Lea is a CG trainer and particpated in the CG meetings in Ellis County at the time of the murder, becoming good friends with Missy. Friday, Midlothian police released two more warrants in the case. Sealed for more than two months, the warrants gave Midlothian cops access to Facebook accounts belonging to Bevers and her husband, Brandon. Midlothian, TX - Twenty-one months have passed since Terri “Missy” Bevers was murdered as she was setting up for a fitness class at the Creekside Church of Christ.
Other than this spooky video, police have essentially had nothing to go off of in terms of who killed Missy since 2016. Some months later, in the fall of 2019, the police realised that a tip had been phoned in multiple times during the investigation. The new lead was regarding former Lancaster police office Bobby Wayne Henry. He was also a tactical officer who admitted to police that he still owned his riot gear but didn’t fit him anymore. Just after 4 am, Missy arrived at Midlothian’s Creekside Church of Christ to prepare for her early morning fitness class. She taught a gladiator boot camp and was prepping the room for a famously intensive session.
The cameras did not record any interaction between Bevers and her suspected killer, police say. Officers found broken glass and other signs of a struggle between Bevers and her alleged assailant at the scene. The suspect entered the church, apparently not triggering an alarm. At least on video, the moves looked intentional, calculated. That morning, Missy was leading a Camp Gladiator exercise session.
Advances in DNA technology will hopefully bring her killer to justice. The early morning hours of April 18, 2016, as an intruder broke into Creekside Church of Christ dressed in a police costume resembling SWAT gear, the rain poured down — tears from the sky over Midlothian, Texas. Smith is working to reassure the community the Bevers murder investigation is anything but a cold case nearly five years since her death. Despite help from the FBI and seemingly strong suspects, the case reached a dead end. Unease quickly rippled through the city of Midlothian with Missy’s killer still free to wander the streets. Internet sleuths began to comb the internet for clues to try and help find Missy’s murderer, but some of them went too far in their search.
Within hours of its release, the police department was inundated with tips from the public, and the FBI and US marshal’s office stepped in to help field calls. When the footage was released, police received several tips on the possible identity of the suspect pictured in tactical gear in the surveillance footage, some of them specific as to the person's build and walk. He explained that the blood was from a dog fight that happened seekers crime a few days beforehand at Brandon’s sister’s house. The police followed up on this claim and confirmed that the blood was in fact from a dog. MIDLOTHIAN (CBSDFW.COM) - It's been six months since fitness instructor Missy Bevers was bludgeoned to death and police aren't any closer to catching her killer. But investigators in Midlothian have new help trying to crack the unsolved murder.
In the Bevers case, the horde of unpaid investigators were so eager to peel back the layers of mystery they came close to interfering with the investigation. The Dallas Observer reported on the websleuthing element of this case in 2017. Chief Johnson, who said the dangerous thing about citizen detectives is essentially out-of-control theorizing. A murder like this is irresistible to the computer-bound amateur detective.
Missy’s killer was between 5’2” and 5’8”, their feet predominately point outward, and they walked with a limp. Police are still looking for the owner of the Nissan Altima. Police sought the advice of a forensic podiatrist to compare the walk of Henry and the masked assailant in the video footage. Missy was a 45-year-old mother of three from Red Oak, Texas. She took fitness very seriously and taught her own classes.