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- Trick or Treat!

The last time I seen my dad was on Halloween, 2009.

He stopped answering my calls probably about 6:30

on Halloween night.

Halloween that year fell on a Saturday.

I started looking for him Sunday.

I drove around Monday,

all through the country outside Spartanburg,

Union City, and Bartonia.

And then on Tuesday, his friend called me from

the corner of Elm by the library

and said that he'd found Dad's van.

And I said, "Well, is Dad in it?"

He said, "I haven't went to it." And I rushed up there.

When I got to the van, I went up on the driver's side.

And when I looked in,

I could see my dad laying on the floor in the back seat.

I was screaming, "My dad's dead!

Someone's killed him!"

Our dispatch center on November 3rd,

around five o'clock, received a 911 call.

And it was from Janice Cheadle that she had found her father.

Patrick Cheadle was deceased in the back of a van.

Crime scene investigators, they're looking for cigarette

butts, a soda can, anything that may have DNA to

where they can then pinpoint potential suspects.

In 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.

He was in the back of the van.

There was a lot of blood in the hair and face.

So we knew that it was a head wound.

You can easily conclude someone usually doesn't die in that

manner in the back of a vehicle.

We knew we had a homicide.

Detectives are finding a few things that raise questions.

There's no blood splatter inside of that van.

Because 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.

We processed the van. We took evidence.

One of the bits of evidence was a cell phone that Mr. Cheadle

had on his person.

There was a significant amount of cash found.

Patrick Cheadle had $3,000 cash on him when

they found his body.

Apparently, he was supposed to go buy a car that evening that

he went missing.

There was also some marijuana found in the back of the van.

And eventually, we removed the body from the van

and took it to the coroner's office.

The autopsy determined it was probable that he died from

a gunshot wound to the head, and he was shot

at fairly close range,

that he had abrasions of limestone,

as if he had been drug.

And limestone is what your gravel driveways and a lot of

your concrete is made of.

They also saw inside his collar was dried vegetation,

and we called in a botanist, and he identified it as

a plantain weed.

Very common, but the botanist said wherever he was drug,

this plant will be present.

It is bizarre.

You have a murder on Halloween, the body being found on

Elm Street.

Is there a connection to Halloween?

Nobody knows.

In 2009, Greenville, Ohio has a population of less than

13,000 people.

This is not an ordinary situation for the people

who live in a small community like this.

They are scared.

We're the type of community where people still wave to you.

So it's very uh, small town that, the charm is there.

Greenville's very large, older homes, nice homes.

Once you leave Greenville, it's vast farmland.

and we were very rural.

1997 was the last homicide we had before for this one.

People in Greenville, Ohio, are terrified.

So investigators need to find the person who did this,

and you've got to find them quickly.

Obviously, 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.

Janice Cheadle, the daughter of Patrick, made the phone call

and made the discovery.

She was in shock.

She agreed to speak to me, though.

On Halloween,

2009, at approximately noon,

I went over to see him at his friend's shop.

He was talking about going to Spartanburg to buy a used car.

And then I said, "I'll see you later tonight.

You're going to go to my sister's Halloween party,

aren't you?" "Yeah, I'll see you later."

You know, hugged him, kissed him,

told him I loved him, and that was it.

My dad stopped answering my calls probably about 6:30

on Halloween night.

My dad never showed up to the party.

And then Sunday morning, I went to meet him

and he wasn't there.

He hadn't answered me, which I thought was odd.

It's not like my dad not to answer my calls or texts.

Even if he was busy doing something, he would text me,

say, "Busy, call you later."

And I didn't get anything from him for days.

I called his friend, and his friend hadn't heard

from him either.

I called my stepbrother.

I called every jail and hospital in a three-state

radius, just in case.

I honestly just knew something bad happened because my gut

told me, and with him not responding to me,

I knew it was bad.

We just start searching,

and my dad's friends just happened to be coming back from

Union City, and they took Elm Street.

And happened upon Dad's van.

I just remember yelling and screaming and crying.

And I was in the middle of the road

and had to be picked up.

Literally feels like your heart's been ripped out

of your chest.

I would describe my dad as a hippie.

He was an old soul.

He just was one of those relaxed, calm, cool,

collected person most the time.

He worked on trucks at a truck stop here nearby as a detailer.

That was like a hobby and a moneymaker for him.

He took pride in his work.

He would be polishing his trucks.

He would listen to his classic rock

like the Leonard Skynyrd and ZZ Top.

He was definitely from that era and it stuck with him.

He loved his classic rock.

He was a truck driver for about 40 years, so like,

he really wasn't home a lot.

He was on the road probably 50 out of the 52 weeks.

So when he was home, it was all about his family.

He personally only had two kids, me and my sister,

but when we were younger, he remarried and we had three

stepbrothers and a stepsister.

My dad definitely was a family man.

His mother meant everything to him.

He was at his mom's at least once or twice a day

checking on her, eating with her, or something.

While investigators are talking to Patrick's mother,

they find out there have been some threats that have come

from Patrick's girlfriend's ex-husband.

It seemed that the ex-husband was clearly jealous of Pat

and his relationship with his ex-wife.

My dad had a girlfriend for several years.

But the ex-husband and girlfriend weren't actually

divorced at the time.

They were separated, so there was anger.

The ex-husband had told my dad to stay away from his wife.

Otherwise, there was gonna be trouble.

He'd said it multiple times.

It was a fairly recent threat.

Cheadle's mom said, "Find this person.

He probably knows something."

In her eyes, that was the person responsible for

the death of her son.

We all know what Halloween's like.

Kids going out, trick-or-treating, fake horror

for everybody, haunted houses.

In Greenville, we have a Halloween parade.

And the businesses will hand out candy

and the fire department's there.

Very charming type stuff.

But this was something that really happened on Halloween on

Elm Street of all places in Greenville, Ohio.

Patrick Cheadle had been dead in a vehicle for days.

And you had Cheadle's girlfriend's ex-husband

telling Cheadle to stop messing with his ex.

We brought in Pat's girlfriend for an interview to see

what she knew.

We asked about who may have wanted to harm Patrick.

She said her ex-husband.

That's who she felt may have been responsible for

Pat's death.

Our next step was we brought in the ex-husband

for an interview. He voluntarily came in.

He admitted to having issues with Pat.

Of course, he had a different story

than what other people said.

You know, he made it more of a two-way argument

instead of just a one-way, but he had no qualms to say

that there were issues between the two.

I don't think he showed any remorse on the death,

but he did not show any indications

that he was involved in the death.

In the interview, he told us where he was at during

Halloween, and his alibi did check out.

The ex-husband was ruled out as a suspect.

Living in a small town, there was a lot of

talk and speculation.

Every time there is a homicide anywhere, there are

always rumors. Was this a robbery?

Was this a drug deal?

Was this somebody else who would have a reason

to kill this man?

And those are the questions that detectives immediately

start to ask family members and his daughter, who was on

the scene and made that 911 call.

I told Detective Roberts about how my dad was planning on

going to buy a car the night before and told him that

the used car was actually a code for him going to buy

marijuana, because they needed to know the truth so they could

figure out what really happened to my father.

My dad had approximately $13,000 on him

to buy the car.

He had it in a money bag, like a bank money bag.

That's how he carried all his money.

She advised that he was going to have about $13,000.

But we'd only found $3,000 on him.

And then to find $3,000 cash on a robbery victim,

yeah, it was confusing.

We thought, well, maybe it wasn't gonna be a robbery.

But then detectives get to see cell phone records.

The gold nugget we got was the cell phone

because your phone tells a story,

tells you where you've been, who you've been in contact with.

Investigators find three calls on Halloween,

a very important date because this is the last time

anybody has seen Cheadle alive.

One call comes from a landline.

Two other calls come from a cell phone.

The cell phone number traced back to a 19-year-old by

the name of David Mizner, which was a little unusual that,

you know, Pat was 53 at the time and he was in contact

with a 19-year-old.

The landline phone calls came from Bartonia, Indiana,

across the state line about 20 minutes away.

And they have to get the Randolph County Sheriff's

Office involved, too, as they go there and start

investigating in that small little township of Bartonia.

The Greenville Police Department, Chief Roberts,

he reached out to me, told me that they had went through some

cell phone records.

And I just basically lay out everything we have.

And then the names that we're giving, he knew them.

Adam and Marsha Hargrove.

They were definitely a person of interest.

So we made a trip out there to the Hargrove house.

Investigators are really cautious when they're going

to this home.

The Randolph County Sheriff's Department has had run-ins with

the people who lived there in the past.

I was familiar with the address.

Even as a patrol officer, I had been there numerous times for

domestic-related situations.

There has been some criminal activity involved with these

folks, so they're just cautious.

They don't want to do anything to cause any alarm.

They don't want to do anything to put themselves

in danger either.

It was very rural, very remote area, long lane.

It was a husband, wife, and I believe a couple of kids.

It was oddly calm.

We went to the residence and spoke with

the homeowners there.

They were confused as to who Patrick Cheadle was.

They weren't familiar with the green van.

They weren't familiar with any of the questions that

we were asking,

but they consented to a search.

So we basically started looking for any potential types of

evidence there at the house that would indicate

that that might've been where the crime occurred.

Inside the house, there was a fireplace that had burned

latex of some sort.

And we believe that it might have been rubber gloves.

Obviously odd, you don't see that a lot in somebody's

fireplace in their home.

Investigators also find plantain,

which matches the vegetation that was on Cheadle's shirt

found at the coroner's office.

I 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.

If sprayed onto a surface that has had blood on it, it will

make it illuminate.

When he sprayed it on the wooden deck

at that property,

you could physically see where the shooting occurred

and then where a person had been drug off of the porch.

We knew we had our crime scene at that point.

We decided to go ahead and take the deck apart.

And as soon as we got the boards lifted up,

we found a large pooling of blood.

The crime scene tech gets a sample of that blood.

And then once they did those tests, it was confirmed

that it was Patrick Cheadle's blood.

Investigators have their crime scene now.

It's on this couple's back porch.

Obviously, they think these two people who live in this home

are somehow involved.

But the couple is adamant that they are not involved in

Cheadle's murder at all.

Adam and Marsha said that on Halloween, during the time

frame of the homicide,

they were at a hospital in Indiana.

Detectives want to know how this blood splatter ended up on

their back porch.

Why is there a crime scene back there?

And they don't know, could this couple be murderers?

But investigators had no idea what was gonna happen next.

And it was a lot worse than they could have ever imagined.

Adam and Marsha said that during the time frame of

the homicide, they were not home.

The couple is adamant that they had nothing to do with

Cheadle's murder.

They don't know how this blood splatter ended up on

their back porch.

And their alibi was verified.

Everything checked out.

They did go visit a hospital in Indiana.

However, they then let investigators know that

somebody had been staying in their house while he was having

some trouble with his family.

The homeowner said that his cousin, Terry Durbin,

had access to the house.

And it was on-again-off-again staying there.

The night that they came back home from Indianapolis,

they found that Terry Durbin was there with

a 19-year-old kid.

The homeowner said that the 19-year-old was drinking

beer and smoking marijuana.

This 19-year-old kid was David Mizner.

And Mizner had called the cell phone that Mr. Cheadle

had on his person.

So things started coming together pretty quick.

People did tell us that Terry had left and was going to visit

his brother up in Georgia.

But prior to him leaving, they noted that he gave them

some cash and that he got some repairs done to his vehicle.

And they found it kind of odd, because he had been kind of

on hard times, and did not have a lot of money.

And suddenly, he's got a lot of cash on him.

At that point, our focus turned to learning as much as we could

about the cousin, Terry Durbin.

When investigators learned the name Terry Durbin,

Durbin happens to be someone

who knows Cheadle's stepson.

Terry Durbin and my stepbrother Derek grew up together in

the same little town.

So that's how my dad met Terry Durbin,

was through my stepbrother.

Investigators start doing some background digging into him,

and they find he sells pot and he has a violent temper.

One of our local police departments had told us that

he was a suspect in a home invasion.

They also indicated that he was a suspect in a bank robbery

that had occurred in South Bend.

Terry is a bad guy.

The investigators understand that there is this murderer

going through their community, hiding somewhere,

and potentially could strike again.

While investigators are digging into Durbin's background,

some people let them know there was a double murder in a small

town called Mongo, about two hours north in Indiana.

I would describe my dad,

he was a pretty...

...boisterous guy.

Very warm, very caring, very giving.

Terry Anderson and I ran around together and had a lot of fun.

We liked to fish and hunt and stuff like that.

Darleen, my stepmother, she was like

a little butterfly. She was very soft spoken.

She had a really warm heart.

My dad and Darleen had one child together, and that was

Amanda Anderson.

My dad worked for a tree service company.

After Katrina, he decided to go down south to help with

clearing out some of the trees and the damage.

And he definitely was able to earn

and save quite a bit of money.

He was working on having a side business, having a side

business, and being a musky tour guide.

You know, and he says, I'm just going to take $10,000 cash,

and I'm going to get a brand new boat, but two feet longer.

And he did tell people that he had quite a bit of money to

buy this boat.

Maybe he could talk a little bit too much.

The phone call came when I was at work

that Darleen had been shot,

and is dead in the house, and they can't find dad.

When we got to Mongo, a detective came and started

handing me personal items of my dad's.

That's when he told me that my dad was found in the barn

and he was deceased.

And they said that they were murdered.

It was violent.

When you find out that a family member dies, it's hard just

knowing that they're not here anymore.

But for it to sink in that they were taken,

violently taken, it has a different tone.

They didn't tell me where Terry was murdered.

I found this out when we started walking out

to the other side of the pole barn.

This huge, huge, round circumference of blood,

thick.

And Terry Anderson's hat was laying right there

in this pool of blood. And I'm like, oh, my gosh!

Terry and Darleen were brutally beat.

Terry's throat was cut.

And you could see the blood on the lawnmower.

And the blood on the ceiling looked like somebody did that.

You know, the blood was wall to wall,

little pieces of scalp and stuff.

And you could see where he put a handprint on the mower.

And I'm like, oh my gosh, you know,

this is where he was murdered? And they're like, "Yeah."

And I go, "This is not good.

I can't have my wife see this stuff."

They said, "I mean, we can have a cleanup service come in

and clean it up."

And I said, "Well, when will that happen?"

"I don't know, maybe a couple of days," the investigator said.

And I says, "Oh, I can't have Sherry see her dad here."

"Well," the investigator says,

"Well, you can clean him up."

From my perspective, this case was poorly investigated.

Investigators turned the crime scene over to the family

immediately after only hours.

They tell the family members that they can clean it up.

Family members are panicked. They don't know what to do.

So they start taking everything out of this house that has

blood on it.

They take out the carpet and burn all of this evidence,

unknowingly thinking that investigators have

everything they need.

And there is a murderer on the loose,

ready to strike again.

Terry Durbin worked at the tree trimming service with my dad.

They worked quite closely. I met him on a few occasions.

He was a laborer and kind of an aid-and-assist.

Putting brush or anything into the shredder, whatever it takes

to get the job done.

My father-in-law and I would be out in the barn.

And a couple of occasions, you know,

Terry Durbin showed up just to talk.

If Durbin was indeed involved in those Mongo murders,

as he is suspected to have been, it also appears

that he didn't like to operate alone.

Terry Anderson's daughter, Amanda, you know,

she had a meth addiction, I guess you could say.

Known to do meth, hanging around with meth

friends, hanging out with Terry Durbin as well.

There is lots of speculation from family members

and detectives as well that Amanda had a role in the death

of her parents.

I suspected a possibility of my sister or her circle

of friends. There was a lot of

behaviors that I questioned about my sister.

And the lack of trying to find out who murdered our father

and her mother.

Maybe it wasn't something where she expected them to be killed,

but there was an incentive for her to get that money that

her parents and her father in particular

had just come up with.

My sister's possible involvement affected me

very deep, and I still, it still bothers me.

It still hurts me, just the thought--

This case had been cold already for four years before Terry

Durbin's name comes up again in this murder of Patrick Cheadle.

As it turns out, the two cases had quite a few similarities.

From what I've gathered about Terry Durbin,

Everything's about money.

And that's where these two cases really collide.

Both of these men had cash on hand in their pockets.

Both of these men were talking about the money that they had

in their pockets.

My dad had lent Terry Durbin money.

And I believe Terry Durbin had given my dad a check.

And I don't think the check was a good check.

And my dad had had a hard time and was angry

with Terry Durbin with this loan.

We were told he was, more than likely,

the person who committed the crimes

in the Mongo murders.

When a crime occurs in a small community like that,

the word spreads fast, and people were scared.

I was hearing a bunch of rumors about Terry Durbin.

The rumors on the street were about people he'd beat up

and almost beat to death, who wouldn't ever testify

or tell the cops who did it.

I honestly was quite scared after this.

I never had a gun in my house.

I had a handgun that I slept with under my pillow because it

was very scary.

People are terrified that there is a murderer on the loose

in their community.

We knew we had a very bad guy, and we wanted to find these two

people before someone else was going to get killed.

We didn't sleep.

We'd get a couple hours and start out early

in the morning.

You know, we had the Sheriff's Office involved and then we had

Randolph County involved.

Everybody worked for a common goal.

We got the numbers and we were able to track their cell phones

and we knew that Terry Durbin was going to Georgia,

and Mr. Mizner, we pinged him up in Chicago.

I made contact with David, and I called him.

I introduced myself.

I could tell that he was nervous.

We then talked about the fact that

he showed concern because Mr. Durbin wanted to meet him.

And 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.

And I explained, "If you meet with him,

he's gonna get rid of loose ends."

The investigators know Terry Durbin

could strike again.

It was just a matter of time.

I was very focused on getting those two in.

We had a 53-year-old guy who we strongly believe was involved

in another double homicide who was experienced in

the world of crime.

And we had a 19-year-old kid who was foolish enough to

follow the lead of Terry Durbin.

We decided to just call Terry Durbin and David Mizner,

just call them initially to see if they would cooperate

and come back and speak with us.

And shockingly, both agreed to return.

However, Terry said that he needed to take care of some

personal business before he would return.

David Mizner's mother had already got him an attorney,

and he had "X" amount of time to turn himself in, or I told

him that we would start looking for him,

and that would not be good.

In my thought process, Mr. Durbin wanted to meet

Mr. Mizner to kill Mizner. And I think he knew that.

I think he figured that out. He was scared.

So he did come in.

Mizner was ready to talk.

He looked like a scared kid to me.

He told us they had set up a drug deal.

They were selling three pounds of marijuana, and the asking

price was $9,000 to $10,000.

He was chosen, which with the similarities with

Mongo, because he was gonna have cash on hand.

Pat was there to buy $10,000 worth of marijuana.

It did not exist.

Instead of it being a marijuana purchase, it was a robbery,

and the robbery turned into a homicide.

David Mizner did not know the person personally

who was coming,

and 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.

While Terry was outside, he hears a pop that

he recognizes as a gunshot.

He told us that Terry came back in the house

pointing the gun at him,

telling him to come help him or he was next.

He told us that Terry Durbin then used a hose to clean blood

off the deck.

They drug the body to the van.

Durbin drove the van with Patrick Cheadle in the back.

Mr. Mizner was behind him.

They dumped him off at Elm Street.

And then they drove back to the residence.

And later on, that's when the homeowners did come home.

And he found that they were drinking.

David Mizner also told us that prior to him and Terry

separating ways, Terry gave him $2,000 in cash.

David Mizner also did tell us that he purchased the gun.

And he told us that he didn't know

a murder was going to occur.

I mean, he thought it was going to be a robbery.

Investigators now have what they believe is enough evidence

to arrest both Mizner and Durbin.

Shortly 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,

we explained to him we were taking him into custody and we

still had enough reason to believe that he was involved

in the murder.

On November 12, 2009, two weeks after the murder of Patrick

Cheadle, Terry Durbin is finally arrested and charged

with his murder.

David Mizner, also arrested, also charged in the murder of

Patrick Cheadle.

David Mizner cooperated with investigators, cooperated

with the prosecution,

and he was treated as a friendly witness.

He 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.

Durbin denied everything,

claimed he was completely innocent.

The 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.

On October 29th, jury goes into deliberations.

They spend only six hours, and they come back with guilty

on both charges, murder and armed robbery.

When the jury said "guilty,"

I actually teared up.

I mean, it was like a huge feeling of relief.

And uh...

I-- I know what it did for the family,

but Patrick Cheadle's still somebody's dad.

They 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.

They took a son.

They took a caregiver for my grandma away.

I believe that Pat Cheadle could have still been alive if

we'd been able to nab Terry Durbin in my family's case.

We were told that he was the suspect in

the Mongo murders,

but they would not try a circumstantial case.

They 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.

Whoever 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.

It's the violence that really bothers me the most.

That's what really, really, really hurts, is the...

...is how they died.

It's not a matter that they died, it's how.

It's so hard.

It's so hard.

He'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.

I want to know where he's at at all times.

He's where he needs to be, and I pray that the Andersons

are able to get justice in their case.