“That's what he was getting ready to do whenever she came home, was cook supper, because I was really sick.' 'He was in the house and he was cooking dinner,” she said. Judy said she remembers what he was doing when Cassie came home. He said Rhodes and Judy were the only two people home when Cassie came back from the demolition derby and then went missing.

It's time the truth was presented to everyone.'ĭuke said he never ruled out Rhodes as a suspect. “There's only so much a man can keep bottled up inside of him. 'I am willing to do whatever it takes to bring closure to Judy and once and for all put this Cassie case to a close,” he wrote. KATV wrote a letter to Rhodes asking to speak to him about Cassie’s disappearance. He faces a charge of conspiracy to commit capital murder. Rhodes is being held in the Independence County jail in an unrelated case. And if he did, it would be shocking to me.' “He looked at her like his daughter, you know. 'I never thought that he would have anything to do with it,” she said. But Judy no longer believes Rhodes was involved in her daughter's disappearance. He said he still thinks Rhodes may be involved in Cassie’s disappearance. Before Cassie went missing, she told Chris that she and Rhodes did not get along.Ĭhris responded on Facebook to questions about the case. And they believed Rhodes might have had something to do with it. Judy and her son Chris Newcomb suspected foul play in Cassie’s disappearance. In the months after Cassie's disappearance, Judy’s relationship with Rhodes ended. Duke said nobody has been ruled out as a suspect in Cassie's disappearance but Rhodes is someone they've kept their eyes on over the years. Also home at the time was Judy's fiance, Brandon Rhodes. Judy was at home sick in bed when Cassie returned from the derby.

“I don’t even know if she even left the driveway.” 'I can’t imagine where she could have went,” she said, fighting back tears. “I’ve questioned people, friends that she hung out with, and they hadn’t seen her,” she said. She went in, she left a few minutes later, and that’s where the mystery starts.”Ĭassie's mother, Judy Compton Kimsey, said she has no idea what happened to her daughter. “The mother and the boyfriend were there. 'She had stayed the night with family friends and came home, on Sunday,” Duke said. The day she was last seen, she went to a demolition derby in Dewitt with a family friend and returned home just before 7 p.m. In the years since, there hasn’t been a confirmed sighting of Cassie.

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