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OS VERDADEIROS ASSASSINATOS EM ELM STREET (EPISÓDIO NOVO)
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00:00A Viva do Travão
00:03Dia de Trita
00:16A Viva do Travão
00:18Simei
00:20O que a primeira vez que eu vi meu pai foi em Sweetia 2009
00:25Ele deixou de responder minhas callas
00:27provavelmente por 6.30
00:29na noite de Halloween.
00:31Na noite de Halloween
00:33foi por um sábado.
00:35Eu comecei a procurar ele
00:37no dia de semana.
00:45Eu passei na semana
00:47todo o país,
00:49fora de Spartansburg,
00:51Union City
00:53e Bortonia.
00:55E então,
00:57no Tuesday,
00:59meu amigo me chamou de
01:01do lado de Elm da biblioteca
01:03e disse que ele encontrou dad's van.
01:05E eu disse,
01:07ele disse que eu ainda não fui para ele.
01:09E eu subi para lá.
01:19Quando eu fui para a van,
01:21eu fui para o lado do carro do carro.
01:25E quando eu olhei,
01:27eu consegui ver meu pai
01:29estávamos no bairro no backseat.
01:33Eu estava gritando,
01:35meu pai está morto.
01:37Alguém matou ele.
01:39e aí
01:41eu fui para o local.
01:51Saudita,
01:53eu fui para o local,
01:55e eu fui para o local,
01:57eu fui para o local.
01:59A CIDADE NO BRASIL
02:29Around 5 o'clock, I received a 911 call.
02:33And it was from Janice Cheadle that she had found her father.
02:39Patrick Cheadle was deceased in the back of a van.
02:43Crime scene investigators, they're looking for cigarette butts, a soda can, anything that may have DNA to where they can then pinpoint potential suspects.
02:55In this day and age, DNA, fibers, everything else, it's down to the minute, so we wanted to limit the amount of people within the actual scene.
03:07He was in the back of the van.
03:11There was a lot of blood in the hair and face.
03:14So we knew that it was a head wound.
03:18You can easily conclude someone usually doesn't die in that manner in the back of a vehicle.
03:24We knew we had a homicide.
03:25Detectives are finding a few things that raise questions.
03:31There's no blood splatter inside of that van.
03:34Because of that, they know that this body has been moved from a place where this man was killed into the van and then parked in this area.
03:43We processed the van.
03:47We took evidence.
03:53One of the bits of evidence was a cell phone that Mr. Cheadle had on his person.
03:58There was a significant amount of cash found.
04:03Patrick Cheadle had $3,000 cash on him when they found his body.
04:07Apparently, he was supposed to go buy a car that evening that he went missing.
04:14There was also some marijuana found in the back of the van.
04:19And eventually, we removed the body from the van and took it to the coroner's office.
04:30The autopsy determined it was probable that he died from a gunshot wound to the head.
04:35And he was shot at fairly close range.
04:38Then he had abrasions of limestone, as if he had been drugged.
04:43And limestone is what your gravel driveways and a lot of your concrete is made of.
04:50They also saw inside his collar was dried vegetation.
04:53And we called it a botanist, and he identified it as a blantain weed.
05:00It's very common, but the botanist said, wherever he was drugged, this plant will be present.
05:07It is bizarre.
05:15You have a murder on Halloween, the body being found on Elm Street.
05:21This is not an ordinary situation for the people who live in a small community like this.
05:39We're the type of community where people still wave to you.
05:49So it's a very small town.
05:53The charm is there.
05:55Greenville's very large, older homes, nice homes.
05:59Once you leave Greenville, it's vast farmland, so we are very rural.
06:021997 was the last homicide we had before, or this one.
06:10People in Greenville, Ohio, are terrified.
06:13So investigators need to find the person who did this, and you're going to find them quickly.
06:17Obviously, the next step for detectives is questioning family members, trying to get leads to figure out what was going on right before Pat Cheadle was killed.
06:31Janice Cheadle, the daughter of Patrick, made the phone call and made the discovery.
06:37She was in shock.
06:38She agreed to speak to me, though.
06:44On Halloween 2009, at approximately noon,
06:58I went over to see him at his French shop.
07:02I was talking about going to Spartansburg to buy a used car.
07:05And then I said, I'll see you later tonight.
07:08You're going to go to my sister's Halloween party, aren't you?
07:11Yeah, I'll see you later, you know.
07:13Hugged them, kissed them, told them I loved them, and that was it.
07:20My dad stopped answering my calls probably about 6.30 on Halloween night.
07:27My dad never showed up to the party.
07:31And then Sunday morning, I went to meet him, and he wasn't there.
07:34He hadn't answered me, which I thought was odd.
07:36It's not like my dad not to answer my calls or texts.
07:39Even if he was busy doing something, he would text me and say, busy, call you later.
07:45And I didn't get anything from him for days.
07:50I called his friend, and his friend hadn't heard from him either.
07:55I called my stepbrother.
07:56I called every jail and hospital in a three-state radius just in case.
08:02I honestly just knew something bad happened because my gut told me, and with him not responding to me, I knew it was bad.
08:08We just started searching.
08:15And my dad's friends just happened to be coming back from Union City, and they took Elm Street.
08:21And it happened upon dad's van.
08:27I just remember yelling and screaming and crying.
08:33And I was in the middle of the road and had to be picked up.
08:37It literally feels like your heart's been ripped down at your chest.
08:40I would describe my dad as a hippie.
08:54He was an old soul.
08:57He just was one of those relaxed, calm, cool, collective person most of the time.
09:03He worked on trucks at a truck stop here nearby as a detailer.
09:12That was like a hobby and a moneymaker for him.
09:15He took pride in his work.
09:18He would be polishing his trucks.
09:19He would listen to his classic rock, like the Leonard Skinner and ZZ Top.
09:25He was definitely from that era, and it stuck with him.
09:28He loved his classic rock.
09:30He was a truck driver for about 40 years, so like he really wasn't home a lot.
09:37He was on the road probably 50 out of the 52 weeks.
09:41So when he was home, it was all about his family.
09:45He personally only had two kids, me and my sister.
09:48But when we were younger, he remarried, and we had three stepbrothers and a stepsister.
09:54My dad definitely was a family man.
09:56His mother meant everything to him.
09:58He was at his mom's at least once or twice a day, checking on her or eating with her or something.
10:05While investigators are talking to Patrick's mother,
10:08they find out there have been some threats that have come from Patrick's girlfriend's ex-husband.
10:17It seemed that the ex-husband was clearly jealous of Pat and his relationship with his ex-wife.
10:29My dad had a girlfriend for several years.
10:34But the ex-husband and the girlfriend weren't actually divorced at the time.
10:37They were separated, so there was anger.
10:43The ex-husband had told my dad to stay away from his wife.
10:51Otherwise, there's going to be trouble.
10:55He'd said it multiple times.
10:57It was a fairly recent threat.
11:13Cheadle's mom said, find this person.
11:16He probably knows something.
11:17In her eyes, that was the person responsible for the death of her son.
11:23We all know what Halloween's like.
11:38Kids going out, trick-or-treating.
11:41Fake horror for everybody.
11:43Haunted houses.
11:45In Greenville, we have a Halloween parade.
11:47And the businesses will hand out candy, and the fire department's there.
11:53Very charming type stuff.
11:59But this was something that really happened on Halloween on Elm Street, of all places, in Greenville, Ohio.
12:09Patrick Cheadle had been dead in a vehicle for days.
12:13And you had Cheadle's girlfriend's ex-husband telling Cheadle to stop messing with his ex.
12:27We brought in Pat's girlfriend for an interview to see what she knew.
12:32We asked about who may have wanted to harm Patrick.
12:34She said her ex-husband.
12:36That's who she felt may have been responsible for Pat's death.
12:39Our next step was we brought in the ex-husband for an interview.
12:45He voluntarily came in.
12:48He admitted to having issues with Pat.
12:51Of course, he had a different story than what other people said.
12:55You know, he made it more of a two-way argument instead of just a one-way.
12:58But he had no qualms of saying that there were issues between the two.
13:02I don't think he showed any remorse on the death,
13:05but he did not show any indications that he was involved in the death.
13:08In the interview, he told us where he was at during Halloween,
13:14and his alibi did check out.
13:18The ex-husband was ruled out as a suspect.
13:26Living in a small town, there was a lot of talk and speculation.
13:29Every time there was a homicide anywhere, there are always rumors.
13:37Was this a robbery?
13:39Was this a drug deal?
13:41Was this somebody else who would have a reason to kill this man?
13:45And those are the questions that detectives immediately start to ask family members
13:49and his daughter, who was on the scene and made that 911 call?
13:53I told Detective Roberts about how my dad was planning on going to buy a car the night before
14:01and told him that the used car was actually a code for him going to buy marijuana
14:06because they needed to know the truth so they could figure out what really happened to my father.
14:13My dad had approximately $13,000 on him to buy the car.
14:17He had it in a money bag, like a bank money bag.
14:21That's how he carried all his money.
14:25She advised that he was going to have about $13,000.
14:28But we only found $3,000 on him.
14:32And then to find $3,000 cash on a robbery victim,
14:38yeah, it was confusing.
14:40We thought, well, maybe it wasn't going to be a robbery.
14:47But then detectives get to see cell phone records.
14:52The gold nugget we got was the cell phone.
14:57Because your phone tells a story.
14:59Tells you where you've been, who you've been in contact with.
15:06Investigators find three calls on Halloween.
15:10A very important date because this is the last time anybody has seen Cheadle live.
15:15One call comes from a landline.
15:17Two other calls come from a cell phone.
15:20The cell phone number traced back to a 19-year-old by the name of David Meisner,
15:24which was a little unusual that, you know, Pat was 53 at the time
15:28and he was in contact with the 19-year-old.
15:32The landline phone calls came from Bartonia, Indiana,
15:36across the state line about 20 minutes away.
15:40And they have to get the Randolph County Sheriff's Office involved, too,
15:46as they go there and start investigating in that small little township of Bartonia.
15:51The Greenville Police Department, Chief Roberts, he reached out to me,
15:55told me that they had went through some cell phone records.
15:58And I just basically lay out everything we have.
16:02And then the names that we're giving, he knew them.
16:06Adam and Marsha Hargrove.
16:08They were definitely a person of interest.
16:10So we made a trip out there to the Hargrove house.
16:19Investigators are really cautious when they're going to this home.
16:23The Randolph County Sheriff's Department has had run-ins with the people who lived there in the past.
16:28I was familiar with the address.
16:34Even as a patrol officer, I had been there numerous times for domestic-related situations.
16:39There has been some criminal activity involved with these folks, so they're just cautious.
16:48They don't want to do anything to cause any alarm.
16:51They don't want to do anything to put themselves in danger, either.
16:53It was a very rural, very remote area, long lane.
16:59It was a husband, wife, and I believe a couple kids.
17:04It was oddly calm.
17:09We went to the residence and spoke with the homeowners there.
17:14They were confused as to who Patrick Cheadle was.
17:20They weren't familiar with the green van.
17:23They weren't familiar with any of the questions that we were asking.
17:28But they consented to a search.
17:33So we basically started looking for any potential types of evidence there at the house
17:37that would indicate that that might have been where the crime occurred.
17:40Inside the house, there was a fireplace that had burned latex of some sort,
17:54and we believe that it might have been rubber gloves.
17:56Obviously, odd.
17:57You don't see that a lot in somebody's fireplace in their home.
18:00Investigators also find plantain, which matches the vegetation that was on Cheadle's shirt
18:12found at the coroner's office.
18:13I would say within an hour or two, we had the actual search warrant and a crime tech from the Indiana State Police to use luminol.
18:23If sprayed onto a surface that has had blood on it, it will make it illuminate.
18:30When he sprayed it on the wooden deck at that property,
18:35you could physically see where the shooting occurred and then where a person had been drug off of the porch.
18:45We knew we had our crime scene at that point.
18:51We decided to go ahead and take the deck apart.
18:56And as soon as we got the boards lifted up, we found a large pooling of blood.
19:02The crime scene tech gets a sample of that blood.
19:05And once they did those tests, it was confirmed that it was Patrick Cheadle's blood.
19:12Investigators have their crime scene now.
19:14It's on this couple's back porch.
19:18Obviously, they think these two people who live in this home are somehow involved.
19:24But the couple is adamant that they are not involved in Cheadle's murder at all.
19:31Adam and Marsha said that on Halloween, during the time frame of the homicide,
19:35they were at a hospital in Indiana.
19:38Detectives want to know how this blood splatter ended up on their back porch.
19:44Why is there a crime scene back there?
19:47And they don't know, could this couple be murderers?
19:52But investigators had no idea what was going to happen next,
19:55and it was a lot worse than they could have ever imagined.
19:58Adam and Marsha said that during the time frame of the homicide, they were not home.
20:25The couple is adamant that they had nothing to do with Cheadle's murder.
20:31They don't know how this blood splatter ended up on their back porch.
20:37And their alibi was verified.
20:39Everything checked out.
20:41They did go visit the hospital in Indiana.
20:44However, they then let investigators know that somebody had been staying in their house
20:52while he was having some trouble with his family.
20:54The homeowner said that his cousin, Terry Durbin, had access to the house,
21:00and it was on again, off again, staying there.
21:03The night that they came back home from Indianapolis,
21:06they found that Terry Durbin was there with a 19-year-old kid.
21:11The homeowner said that the 19-year-old was drinking beer and smoking marijuana.
21:17This 19-year-old kid was David Meisner.
21:23And Meisner had called in the cell phone that Mr. Cheadle had on his person.
21:27So things started coming together pretty quick.
21:33The couple did tell us that Terry had left
21:35and was going to visit his brother up in Georgia.
21:39But prior to him leaving, they noted that he gave them some cash
21:43and that he got some repairs done to his vehicle.
21:47And they found it kind of odd because he had been kind of on hard times
21:52and did not have a lot of money.
21:53And suddenly, he's got a lot of cash on him.
21:58At that point, our focus turned to learning as much as we could
22:01about the cousin, Terry Durbin.
22:05When investigators learned the name Terry Durbin,
22:09Durbin happens to be someone
22:11who knows Cheadle's stepson.
22:15Terry Durbin and my stepbrother Derek grew up together
22:18in the same little town.
22:20So that's how my dad met Terry Durbin,
22:22was through my stepbrother.
22:24Investigators start doing some background digging into him
22:27and they find he sells pot
22:28and he has a violent temper.
22:30One of our local police departments had told us
22:34that he was a suspect in the home invasion.
22:38They also indicated that he was a suspect
22:40in a bank robbery that had occurred in South Bend.
22:44Terry is a bad guy.
22:48The investigators understand
22:50that there is this murderer
22:51going through their community,
22:54hiding somewhere,
22:56and potentially could strike again.
22:57While investigators are digging into Durbin's background,
23:03some people let them know
23:05there was a double murder
23:06in a small town called Mongo,
23:09about two hours north in Indiana.
23:11I would describe my dad,
23:27he was a pretty
23:28boisterous guy.
23:31Very warm, very caring, very giving.
23:36A week after I've met my wife,
23:38your boyfriend, girlfriend,
23:40she said, we're going to go meet my dad.
23:42I said, all right, let's go.
23:45We pull up in the driveway
23:47and, you know, wow,
23:49here comes this hefty looking guy
23:52coming around the corner
23:53all loud a little bit.
23:55Hey, you know, you guys made it and stuff.
23:57And I'm like, wow, look at this guy.
24:00We shook hands for the first time.
24:02It was an instant connection.
24:03And Darlene was just, you know,
24:08such a love, you know,
24:09and she welcomed me into her home,
24:12you know, with open arms,
24:13you know, beautiful people.
24:15And I just, I didn't want to leave,
24:17you know, to go back home.
24:19I couldn't wait to go back out there the next time.
24:21The enjoyment of, you know,
24:24just being around there
24:25really made me feel comfortable,
24:27relaxed, and I was accepted,
24:28you know, yeah,
24:30pretty much from day one.
24:32Terry Anderson and I
24:33ran around together
24:34and had a lot of fun.
24:36We liked the vacation hunt
24:37and stuff like that.
24:41Darlene, my stepmother,
24:42she was like a little butterfly.
24:44She was very soft-spoken.
24:47She had a really warm heart.
24:49My dad and Darlene
24:51had one child together,
24:53and that was Amanda Anderson.
24:58My dad worked for a tree service company.
25:03After Katrina,
25:05he decided to go down south
25:08to help with clearing out
25:10some of the trees and the damage.
25:13And he definitely was able to earn
25:16and save quite a bit of money.
25:19He was working on having a side business
25:21and being a muskie tour guide.
25:24You know, and he says,
25:24I'm just going to take $10,000 cash
25:27and I'm going to get a brand new boat
25:29but two feet longer.
25:32And he did tell people
25:34that he had quite a bit of money
25:35to buy this boat.
25:38Maybe he could talk
25:39a little bit too much.
25:42He wanted to be
25:43a professional fisherman.
25:46And he'd been collecting tackle
25:47for years and years and years.
25:49I always thought he was going to
25:50maybe open a bait shop or something.
25:54He talked a little bit about that,
25:55but he was into that muskie fishing.
26:01Those muskies look like
26:02a big alligator or something.
26:06Yeah, that's what he liked to do.
26:08He was talking about
26:09this new boat he was going to get.
26:11The one he had was great.
26:13I mean, it was fancy to me.
26:16But yeah, he was getting ready
26:19to buy a new boat.
26:20He said he had the cash
26:21to buy it with.
26:22The phone call came when I was at work
26:31that Darlene had been shot
26:36and is dead in the house
26:40and they can't find dad.
26:42When we got to Mongo,
26:50a detective came and started
26:51handing me personal items
26:53of my dad's.
26:56That's when he told me
26:57that my dad was found in the barn
26:59and he was deceased.
27:01And they said that they were murdered.
27:03It was violent.
27:15When you find out
27:17that a family member dies,
27:19it's hard just knowing
27:20that they're not here anymore.
27:23But for it to sink in
27:25that they were taken,
27:26violently taken,
27:28and it has a different tone.
27:38They didn't tell me
27:39where Terry was murdered.
27:41I found this out
27:42when we started walking
27:43onto the other side
27:44of the pole barn.
27:46This huge, huge,
27:49round circumference
27:50of blood, thick.
27:53And Terry Anderson's hat
27:55was laying right there
27:56in this pool of blood.
27:59And I'm like,
28:00oh my gosh.
28:03Terry and Darlene
28:05were brutally beat.
28:06Terry's throat was cut.
28:09And you could see
28:09the blood on the lawnmower
28:11and the blood on the ceiling
28:14looked like somebody
28:16did that.
28:17You know,
28:18the blood was wall to wall.
28:21Little pieces of scalp and stuff.
28:25And you could see
28:26where he put a handprint
28:27on the mower.
28:30I'm like, oh my gosh.
28:32You know,
28:32this is where he was murdered?
28:35And they were like,
28:36yeah, you know.
28:37And I go,
28:38this is not good.
28:39I can't have my wife
28:40see this stuff.
28:41They said,
28:44I mean,
28:44we can have a cleanup service
28:45come in and clean it up.
28:46And I said,
28:47well, when will that happen?
28:49I don't know,
28:50maybe a couple of days,
28:51the investigator said.
28:52And I says,
28:52oh, I can't have Sherry
28:54see her dad here.
28:56Well,
28:56the investigator says,
28:57well, you can clean them up.
29:01From my perspective,
29:02this case was
29:03poorly investigated.
29:06Investigators
29:07turned the crime scene
29:08over to the family
29:09immediately
29:11after only hours.
29:12They tell the family members
29:13that they can clean it up.
29:16Family members
29:17are panicked.
29:18They don't know
29:19what to do.
29:20So they start
29:21taking everything
29:22out of this house
29:23that has blood on it.
29:26They take out
29:27the carpet
29:27and burn
29:29all of this evidence
29:30unknowingly,
29:31thinking that investigators
29:32have everything
29:33they need.
29:34and there's a murderer
29:38on the loose
29:39ready to strike again.
29:40Terry Durbin
30:09Eu trabalhava com o trabalho com o meu pai.
30:17Eles trabalhavam muito bem. Eu meti-o em alguns ocasiões.
30:23Ele era um trabalho e um, tipo de ajuda e assist.
30:29A gente põe a brush ou algo em um resíduo,
30:32ou seja, o que é necessário fazer o trabalho.
30:35Meu pai e-mãe e eu ia estar em um barn,
30:39e um pouco de ocasião, Terry Durbin,
30:42showed up just to talk.
30:45Terry Durbin,
30:47at first, ele seemed to be a little,
30:50uh,
30:51you know, hard.
30:52Like, wanting to try to be a tough guy.
30:55You know, kind of.
30:56But then again,
30:57he's a little timid, in a sense, you know.
31:00I didn't really get a good feel for the guy.
31:05But that wasn't my conversation to have,
31:09because that was between Terry Anderson and Terry Durbin,
31:12about work relations.
31:14You know, Terry really didn't talk much of him, either.
31:17You know, not too much friendship or nothing like that.
31:20It was just about work, about business.
31:23My dad was a boss over Terry Durbin,
31:30and I want to say for quite some time.
31:32Terry Durbin's role at the tree cutting down service was, uh,
31:37as a worker, um, he would climb the trees and help cut them down,
31:41and, uh, he was more like a laborer.
31:44But they worked very closely every day.
31:47So, there are some things that, um,
31:50I would imagine that my dad would have shared.
31:54And, and I think it's just because that they literally sat in the same truck together all day.
32:00He knew my dad had a lot of money to purchase his boat.
32:09If Durbin was indeed involved in those Mongo murders,
32:13as he is suspected to have been,
32:15it also appears that he didn't like to operate alone.
32:19Terry Anderson's daughter, Amanda, you know, she had a meth addiction, I guess you could say,
32:28uh, knowing to do meth, hanging around with meth friends,
32:32uh, hanging out with Terry Durbin as well.
32:35There is lots of speculation from family members and detectives as well
32:42that Amanda had a role in the death of her parents.
32:48I suspected a possibility of my sister or her circle of friends.
32:55There was a lot of behaviors that I questioned about my sister.
33:07And the lack of trying to find out who murdered our father and her mother.
33:13Maybe it wasn't something where she expected them to be killed,
33:19but there was an incentive for her to get that money
33:25that her parents and her father in particular had just come up with.
33:30My sister's possible involvement affected me very deep,
33:36and I still, it still bothers me.
33:39It still hurts me, just a thought.
33:42This case had been cold already for four years before Terry Durbin's name comes up again.
34:01in this murder of Patrick Cheadle.
34:14As it turns out, the two cases had quite a few similarities.
34:18From what I've gathered about Terry Durbin, everything's about money.
34:24And that's where these two cases really collide.
34:28Both of these men had cash on hand in their pockets.
34:33Both of these men were talking about the money that they had in their pockets.
34:38My dad had lent Terry Durbin money, and I believe Terry Durbin had given my dad a check,
34:45and I don't think the check was a good check.
34:47And my dad had had a hard time and was angry with Terry Durbin with this loan.
34:55We were told he was more than likely the person who committed the crimes in the Mongo murders.
35:01When a crime occurs in a small community like that, the word spreads fast and people were scared.
35:10I was hearing a bunch of rumors about Terry Durbin.
35:13The rumors on the street were about people he beat up and almost beat to death,
35:18who wouldn't ever testify or tell the cops who did it.
35:23I honestly was quite scared after this.
35:26I never had a gun in my house.
35:28I had a handgun that I slept with under my pillow because it was very scary.
35:35People are terrified that there was a murderer on the loose in their community.
35:41We knew we had a very bad guy, and we wanted to find these two people before someone else was going to get killed.
35:49We didn't sleep.
35:51We'd get a couple hours and start out early in the morning.
35:54We had the sheriff's office involved, and then we had Randolph County involved.
36:00Everybody worked for a common goal.
36:04We got the numbers, and we were able to track their cell phones.
36:08And we knew that Terry Durbin was going to Georgia.
36:11And Mr. Meissner, we pinged him up in Chicago.
36:13I made contact with David, and I called him.
36:20I introduced myself.
36:22I could tell that he was nervous.
36:23We then talked about the fact that he showed concern because Mr. Durbin wanted to meet him.
36:29And I kept telling him, do not meet him, because looking at the dynamics of the two, you could tell who was probably the leader and who was the follower.
36:39And I explained, if you meet with him, he's going to get rid of loose ends.
36:45David Meissner's mother had already got him an attorney, and he had X amount of time to turn himself in, or I told him that, you know, we would start looking for him, and that would not be good.
36:58In my thought process, Mr. Durbin wanted to meet Mr. Meissner to kill Meissner.
37:04So he did come in.
37:09Meissner was ready to talk.
37:12He looked like a scared kid to me.
37:15He told us they had set up a drug deal.
37:20They were selling three pounds of marijuana, and the asking price was $9,000 to $10,000.
37:26He was chosen, which for the similarities with Mongo comes, because he was going to have cash on hand.
37:36Pat was there to buy $10,000 worth of marijuana that did not exist.
37:41Instead of it being a marijuana purchase, it was a robbery, and the robbery turned into a homicide.
37:47David Meissner did not know the person personally who was coming.
37:51And he said that when he arrived, there was a green van that came down the driveway, and that Terry Durbin had went to answer the door.
38:04While Terry was outside, he hears a pop that he recognizes as a gunshot.
38:09He told us that Terry came back in the house pointing the gun at him, telling him to come help him where he was next.
38:17He told us that Terry Durbin then used a hose to clean blood off the deck.
38:24They drugged the body to the van.
38:27Durbin drove the van with Patrick Cheadle in the back.
38:32Mr. Meissner was behind him.
38:34They dug him off at Elm Street.
38:37And then they drove back to the residence.
38:44And later on, that's when the homeowners did come home, and he found that they were drinking.
38:51David Meissner also told us that prior to him and Terry separating ways, Terry gave him $2,000 in cash.
39:00David Meissner also did tell us that he purchased the gun, and he told us that he didn't know a murder was going to occur.
39:10I mean, he thought it was going to be a robbery.
39:15Investigators now have what they believe is enough evidence to arrest both Meissner and Durbin.
39:21Shortly after we were contacted by Terry Durbin's attorney, and the attorney made it clear to us that he had talked to his client, and he did not wish to talk with law enforcement.
39:34We explained to him we were taking him into custody, and we still had enough reason to believe that he was involved in the murder.
39:40On November 12, 2009, two weeks after the murder of Patrick Cheadle, Terry Durbin is finally arrested and charged with his murder.
39:51David Meissner, also arrested, also charged in the murder of Patrick Cheadle.
39:57David Meissner cooperated with investigators, cooperated with the prosecution, and he was treated as a friendly witness.
40:06He still got charged with murder. He still got charged with robbery. However, the prosecution and the state made a deal, sentenced him to 20 years in prison.
40:17Durbin denied everything, claimed he was completely innocent.
40:23The trial was in 2010. All of Cheadle's family was there. They brought in a slew of character witnesses describing Terry Durbin's behavior, his temper.
40:34On October 29, jury goes into deliberations. They spend only six hours, and they come back with guilty on both charges, murder and armed robbery.
40:45When the jury said guilty, I actually teared up. I mean, it was like a huge feeling of relief.
41:01And I know what it did for the family. But Patrick Cheadle's still somebody's dad.
41:12They took my rock from me. They took my father. They took my kid's grandpa. They don't get to experience and build memories like I did with my dad.
41:24They took a son. They took a son. They took a caregiver from my grandma away.
41:31Yeah, he may have had some hiccups in his life. He may have smoked marijuana and dealt a little bit.
41:36But he truly was a kind, gentle soul. Like, his main focus was always his family. Everything he did was to help support his family.
41:47Like, at the end, he was sending my kids to Catholic school because he wanted them to have a good education and start out right.
41:55He was just always about his family. And that's one thing I cherish and try to carry on is tomorrow is not guaranteed.
42:05So you should always hold on to your loved ones. And whether you like them or not at the moment or agree with them, you should always love them.
42:12I believe that Pat Cheadle could have still been alive if we'd been able to nab Terry Durbin in my family's case.
42:19We were told that he was the suspect in the Mongo murders, but they would not try a circumstantial case.
42:30They wanted more physical evidence that would tie him there. They just thought it wasn't a case they could try and win, is what I was told.
42:37Whoever did it, they should pay for it. Every single day, I have to wake up knowing what happened to my family. I mean, they beat them. They beat them to where they couldn't even have an open casket.
43:02It's the violence that really bothers me the most. That's what really, really, really hurts is the, is what, how they died. Is that a matter that they died? It's how. It's so hard. It's so hard.
43:25He's the first and only person that I registered with the prisons with that I want to know if he's released, if he escapes, that they will personally call my cell phone and tell me.
43:42I want to know where he's at at all times. He's where he needs to be.
43:48And I pray that the Andersons are able to get justice in their case.
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