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M.

I was the fortunate person to answer my phone. Short and easy, and responded out and then I became a lead in a Colstead's case.

Sergeant Chad Garrett, then a homicide detective, was fast asleep at home next to his wife. I imagine him groggy, blurry-eyed, getting dressed in the dark on his day off, having no clue that he wasn't just taking a case when it wasn't his shift. He was taking what many would consider one of the most complex cases the police department has ever seen.

Nothing surprised me in this case, put it that way. Every time I talk to.

Somebody, they would say something, and.

I'm like, That never happened. There's no way. Then I could prove it happened.

I'm Olivia LaVoyce, and this is The Bakersfield Three. On the surface, the murder of James Colstead seemed simple enough. A drive-by shooting and a cul de sac with witnesses. But that changed a little over a week into the investigation when Detective Garrett got a call from James's mother, die, asking to meet.

Right after Cheryl and I got together.

And talked in person, I made an.

Appointment.

And we both went.

To BPD together.

She said, Well, I have a homicide detective. I'd like for you to come with me. By this point, Micah's mom, Cheryl, was dealing with a missing persons detective as Micah was just considered missing, not a victim of foul play. The missing persons detective was not very positive at all. He was, Nobody's going to talk to us. It's not illegal for him to be missing. You'll probably hear from him in a couple of weeks. He probably just ducked out because he had girl trouble attitude. In that sense, the idea of getting to talk to a homicide detective seemed like a gift, and Cheryl came prepared. I had 11 typed, written, single-spaced.

Pages of, I.

Left Micah here. I talked to Micah here. This person said this. This person said that. Just gave them.

Just.

A lot of information and phone numbers for everybody. Even though Micah was a grown man and most adult missing persons are found perfectly safe, Sergeant Garrett had a feeling this wasn't one to brush off.

There were some strange circumstances in that case.

Despite being a homicide detective, he found himself somewhat unofficially investigating Micah's missing persons case as he investigated James' murder. Looking into Micah's case very quickly pointed to and her disappearance.

Basically, any time I was doing this investigation, I.

Was.

Actively investigating three cases. Anytime I did.

All these.

Interviews, I was asking about all three.

The three cases were naturally intertwined, seeing as they not only all knew each other and either disappeared or were murdered within 30 days. They also had so many mutual friends and acquaintances, which is where the three moms zeroed in on what they call the circle. They did a deep dive on every person their kids had in common and made sure to send everything to Sergeant Garrett, which was a lot. How crazy do you think you've driven some people in law enforcement? Oh, my gosh.

Pretty crazy.

Oh, bless his heart. Sergeant Garrett, he's a sergeant now. Bless his heart. He gets lots of messages from us still.

Weekly from me.

I know weekly from you. In the beginning, the emails weren't weekly. They were daily, sometimes several times a day. There were phone calls and impromptu visits to the police department.

It could be a challenging task or endeavor, but all their hearts are in the right place. The legwork they were putting in is obviously appreciated.

They did a lot of hard work on their end. They talked to a lot of people.

Garrett would often joke, You guys need to open up your own detective agency. You're pretty good.

Figuring out all the key players and how they connected to the three was significant, but so was really understanding the ins and outs of Bailey, Micah, and James relationships with each other. Micah and James's friendship seemed pretty straightforward. James was 38 when he was killed. Micah was 34 when he disappeared, so they were fairly close in age. There's no mysterious circumstances behind how they met. A couple of years before his disappearance, Micah worked as a financial advisor at Wells Fargo, which is where James did banking. Bailey and James, it seemed, were probably more acquaintances than actual friends in terms of they weren't hanging out one on one, more so just attending the same parties, social gatherings, and whatnot. But in terms of how Bailey and Micah knew each other, that was a little more complicated.

Police Department, can you hold, please? Kind of. How can I help you? I need to get an officer out to my house because there's a woman that will not stop coming in my house. I keep trying to throw her out. What's her address? She made four entries into my home. What's that?. What is her address? 4611 Rushmore Drive. What is her name? I don't know. You don't know what her name is and she's coming into your house? I know her name is Bailey. I don't know what her last name is. Is she white.

Black, or Hispanic?

She's white, five foot two. How much about how old.

Is.

She? Sir. I'm on the phone with you. She's 20 years old. Okay, well, I asked you three times. What color clothing is she wearing? Well, she's trying to grab in my pockets while you're doing that. I'm trying to get her away from me. Can you walk away from her? Just walk away from me. I did walk away from her. I've been walking away for over 20 minutes. Yeah, I walked away from her. Okay, what is your name? My name is Micah, M-I-C-A-H. And your last name? Colton, H-O-L-S-O-N-D-A-K-E.

Micah's 911 call came in July 2017, about 10 months before he disappeared and nine months before Bailey also went missing. Their friendship.

Never made sense.

To me. That's Bailey's older sister, Caitlin, which brings up another connection. Caitlin and Micah were friends, but she isn't the one who introduced Micah to her sister. In fact, she had no clue they even knew each other until the night Micah called 911. I was friends with Micah while he was still doing good while he.

Was the broker.

At a bank, had.

A.

House over here on this side of town. We would just watch TV.

Hang out, nothing more.

I know there's all those rumors.

About how.

Micah and I dated. Those aren't true.

I mean.

They're not. But after he started getting real bad was when I distanced myself. That was at the same time I found out him and my sister were hanging out and it didn't make sense to me. It was pretty jarring for Caitlin to find out the way she did, trying to figure out how they knew each other while also trying to make sense of Micah calling the cops on Bailey. She had came home and was telling my mom and I a story about it. I reached out to him, asked him what was going on. Micah told Caitlin Bailey was over with a group of people and had too much to drink and got belligerent and then wouldn't leave. I go, Okay, well, thanks. I figured that was the end of their friendship. When it came to light that the two had hung out with each other, it seemed strange to both Bailey and Micah's loved ones. Micah was 34 when he disappeared. Bailey was just 20 years old. The age gap was a bit startling. Here's Micah's mom, Cheryl. Micah was very much not someone who would be hanging out with a 19-year-old. He really, I would say, would play more of a big brother role.

If he was.

Talking with young women.

That age.

After Micah went missing, I heard from two different young women who told me Micah helped them get out of trouble and ultimately out of town. Whether it was a bad relationship or they were hanging out with the wrong crowd, it seemed to be a part of his personality. Most people in his life knew about. Though not everyone described it in the nicest terms. Here's Jeremy Bell, who was friends with Micah, James, and Bailey.

He would always try to play like Captain Save-A-Hoe and go rescue these girls and that's what I'm assuming happened with Bailey.

What.

Does that mean? Just exactly how it sounds. A girl is in trouble with a girl is just into an argument with a guy or the guy that she's with is being mean to her. So she calls one of her guide brings to come and get her out of the situation, and that was Micah.

I've been told Bayly once called Micah for help when she was dating a man she'd eventually get a restraining order against. But not long after they both went missing and a few weeks into me looking into the cases, I found another possible connection between the two. It came in the form of a search warrant with their names right there in black and white. The warrant was for phone records that would show text messages between Micah, Bailey, Matt Queen, who was dating Bailey, and his friend, Matt Vandercastiel. They were looking for messages about the manufacturing of high power assault rifles that are illegal in California. Here's a clip from a video law enforcement says shows Matt Queen test firing one of the guns. The warrant also mentioned the term ghost guns, meaning the guns don't have serial numbers on them, which makes them untraceable.

I was selling mine for $1500 a pop. I included a silencer. It was 2,000.

Here's a guy we'll call Sam who said he had some involvement with making these guns with the Matts and Micah.

We didn't sell them as ghost guns. We didn't sell them as untraceable. We just built them.

But is the point of these guns to sell them to people who can't purchase them legally? Absolutely.

It's so that people like me, who I've been a fan since I was 18 years old, I can't go in the store and buy a gun, but I was able to go and buy parts and build my own.

Sam says at the time, he was a drug dealer from a rough part of town. So in that sense, his involvement in this type of thing wasn't all that surprising. But what was Micah doing involved in this? Matt who worked full-time as an electrician. But he was reading Bailey's name that I think threw me off the most. And now, in addition to Micah and Bailey being friends, according to the search warrant, it was possible they were also involved in criminal activity together. Matthew Queen was no longer just the boyfriend of a missing woman. According to the search warrant, he had ties to Micah, too. I was dying to talk to him. But when I got Queen on the phone, he was quick to say no to an interview. But before he hung up, he added, There is much more to this story than you know. The next time I tried to speak with him was in person. I walked up and asked if he was Matt Queen, to which he said no and quickly walked away. But based on his Facebook post from the next day, I'd had the right guy. The post was a photo of me with a lengthy caption that reads in part, Olivia, I know you're young, but be sure to do your homework before you decide to ambush somebody.

Jane Parent has a mental disorder. You're only regurgitating the fantasized life of Bailey, Despot. I don't doubt her concern for Bailey's whereabouts, but I'll tell you this much, Bailey ran away. Bailey cannot tolerate her mother. It's mindless sheep like yourself and the Sheriff's Department that allow this paranoia to become harmful to others. Micah and Bailey are not as they're being portrayed. Jane Parent is going out of her way to cast suspicion upon me. Falls testimony is a punishable crime, is it not? Do your homework, Olivia. You keep barking up the wrong tree, and I'm going to embarrass you for having none of the answers.

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Bailey Snapchated me saying, Let's meet up. I was not sure you know that. I've been gone for a while. I'd love to meet up. Then she finally showed up. It wasn't her. Matt ran out of the car with an AR, running towards the motel room. I slammed the door shut and called the police. They were trying to kick in the door and the window was cracked. I heard Matt go, It's just me. It's just me. I just want to talk to him. I'm like, Hell no. I saw you run up with a gun.

What did you think they were going to try to do? I thought.

They were going to kill me. You don't run at somebody with the AR like that unless you're going… That's not a robbery. A robbery. You try to be sneaky about it. They weren't wearing masks or nothing. They didn't have no sneak in them.

Sam says he doesn't really know why Van de Kastiel and the other guy he couldn't recognize at the time were doing this. He said he heard something about a missing license they thought Sam may have stolen. Regardless, it was clear someone else was using Bailey's phone pretending to be her to lure Sam into a trap of sorts. Flash forward to the end of May 2018. Matt Van der Kastiel had been sitting in jail, and Bailey had been missing for about a month. He and his girlfriend, Sarah, who was also Bailey's friend, talked on the phone constantly.

What's up, baby? Hey, love. Just what happened to me today? What? Your detective's been in a problem. Really? About what? I'm not there right now. I'm just trying to find out. My phone calls are recorded. They're trying to implicate me and Matt. What? They investigated me for murder to death. What the fuck? For who? What the fuck? Who's murdered? Like, who the fuck died? You know? Okay, there is a murder slash, street street person. Oh, what the fuck? Yeah. Bailey was missing. Bailey was blasted two days after you were already in treatment. That's not even right. No, that's what I said. There would be nothing that would piss me off if I saw messages between you and Matt, right? No. Why? Because they brought like, the detectives brought all that shit up.

Just a few days prior to this call between Matt, Van der Kastiel, and Sarah, Matt Queen was arrested after he was seen in the surveillance video with a gun in his waistband. This was the incident from episode one, where he dropped off Bailey's belongings at a friend's house. Anyhow, when detectives went to Queen's house to arrest him, they saw a young woman there with long brown hair. Reportedly, an officer actually asked, Are you Bailey? But it wasn't. It was Sarah.

I was like, Who's your girlfriend? I was like, Sarah? The text was like, Well, she was that Mr. King's resident. And you said, Yeah, I know. I know. I said, Yeah, I know. I'd be like, well, you don't think that's weird? I said, what's weird about it? Well, I wouldn't want my girlfriend having a relationship like that with another guy if I was incarcerated. They don't understand. They're just trying to mix it. They're just trying to put you off the talk. That's stupid.

The conversation shifted briefly to what may have happened to Bailey.

Maybe the same person that took my kid to take Bailey. Maybe, for real. There are two people connected with all the same people.

They both agreed Queen was being unfairly scrutinized for Bailey's disappearance. Matt Van der Kastiel told Sarah that he told the detectives Queen loved Bailey more than anything.

He could do anything for her. I was like, Yeah. I went out and put up flyers and shit. He was poor. He was poor up, dude. He was so poor up. He started- We tried to try to find her, not her family. I know. Her family is just trying to cause drama between everything. But he was actually poor up about this shit. He started crying to me the first time I went and hung out with him. And I knew she had been missing because of what he had told me over the phone. Which is the first time you guys hung out? Baby, we've hung out a couple of times. You never told me that. Yes, I did. Yeah, you have it. I was like, I saw Queen today. When I told him you I had been thinking- You told me you talked to her, you said you never let you guys have hung out. Oh, my goodness. It wasn't like that. But baby, it was just-I don't want to talk about things like that. Don't let her know. Okay, whatever, dude.

Van der Kastiel knew Sarah was with Queen when he got arrested, but it seems he was taken off guard upon hearing Sarah say she'd seen Queen multiple times and used that term hanging out. But he brushed it off. He wasn't going to let those detectives from earlier get in his head. By the end of the call, Sarah and Van der Kastiel were their normal lovey-dovey selves.

I just think about you and I think about our future. Okay, I love you as far as guys as you can see the ocean. I love you across the world and back.

Exactly one month later, Matt, Van der Kasteel, and Sarah had another call that started out normal enough.

How are you feeling? I'm feeling okay. I'm watching the game of Thrones. I fucking love that show. I am the Danares Targarion. I have no idea what you said. I am Danaris Stormbond. It's all togged at the end. Oh, I understand. Because my tummy hurts. I'm sorry. If I was there, I'd rub it. I know. I do love you. I hope you know that. I know. I love you, too.

But a few minutes later.

I have to live my life, and I don't want you to worry about what I'm doing. Yeah, but you know what I mean? When we're supposed to be living a life together. But your life is on hold, and I can't do the same for me. I'm 20 years old. I guess. This is what God wants. He took you away from me for a reason because you can't be in my life right now.

The tone suggested Sarah was saying, for now, they should both move on.

Sarah, are you really living at your aunt's, aunt, and uncle's? Yes. For real? Yes. On your sister's life and swear to God. Matthew. Just say it. No. What did you say in there? I'm with a friend. Who? It doesn't fucking matter. Is it Matt? No. Sword to God? Matthew. Sword to God? No.

That seemed to confirm to Matt Vandercastiel. It was, in fact, his friend Matt Queen, she was living with.

Tell that motherfucker he's a dead man when I get out. Matt. I swear to God. You need to stop. I'm coming for him. Like, if you even love me, why are you talking like that? I'm just saying, if you love me, why the fuck would you move in with him? I'm telling you, I didn't. Yes, you did. Matt, calm down, okay? You know I love you. Yeah, but you probably love the person you're living with more than me, though. No, I love you.

But less than two weeks later, Sarah updated her Facebook relationship status. It now said, in a relationship with Matt Queen, which led to the last time Matt Vandercastale spoke to his old friend, leaving him this voicemail.

What's not going? So you thought it was a good decision to hook up with my girl while I was locked up. Well, what goes around comes around. Just remember that.

We had our suspicions that they were dating for a while. Bailey's sister, Kaitlin. When Bailey first went missing, the post that Sarah would make in regards to Queen and the way she would word.

Everything.

Was worded as if they were together, but keeping it private. I mean, we have the screenshots detectives have it of her saying, I know Queen's Heart is in the right place. We were just the last two people to have seen her or been with her. I'm just like, Okay, well, if you guys are the last two people that have been with her.

Then.

What happened? Sarah's Facebook post Caitlin is referring to doesn't say exactly that, but close. Her exact wording in the post is, quote, We were just two of the last people to see her. Anyhow, when Bailey's mom, Jane, heard the news about Queen and Sarah-.

I even messaged her mother saying you need to get your daughter away from that Queen, but she never messaged me back.

Bailey's friend, Jessica, who lived down the street from her and Queen, recalls Queen telling her he was dating a new girl named Sarah not long after Bailey went missing.

She moved in actually really quick because I remember when this whole thing was all fresh and I was still like, everyone was still looking for Bailey. It was just so fresh.

Jessica was surprised he'd be dating anyone new so fast. But initially, she didn't realize that Sarah was Bailey's friend, Sarah.

When I did find out that was her friend, and then after seeing them post pictures on Facebook together, I was like, What the heck is going on? This girl, Sarah, she's talking highly of you. I mean, she's considered her one of her best friends, and it's just, I don't know, mind-blowing to me.

Bailey's good friend, Maddie, says she was in shock when she heard about the new couple.

Not even two months after your supposed best friend at the time.

Disappears.

You're now moved in with this 43-year-old man, sleeping with him, carrying on a relationship.

And the.

Tides have turned in how he feels about.

Bailey's disappearance.

It went from, I miss you. Please come home to me. Where are you? I love you. To, She left me. She chose to do this. She got in some black Sedan with a Mexican guy and drove off. I haven't seen her since. And it's like, Huh. It just really makes you stop and wonder, What are you talking about? Where did your thought process go on that? You got some new Nucky and now you just don't care anymore?

Not only did they look alike, but they're both the same age. It appeared Queen had a type. But before dating Bailey and then Sarah, Queen was married to a woman his age. They had children together. They went to football games, had family parties. From the outside, they seemed like a normal suburban couple with fine jobs living in a nice house. Photos online show it has four big bedrooms and bathrooms, big walk-in closets, a spacious new kitchen, and a big, well, manicured backyard. But eventually their marriage fell apart and their living situation morphed into an arrangement of sorts. When detectives interviewed her, she said she and Queen separated about eight years into their marriage because Queen had an affair, but they decided to keep living together as a family. They also lived with Queen's mother. And then in late 2017, the house got a little more full when Matt Queen moved in his new girlfriend, Bailey. Bailey's mom, Jane, said the entire situation was difficult to comprehend.

I'm like, Why are you moving in with his wife and kids? That's not a normal thing to do.

Jane begged her not to, but Bailey's mind was made up. She told her mom it was all fine, not as weird as it seemed. Bailey's friend, Jessica, who lived down the street from Queen, says she could never understand it.

What did his kids think? Are they mad? It just seems weird to me. I don't know. I wouldn't be able to do it. And she was like, No, we all get along here. And his wife understands their situation. I just had a feeling the wife didn't like her the whole time because it was just awkward. It was just awkward when they were all there together and then just the age difference between her and his oldest son and stuff.

Bailey was just a few years older than Queen's oldest son. And somewhat adding to the strangeness of it all, Jane, Bailey's mom, worked at his high school. There was no doubt that Matt Queen had an odd love life. And if the case had just been Bailey going missing, it would have all seemed pretty textbook. A guy's girlfriend vanishes and then he couples up with her friend. Most people would agree. It looks suspicious. But this wasn't that simple. It wasn't just Bailey missing. It was also Micah and then this alleged ghost gun ring they were involved in, and their friend James had just been murdered. It was a lot to untangle and try to figure out what connections were significant and what were red herrings. If it wasn't already complicated enough, myself and fellow crime reporter at 17 News, Jason Kautowski, started hearing things like this.

It's one of the few times in my career where I've almost been warned, Hey, you don't want to dig too deep on this one, which was unusual for me and a little scary, too, when you get told that. I remember one person just telling me, Hey, these are really bad guys. These are the type of guys.

That make.

People disappear. I was warned, and it was a friendly warning. It was from someone who I know very well. It wasn't, Hey, you better not look into this. It was a, Hey, just be careful what you're doing here, because from what we're hearing, there's the potential that all sorts of different violent groups are involved in this.

At this time, Jason was still working at the newspaper, The Bakersfield California. I considered him almost a rival of sorts. Mostly, I was just jealous of his excellent reporting and Rolodex of sources. Like any good reporter, you never reveal your sources. But I'm pretty sure we had at least one source in common because I was hearing the exact same things. The whispers about violent, dangerous people being involved came around the same time Matt Queen decided to delete his Facebook page, which had been my only window into his life and his thoughts. He announced he'd be taking down his account with a very long, perplexing message. I've taken out a few chunks to shorten it. Even so, it's lengthy. It reads, quote, A very smart, very beautiful person once told me that if I'm always angry, then I'm living in the past. If I'm always stressed, I'm living in the future. That if I wanted to be happy, then I need to live in the present. I'm so tired of being angry and stressed. I just want to go back to being happy. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to delete this profile along with all the rest of my social media.

I'm going to stop listening to all the gossip and the rantings of the weak-minded sheep with nothing better to do than bump their gums with shit they don't know about. I'm going to do my very best to ignore the insults and allegations made by the bitter, the ignorant, the arrogant, the envious, the lonely, the scared, and the delusional. I'm pretty sure anybody actually reading this knows what I'm talking about, which brings me to the hardest part of this. It's time for me to let go, Bailey. I'm sorry I couldn't protect you. I'm sorry I failed you. But the more I try to dig into what happened, the more I discovered who the real Bailey was. I don't know if you'll read this. I don't know if you even care, but I'm letting go. Remember this, though. You didn't fail me and you were enough. Before I go, I thought I'd drop a little knowledge on all of you sleuthing drama junkies. I have heard an unlimited amount of theories as to what happened to Bailey. Is she missing? Did she leave? Is she dead or alive? If she's dead, who did it? Is she connected to Micah?

Is Micah dead or alive? How'd they know each other? Well, none of it matters to you, Jane Parent. All of her theories lead back to me being the bad guy. The truth is you hated me from day one because of my age and because I gave Bailey a way out, a way to get away from you, Jane. Let's be honest with everybody. Bailey ran away for the third time now, Jane. Not at all to say she is not being looked for. Something is not right about all of this, but it's been made very clear to me that none of it is my business. I have learned all I need to about this mess. And as far as her connection to Micah goes, yes, they knew each other long before I met either of them. So are their disappearances connected? I don't fucking know. But I will say this. The only reason I ever involved myself with Micah and Bailey together, the connection that exists between us, is that Micah knew about the bad shit that's happening to young women in Bakersfield. He knew about girls getting drugged, raped, abducted. He knew names of people doing it and names of people helping.

Micah tried playing both sides of the fence, which I believe ultimately led to his disappearance. So here I stand next to the only one brave enough to speak the truth. I love you, Sarah. Everybody thinks I'm the bogeyman because I knew both Bailey and Micah, and they're both missing. My point to all of this is simply to say, I'm not your bad guy. I'm simply Jane's bogeyman. Jane parent, I'm sorry your daughter is missing. You should have done a better job of being an actual parent and maybe she wouldn't have ran away. Acknowledge your faults, your disorder, and your disease, then get help. Stay away from me, my friends, my family, and prey. After reading this rambling declaration, I looked down at a Bakersfield Three-Flyer on my desk. Under the glossy photos of the three of them smiling, read, Connect the dots for three friends. All I could think was, What the hell was going on here? Just seemed like an episode of The Sopranos. Who here is that? I've got just middle income, suburban family, and.

Our.

Young adult son is telling us about people locking him in their trunk and hauling him to an orchard and holding the gun to his head. That's next time on The Bakers Field Three.

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