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Mountain State Mysteries contains adult content that may not be suitable for all audiences.

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Listener discretion is advised. I'm your host Mark and I'm Courtney and this is Mountain State Mysteries.

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The case we have for you today has been one of our biggest deep dives yet. Just like everyone

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else it has left us asking the question of what really happened at mile marker 181. This is the

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case of Jalia Davis. Jalia Rose Davis was born on November 2, 1991 in Colorado Springs, Colorado

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to Kimberly Nolan Davis. Jalia lived in the tight-knit community of Marietta, Ohio, which is just

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across Ohio River from West Virginia. Jalia was a graduate of Marietta High School and she worked at

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the retail store Hofster. Her and her sister Tobi was really close, only being born 18 months away

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from each other, so it was kind of like a built-in best friend. Tobi said that Jalia really wanted

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to go to school to become a cosmetologist. On Friday, November 19, 2011, Jalia planned on going out

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with one of her newer friends, Kristen Burchold. She arrived to Kristen's house in Vienna,

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West Virginia around 7 p.m. They baked some cookies, showered, and got ready for a party.

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The party was at a guy's house named Brian Saps. Kristen knew him, but Jalia had never met him

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before. Right before they got there, Jalia was texting her mother and her mother said, quote,

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be good and don't make me worry. Love you. End quote. They got to Brian's house around 9 to 930.

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When they got there, some of Kristen's friends were already there. Freddy Scott and another

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kid named Jordan. The estimated time for Jalia and Kristen being at Brian's house was about two

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hours. Around 11 p.m., Kristen, Jalia, Brian, Freddy, and Jordan left to go pick up Kristen's

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friend Katie Nielsen at Hardee's. But in Kristen's interview, she said it could have been around 10 to

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10.15 p.m. In Kristen's interview, she said she couldn't remember if this happened before or after

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they picked up Katie. But Freddy stopped at North End Market to get another bottle of Srirac Faca.

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After this, the group returned to Brian's house. When they got back to the house, Kristen said that

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Jalia continued taking shots of alcohol. She said that after Katie got to the house, Jalia probably

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took 16 shots of alcohol. Now, I'm not a big drinker, so I wasn't sure how much 16 shots would

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measure out to. So I filled a shot glass up with some water and measured it out myself.

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It came to about three and a half cups of alcohol. Kristen said she probably had 14 to 15 shots and

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that she quote wasn't really that drunk. End quote. She was asked, could you tell anything about Jalia,

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how she was feeling? Quote, well, honestly, I didn't think she was that drunk. I thought that when

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she took the shot glass away from me and took a shot anyways, I kind of had a feeling that she

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might have been a little bit drunk because normally she wouldn't do that. If I were to take away a shot

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from her, she just would. Question. Accept it? Yes. So I was kind of like, okay, maybe she is just

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doing this to show me that like she can like to take this shot. So I didn't really argue with her

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about it. End quote. After they got back to Brian's house, Katie had to do her makeup and change her

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clothes. Then Jalia, Freddie, Jordan, Katie and Kristen went to nipping queue. It's said that

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they arrived about 10 minutes till midnight or probably midnight or somewhere close to midnight.

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When they got there, the girls ended up just hanging out outside. Katie's ex boyfriend,

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Chris, was there. And from what we gathered, they were the kind of exes who still kept in contact.

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Kristen said that she figured Jalia was drunk because she ended up dancing on Chris and they

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would talk really close to one another. She said that Katie was getting aggravated but wasn't the

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type to do or say anything. After a while, Kristen would try to end up taking Jalia's wristlet

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because she was afraid that she would lose it, but she wouldn't give it to her. She said that

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Jalia didn't seem overly intoxicated. Did you catch that? In her interview, Kristen said that she

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thought Jalia was drunk, but then said she didn't seem overly intoxicated. Just one of the many

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things like this in her interview. The group would end up leaving nipping queue around 3am and Freddie

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was driving everyone back to Brian's house. Kristen was in the passenger seat and Jalia and

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Katie were in the back. When they got back to Brian's house, they ended up staying inside of

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Freddie's car. Quote, we were just sitting there in the car trying to figure out what we were going

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to do. If we were going to go home or if we were going to go inside. Jalia was talking to Dominic

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Hall on the phone and I think she was trying to go hang out with him or whoever he was with

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and she couldn't find her wristlet. Her wristlet was somewhere in the car and she was getting mad.

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She was fussing at me about it because she thought that I did something with it and I told her that

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I tried to take it away from her a few times tonight so that she wouldn't lose it and she

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basically was like I don't know where it is. She was kind of like blaming me for it and I was like

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I don't have it. So I found it for her and we found her keys because she needed to get something

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out of her car and we decided that we were going to go home and we thought Jalia was going to come

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with us but she ended up calling her sister and asked her to come pick her up and said she needed

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a ride. So I don't know if she was trying to hang out with that guy or she was just trying to get

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back to her house. End quote. During her interview, Kristen was asked did you hear where she was going

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to have Tobi get her at? Quote, I don't think so. She went to get out of the car and she said Toby I

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need you to come pick me up and I will explain what's going on when you get here and she didn't

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tell her where to pick her up but she, we, she got out of Freddie's car and went to get in her car

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and we were asking her. We were saying is your sister for sure going to come and pick you up?

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You're not going to drive anywhere. Are you sure you're not going to drive? If she had any

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intentions of driving then I wasn't going to let her go and she told me she wasn't going to drive so

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we're like okay if you're going to stay here and wait for your sister then we are going to go ahead

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and go home and we, we left there and her sister, me and her sister got in touch around 3.50 a.m.

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and her sister is like where's Jaleah and I told her that she was in front of Brian's saps house

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and she said that she couldn't get a hold of her and I told her that Jaleah was waiting for her there

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and then she was supposed to go pick her up there. I kind of like explained briefly how to get there

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and she said that she couldn't get a hold of her and call me back if you don't get a hold of her.

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When the, I tried to call Jaleah and she wasn't answering and we went through McDonald's. We

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went through McDonald's, got some food and Freddie was taking Katie back to my house so then I get

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a call from Tobi on my way home that was like I don't know where Jaleah is, do you know where she is,

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have you talked to her? I said I hadn't talked to her, she didn't answer and then right before she

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got off the phone she said oh my god and hung up end quote. If you guys remember we mentioned Chris

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who was Katie's ex-boyfriend I wanted to get through most of the night through Kristen's eyes

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before I told you what he said in his interview. So we know Chris was Katie's boyfriend but what we

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didn't know is that him and Jaleah actually knew each other. In fact they've been friends since the

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ninth grade and since he no longer lived in the area they just kept in touch. He said that he hung

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out with the girls for most of his time at Nip and Q. He couldn't recall any fighting or arguing

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happening between the girls but he did recall that Jaleah was pretty drunk and that she had

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high heels on and seemed to be having a hard time standing. He said that he kind of just stood near

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her because she didn't seem like she was feeling very good. He said that she was falling all over

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the place. Such a different statement from Kristen's and I honestly have to wonder why. Chris said that

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he ended up picking Katie up from Kristen's between 3 30 to 4 a.m. He asked Katie why Jaleah

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wasn't with him and she said that Kristen and Jaleah got into an argument. When Chris and Katie woke

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up that morning that's when they found out Jaleah was dead. In Tobi's interview she said the last

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time Jaleah texted her was around 9 50 p.m. She said that Jaleah called her at 3 28 a.m. to see if she

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would pick her up 3 33 a.m. to double check and to make sure that Tobi and her friend were on their

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way. During one of the calls it said that Tobi could hear Jaleah asking Kristen for her keys

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so she just thought that they were at Kristen's house. She said that Jaleah was going on about

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how Kristen was such a bitch and a bad friend. Jaleah said that she was on the interstate but

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didn't say if she had anyone else in the car or not. In Tobi's interview she said quote yeah and it

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was because of me and my friend couldn't get a hold of Jaleah once we had gotten to Williamstown

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and I was like well maybe she's still with Kristen. I will try to call Kristen so then I called her

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again at 3 53 a.m. and she answered and then was like as we're on the interstate she was talking

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about the last time she saw Jaleah and I remember her saying well Jaleah was mad because of the

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wristlet then it kind of just went blank after that and that was like when we pulled up and

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saw everything and I just like immediately hung up on her all panicky and stuff in quote.

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On I-77 a mile marker 181 Tobi and her friend came around the curve to see a bunch of cops.

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They pulled over and a police officer told them a woman's body had been found on the highway.

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All they would tell her is that it was an African-American female wearing a white P coat. At that

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moment Tobi knew it was her sister. She called her mother and everyone in their family who arrived

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on the scene not too long after the calls. The police confirmed with the family after they arrived

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that the body was Jaleah's. In her interview Tobi said after she hung up quick with Kristen

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she got two calls at 407 and 409 from Kristen. Tobi was asked and what did you say to her at

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the time you called her. Tobi said quote um just what we had drove up on and oh my god like what I

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saw and like I was just crying and I ended up hanging up on her end quote. She also said that

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Kristen texted her at 4 49 a.m. and was like please let me know what is going on and then she texted

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me at 10 o'clock 6 a.m. and was like are you awake is everything okay you haven't told me anything

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and then she called me at 11 46 a.m. Tobi was asked if she talked to Kristen and she said quote

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no I have missed calls from her she called me at 4 16 a.m. and I didn't answer it for 28 a.m. and I

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didn't answer it for 48 a.m. and I didn't answer it and then 9 52 a.m. and I didn't answer it and then

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at 11 46 a.m. and I didn't answer it end quote. Before Tobi got to the accident on November 19th

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2011 at 3 41 a.m. the 911 emergency call center received a phone call.

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911 what is your emergency yeah I'm calling about a car that's broke down on 77 north okay

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where at on 77 on the 181 or so the lights are on and it's up against the guard rail something's

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going on there but I couldn't see anybody it's pretty cold out so I don't know what's going on

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over there can you give me a vehicle description like a red car blue truck all I know is that it's

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a car he had his headlights on he's right by the car he's up against the guard rail so there's

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something around you know that the people I couldn't see but the lights in the car or something's

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going on over there can I have your name sir can I have your name

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at 3 48 a.m. the 911 emergency call center received another call

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I'm going to keep the door locked just stay here I'm on one what's your emergency sir I'm at the

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181.6 mile marker northbound on I-77 I cannot make confirmation of this right now I'm walking

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back I think I just ended human lying dead on the highway sir okay and you walked away from your

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vehicle I'm getting out of my vehicle and I'm walking back to where I see the person and you think you're at 181

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my name is Brian Burden we drove by and you know how it started and you can't see but I'm just pretty

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sure it might have been a person gosh I really don't want to walk back here you know what I'm saying

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I understand what you're saying if you don't feel comfortable doing that sir you don't have to stay

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where you're at and I'll have someone come up there I'm getting closer to it I'm hoping it's a deer sir

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I really am but I'm pretty sure I saw what I saw all men in fact here's some other people I don't

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know if you're getting more phone calls two other guys just stop here at the bottom of the hill all

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man okay sir do you know your cell phone number is it 607 I'm getting closer to it oh man I'm hoping

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it's a deer I'm hoping I can't I got my beliefs in any way when did you pull along the side of the

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guardrail sir yes sir I'm put along the guardrail there's a chemical tanker track that just pulled

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over I'm getting closer to it there is a semi tanker track that's coming at me right now no

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stay over here truck driver stay over here stay over here oh my gosh I can't get over here in traffic

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yes sir confirmation human body oh my gosh do you want to check to see if the person is still alive

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or breathing sir there's parts of him I can't oh my god oh my god sir turn around and don't look at him

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okay turn around and don't look at him oh my god sir sir you need to hurry up and get people here

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please okay we got people on the way out to you sir can I start stopping traffic this might be a

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crime scene right do you have a flashlight I don't want you getting hit yes I did no no another person

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is just about hit him oh my god if you can get the county sheriff department here as soon as possible sir

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sheriff department is on the way so is the fire department and an ambulance okay there is a tanker

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driver who just pulled him in front of me there's a vehicle I can't can anybody turn their hazard

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lights on put as much light on that situation as you can okay well most of us already passed it sir

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I'm getting kind of lights sir this is a crime scene I'm just positive I see that this is a crime scene

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sir oh my god oh my god oh my god this is unreal this is unreal this is unreal sir you said that you

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have your son with you yes my son is with me kind of like a crime scene he's not out there walking around with

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him in his shirt there's his head and skull right there see it oh oh oh is the head not attached to the body

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no sir part of the head is right over here I need you to get over here to the right over to the right

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make sure that you tell him the sheriff's department is here he's get ready to block by flying sir okay sir

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you go ahead and talk to that deputy yes sir thank you sir yes sir and at 352 am there was a third

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911 called placed 911 what's your emergency has anyone called in on a at sam wood county on the

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interstate 182 right before 182 looks like somebody busted it's here they got a I'm sorry what it's 182

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northbound interstate 77 looks like somebody hit a deer there's a couple of trucks on the side keeping

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people away from the deer there's a car by the guardrail I don't know if anybody okay it's around the

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182 yes just right before the 182 northbound okay we got deputy's on the scene up there sir okay I just

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went by and there wasn't anyone there so I just thought I'd call okay thank you so many things did not

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add up in the death of Jalia to the Davis family and the community as most of you can guess there

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were rumors that Kristen and Freddie were involved in the death of Jalia so many things did not add

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up to make it just a simple car accident Jalia's car was found a quarter of a mile past where her

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body was found her keys were still in the ignition and the car was running and still in gear and the

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door was locked it said that Jalia's car did not lock automatically so you had to lock it from the

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inside now you would probably think oh her car might have just coasted in a straightaway that makes

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the most sense right however her car had to go through two curves no blood was found in her car

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the damage that was done was done on the right front side of the passenger side there was some

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damage with the scrape going down the right side of the car the damage does not seem to be consistent

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with a vehicle accident or even hitting a deer at 70 miles per hour that would eject the driver

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from the vehicle there's also spidering on the passenger side of the window Jalia's clothing

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is another thing that in this case has left everyone asking questions her clothing arrangement

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was odd so court if you take your clothes off or they might be pulled off of you in an accident

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your top layer would come off first right yes if we're talking about a jacket yes then your shirt

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bra and whatnot yes Jalia's clothing was found folded neatly on the guardrail her bra was on

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the bottom then her shirt then her white pico which you can see images of this and all other things

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we talk about in this episode on our instagram and more images on her website mount state mysteries

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podcast.com the hood of the pico was found to be over the guardrail and in some brush with blood on

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it there is blood just everywhere in the crime scene in the road on the guardrails on her clothing

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not just in the vehicle in 2012 a woman from marietta ohio whose name is ember steffard

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came forward to the police with an eyewitness account of what she saw the night of jalia's death

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she said that she met jalia at a bar earlier that night and witnessed a confrontation between her

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and two black males and a white female in the parking lot at the bar she said she witnessed

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jalia pulling out of the parking lot with the others following her she said the two cars were

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engaged in horseplay on i 77 before had the vehicle with the three inside forced jalia's

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vehicle off the road she says she saw jalia get out of her vehicle in june of 2012 ember agreed to

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a polygraph which she felt after the polygraph during some questions she said she did make up the

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entire story she received six months in jail and a five hundred dollar fine in march of 2013 jalia's

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autopsy was released it described her death as multiple catastrophic injuries sustained as a

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result of an unrestrained driver of a car that lost control and struck a guardrail on i 77 they

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also said alcohol intoxication was another factor what we are about to tell you is what

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authorities believed happened to jalia while driving unrestrained and heavenly intoxicated

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jalia traveling at highway speed struck the guardrail on the right passenger side making an

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initial impact on the front right headlight she was thrown across her vehicle and ejected from

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the right front passenger window at the same time her airbag deployed she then hit two posts

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then flipped backwards over her car jalia's mother kim said that the police want them to think that

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her daughter was a human boomerang and that what they said happened could actually happen she also

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said that jalia's clothes she said the shirt wasn't badly damaged and that the bra wasn't torn at the

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straps that it was tore under one armpit now with jalia quote slipping in quote over her car

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she managed to put zero dents on it the only thing she got on it was blood on the lesson plate

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and on the passenger's front side there was no blood skin fabric fibers on it whatsoever

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authorities believe that jalia got distracted and that caused her to strike the guardrail kim said

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quote we were told that they believe the reason she wrecked is because she was looking for something

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because her dome light was on which isn't true they forgot that when it was dark i drove up on

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the scene and they forgot that it was dark when tabi drove up on the scene tabi remembers many

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things from that night in great detail and tabi says that the dome light was not on end quote many

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items of jalia's were left on the scene of the crime such as the head of her jacket in the earring

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she was wearing kim said a detective told her father that they took a picture of the earring at

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the crime scene but left it there jalia's favorite keychain was also missing it was a jewel in crusted

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jay that tabi got her as a gift in an episode of still a mystery tabi said that jalia never took

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that keychain off later it was found out that christin actually had the keychain she gave several

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reasons as to why she had the keychain she told some people that jalia ended up giving it to her

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as a gift that night from what we can see from all of the case records that we have the group

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that was with jalia that night was not questioned more than once they said that christin katie and

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freddy all had alibis during the calls between jalia and tabi there is security footage from

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mcdonald's of freddy in the footage you can see freddy and what appears to be two others in the

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car with him now who was in the car with him to us is unknown since you really can't see anything

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other than hands moving the video is time stamped between 3 26 a.m to 3 30 a.m in june of 2018

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emily nestor released a podcast titled mile marker 181 she worked close with jalia's family to

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shed light on her case she told kim that people had approached her about a documentary about

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jalia's death and it was soon found out that the documentary would be centered around nestor

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and her rise in the world of true crime emily posted an offensive video on her facebook page

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about jalia's death kim posted that she was no longer associated with emily or the podcast

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the post read quote jalia davis is not a martyr jalia davis is not an example of police misconduct

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cover-up or brutality or literally anything except what happens when you drive intoxicated

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that's the lesson not cops protecting their own the lesson is what will happen if you make that

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choice to drink and drive a motor vehicle at a high rate of speed while driving intoxicated

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and you crash it's not a police cover-up it's physics it's not there's something more sinister

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going on behind the scenes it's that people sympathize with a grieving crying mom to a fault

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i sure did and it won't even be the last time stop letting kim davis play you for an idiot

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i did that groundwork for you end quote now after this was posted emily has taken down the podcast

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she created multiple true crime blogs has spoken very negatively about her she has now became

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very discredited in the world of true crime i'm sure just like us everyone else listening to this

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right now is wondering what could have changed her mind about this case the general thought in

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marietta is that jalia met with foul play that night yes we know she was intoxicated but there

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are things that show that a proper investigation was not performed until the death of jalia davis

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there are many theories about this case kim davis runs the facebook page justice for jalia davis

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and she believes that her daughter was murdered and the ones who are responsible for her death

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are being protected by the authorities if you have any information on the death of jalia davis

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please contact her mother kim through the facebook page justice for jalia davis

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portney do you have any final thoughts on this case where do i even begin on this

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first and foremost um mark found um all the crime all the investigation files everything online

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okay first and foremost can we please talk about how the police don't even have her birthday correct

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on the police report oh yeah that they actually have her birthday as the date of her death on there

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number two there is so much in this that makes no sense for the fact of how did this girl

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possibly get ejected out of the passenger window yeah that's never made any sense to me it doesn't

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make no sense because i can tell you right now i actually have to go up into the parkersburg marietta

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area a lot for work i have driven that road many many times and i do know for a fact that when

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you're going around that curve there you have to break going around it because it it is sharp

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it is a sharp curve but even at that at where it is there's only a short area up through there

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that there is a guardrail up there really near where her accident supposedly happened

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and then after that it's pretty much just there's not a lot of guardrail up through there

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i could be wrong maybe not paying that much attention but that's what i remember because

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when this case was introduced to me um i immediately started looking at this because

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nothing made sense about it when i first heard it and even now it doesn't make much sense with it

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um but the thing that boggles me is how did her clothes get there you're telling me that this girl

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got out of her car and took her clothes off and folded them neatly and then

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i don't know i mean got hit by a vehicle by a tractor trailer does not make sense

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does not make sense on this do i feel that there is foul play in this

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case right here that a thousand percent 100 percent there is foul play in this case

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do i feel that she had injustice done upon her 100 percent do i feel that the police have failed her

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100 percent i do feel that for the fact that they can't even fill out an accident report correctly

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what does that say yeah and another thing is too the call logs that are on her phone from that night

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that don't make a lot of sense and things of this nature like there is so much that you know

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who knows what goes on through their minds this could very much be a sinister thing that happened

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i mean that's just the way i feel about it i'm i get very angry over this case i do i get very

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angry over this because a mother's child was got killed in a horrific manner i can even begin to

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think what this poor mother has thought what her sister thought could you imagine coming upon that

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scene yeah and finding your sister or your child in that manner and somebody telling you

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you day it was just a freaking nature accident nothing in this makes any type of sense whatsoever

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and this poor girl deserves the justice that she deserves i mean that's just all there is to it

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mark do you have any final thoughts i fully remember getting the text from you being like hey

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i just got told about this case i searched it for maybe five seconds and i texted you well this is

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a season three premiere of mountain state mysteries and it's been in the back of my mind since what

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was it around the time of sherry squinn's episode yeah it was we just did release sherry squinn's

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episode and you texted me this case and i'm like well this is it i wanted to add it into season

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two i'm like i'm not going to do it not going to do it it's going to be season three premiere

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and it's safe to say i'm still confused as hell about this case nothing makes any type of sense to

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me like like you said how can someone be ejected from a passenger side window how can there be no

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blood in the vehicle you know how can her body end up being decapitated on it and not have like any

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blood or clothing fibers on the car or that it just seems insane to me and

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you know i'm not sure if i put this in the episode or not but

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it took them so long to interview christin i want to say it might have been 12 days

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because she ended up getting a lawyer not even 12 hours after everything happened

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if you done nothing why would you law your up with this case it might only be solved if people

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start talking about everything that happened that night stay tuned for our next episode

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