of each other last spring.
00:44I missed my phone!
00:46My heart, my gut just sang like, oh my God, this is connected.
00:52Just because you're in a very nice family, a very nice neighborhood, that does not protect you from your children.
01:01For most of their lives, the three seemed to flourish.
01:04So how did they end up in such grave danger?
01:08He was afraid.
01:09He was always saying, like, Mom, they could be following us right now.
01:13And no one heard from him after that.
01:16We have no evidence she's alive or dead.
01:19I hope she's not trapped up in the river.
01:23I knew something felt wrong.
01:27Just so many people had so many different opinions.
01:30Well, what is it?
01:31What is the reality of the situation?
01:34Until they have answers, three local mothers aren't giving up.
01:38He climbed out at the passenger side, currently collapsed in the road and died.
01:43It's okay.
01:45Take a deep breath.
01:47We know the mothers have been, you know, vocal about trying to get these cases solved.
01:54And, you know, there are no winners in this.
01:57They're watching me over here.
01:59We know there's at least one killer walking the street.
02:05We're going to shut this s*** down.
02:20This is a complicated story with a lot of players in it.
02:27And it's a bizarre one.
02:29Just right when you think we're a sleepy little bird, you get these kind of things.
02:38Lots of people involved.
02:40Multiple accounts of torture and kidnapping and murder.
02:45District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer, thank you for joining the show.
02:49You're welcome.
02:50Thank you for having me.
02:51I feel like we're talking about an episode of Breaking Bad.
02:55I mean, it's all happening at Laurel Glen.
02:57Right, in our community.
02:59Yeah.
03:00How many times have you and I driven down Half Moon Drive?
03:02I mean, it's just bizarre to me.
03:04You can make an argument that Bakersfield being a terrible place.
03:12And you can make a good argument for Bakersfield being a very nice place.
03:17It's got two personalities, in a way.
03:21And there's a lot of people that trickle back and forth between those two worlds.
03:25This is not happening in the bad part of town, under the cover of night.
03:34These are people doing this stuff in their garages around the corner from people who are just normal families.
03:40We want the truth.
03:47We've always wanted the truth.
03:51No matter how painful.
03:52We're just a two-parent family.
04:11Been married over 40 years now.
04:14We had two sons.
04:17Both of our boys were raised in Bakersfield.
04:22They were only 20 months apart, so they were very much like twins.
04:28Luke very much looks up to his brother.
04:31Still does.
04:34Micah sometimes was bossy.
04:36He was very talkative.
04:37He loved his friends.
04:41He loved get-togethers.
04:44He loved his family, above all.
04:49I just look back with such fond memories of bringing the kids up and their school systems.
04:55And everything was wonderful.
04:59So we felt like, as parents, that we were doing the right thing.
05:03And Micah was a stockbroker.
05:06He was very talented.
05:08And bright.
05:10He never worried about Micah.
05:11I always thought he'll be all right.
05:12Micah will be all right.
05:14He's resourceful.
05:15He's independent.
05:16I always thought he'd be fine.
05:28Micah was 34 years old when he went missing.
05:32And about three months before, Lance and I had moved up to Kern River Valley, which is about
05:4040 miles from Bakersfield, up in the mountain.
05:44So we lived away from him, but we still talked to him most every day.
05:51So it was odd when he didn't call us.
05:55That year, Easter was on April 1st.
06:02I think it was April 1st.
06:03And a holiday never went by without Micah calling.
06:10And a few days before, we had gotten a call from one of his friends asking if he was staying with us because they couldn't find him.
06:21Of course, I started trying to call him and began just getting voicemail, you know, over and over.
06:33And Micah was never without his phone.
06:35He was never without his phone or a friend or something.
06:39I said, we have got to get some help.
06:42We've got to file a report or something.
06:45So we drove down to Bakersfield, went in to try and file a missing persons report,
06:51and was told, it'd really be better if we spent some time looking ourselves.
06:57I'm going to be treated.
06:58Why don't you do that first and then come back?
07:02Check the hospitals.
07:04Yeah, check the hospitals.
07:05Make sure you call all of his friends.
07:07It was, of course, we had already been doing that part.
07:12That made me really angry.
07:15Like, as if we didn't know we were supposed to be looking for him.
07:18That's why we showed up, was to tell him we couldn't find him.
07:22Yeah.
07:29Lance and I went to Micah's apartment, and the landlord let us in.
07:34And he had to push the door kind of firmly because he had piles of mail in the floor.
07:42He had left food on his dresser, and he had, like, an old-school lava lamp.
07:50And those things get really hot.
07:51And he had left that on.
07:53And so Lance started looking through his dresser.
07:58His clothes were all still there.
08:01It just did not look like he had needed to leave town.
08:05It's not illegal for an adult to go missing.
08:21Right.
08:21And Micah was an adult.
08:23So they had nothing to really latch on to.
08:27There was really nothing they could do.
08:29But please at least take this information down and pretend like you're going to do something.
08:34Right.
08:34And we'll go away feeling better, thinking that you might.
08:44It was just weeks and weeks of people having the same experience I have.
08:49Have you seen Micah?
08:50Where's he at?
08:50You know, how's he doing?
08:51Have you found him?
08:52And any lead at that very time, that particular time, is a, you're waiting for that needle to drop.
08:58Or like when you called me and said, hey, somebody thinks they saw him at a Wendy's by my house.
09:02Remember that?
09:03Yeah, something.
09:03And there was a hotel that somebody saw him at.
09:07Because we would always go wherever.
09:08And there was a guy there that looked just like Micah when Micah was in high school.
09:13So somebody did see somebody that looked like him.
09:15Oh, we had so many phone calls.
09:18Because, you know, he knew everybody.
09:20Micah's motto is, I only go where I'm the show.
09:25From the time he was little, always commanded the room.
09:29Yeah, it's definitely a true statement.
09:30He never got embarrassed.
09:32Oh, he didn't care.
09:33That was the best part about him, though.
09:34He didn't care who was watching.
09:37I don't know how he could be so obnoxious on one hand and have so many friends on the other.
09:44Yeah.
09:44Yeah.
09:50Everyone was looking for Micah.
09:53Everyone who knew him was looking for him.
09:57I had opened up my Facebook page.
09:59And we just started blasting social media.
10:03And nobody could find him.
10:05No one was getting any answer.
10:08And then all of a sudden, one day, someone called me out of the blue.
10:27I didn't have never met her, didn't know her.
10:31She said, this is Di Byrne.
10:34And she said, my son is James Cole's dad.
10:38And she said, James Cole's killed.
10:42And he knew Micah.
10:45I was like, oh, my God.
10:47When gunshots rang out in this quiet southwest neighborhood, just about everyone was stunned.
11:01When I came here to the scene the next day, neighbors told me that a drive-by shooting in this area was so bizarre that most assumed that the killer and the victim both weren't from around here.
11:13Now, the shooter is still unknown, but the victim, James Colstead, was attacked while leaving this cul-de-sac.
11:28Okay, that's enough.
11:30That's enough.
11:32I have a big family.
11:34I have seven children.
11:35I was born in Bakersfield.
11:37But off and on, during my life, I've lived in different places and just ended up back here.
11:48Bakersfield is a big, big, big, really big, small town.
11:53I mean, it's spread out.
11:55I mean, it takes 30 minutes to drive from one side of town to the other.
11:58I don't know.
11:58It's a good place to raise a family.
12:00It's a good community.
12:02Just the air quality sucks.
12:03And it's really, really hot.
12:05It's like over 100 degrees in June, July, August.
12:10A lot of people hate it, but it's a love-hate thing.
12:28Oh, my God.
12:29Oh, my God.
12:30Video.
12:31Video.
12:31For James, Bakersfield was not his favorite place to live.
12:40He had moved to San Diego.
12:42He actually lived in a high-rise penthouse downtown San Diego.
12:48He loved the beach.
12:51He loved surfing.
12:53He loved being a dad.
12:54James was an entrepreneur.
12:59He loved entertaining.
13:01He loved cooking.
13:03He would give the shirt off his back to you.
13:06He was the best friend that you could ever have.
13:08Right out of high school, started working in the oil fields, Bakersfield years ago.
13:25It was a very big oil and gas, very big property in town.
13:28James had a job as a pipeline welder.
13:30You know, significant pay.
13:31They made the big bucks.
13:32Within a year, I started welding side-by-side with him, and we did for many years, as well
13:38as another brother, as well as Ryan.
13:41We got welded together all across the United States for a long time.
13:46He wanted to work smart, not hard.
13:49He'd work hard if he had to, but he was always up to do something fun.
13:54James had moved back in with me the summer before he was killed.
14:14Looking back, he was having a difficult time working.
14:18I know that now.
14:19I did not know that then.
14:21Getting back to San Diego was, like, his main priority.
14:26It's just a whole different vibe.
14:27You know, the beach vibe is awesome.
14:29I think that's what he fell in love with.
14:44James and I had had a conversation, and he goes,
14:46Mom, I have something that I'm working on.
14:48You're going to love it.
14:50So that evening, about 10 p.m., he came out of the bedroom and was going outside, and
14:56I go, Where are you going?
14:58He goes, Oh, I'm going to the store.
15:01I'm going to buy some cigarettes and a bottle of whiskey.
15:05And I started laughing because James didn't drink whiskey.
15:08And he kind of poked his head back at me, and he goes, Mom, I'm just going out to smoke.
15:15You know, and I said, Well, son, I love you.
15:18I'm going, I'm going to go to bed now.
15:20And about 1.15, I receive a call, and it woke me up, and it's my son, Ryan.
15:31And he goes, Mom, James has been shot.
15:33So I immediately called his brother, Stephen, and I said, Stephen, your brother James has been shot.
15:42We need to get there right away.
15:43Fortunately, we live in the same gated neighborhood, so I turned the corner, went down a couple streets, picked her up.
15:51We rushed over to the crime scene.
15:53When we got there, I jumped out of the car, but it was heavily guarded tape by the police department, and they would not let me through.
16:06And I turned into a screaming lunatic.
16:11I lost it, and my son, Stephen, had to bear hug me to keep me from going crazy.
16:17I was just screaming, you know, I need to get through, I need to see James, I need to get to James, I need my son.
16:28And it was horrible.
16:33And then finally, the police officer told us that he had expired.
16:47I think it was three or four days of just nonstop not being able to sleep, crying, real difficult time in my life.
17:07But I knew something felt, felt wrong.
17:11James was shot on the 8th of April, and the following week, I just decided to go in research mode.
17:24I was thumbing through his Facebook friends, Ryan's Facebook friends.
17:29And I started trying to put people together that we could go talk to.
17:33And then I happened to go into a Facebook that was an ex-girlfriend of Ryan, and she was talking about Micah being missing.
17:44I knew that my son James and Micah had been hanging out together, because James told me Micah was an executive at Wells Fargo Bank.
17:54He and Micah met when James banked there.
17:57And James had helped him move, and they were hanging out.
18:00So I was able to get Micah's mom's phone number.
18:13When I first heard from Di, I was just very intrigued that this was a person who had information about Micah that I didn't know.
18:23I didn't know James by name.
18:27He wasn't kind of one of the people that Micah had talked about.
18:30And I said, our boys had been hanging out together.
18:35And then we just started talking, and we were on the phone for several hours together.
18:41I just had the strongest feeling, and I had made an appointment with James' detective, Sergeant Garrett.
18:48And I took Cheryl and Lance with me because I wanted him to know I believed there was a connection with Micah being missing and James' murder.
18:59I think he thought he thought I was crazy, to be really honest.
19:05When James Colstead was murdered, I went out to the scene, we did a briefing, and then I assumed the investigation at that point.
19:15There was some subjects to be interviewed, so we started conducting interviews.
19:21It's still an open, active homicide case, so I can't get into the details of who I talked to and what they said.
19:28But we did talk to several witnesses that night as well as the following days.
19:32Cheryl reported Micah missing on April 4th, 2018.
19:43Any missing person case, you want to see the last people they talked to.
19:47We were able to justify getting search warrants for call detail records, phone records, bank account stuff, social media accounts.
19:56Some things just kind of weren't adding up.
19:59All of his activity stopped in March of 2018.
20:07People do erase social media accounts, but we couldn't find any activity on banking records.
20:13Couldn't find any activity on cellular phones that were used by him.
20:17So, obviously, it gave us concern.
20:20Later on, it was determined that they kind of knew of one another.
20:23But, you know, it's not like they hung out every weekend.
20:28They ran in kind of a similar social circle.
20:31I think that's enough for him to say, there's not a lot of coincidences in this world.
20:36Yeah.
20:36And, you know, things don't happen by accident.
20:39In his mind, it merited further investigation.
20:43At that point, Micah's brother, Luke, had been going to Bakersfield every day for several days.
20:56Basically, just trying to figure out who he was hanging with, what he had been doing, what some of his last movements were, and was able to get some information.
21:05He was told, if you want to know what happened to Micah, you need to talk to Bailey.
21:11You need to find Bailey, parent.
21:13Okay, so I'm going to go down here and hang one of Bailey's flyers up.
21:34I haven't done it in a while.
21:35I call it my flyer therapy.
21:42Gosh, I've hung thousands of them, so it's like I've said this little prayer I always say before I leave the flyer.
21:49One more day to find Bailey, one more day not to go crazy.
21:56I have nowhere to look for Bailey, but I have everywhere to look for her.
22:02I'm a mother to Caitlin and Bailey.
22:29Bailey was born in 97.
22:31She was a sweet little baby.
22:35I would call her my baby bird, because whenever she wanted to eat, she would, you know, do like a baby bird with her mouth, you know.
22:43So, called her Little Bird.
22:50Hey.
22:51Hey, you.
22:52Hi.
22:54Okay, just walk away.
22:55She just loved animals.
22:57He hates me.
22:58Growing up.
22:59She's so cute.
23:01She always had a pet.
23:04When she was little, she's like, when I grow up, I want to be a grocery girl.
23:08And I'm like, oh, okay, you can be anything you want.
23:12And then as she got older, she was trying to go into the military and studied hard for the test, and she wanted to be an airline stewardess.
23:21So, it just changed all the time.
23:23So, it just changed all the time.
23:31Her graduation from high school.
23:33Her smile.
23:36Always.
23:37One of the prettiest smiles.
23:39One of the most contagious laughs.
23:43Yes.
23:44She never showed any form of judgment.
23:48She was always there for you and just, just try to help you through whatever, you know, and that's where that positivity came from.
23:55She just loved to see you smile, so she'd do anything she could to make you.
24:00Maddie's been naughty.
24:01Maddie's been naughty.
24:05I missed my boo.
24:08Aw.
24:13Oh, she's so funny.
24:15We used to have this ritual where we would tell my dad that we wanted to get ready so we could have a photo shoot that night.
24:21We're going to do full face makeup.
24:23We're going to take lots of pictures.
24:24Dad's leave us alone.
24:25And then the second he'd go to bed, out that house we went.
24:29And we were getting picked up by one of our friends.
24:34We were climbing in the car with my brother and taking off to wherever.
24:38Bonfires and football games afterwards.
24:41There'd be so many parties.
24:43Those were the best times.
24:45They were.
24:46Bailey got married to her boyfriend in Vegas, August 3rd of 16.
25:00So a year after she graduated high school.
25:04Didn't tell anybody.
25:06At least I didn't know.
25:07And then like a week or two later, I'm just like, did you guys get married when you were in Vegas?
25:12And she's like, yeah.
25:15I'm like, okay.
25:16Why didn't you?
25:17Instead of saying, oh, congratulations.
25:19I was like, why didn't you do that?
25:20Last I heard you guys were breaking up.
25:22They had a very volatile relationship.
25:29You know, they were fighting a lot and very young.
25:34So, you know, your mama sense, you know, I could tell something.
25:41He wasn't the right one.
25:42She did eventually leave him and she's back home with me for a while.
25:55You know, mothers and daughters at that age, both the girls thought I was like controlling and a b****.
26:03But she would always call me like every day, even if we had an argument.
26:12Bailey was just 20 years old.
26:21She was just evolving into adulthood.
26:25You know, and with that comes change because you're not the same person at 20 that you are at 25.
26:31The last day I saw her was April 23rd.
26:40Bailey was supposed to come have dinner and visit.
26:43At that point, Bailey had moved out of my house and moved in with a guy named Matt.
26:49And on the 23rd, she said, I can't come to dinner.
26:57So I was at Costco and I thought, okay, I'm going to take some churros over.
27:02That way I can drop them off and I'll get to see her.
27:04Because she loved the Costco churros that were like this long.
27:07So I think I got like five of them and she came outside and she was, you know, happy and, well, I don't know if she was happy, but she came outside and I'm like, get in the car.
27:20I'll talk to you.
27:21And she goes, I can't.
27:22I got to go back in.
27:25And I gave them to her and said, I love you.
27:28And it was just like a little quick hug over the seat.
27:34After that, it was texting.
27:36I was calling.
27:37I wasn't getting anything.
27:39Then everything stopped.
27:43Her social media, her phone.
27:49I went over to Matt's house.
27:52When they knocked on the door, his oldest son answered.
27:56And he said, Bailey's not here right now.
28:00I go, where did she go?
28:02And he said, she left.
28:03And I go, well, who did she leave with?
28:05Because you didn't have a car.
28:07He said, I don't know.
28:13She was very active on social media.
28:15She would not even go an hour without checking posts or wanting to post something, especially on Snapchat.
28:21She was very big on Snapchat.
28:23And so we got more worried after that.
28:26So I knew that she would have called.
28:30There would have been, at some point, something, some form of message, some form of login to any social media platform that she owned.
28:39I knew I had to file a missing person report because I knew something very bad had happened to her.
28:50And then they made the flyers.
28:56I drove all over Kern County, putting up flyers.
29:03I knew it was over 5,000 people say closer to 10.
29:12Everywhere I went, I had a flyer.
29:14I just saw a picture of the poster online.
29:19And it said, Bailey Parent is missing.
29:24I heard that name, Bailey Parent.
29:26So I messaged, Jan, you know, you don't know me, but my son is missing, too.
29:33I realized I'm not the only mom this is happening to.
29:37That's when I knew something was very, very wrong.
29:42This is 17 News.
29:48Since her disappearance, Bailey has missed some big events, including her 21st birthday.
29:54From search and rescue to the air division and numerous detectives, the search for Bailey is extensive.
30:02Bailey Despot isn't the type of person to simply disappear.
30:05And with the amount of time that's gone by, detectives say this case is suspicious.
30:09What's more, there's a chance it could be connected to another Kern County missing persons case.
30:17The first time Jane and I met, I told her that some of Micah's friends had mentioned that Bailey might be the person to talk to to find out what had happened to him.
30:28I didn't know anything about Micah.
30:32And they're telling me all this, and it's like, oh, my gosh.
30:35You know, I'm just sitting there and overwhelmed, and it's like, do I trust these people?
30:41Because at the time, I didn't trust anybody.
30:44I learned about Bailey going missing through Cheryl and Lance.
30:49And then we just, the three of us moms talked on the phone.
30:54At that point, we couldn't say, you know, this is how they each knew each other.
31:02We just knew that they had to be connected.
31:05Initially, I thought it was a case that we've seen a million times before, where, you know, a beautiful young woman has gone missing.
31:20She just vanished, you know, in the night.
31:23And pretty immediately after I got in contact with Jane, she asked me if I knew who Micah Holsenbeck was.
31:30And she said, well, he's also missing.
31:32A few details have been released, but detectives do say his disappearance is suspicious.
31:39100% out of character for Micah.
31:42This is not a choice that he's made.
31:46And then Cheryl brings up James Colstead's case.
31:50And it was almost overwhelming to have all three of these cases seemingly connected right off the bat.
31:58I mean, it was incredibly compelling.
32:00I'd never heard of anything like this.
32:03I haven't since.
32:05Early on, we met Olivia LaVoice.
32:12And she stayed with the stories.
32:15Wanted to be of help.
32:17I feel like I still don't even really understand how surreal your lives are.
32:26You know, I think I understand more than the average person, but no one can really know it.
32:32I'll never forget the first time you said to me, well, you said you, you said on camera, you know, you just wanted, if someone would just tell you where he was, that you would literally dig him up with your bare hands.
32:46I would go get him.
32:47Jane and Cheryl say they need to know what happened, even if it means learning their children are buried in shallow graves.
32:54I would drive straight from here.
32:56I would go there and I would take him up with my own name.
32:59I would go get him with my bare hands.
33:01And I didn't know at that point yet.
33:04It was so early on.
33:06I didn't know that you were literally doing that.
33:09We did.
33:09That first summer, I almost had a hard, I think it was 110 degrees and I'm out in Maricopa trying to climb up on a water tower to see if Micah's down inside.
33:20Yeah, we did that too.
33:21We came across the same water tower.
33:25We've all gone out and we've looked, I mean, we've searched with our own hands and feet.
33:30We've walked and we've dug and we've looked ourselves.
33:37When your kid is missing, it doesn't come with a handbook on what to do.
33:43So we just kind of came together and did our own plan and thought about how could we do this.
33:51My ex-husband, Will, had named the kids the Bakersfield Three.
33:55Will created two Facebook pages, one just for the Bakersfield Three and then another discussion group.
34:03People started talking.
34:06They wanted to be involved.
34:07These aren't just three grieving mothers.
34:17These are mothers that are in the middle of a full-blown investigation.
34:21We learned how to do conference calls.
34:23And we would compare notes and names.
34:28And we would do that for hours.
34:32And so immediately we were all, okay, do you know this person?
34:36Do you know this person?
34:37Do you know this person?
34:38In a place like Bakersfield, if you've got 20 people and another person knows that same 20 people, then, you know, they're all friends.
34:52I remember at some point I had a meeting with all three respective mothers.
34:57That's when the Bakersfield Three name started to kind of coin itself.
35:02I would try to share some information, but obviously we have to safeguard the investigation.
35:06So it was always kind of a love-hate relationship, you know, sometimes when you had these meetings, because they want all the details.
35:15And they know I'm withholding information, and it's intentional, nothing against them, but I have to protect the case.
35:20And I'd constantly remind them that, you know, we're doing everything we can on these cases, and that we're looking into it.
35:29All three respective mothers were out there talking to people, but sometimes it can be problematic.
35:36Because they're getting these stories, third, fourth, fifth hand, from people, and they may not really have any direct nexus to the investigation.
35:45At the same time, I'd tell them, you never know.
35:48You never know when you go down that rabbit hole what you might find.
35:51I've lived here my whole life.
36:07I have invested interest in what happens here as a police officer, because my family also lives here.
36:11It's a good community.
36:13There's a lot of good people here.
36:16It's a conservative area.
36:17There's 400,000 residents.
36:22It still has a small-town feel, and there's a lot of people still know of one another.
36:27And we've got a lot of history here.
36:30We've got Buck Owens Crystal Palace here.
36:33Buck Owens is one of the pioneers of country music.
36:36You know, he used to sing every Friday, Saturday night there until he died.
36:41So this is the area that we call the bluffs.
36:49A little scenic area, because you can see all the way out in the foothills all the oil equipment.
36:56That's Bakersfield.
36:57That's Kern County.
37:00Agricultural and oil.
37:02Down below, the Kern River flows.
37:09We're one of the few areas that have a river that has a death toll.
37:14It's called the Killer Kern, the Kern River.
37:17There's a lot of people, primarily from L.A. and whatnot, come down to hang out during the summertime.
37:22And the water looks tempting, because it's hot outside.
37:27And they go in, and unfortunately, they drown.
37:31It's a very swift moving current.
37:39I think there are changes in most cities across the U.S.
37:43Same as any other community.
37:46There's property crime.
37:48There's violent crime.
37:49There's drug nexus to a lot of these crimes.
37:52We have all the same drug issues that most other cities have.
37:57There's a lot of methamphetamine use here.
37:59There's cocaine here.
38:00There's heroin.
38:02Marijuana, you name it.
38:04It's a huge epidemic of opioid use.
38:10Just like every town, there's good areas and bad areas.
38:13Things do happen on both sides.
38:16Crime knows no boundaries.
38:17If current trends continue, we are on track once again to have the deadliest year on record here in Kern County.
38:26And tonight, another dubious distinction.
38:29Jim, the California Department of Justice just released crime statistics for last year.
38:33Those stats show our county has the highest murder rate in the state.
38:36The state homicide rate is 4.6 killings per 100,000 people.
38:42Kern County's rate is two and a half times higher, 11.3 per 100,000.
38:47We sit at a really unique place in the state.
38:53I don't know how much that has to do with the crime level, but we are, for a couple of years now, we've had the highest homicide rate of all of California's counties.
39:04And that just hurts my heart.
39:09Always been some underground crime going on with different unsavory organizations.
39:16Because we are right at the crossroads of two really major interstates.
39:22So even human trafficking is really a problem here because of our location on the freeway system.
39:28I had heard Bailey had been sex trafficking.
39:35You know, she just met the wrong people who took advantage.
39:38Because Bailey was a little naive still at that time.
39:42You know, she, oh, somebody said they're going to do something for you.
39:45She believed it.
39:47I had already spent many, many, many hours talking to primarily young women who would call me because they got my phone number.
39:58From someone else to tell me that they had been threatened.
40:03Then please, oh my God, don't give my name to the police because my kids have been threatened.
40:09It just started feeling like, oh my God, I don't know who, but somebody has got a hold on Rosedale, which is the area of town, area of the city where we lived and went to school.
40:23Jane lived there.
40:26Di was very close by, they were by the high school, a little farther south.
40:31We were hearing the Mexican cartel.
40:34Then we're hearing the Hells Angels.
40:36I mean, it can't be both.
40:38Is it even one of them?
40:39Getting information out of a lot of the people that I came into contact was very difficult.
40:47They were very reluctant.
40:49A lot of them have the, what is the saying, snitches get stitches.
40:55A lot of them were very fearful for their lives.
40:58I knew there was someone out on the street and they need to be behind bars.
41:04I had sources in law enforcement who would tell me, oh, that's all ridiculous.
41:10And I had other sources telling me, be careful.
41:13We really do think there are some very dangerous players.
41:16And then our county started finding body parts.