Gail Cleaver
Appearances
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
Chuck was very cautious. He did not like this. But Devereaux really wanted to go. She wanted to go with her mother.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
Very shortly before they were to take off... I'll never forget this either. The doorbell rang. Chuck wasn't here. He was at work. And I went to answer the door, and it was Devereaux. And I said, sweetheart, what are you doing here? And she said she was over visiting her friend Carolyn.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
And since it was going to be so close that she was going to be leaving, she wanted to come over and give me a hug. And I was getting ready to go someplace that night with her father. So I invited her in and I brought her back into my bathroom because I was getting ready. And she sat there on the closed lid toilet. And we talked and we visited.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
And it was just very unusual for her to show up at my front door unannounced or without her father picking her up.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
I have remembered that often. She knew she was going to Hawaii soon and she wanted to say goodbye.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
They had gone for a picnic.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
And they went to the windward side of the island. And as it turns out, there were posters all over that beach marked, do not enter the water, no swimming.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
But Devereux and Sandra went out holding hands, singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow, which was Devereux's favorite song from Wizard of Oz.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
See, we'd gotten the phone call at one o'clock in the morning. I answered the phone and she asked for Chuck. And I said, who's calling? And she said, Terry Hoffman.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
He wouldn't let me go with him.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
Thank God had not been mutilated or eaten or anything like that because, oh my gosh, there's nothing worse than having your child missing and not knowing what in the world has happened to them. But she was found on the beach.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
He said it was like the old Sandra when he was in that hospital room with her alone. And she was grieving and just kept saying over and over again, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
Chuck and I had been out at a couple friend of ours that night, and we'd gotten home late, and we crawled into bed, but it was about 1.30 in the morning. And I answered the phone.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
I'll never, yeah, I remember that. He said it was like a curtain came over her. She became a different person.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
He brought her back home to Dallas. And I guess it was on the same airplane as Sandra and Terry.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
I handed the phone over to Chuck, and the next thing I remember hearing was, and he sat bolt right up in bed and said, what do you mean she's missing? I'll never forget that as long as I live.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
I will be shocked if there are not more deaths than we know of.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
They had gathered Sandra up off of a coral reef, bleeding all over, but Devereaux was missing.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
We've lived in the darkness of how this hovered over our lives.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
My theory is, my brain, what I think was supposed to happen, and this is just me and my brain thinking, it's not a fact, I think they were both supposed to die that day.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
She was impacting their lives big time.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
hit her terribly. She lost her father in an airplane crash, and she lost her 16-year-old sister, younger sister, in an automobile crash within a two-year period of time.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
I was still married to my Lutheran minister husband, and we used to get together with a bunch of other ministers every now and then because they knew each other. The wives liked each other. And one time, we went over to a pastor's house here in Oak Cliff, Dallas. One of the other couples had invited to the party Gail. Chuck Claver and his present wife, Sandra Claver.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
Long, beautiful, curly, blonde hair. Like Chuck used to say, she had legs all the way to Bakersfield.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
She was very intelligent, very pretty, and she was very different.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
And she was telling the women in the kitchen, two of them being minister's wives, I wasn't in the kitchen at this time. But she was telling them that she could change the wine back into water.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
Yeah. Whereas Jesus, of course, changed water into wine as his first miracle on earth. She said because of her power, she could turn the wine back into water, to which, of course, the minister's wife said, please don't.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
I didn't know their marriage was going to heck at that time, but I soon found out later from one of the other ministers that their marriage was not looking good.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
Then the reason for their divorce... was because Terry Hoffman had told Sandra that Chuck was impeding Sandra's spiritual growth.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
He was about to get custody, and not only his attorney, but Sandra's attorney came to him and said to him, You are about to get custody of your daughter.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
But the first time that Sandra Cleaver has visitation rights, we fear for your daughter's life.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
They had joint custody then, but Devereaux lived with Sandra.
The Binge Cases: Baby Broker
Scary Terri | 1. The Mysterious Death of Devereaux Cleaver
I've got my daughter Kristen sitting right next to me, Jonathan, because she was just two months different in age than Devereaux when Devereaux died. Chrissy can also tweak my memory if I forget anything, but I'm pretty good at memory on this.