Ray Reeves
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80 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Ray Reeves’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I grew up watching 1 Adam 12, so I thought police work was that, quite honestly. And I quickly realized that was not the case.
I think with a background working in the church, I just saw so many people just at their worst point. Obviously, they don't call the police when it was time to have a birthday party. They called us when it was the worst moment or one of the worst moments in their lives. And so I just found a way to connect to people on a real level.
I was probably less patrol or policeman than most of the guys around me on my squad. I just found a way to connect to the humanity of people.
It was very challenging, but I'd said to myself early on, I'm not going to get jaded. I'm not going to get cynical. I'm going to still believe that people, even if they've done something wrong, a lot of those are choices for sure. And a lot of it's circumstances as well. And so let's still treat people with compassion and kindness until they give you a reason not to.
Jacksonville is just under a million people. We've got our beaches. We've got, I say, several different communities here. We have the east side at the beach and we've got inner city and a lot of the inner city is growing. The area where Savannah lives, Gold is on the south side. This area was a very affluent area of town.
Savannah is a very pretty young lady. She's very athletic, does sports. She did lacrosse in school, water skiing, very outgoing personality. Everyone at work loved her. High school friends loved her.
But the text said, I wanted to tell you and mom I met a really great guy and we're running away together. I love him and we're leaving right now. I'll call you later when we get to where we're going.
Same basic, a lot of misspelled words, typos. Met a guy leaving with my boyfriend. I can't deal with this anymore. I've got to get away. And it was choppy English and it didn't make sense. And again, the fact that her family was very close, they knew what was going on. They knew the people that she was hanging out with, her friends, who she dated and all those things.
There wasn't a time when they didn't stay in contact with each other. And so I knew there's no way that Savannah would have sent those texts. But the other thing is Savannah would not have put her mother through something like this. They just would not have happened because she loved her mom and her dad.
And there's no way that she would have put her mom through some kind of torturous thing like I'm running away and I'll call you when I can.
So the mom went up to the Bonefish Grill, talked to the manager, Savannah, who was always at work when she's supposed to be. She never showed up.
Savannah's car is there. It has a flat tire. Her purse is inside the car.
It doesn't make sense. She gets entered into the National Crime Information Center as a missing person. And the detective at the missing persons unit begins researching, going out and talking to the family, friends, looking for video in that area to see what they can find.
So still missing persons is trying to pull camera from the shopping center. There's some footage. You can see the car pulling in, but it's at the very back of the shopping center. There's no good visual from that. There's not quite enough to say, hey, we have a criminal element to this.
The missing person Sergeant did on the evening of the 3rd knew, hey, this may move outside of our purview, so let's go ahead and seal and tow her car in case that needs to be processed, in case something did occur. They contacted us immediately. the next morning and said, hey, look, this is not adding up there. This is out of character. These text messages don't add up.
We want to come do a briefing with homicide.
It's what you do. Let's go back out to the scene. Let's go talk to the family and let's get a picture. Let's pretend like we don't know anything. And let's just start like we just got this case.
I knew that they had been in a dating relationship. They had broken up and then were back together. So they had an on-again, off-again relationship.
He actually showed up to help with the missing persons, pass out flyers.
One of the things that Sharon, Ms. Gold, told us was that her son, Christopher, worked at the Bonefish Grill as well. Chris told her that when he drove into the parking lot, he saw one of Savannah's co-workers who was a manager there, Lee Rodarte. And he saw him sitting in the front driver's seat of his own vehicle. We know that Lee did not go to work that day. He was scheduled off that day.
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