Betterstein Wade
Appearances
Criminal
Dexter Wade
Me and him went all in all the abandoned houses around there in my area. Searched all around there in the weeds. Because I figured, I said, well, they can't take him dead for. Ain't nobody, if somebody kills him, somebody wasn't going to take him dead for.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
Yeah, I started in my mind, I started saying, well, and my sister-in-law said, well, Betty, you just must face it. Dexter's not going to be alive when you find him. And then I started trying to get myself prepared for that.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
So this lady called me on August the 14th. She called me. She said, I am taking over Dexter Cave, and I will help you find your son, Ms. Wade. I said, thank you. I said, maybe somebody. I said, since you a woman, you know how I feel for my son. She called back 10 days later. August the 24th, she called me. She said, Ms. Wade, we found your son. I said, where is Dexter?
Criminal
Dexter Wade
He came out there. He said, I'm sorry for your loss. I broke down and started crying. My mama was sitting on the porch. She said, tell me what happened to my grandson. He said a police cruiser hit him on the freeway. He was trying to cross the freeway, and a police cruiser hit him. I said a police cruiser hit him. I said y'all couldn't find out who he were. Y'all couldn't take his handprint.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
I had three kids. The Tanya, she was very smart. She was always smart. She was one of my smartest kids.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
I was going off on the corner. I said, you mean to tell me you had my son down there all that time and y'all couldn't just run him through the system when he'd been at this address 23 years and y'all couldn't find him? He said, hold up, Ms. Wade. Hold up, Ms. Wade. Kept saying, hold up, Ms. Wade. He said, I did not have to search for Dexter.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
He said, I got your name, your address, your phone number, and I gave it to JPD. And I said, you gave it to JPD? He said, yes, ma'am. He said, and I got a record where I called JPD about nine times to ask, have they found Dexter? When I called on March 14th, them people knew who my child, who my child were and where my child was. He was down there in the morgue.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
And Amalia, Amalia was just such a pretty little girl. She just was pretty, and she was just outgoing. And Dexter, he was the same way. Dexter loved to talk to everybody. Dexter just had himself a ball. He always loved talking to older people. He was just a person that loved the older people. Then he loved, like, playing games. You know, they was offering all them games and computers.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
They say, well, he buried in a cemetery down there by Raymond. I went to every cemetery down there by Raymond. I said, no, he can't be in none of these.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
Dexter was real smart on the computer. He used to love his teacher. He used to say, I'll let him run my class in the computer because he's just so good at it. He just know everything to do. So he loved the computers.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
Dexter's body was in the Hines County Raymond Detention Center, down there in Raymond, Mississippi, behind that jailhouse, down there in a field. His number was 672.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
Well, what was going on in my life, I was sort of trying to, you know, have me a career and trying to have money so we could help with my mom and help my mom do things. And we always tried to help the family as much as we can. So we just stuck together and just tried to make money and tried to make our family be better, try to make the next generation be better. That was our thing always.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
They took me on down. We drove down a long, long, long thing. Way back in the back. That's way back in the back. It had a number. A little stick stuck down there with 672 on it.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
I just broke down. I said, baby, I look for you. I tried to find you. This is not what I wanted for you. I just cried. I just broke down on my knees. I was just screaming and howling and crying right there in front of him, telling him how I missed him and how I was looking for him and how I am so sorry. I would just say, I couldn't do nothing but say, baby, I am so sorry.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
I am so sorry that this happened to you, and I am so sorry that they buried you like this. I just broke down.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
It was a relief for me to know that he was getting a proper grave, a proper burial. Al Sharpton put him away nice. Al Sharpton went to the most to put him away nice. They put him away real nice. He had a real nice funeral, and it was a relief that at least he wasn't down there with buzzers flying over his head.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
It was a relief to know that I can go to a graveyard and actually see him in a graveyard.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
Every generation needs to be better than... The first generation, the next generation, every generation we had, we tried to make them better.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
Yes, I did. And I thanked everybody for what they did. And I told Dexter, you're home. You finally got home. Now you can get a little peace.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
As he got older, you know, up in his teens, 15, 16, you know, he got, you know, with a bunch of little boys, and they started doing things all from home. Then he started staying out from home. And, you know, the parents would be trying to find him about half of the time. I couldn't find him because I didn't, you know, actually know where he would be because he had friends that I didn't know.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
And so it was hard, but he always called. He always called and said, Mom, I'm so-and-so-and-so. He always let me know where he were. He never did go off and just not let me know where he were.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
He got mixed up with a little group of young men, and they say he robbed someone. He went on and he served a time, you know, spending six. He spent six years in jail, and he got out, and, you know, he was trying to live as best as he could.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
Dexter was good as a father. Dexter's kids, when they come there, he just loved to just lay in their bed and talk to them and stuff. And, you know, he was always good to his kids. Anything he had, I didn't care if he didn't get a hotel or nothing, but $10, he was going to give each one of them $5 a piece.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
Yeah, a prison affected Dixon bad. And I started taking him to mental health. We was trying to get help for him. And they finally got him connected with the mental health and got him to go into mental health. And he struggled for a while. He struggled with that for a while. And... So he had started going, taking his medicine.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
The last two years, he had got to the point to where he was not leaving the home. He was just staying at home, being around the house, taking care of the house. And he just wasn't going anywhere.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
And I said, boy, you better get out there and put my window back in. I said, you done tore my whole window out. So he said, oh, I'm not putting nothing back in because you got an attitude. I said, no, you need to put my window back in. So then a friend guy of his was there, and they came on out the house and went on down the street. And so I said, well, you know, he'll be back in a few.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
You know, I went to the store and got him a pack of cigarettes, and I came on back to the house, and I went and got the window. to go back in the window and me and my friend put the window back in. And I didn't think nothing of it. You know, I figured, I said, well, he'll be back. You know, he'll blow off a little steam. He'll be back. And so, you know, that night went by. He didn't call.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
And then my sister called. My sister said, it ain't like Dexter to go nowhere and nobody heard from him. I said, because normally he'll call me and say, Auntie, let me tell you what your old crazy sister did. Everybody was saying it was unusual for Dexter. So, you know, I waited. I said, well, I'm going to wait. I waited. That Sunday he didn't show up. That Monday he didn't show up.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
That was my birthday on January 13th in 2019. George, I was waiting on George to come over there because he knew I'm going to come over there for my birthday and me and him sit down and have a few drinks or something like that. But I was waiting on him to get over there. And so next thing I heard, they said the police had him hemmed up.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
So the neighbors, from what the neighbors said, the neighbors said George had went to the store And he had come back from the store, said he came back to his house, and he was parked in front of the house around about 6 o'clock.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
And saying Anthony hit him in the head with a flashlight a couple times on his head. Saying then George was trying to unbuckle the seat. So George had took the left hand and was trying to unbuckle the seat and saying Anthony Fox was starting to give him, get out. get out, get out the car, get out the car, you know, giving him a domain. And he said, hold up.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
He said, I'm just trying to, you know, get out the car. I'm trying to unbuckle my seatbelt. He said, Anthony Fox just kept on, you know, and said, finally, I guess when George unbuckled his seatbelt, finally, he just grabbed George and was trying to pull him out the car. And they slammed him down on the ground. And they was kicking him all in his side and his head.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
And when I got there, when I got there, they said they was rushing him into surgery to try to let some of the pressure off his brain.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
But I was thinking, like I told my mom, my mom said, you going to call the police and they done killed your— I said, well, Mom, they don't kill everybody. That was my attitude. I said, well, they ain't going to kill everybody. I said, I don't know nothing else to do but to call the police. So I called for a missing person report. I called them. I put in a missing person report.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
I'd be trying to think of where could you be, boy. I said, what? I put it on Facebook everywhere. Please call me. You don't have to come home if you don't want to come home. Just call me and let me know you all right. I mean, it was just, it was devastating to me.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
I was constantly calling the police. I was constantly calling them. Every time I found out something that maybe led to him, I would call them and tell them about it, call them to check him out. I told them the dude that left the house with Dexter, I told them his name to try to get in touch with him to see did he know what happened to Dexter. They didn't even do that.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
I got to the point where my mama told me, my mama said, girl, them folks ain't going to do nothing for you because they done killed George and they ain't thinking about you. And you down here trying to get them convicted and stuff. So them folks ain't thinking about you. I said, well, mama, that's they duty. I said, that's they duty. And I just kept telling her that.
Criminal
Dexter Wade
I said, that's they duty to, you know, see what happened to my son. My mama had a dream. My mama came to me one day, she said, Betty, she said, the police done killed Dexter. I said, mama, just because they killed your son don't mean they gonna kill my son. And I left it at that. I drove around. I went up in abandoned houses. I was all up in abandoned houses. I got my friend of mine.