Investigator Mike Mayhew
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559 appearances
31 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
Investigator Mike Mayhew’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was a little tense. Once I found out that she was there, I was a little upset at that.
I've never had a doubt about how, when, or who set this fire.
He can't measure the depth of char to a piece of wood from a photograph where present at the scene we were able to do that.
If you've got a calm day, then the smoke is obviously going to rise straight up quicker than you would with a 20-mile-an-hour wind that was pushing the smoke laterally.
This wasn't just a crime scene, was it?
No, it was not. This one was bad. Two innocent people that were on their first date had their lives destroyed. For what reason?
How well did Leslie Reeves know Chris Smith? First date.
Was that text the last time you heard from Leslie Reeves? Mm-hmm, yes, it was. Did you try texting her in the morning?
And did she respond? No.
I got a call from our command center in Springfield.
So you are the lead crime scene investigator? Yes. Were you really prepared for what you faced when you walked into that house? I was not.
On the afternoon of Thanksgiving Day 2021, Nanette Stiber sat in her car and watched anxiously as EMTs and Montgomery County Sheriff's deputies descended on a house in the tiny village of Farmersville, Illinois.
Nanette had been unable to reach her good friend Leslie Reeves. Nanette knew Leslie had gone to that house the night before to go on a first date with Chris Smith, a man she had met online. She was very excited. She thought, oh, this might be a really good connection. But now Nanette was worried. She'd seen Chris get taken away in an ambulance, but there was no sign of Leslie.
I kept hoping, you know, OK, bring Leslie out, please. Finally, a detective approached and asked Nanette for a photo of Leslie. She showed him her phone and he gave her the horrible news.
EMTs have found Chris barely conscious and unable to say anything about the shooting. They rushed him to the hospital, and deputies searched the house. Later that day, crime scene investigator Josh Easton of the Illinois State Police was called to the scene, and he began cataloging the mayhem inside. What do you see when you first approach the door?
I noticed the side door of the house. The glass in the door has been broken out. The refrigerator was pulled away from the wall. The kitchen table was pushed. The chairs were knocked over.
No weapon was found, leading investigators to suspect that a third person was involved. Eason took note of every detail, including the burnt pizza in the oven.
I assumed that maybe they were cooking a pizza for the night and the... Suspect shows up at the door. They both tried to fight him off. And when Chris was shot, Leslie went to the living room to try to hide. How many times was she shot? She was only shot one time. In the head? In the head.
Leslie's body was in the living room, while Chris had been found in the kitchen. Easton said of the 1,800 crime scenes he had been to, This was one of the most horrific.
There was blood everywhere. The cabinets, the refrigerator, the countertop. There was blood from corner to corner in the kitchen.
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