David Cauley
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61 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
David Cauley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There were an older set of twins from a prior relationship. And then with Ernie, she had a child and then another set of twins. But Ernie basically raised those kids, the other two, as if they were his own.
So Samantha called her mother, who was in a town about an hour and a half away. And Rosie called her sister, who was about 10 minutes away. And so her sister and her sister's boyfriend just came straight to the house.
after her boyfriend, we'll say, cleared the house. He went in with his firearm, made sure nobody else was there, and at that same time, they're calling law enforcement.
Samantha is basically relaying the story and it gets relayed to law enforcement, which is that somebody had broken into the house, had pulled her and her husband out of bed from a sleep.
And as they continued to beat him, they put her on her knees in front of him. They would say things like, you know, this wonderful woman that you have, this beautiful woman, do you deserve her? You don't deserve her. Things like that. They continued to use her to taunt him, basically, while they were beating him.
She told them they were all wearing black. They had black masks. They had black gloves.
So that house is about as secluded as it can be for Titus County. It's surrounded by acreage, and I mean, it's just out there in the middle of nowhere. So there was nobody who would have heard anything.
There's not going to be any kind of surveillance, neighbor surveillance or anything unless, you know, I guess you could happen to cross a game camera that somebody might have put up. But those aren't going to be things that anybody's going to be able to see or know about.
Chris Bragg, he was the lead investigator. And when he arrived, the first thing he noticed was that supposedly the door had been kicked in. But when there's a burglar with somebody kicking in the door, popping it open with a pry bar, it usually busts out the frame around the backside of it. There's some amount of wooden damage to that wood, and that was not the case here.
He thought that it was maybe made to look like a home invasion that actually wasn't.
And she had this big elaborate story of how, you know, why didn't they take your phone? Well, they didn't take my phone because I hid it. Oh, how did you hide it? Well, whenever they tied me up and left me alone, I somehow used my mouth to toss it over into this box of junk.
And then whenever they left, I scooted over to the junk and fished it out with my mouth and flipped it open and pressed the most recent call, which was my mom.
And in that little room was a TV, which was on, and the five kids asleep on the floor on basically pallets. There was some kind of dumbbell or weights like holding the door closed.
She asks him, what is it you're carrying? Is that a Glock? Can I see it? While her kids are somewhat sometimes crying out in this closet right beside them, coughing, do you not, when this has just happened to your children's father, you have a child crying out, don't you go in there and hold it and cradle it and tell it everything's okay?
No, she's just sitting there asking to see the officer's gun.
He comes from a rough family. His dad and uncle had been in trouble with the law, probably in somehow related to some kind of minor narcotics trafficking. Ernie himself had been to prison, but at this time, he was clean, he was working two jobs, he was supporting the family.
There's other things where they're supposedly saying things about, because of your dad, somebody was taken from us and now we're going to take somebody from him and that's going to be you. And Ernie says, how do I get out of this? What do you want? And they said, well, if you got $20,000 and Ernie laughs, you know, he doesn't have $20,000.
And so they punch him some more and, you know, he offers up, well, you know, my grandparents have money. We could go break into their house. I would get you money from their house. We can steal some jewelry or something.
Two deputies went to the north end of the county where his dad would have lived to make sure that there's not more things happening there.
And then investigator Chris Bragg took Samantha to the sheriff's department so that she could be talked to further.
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