Lieutenant Shane Bozeman
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
A young lady that was down here that was a drug addict was in rehab, and she reached out to the FBI office up there and said, hey, I've got some possible information. So they reached out to us, and we went up there and met with the FBI and with her and talked to her. And she gave us some information about it possibly being involved in sex trafficking.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
Possibly Tessie had been kidnapped and was being sex trafficked, and then she got killed.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
We found some unusual things on the property. Like in the backyard, there was an area that had pipe, four corners of pipe, and it had tape around it, like crime scene tape. And it looked like somebody could have been buried there or something. So we searched it. We started digging down. But after you started digging, you could tell that that area had not been dug up. I don't know why it was there.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
He said that he was playing cards in the jail and saw her picture. And he recalled a conversation with this other individual to where this individual stated that he was there and he was part of what took place and part of the killing of Tessie and the dismemberment of Tessie and helping dispose of her body. And that we started getting close and that they had to dig her up and move her.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
So whenever I found this out, I was like, you know, is that plausible? Yeah. So I contacted this individual because I really didn't have enough probable cause to get a search warrant to go over there and do it. But I knew this individual that owned the property, and I knew that he had reached out several times that he had heard information from people he had bonded out and called me.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
And he was ultimately on the hook for her bond whenever she didn't show up for court and stuff. And he has a reward out to try and locate her. So he brought his tractor over there and busted up the concrete and dug it up himself while we stood there and watched. to see if there was anything there. And unfortunately, it wasn't. There was another search done on Highway 613.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
We were told that there was a shrine basically set up with crosses and flowers behind a dope house over there.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
We went, and there was a shrine set up with flowers and crosses and things like that, and we searched it, searched that area with cadaver dogs, and investigating that, we found out that this guy, his sister had died in an automobile accident a year prior to that, and he just set this up in his backyard kind of to go back there with his sister.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
They're adamant, hey, look, I know where Tessie is, this, that, and other. But when you start questioning them, you find out, you start, as we say, peeling back the onion. You realize that, oh, no, they heard this from little Timmy over here whenever they were down here smoking meth last weekend. And so they think that, hey, yeah, I'm going to be the one that finds Tessie.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
January the 29th, 2020 is when she actually filed the missing persons report and said that nobody had spoke to her, which it wasn't unusual for Tessie to disappear for a few weeks at a time or something like that with the circles that she ran in. She was known to have a drug problem and to live that type of lifestyle. So she ran with a pretty rough crowd.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
We have gone and spoken to the girl that was his girlfriend at the time. He's apparently made statements that, you know, you'll end up right beside Tessie and things like that. But do we know that he even knows where Tessie is? You got to understand John's mentality. John likes to rule people by fear. Not only his relationships, but people on the streets and stuff like that.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
Anything that John can use for John's benefit, John's going to. So, you know, John could be saying that just to say it. It could be true. I don't know. That's why I desperately need somebody to come forward. I would just be ecstatic for somebody to come forward to point me in the right direction so that I could prove who did what.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
I would say what we need is some firsthand information. Everything that we've gotten to this point has been hearsay, that this person has heard it from this person who has heard it from this person who has heard it from this person. And we followed up on those the best that we can. We've had people tell us that there was maps drawn of her bodies on walls and houses.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
We've done search warrants there. We've had people tell us that, you know, she's been here, she's been there, she's been everywhere. I don't care what lifestyle Tessie led or what she did. If she was murdered, then she still deserves for us to catch whoever murdered her and make them pay for it.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
Carolyn and her kids have nowhere to go to feel like is a place that they're spending time with their mom or their daughter.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
It wasn't unusual for her to kind of bounce around from hotels or couch to couch, things like that. But whenever it had gone this long and she hadn't even spoken to her kids, that's whenever mom came concerned. Because even whenever Tessie was just running the roads and stuff, she usually always had contact with her mother. She'd call her, just say hello, check in on her.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
And also with her kids, she always stayed in contact with her kids.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
She had been at Carolyn's just visiting, I guess, after Christmas, and then she left. And that was the last time we can completely say that she was actually seen. She said that she left with a couple of friends of Tessie's. She left in a pickup truck, and she wasn't quite sure where she was headed to, you know, and didn't seem like nothing was wrong. Told her, bye, see you later.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
We've had people that they've said that it was this person, and then we go interview them, and no, I've heard it was this person, this, that, and the other. And that's why this case has been so difficult, because there's just been so many names brought up and so many different stories and things like that.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
So we've never had anything that I would say was an actual legitimate lead that would lead us in the right direction. The thing that you have to understand about Tessie was the circles that she hung out with. It was honestly just kind of whoever could get her some drugs. I've dealt with Tessie since I was on patrol, since I started here in 2010. So I was very familiar with her.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
I've known her to use pills, to smoke marijuana, to use methamphetamine. And from all accounts we have, she would use just about anything she could get her hands on. When she was first reported missing, she actually had an at-large indictment for possession of a controlled substance as a habitual offender.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
So a lot of people thought that she just ran off because she was looking to serve quite a few years in prison on this charge. So that was the first assumption by a lot of people that she just took off to avoid going to prison. And, you know, that was one of the thoughts even with us, that we thought that could be the case.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
But as we dug further and further into it, that doesn't seem to be what happened.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
If I remember correctly, we didn't get anything back from the phone company because most of the time they use these disposable phones and change phone numbers and stuff like that. You know, if you and I were to disappear or something like that, we have a routine lifestyle that we go by, and it's very easy to follow and track that pattern.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
But when you're dealing with somebody that uses burner phones and may change phone numbers three or four times a month because, hey, I can't pay the bill on this one this month,
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
well my friend over here is going to give me their phone so we weren't able to track anything like that through your normal investigative means we weren't able to get anything to show who she talked to her or anything like that bank records nothing like that because there again they don't use your normal i have an atm i'm gonna pay for everything you know so they just i guess an easy way to say it is it's kind of off the grid without being off the grid
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
It made it very difficult for us. She didn't really have a steady job to check with. She didn't really have any close friends that she was always with. She was just basically a person that jumped from couch to couch, jumped from hotel to hotel. Made it very difficult for us.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
But we started checking some of the people that we knew that she hung out with, some of the, I guess you would say, drug crowd, and start talking to them and asking them questions. And of course, at first, nobody knows anything. No, I haven't seen her in months. I haven't seen her in weeks, whatever the case may be. And it just kind of went from there.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
We never did really have anything solid, even from the beginning, to try and locate where she may have went.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
It was a very estranged relationship. It was a very physical relationship. Both of them had been arrested for domestic violence. I know at one point she took a vehicle and rammed John's truck one time. They'd both been physically assaulted from the other one. And it was just a very violent relationship.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
So they were kind of, especially over the last couple of years, even though they were still married, they had kind of gone their separate ways and were estranged. I think there was still feelings for each other and somewhat of an attachment, but I think both of them had kind of gone their separate ways.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
He's not hostile. He's just very diplomatic in the way that he will answer a question. I mean, he's been through it before. He's spent the majority of his life in prison. He's what we call institutionalized. So he is very, very diplomatic about the way that he answers his question as to not reveal any information.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
So he kind of thinks, well, if you're going to ask me a question, I'm going to turn around and ask you a question. He states that at first he just thought she had ran off to avoid going to prison. But now he believes that something's happened to her and he really hopes that we find her. And if somebody did something to her, that we prosecute them and things like that. So, I mean...
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
What you have to know from John is John is one of these very narcissistic type people. He thinks he's smarter than everybody. And on one of the interviews, we gave him a CVSA, which is a computer voice stress analysis test. We didn't expect John to tell us anything to begin with. A lot of it was getting a feel of John and how he was going to react to it. I can tell you this.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
If my wife had been missing this long, I would be knocking trees down Now, I understand that they were estranged, but she's also the mother to his children, you know? So although I don't live in that circle, I know how I would react, and I know how normal people would react.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
One of the things that we were told was that Tessie was at a hotel having sex with two men at one time, and John found out about it. John came in, started beating her, and beat her against a sink, killing her. John then made the two individuals help dispose of her body. We were told that he cut her up and they were made to haul her out.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
We were told that he didn't cut her up, that he wrapped her up in plastic and made to haul her out. You know, but those names have changed. Now, there is a couple that have been brought up more so than other ones, but those names have changed as to who it was that she was having sex with at the time. That's one of the stories.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
We had another murder that was a gang-related murder here a couple of years ago involving Dustin Suttles. We arrested four individuals for that, and they've been convicted and sent to prison. We were told that she came across a video of two of the Simon City Royals, which is a local prominent gang down here, that she came across a video of two of the men in there having homosexual relations.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
And that is against their bylaws and will get you killed. So we were told that that was the reason that she was killed, because her and Dustin Suttles actually had information about this video. I don't know what to believe. My personal opinion, I don't think it had anything to do with the Dustin Suttles thing. But like I said, those are some of the stories that we've heard.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
John's been to prison several times. John was, at one point in time, a very active AB, Aryan Brotherhood. We were told he was an enforcer for the ABs. So he has connections with different gangs and things like that. And being of that rank and being in prison, it builds what's called a lot of street cred. A lot of people are afraid of him.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
So I think that is why a lot of people are afraid to talk on this whole matter. They're afraid of what the repercussions may be. John's name has come up several times. We've interviewed John. He's been interviewed by several of us. Can I say that he did anything? No, I can't. Is he a very viable suspect? Absolutely.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
Well, you know, these people will be at a dope house, and you'll have 10 or 15 people sitting in there smoking meth and getting high, and they are basically telling these stories or whatever. Then one or two will leave that dope house and go to this dope house and get high, and then the story somewhat changes. It's kind of like telling a story in a circle.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
By the time you start here, it's one story. By the time it gets here, it's changed. And the names have changed and stuff like that. So that's how a lot of these rumors are. There's bits and pieces of it that match, but all of it doesn't match. Names change, places changed, and that's what makes it so difficult.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
This has been the biggest spider web in 25 years of law enforcement that I've ever dealt with.
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Tessie Temores (10 of Diamonds, Mississippi)
We were told that she may be buried behind her mother's house. These were actually given to us by Carolyn. Carolyn called us and said that she had heard that Tessie had been killed by John and that she was buried between Carolyn's house and there's an old dentist office back there in a wooded area back there. So on two different occasions, we went out there and looked and didn't find anything.