Investigator Mike Mayhew
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559 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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Easton spotted two silver colored bullet casings from a nine millimeter gun, one in the kitchen and the other near Leslie's body. As Easton processed the scene, detectives began learning about the victims. Chris Smith was a 48-year-old divorced father who worked for a pool contractor.
Bartender Dena Legrand says Chris was well-known in town as the guy who grew banana trees and giant pumpkins.
Did either one of you ever worry about Chris? No. No. Sharon Costanza is Chris's mother, Ashley Holcomb, his sister.
Chris lived with a dog named Tiki, and an EMT told the family that Tiki may have helped Chris make it through the night by huddling with him for the roughly 12 hours that Chris was bleeding before being rescued. I think Tiki protected Chris.
Chris's close-knit family could not imagine anyone wanting to kill him. It was like, no way. How? Why? Like, who? Yeah, who would have done that? Investigators had the same questions about Leslie and learned that she was a divorced mother of two children who lived in Troy, about an hour south of Farmersville.
Although Leslie had a master's degree in engineering, she chose instead to teach Pilates and to promote self-defense classes for women.
Leslie posted this video to her YouTube channel to advertise one of her classes.
Leslie tried to help women in abusive relationships, but friends say she had her own troubles. Nanette told deputies she was worried about a former boyfriend, a contractor by the name of Robert Tarr, known as Bobby.
Later that evening, news of Leslie's murder began circulating and reached another close friend, Amy Steinhauer. She had met Tar, a divorced father of three, and did not have a good impression of him.
Amy called the sheriff's office that night to give them Tar's name. By then, Detectives had already set out to find Bobby Tarr. While 85 miles to the north, surgeons were fighting to try to save the life of Chris Smith, a bullet still lodged in his brain.
After learning that Chris had been shot in the head, his family rushed to the hospital in Springfield, Illinois, two hours from their home.
Doctors removed part of Chris's skull and some bullet fragments in his brain before putting him in a medically induced coma. His family, struggling to piece together what had happened, learned that he had been out with a woman named Leslie Reeves. Had you ever heard the name Leslie Reeves before?
Nanette told them the same thing she had told investigators. She suspected Leslie's ex-boyfriend, Bobby Tarr, That night, sheriff's deputies went to Tar's home in Collinsville, an hour south of the crime scene. Authorities say he never asked why they wanted to talk to him, and he agreed to go to the police station without a lawyer.
Although her friend said the couple had broken up, Tar told investigators that he and Leslie were still together.
It was Leslie that detectives wanted to talk about.
Investigators asked Tarr about Farmersville, the scene of the crime.
And they asked Tarr where he had been the night before Thanksgiving.
The friend lived a short distance from Tarr's home.
Investigators believe the shooting took place sometime early on Thanksgiving morning after 1 a.m. Tarr said after he got back, he was home all night.
That's exactly what they did. Detectives brought Tarr's 17-year-old daughter, Shelby, to a different room at the police station. And she told them that her father actually left home twice that night.
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