This episode of The Dead Life delves into the haunting unsolved cases of Lindsay Wells and Mikel Biggs, emphasizing the emotional toll these cold cases take on families and communities. Alison DuBois shares her investigative experience regarding Lindsay's disappearance, highlighting the challenges posed by the original police work and the complexities of gathering evidence. She reflects on the chilling details surrounding Mikel's abduction while she was simply waiting for an ice cream truck, underlining the vulnerability of children in such situations. Throughout the discussion, Dubois expresses hope that renewed attention and advanced forensic techniques could finally bring justice to these cases. As she recounts her encounters with law enforcement and the families involved, she urges listeners to remain vigilant and aware of the dangers that persist in society.

We don’t know if convicted rapist Dee Blalock had anything to do with Mikelle Bigg’s disappearance. He did have opportunity living in the same neighborhood as Mikelle. He had motive because in 1985 he sexually assaulted a child at knife point, so we know he’s a pedophile. Many criminals commit violent crimes and decide not to leave a victim who can testify against them the next time. Often, assailants start with a vulnerable victim that they can easily overpower like a child or elderly victim. Once, they know how to successfully subdue a weaker victim they move on to more of a challenge. Months after Mikelle’s disappearance, Susan Quinett was attacked by Dee Blalock, he tried to kill her, maybe he even thought he had because she lost consciousness. Blalock’s crimes were escalating, perhaps rape was no longer enough to satisfy his deviant urges. We can only pray that Dee Blalock told another inmate in prison what he may have done or perhaps his family comes forward with what they might know. Either way, mortality will eventually equalize this injustice.

Welcome to the deadlife.

Here's world renowned medium Allison Dubois.

Last week on the deadlife, I told you about Lindsay Wells.

People ask, why are there so many unsolved cases?

The answer is there are many, many reasons.

Sometimes there's a lack of evidence.

Sometimes witnesses won't come forward because they don't want to get involved or they know the person responsible for the heinous crime.

Sometimes they're related to them and they're afraid of being killed themselves or they were there when the crime took place and they don't want to be implicated themselves for the crime.

Other times, the police work is inadequate and it becomes a matter of politics.

And as we know, politics messes everything up.

There are many reasons why cold cases aren't solved.

And the emotional wound runs deep throughout the communities who lost one of their own to violent crime.

And those wounds never fully go away.

DNA has revolutionized crime solving, especially with familial DNA now being used to make a connection to the rapist or killer.

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So last week, I shared with you the information that I had collected on the Lindsay Wells case.

Now, this was not an easy thing to do, just FYI.

The information that I collected was we spent two or three days in Simi Valley to collect it.

And I had a team of people with me, including a forensic specialist and an investigator who was retired cold case detective.

And he was incredible.

My point being, a lot of people will say, why don't you just go solve that case?

Well, it involves a little cooperation from the town and law enforcement, so I can't do it by myself.

If I bring information that then isn't followed up on or taken seriously or unwanted by the family, I won't do that to them.

That's re injuring the family who was already hurt to begin with through a violent loss of one of their loved ones, and I will not do that.

So I just wanted people out there that come, you know, messaging me and saying, why don't you go?

Have you been to Australia?

Do you know about this case?

No, I don't know about that case.

I live in America, so there's a lot of cases I don't know about.

And I don't have an invisible jet to get into to fly around the world and try to solve these cases.

However, this case, to me, was special because I thought, what if I came up with a formula, and it was my perfect idea for how to solve a crime?

And this was a big learning opportunity for me because I had everything I had asked for.

Lie detector tests, sit down interviews, meeting with the family who had wanted us there and were very welcoming.

Actually, I got all of that handed to me.

I did what I do, my investigator did what he does.

We compiled the information, we passed it along, and we got zero follow up.

I still talked to my investigator to this day.

He and I stayed in touch, and he's told me since then, he updated me every few years that nothing had been done.

And so I really wanted to start out talking about the Lindsay Wells case today.

There were some details when we were there for this case of cadaver dogs hitting on the spot for human remains.

And so I look at that, and how amazing is that?

So I had another psychic that was there with me.

She kept being drawn to one area, I kept being drawn back to the house.

And so, you know, obviously, both of those areas need to be checked.

But where the dogs hit, the FBI trained cadaver dogs hit, multiple dogs hit that area.

They never dug up.

They wouldn't let us do it.

Cause it's a police matter, and it was never dug up.

That bothers me.

Later, we found out that that area was mafia dumping grounds back in the day.

So that's crazy.

At the same time, I would think somebody would like to have that family member back.

So, I don't know, maybe somebody will go out there with their own cadaver dogs and a shovel and see what they can do, because I don't think it's going to be laid to rest any other way.

So, with the Lindsay Wells case, I found it very interesting being able to interview David, her ex boyfriend.

I'm hoping, hoping by talking about David, her fiance, John, and Miles, the friend of John, that maybe one of them has found God or has had a change of heart, has trouble sleeping at night, or maybe they've just heard something, because we don't actually know that any of them did it.

I mean, we don't have any proof.

You know, we have a lie detector test that was passed, and we have squirrely miles in his chair that I didn't believe, but, you know, not admissible in court.

So more needs to be done with Lindsey's case.

Her case is solvable, and I do hope they go back into the house with luminol and spray it.

And check the garage, check the bathtub, check the walls, just to see if there is any blood spatter.

They have nothing to lose at this point, otherwise this case may not get solved.

And I've looked at a lot of cases over the last 20 plus years, and this case of Lindsey Wells is solvable.

So I'm hoping by putting the information out there for the public that a harder look, a harder look is taken at Lindsey's case.

And I'll keep you posted on any updates that we might receive.

In the same year that Lindsay disappeared from Simi Valley, California, an eleven year old girl disappeared from her suburban neighborhood in Mesa, Arizona.

She was riding her bike to get ice cream.

How many of you have ridden your bike to catch the ice cream man?

About every kid in America has done that.

So she's out there waiting for the ice cream man.

mikel Biggs went missing.

In a matter of seconds, Mikel's house was just a few houses away from where she was waiting for the ice cream man.

While Mikkel waited, her little sister Kimber got tired of waiting and went home.

When she walked through the door, her mother, Tracy, said, nope, go tell Mikel she's gotta come in and told Kimber to go back and get her.

Kimber went back to the corner and Mikael had vanished.

All that Kimber saw was her bike laying in the road with the tire still spinning.

There were no known witnesses.

The fear that little eleven year old Mikael must have felt makes my blood run cold just to think about.

Statistically, eleven year old girls are the most highly abducted and murdered of all children.

That's both boys and girls under the age of 18, because they're prepubescent, which is a pedophiles preference for males.

The target age is between six and nine years old.

When my kids were young, when they were very small, I would talk about these ages of being vulnerable that people needed to know about, because I had produced a video on how to avoid and survive child abduction that was played here in the state of Arizona on public access channels.

And it helped many children who were interviewed after that, which was incredibly important to me to make a difference in my community.

So I just.

All these years later, now, in this setting, I want to remind you, when your daughter is eleven and you feel as though you could now give her that responsibility to have her freedom.

Give her freedom, but be smart about it just be smart about it, because eleven years old is such a target age for pedophiles.

And I know that is just such a sick thing to even try to wrap your mind around.

But you have to understand what hunters look for and make sure that your children are not the prey.

The police found Mikkel's bike and her ice cream money by the curb where she'd been waiting for the ice cream Mandev.

This is every parent's worst nightmare times ten.

I mean, I know I worried about our kids every time they wanted to sleep over at a friend's house.

Like, do they have a creepy cousin?

Do they have an older brother that's got friends over who's going to be there?

Is there an uncle that, I don't know, maybe isn't quite right?

So a lot of thoughts go through our mind, but you know what I'll say?

I'll say I let the girls always have friends over to our house.

We'd have big slumber parties.

I'd bring all the good stuff there.

So then they didn't mind so much.

There are ways to do this and still your children have a perfectly social life and they get to exercise all kinds of freedom.

You know, it's gonna come soon enough when they're older, and then we still get to worry about them.

So, you know.

But I don't regret being a bit of a helicopter mom because my kids are here.

And that's the most important thing is protecting our kids.

Months after Mikel's disappearance, one of the big's neighbors, Dee Blaylock, was arrested for the sexual assault and attempted murder of Susan Quinnett, who also lived in their neighborhood.

She said he tried to snap her neck three times after raping her, and he successfully broke it in one place.

He choked her until she blacked out.

Quinnett said she had complained to the police about her neighbor Blaylock, coming up to her drunk and laying his hands on her, but nothing had been done.

Quinnett had also complained to Blaylock's wife about his unwanted advances.

It turned out that Blaylock was a registered sex offender in three other states.

Amazing.

Blaylock was also a husband and father, which is chilling to think about.

Just thinking of him having a wife, you know, somebody that's sort of not put together right or, you know, most of us will feel when somebody's got sort of a grimy sort of sexual deviant energy to them.

At least I do.

Maybe it's just me.

I don't know.

I don't think I'm alone.

I think some of you feel that from people, too, especially grocery stores and out in the public.

But to think of him having a wife and then to have that he fathered children is a bit mind blowing because people always wonder, well, he's a father.

How could he do that to someone else's child, to another father's child, when he won't do it to his own?

Although we don't actually know what happened with his children, but they are alive from what we know.

So he didn't do what he did to Mikael.

And I will say this from my experience of getting in the heads of killers and working cases, the killers who and the rapists who have their own children see their children in a different light often than they do strangers.

There's a difference to them between their target and the sort of the child that's going to be their victim.

To them, that's the hunt, their children, that's the home.

So they see it in a very compartmentalized way, and they don't seem to have a great deal of ability to empathize or feel much remorse.

So, you know, it's not like they're telling everybody what they did, especially the really dark, deviant people, because they want to be able to continue the pattern of what they enjoy doing.

And so their life at home with the wife and children completely separate from what they do when they're out hunting our children.

So just so you know, people who have kids still hurt other kids.

So that's not always a given safety measure to measure them by is whether or not they have their own kids.

So after he did all of this to Susan and tried to snap her neck, and she went through all of this, talking to the police about him putting his hands on her and coming up to her drunk multiple times and telling Blaylock's wife, and I just want to say this to Susan, if she's out there, she did everything right.

She did everything she could to bring awareness to this that this guy wasn't right.

And then Blaylock turned out to be a registered sex offender in three other states, you know, and what his own family must have thought about that.

Oh, we've got to move again.

Dad got in trouble in this state, and that's pretty much the way it goes.

So they're moving around, unfortunately settled here.

I will say to Susan Quinnett's bravery at one point, she did offer to drop charges against Dee Blaylock if he would tell Mikel Biggs parents where their daughter is or tell the police where their daughter is and confess.

And he was not gonna do that.

So that didn't happen.

But the fact that she was willing to sacrifice what she went through in her home that took place over a long period of time of him being there and beating her is just amazing.

So I just wanna say, Susan, you're a brave woman, and thank you for that selflessness of offering up your justice in order to get the bigs justice for their daughter.

I thought that was really big of you.

So in this case, it was chilling to think about the experienced partners.

Often they know about the spouse's deviance and they still stay.

So here's Dedez Blaylock's wife, who's had to move multiple times because her husband is a sex offender, and she ignores the woman who's the neighbor that says, your husband's creeping me out, and he keeps coming into my yard and putting his hands on me.

And at no time did this wife keep her eye on him or even say to Susan, watch out for him.

He's dangerous.

Like, there was no warning.

So this tells me that his wife, Dee Blaylock's wife, is mentally checked out.

This is not something she wants to deal with.

She wants to live in her imaginary world where her husband's a good man and everything's going to be fine.

But she in no way inserted herself in order to protect this other woman who brought her concerns to her.

So a lot of spouses in this situation will ignore what the deviance is in their husband's porn addiction or prostitutes or a totally different category, murder.

And they'll just stay out of fear or delusion.

They just, you know, it's hard to understand sometimes.

I kind of understand the fear.

If you're in fear for your children's life, if your husband's threatening them, you know, any woman can put themselves in those shoes.

Of course you'd want to protect your kids.

But the delusion that I don't understand, especially when you're aware that your husband has these issues.

And then in the case of Mikkel Blaylock's wife was his alibi and said he was in the garage all night.

What?

Like, why would Blaylock spend the night in the garage the night that Mikkel Biggs went missing?

I mean, I found that very strange.

Didn't she find that strange?

I would think that would raise alarm bells.

Didn't she think it odd and go look in the garage herself when her husband was spending hours in that garage?

Which I think is very telling, that would be a place, obviously, they would want to.

I'm sure the police are on it and have already gone over it forensically.

But he spent hours in the garage, and he stayed there all night, which that floors me.

Maybe there was some point where his wife could have gone into the garage and Mikel would have been there tied up.

Maybe she was still alive.

Maybe his wife could have saved her or made a 911 call in the bathroom to alert the police.

I know where this girl is.

You know, was there any point that she could have saved her?

Or maybe she did go look, and she can't reconcile the fact that she did nothing.

She did nothing.

My feeling is that his wife knows so much more than she's saying.

Where is his wife now?

Where is Sheddeh?

Are they divorced?

Maybe she's found God.

Maybe she'll do the right thing.

Have investigators approached her?

It's been 25 years.

You know, Mikel deserves justice.

Her family deserves justice.

I think it's time that investigators focus on the wife.

If she's alive, that's who they need to talk to, because de Blaylock likes to toy with people far too much, and he does not mind.

Actually, I think he enjoys injuring Mikhail's parents, toying with them, hurting them.

It's a release for him.

He likes to be in control.

He's an arrogant sob, to say the least, but he's not going to say anything.

Nothing to the right people anyways.

So have the police been able to interview Blaylock's wife?

Because I had not heard any information on that, I would be very curious.

Or is there some sort of spousal protection in the law keeping them from doing so?

You know, maybe there is spousal protection.

I don't know.

I feel so deeply for Dee's kids.

They didn't ask to be born into that family.

How old are his kids now?

They probably are adults.

Have his kids heard rumors in the family that as adults, maybe they would like to get off their chest.

Maybe they'll be the hero that steps forward and brings the information on Mikel Biggs.

Maybe they have children or little girls just like Mikel was.

I've seen many cases where the wife helped in some way to dispose of a body, and she won't talk out of fear of being implicated or viewed as related to the most vile in our society.

Many women in this situation would rather take the truth to the grave rather than admit to being a monster's keeper.

Mikel's family deserves justice.

Maybe a fellow inmate of Dee Blaylock can get Dee to reveal his true self.

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