Ray Reeves
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80 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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which again was odd that he was in the parking lot. So that became a key piece of information to tip us to, wait a minute, somebody else who works with Savannah was in that parking lot as well that we need to talk to.
So the first thing that came about, maybe around 8 o'clock, 7 or 8 o'clock that Friday, we were able to get into and download the city's red light cameras, and we were able to confirm some things.
We could see that there was a person in it. It's a distance away, so I couldn't swear who was who, but I can make out the tags in the cars. So that video was crucial because it gave – well, again, I could not definitively tell you who was in those cars.
I could see that Lee Rodarte's car was sitting in the parking lot back then right in front of that bank at that intersection in Savannah's Gold car just as – Chris had told us was in that parking lot as well. We see when Lee's car drives in. We see when Savannah's car drives in. Savannah's car parks right next to Lee's car.
Then she gets out of her car and walks over to his car. And then he gets out of the front driver's seat of his car, walks over to the rear side of his vehicle. Savannah then comes over in front of that vehicle and gets into the rear passenger seat. So they both get into the rear passenger seat.
And then what you see is the back passenger seat on her side that she got into, and I describe it as violently opening three times. It like is open and then slam shut, opens and then slam shut. So our assumption is she's trying to get out of that car and whoever that is, and we know it's Lee's car, I can't make him out, is preventing her or closing that door.
And then it stops. There's no more shaking of the car. There's no more violent opening and closing. And then the person that's in Lee's car, that male, then gets out, goes over to her car, leans down, and does something to the tire.
Then he gets back into his car and is driving out of the parking lot and it passes the red light camera there, goes underneath that, and then you do not see Savannah get out of that car.
At that point, my thoughts were either she's unconscious or dead. And when we watched that video, that's what pushed everything into fast motion for us.
Part of the reason they were keeping it under wraps, although everyone knew, was that he's a management, so he's not supposed to be dating an employee.
We went initially to Bonefish Grill, very much played it off that we were just there to kind of get a feel for Savannah and talk to any co-workers. Of course, we wanted to talk to everyone else, but my sights were set on Lee because he was in that parking lot. I certainly didn't want to tip my hand to him that we knew that.
I have an advantage that other people sometimes don't have. And that is I wear a bow tie and it does, it throws people off. They do not look at me as the police. And so I cover up my gun, my badge. I'm just a guy in a bow tie. And I specifically talked to Lee last. I wanted two things. I wanted him to be uncomfortable and even in his own house. And I wanted him to think this is no big deal.
He said he was not in that parking lot that day, had not been there to work in several days, hadn't spoken to her via text or cell phone in at least two or three weeks.
I saw a scratch about a quarter of an inch to an inch long with some redness on it on the side of his neck. So I noticed that. I did not ask him about that. I just observed that. Obviously, when you're interviewing, you're looking at everything. I'm looking at his hands. Does he have any defensive wounds? Is there anything, you know, tears, broken, you know, all of those things.
We began doing everything we could to see where else that car went, what showed up. Once I talked to him initially and got denials, then we began tracking his phone as well, search warrant for those things and see, looking, keeping an eye out, putting a bolo out and trying to identify any place that that car could have hit.
We discover that he had an outstanding capias, for driving with a suspended license. So really nothing, a slap on the wrist. You come in and you either get ROR'd or bond out. It wasn't going to be anything at all. But that was all that we had.
We immediately head to Bonefish Grill. We brought a team of people just in case. But my partner and I went in, Michelle and I went into the Bonefish Grill, put cuffs on Lee Redarte in the back room, asked him to put his knife down that he was pairing with.
Once he put the knife down, put cuffs on him and told him he was being arrested for local capious for the driving with a suspended license charge.
He went straight into the back of the police car. I told him, you'll probably be out on this charge probably tonight or tomorrow, no biggie. But I just wanted to finalize a few questions with you, if you don't mind. He said, yeah.
My wife always kids that when you get in the interview room, you guys are a married couple. We don't plan it. It's just organic. We feed off of each other. We kind of know what each other is going to think and say. It wasn't always that way when I first started because she trained me when I first came into homicide. I had bruised shins because she would kick me under the table.
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