Need help researching this

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

This is a case I've been trying to research for some time.

So far, I've found nothing at all but I thought I'd share it, in the hopes that somebody might be able to help.

The transcript frequently misspells names and the victim is missing male so it might yield absolutely nothing but here's hoping.

http://www.lexisnexis.com.proxy.wex...7&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=157447&docNo=3

WILLIAMS: Well, you know, there's a lot of people who came here today because they've been sitting on something that's been just a question that they need to...

Ms. BROWNE: Driving them crazy, yeah.

WILLIAMS: Driving them nuts, and they need some answers, like our first guest. Carrie said that she was devastated by her fiance's suspicious death. I want to you take a look at this.

(Excerpt from videotape)

CARRIE: My fiance, Rhodes, and I were planning to be married in May of 2002, and we were looking forward to spending the rest of our lives together. But all of that changed on July 13th, 2000, when he disappeared. Rhodes wasn't the kind of guy who wouldn't call or come home, so I knew something was terribly wrong. We searched and searched until his body was found 19 days later in a wooded area. Autopsy results were inconclusive, because his body was so badly decomposed. No one knows for sure how Rhodes died, but authorities believe his death is suspicious. In my heart, I fear my fiance was murdered, but there are no leads. There's no answers, nothing. Not knowing what happened to him is what kills me every day; not being able to know if he suffered, how long he was there for, if he died right away. No clues, no leads if somebody hurt him. Those are the things that hurt the most. I hope Sylvia can help.
(End of excerpt)
WILLIAMS: Please welcome Carrie to the show.
And let me--let me say--you know, I--I'm going to say this, because on our show, you know, most people think that when we--when we--when guests come here, we give them 20 minutes with Sylvia beforehand. Sylvia doesn't know anything about any of the guests that we have on the show, any of the stories that we're featuring on the show, with the exception today of only one, and we gave her a little bit of information.
Ms. BROWNE: Only one.
WILLIAMS: And it's not this one.
Ms. BROWNE: And I want people to know that, that I don't have any preordained knowledge.
WILLIAMS: You--you--no--no information given. So there's no way for us...
Ms. BROWNE: No.
WILLIAMS: ...to like set her up to help us. Carrie--Carrie, you wanted to talk to Sylvia. Ask her a question, whatever you want to ask her.
CARRIE: I need to know what happened to him that night.
Ms. BROWNE: He w--he was killed by--now here's what's strange, by two brothers.
CARRIE: Two...
Ms. BROWNE: And they seem to be--if they're not twins, boy, do they look alike. What makes me suspicious is they both have--you know how people when they have twins, they will name their kids B's or T's.
CARRIE: Could they just be friends, or they are definitely brothers?
Ms. BROWNE: No, they're definitely brothers or twins. Do you see what I mean? Because they look do--enough alike.
CARRIE: Is this something in his past?
WILLIAMS: What--wait, what--back--back up for a second. What do the police say? Wa--wa--first of all, if he came up missing--he--he was supposed to be home at what time?
CARRIE: He was just supposed to come home in an hour. I dropped him off at his friend's, he was supposed to come home an hour later. He never came home. That was when I got nervous. And then a few days after that, I reported him missing to the police.
Ms. BROWNE: He had had some kind of confrontation with one of the brothers. I don't know even if he would have even said anything to you about this.
CARRIE: So it's from his past or while we were together?
Ms. BROWNE: No, no, no, no, this was when you were together. You know, you can have a confrontation with somebody who is really--I don't want to ever be discriminatory, but, you know, somebody that's low level, you know, and they wanted to get him. And the other brother, because he had hit one of the--pushed him out of the way or did something to him because he was smarting off to him, he went and got his brother, and they waylaid him.
CARRIE: How did they do it?
Ms. BROWNE: They hit him over the head.
WILLIAMS: Now they found--they found no gun mar--marks or no knife marks.
CARRIE: They found nothing.
Ms. BROWNE: But they should have been able to find that he had a crack in his head. I mean, even from the skull, didn't they find...
CARRIE: They said he didn't. They said he was so badly decomposed that...
Ms. BROWNE: Well, then they wouldn't have known.
CARRIE: OK.
WILLIAMS: Did--the--the day--the night that this happened, or the day this happened, someone--a witness said that they had seen him, correct?
CARRIE: Witnesses said they saw him talking to two men in a white car.
WILLIAMS: In a white car.
Ms. BROWNE: Hello. Yeah, they're brothers. I mean, they both are dark-haired, curly-haired, nice-looking guys, big guys.
CARRIE: Will the police ever find them, or is there any evidence that they can look for that...
Ms. BROWNE: Yeah. I think--in fact, I think they're still around. They're not driving any white car anymore. They're driving a red truck. It looks like one of those new--what do you call those?
WILLIAMS: SUV?
Ms. BROWNE: Yes, SUVs.
WILLIAMS: A big-time truck.
CARRIE: And can you tell me did he suffer or...
Ms. BROWNE: No, he didn't.
CARRIE: OK, so it wasn't anything related to business or friends or people like that?
Ms. BROWNE: That's why the lead is so cold.
CARRIE: And you think they will find out? OK.
Ms. BROWNE: Then he went home and told his brother, then his brother wanted to get reve--revenge on what, saying, 'Get away from me. Get out of my face'?
CARRIE: Is there anything he wants me to know?
Ms. BROWNE: He says that he rings a bell, whatever that means. Not the phone, but something like a doorbell.
CARRIE: That's so true.
WILLIAMS: So you've had a doorbell ring in the house?
CARRIE: My doorbell rings all the time, and no one's ever at the door.
Ms. BROWNE: And you keep thinking it's kids. It's him.
CARRIE: Thank you.
WILLIAMS: Let me take a little break. That's what we're here talking about today, just some unsolved mysteries, some unanswered questions with the person who can do all the answering, Sylvia Browne. We'll be back right after this.
(Excerpt from upcoming segment)

 

[RSL's better half]

Hmm. Do you know what town this took place in? That's an unusual first name - Rhodes. Seems like some newspaper or TV News would have done something with it. Especially since the police are calling it "suspicious."

 

[PrincessIneffabelle]

A quick check of the Social Security Death Index at Ancestry.com show no deaths recorded for July or August of 2000 for anyone with the first name "Rhodes".

Do you have any idea in which state he died? There are more death records and obituaries I can check.

 

[ExMinister]

The spelling could be different: Rodes, Rhoades. Spent some time trying various possibilities but came up blank using the dates given and various spellings of the name.

 

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

I've tried every variation I could think of and nothing. What an unusal name...I'm sure the transcript must be misspelling something.

As I try to follow up on these cases, time and time again, I'm surprised how little coverage some murder, kidnap, rape, missing person's, arson, etc. cases get as opposed to others. You look at something and you think it must have been heavily reported on and there's nothing.

Then again, that must be part of the reason why these people turned to a psychic in the first place: the police, the press and the community didn't come through for them.

Here's the show summary:

http://montelshow.com/show/detail/2015/

 

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

I've been shifting the hay looking for the needle and I actually did find a few similar cases that happened in the same timeframe but no luck finding either "Rhodes" or Carrie.

Does anyone have any other ideas?

 

[cheddar]

I haven't been able to find anything either.

It's possible that Rhodes (regardless of possible spelling variations) is not the person's first name, hence why searches so far haven't yielded anything. For example, I knew someone in high school whose first name was Harold, but his middle name was Trevor. He never used his first name for anything and always went by Trevor instead, even with his family members. (I didn't even find out that his first name was Harold until years after I'd met him). So perhaps Rhodes is just a middle name that he preferred, or a nick name. Since Carrie was speaking to someone here that she believed to be psychic, she would have had no reason to specify, "He goes by Rhodes, but his legal name is actually Bob James Smith." It wouldn't make a difference to someone getting information about his death from the other side.

Carrie can be spelled a few different ways, too, which doesn't make it easier. Another confounding factor is that since she and Rhodes were only engaged and not married, any newspaper articles might only have interviewed Rhodes' siblings or parents or children for quotes and not bothered including someone not related to him by marriage or blood.

 

[Questioninggeller]

Here's the answer, Rhodes was his middle name:

TITLE: BODY DISCOVERED IN EHT IDENTIFIED AS VENTNOR MAN MISSING 3 WEEKS
NEWSPAPER: The Press of Atlantic City Pleasantville, New Jersey
DATE: Aug 3, 2000
AUTHOR: PAT ARNEY Staff Writer,

The remains of a badly decomposed body found in the woods behind a local flooring company Monday have been identified as those of 29-year-old Charles Rhodes Campbell III, Atlantic County Prosecutor Jeffrey S. Blitz said Wednesday.

Campbell worked as a doorman/cashier for Naked City, a bar in Atlantic City, and lived in the 200 block of North Surrey Avenue in Ventnor, Blitz said. He had been missing about three weeks.

... Campbell's fiancee, Carrie Kauffman, reported him missing to Ventnor police on July 15 ...

Full article: The Press of Atlantic City

 

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

YES! Amazing work, QG!

How do you do it?! You are a genius!

You have no idea how many hours I spent on that. I returned to it so many, many times and spent so many fruitless hours on it. How awesome to finally have it, at long last.

My hat is humbly off to you.

 

[Questioninggeller]

YES! Amazing work, QG!

How do you do it?! You are a genius!

You have no idea how many hours I spent on that. I returned to it so many, many times and spent so many fruitless hours on it. How awesome to finally have it, at long last.

My hat is humbly off to you.

Thanks. I searched by the time frame and key words. I guess I just got lucky.