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Special Edition: Police double murder coverup in Three Rivers, Michigan - Uncovered!
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It was reported at the time that two rescue workers helped a "Cop" (Michael Costello?) out of a partially submerged car during the time Shelton drowned.
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Locals have also reported that Michael Costello was at both scenes immediately upon the call from dispatch. Costello may have attempted to get Shelton and her daughter out of the car before the rescue divers were able to arrive on the scene. It’s alleged that Costello had rushed into the water to ensure that Shelton never surfaced so she would not be able to tell anyone anything about what she may have or may not have seen, or heard that day. It’s also alleged that Shelton’s daughter was taken to Ann Harbor for treatment to make it more difficult for local law enforcement to be able to reach her.
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Reports about the Shelton drowning stated there were no guardrails on the side of the roads during the Shelton drowning. However, there is clearly what appears to be a bent up and damaged guardrail at the scene.
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Before we continue, please hear us out!
Ideally we want to produce a video for the article and add more evidence, then promote them with an ad targeting the entire state of Michigan to blow this whole thing wide open. We previously ran an ad targeting St. Joseph County, the county it happened in, and two witnesses came forward, including murder victim Swartz' own cousin. We raise the awareness of social and human rights issues with targetered ads, and we make efforts to avoid biased political content in the ads. Your support via PayPal, various crypto, CashApp, or check by mail would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.
- Kyle James Lee - Majority Owner of The AEGIS Alliance
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According to Barnes' uncle, while at the TRPD, he overheard two cops argueing with or about Michael Costello being involved in Shelton's accident. The uncle said he also heard the cops talking about Cathy Sue Swartz calling and asking about charges against her before she was murdered. You'd think that the cop who had to break it all up (Michael Costello) would've been questioned. As far as we're aware, nobody contacted Barnes' uncle about this, not the Metropolitan State Police, the FBI, or Crime Stoppers, even after Barnes' had sent in the information.
Officer Matt Stark in Three Rivers, Michigan whose father is Earl Stark, the former chief of police, told Barnes that his dad personally threw Costello out of the TRPD back in the early 90s.
It appears that the TRPD is about to close the Swartz case after 35 years because another person was arrested for the murder on April 30, 2023. However, the suspect named Robert Odell Waters supposedly committed suicide while awaiting to be extradited to Michigan. However, there was conveniently no surveillance footage of Waters' jail cell at the time of his supposed suicide. If Waters was at the Swartz residence recently before the murder, of course, his DNA evidence would've been at the crime scene, and that does not make him the murderer. Waters will also never get a chance to testify in court and try to prove his innocence, how convenient!
Robert Odell Waters had found out that his family was being shunned and harassed from day one. Waters' daughter "swears up and down" that both the footprint and fingerprint did not match.
Just when and where did Waters move exactly? Waters' daughter was born in Phoenix, Arizona in January 1989, so Waters had already been living in Arizona for some time before the murder.
Sam Smallcombe, now a detective, was investigating the Swartz murder, and he has stated that Waters was not questioned in the initial investigation because he moved to Phoenix, Arizona back in September 1988, before the December murder. Waters was allegedly found in the Three Rivers High School freshman yearbook, but not in any years after that, not in the sophomore, junior, or senior years, according to Missouri State Trooper Opie Taylor aka Pepper Walker who was a childhood friend of Joshua Thomas Barnes. One thing that needs to be looked into, is, where Waters filed his first income taxes at.
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Detective Sam Smallcombe stated in an old news report that, "The only time that Mr. Waters was listed was that he moved to Arizona in September before the murders, so I think as far as the original detectives were concerned he moved out of the area before the crime occurred." Notice how Smallcombe slipped up and said "murders," not just one murder, but two when referring to the Swartz murder.
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Joshua Thomas Barnes spoke with Robert Waters' brother in law who claimed his sister Julie met Waters in Phoenix, Arizona around 1986 or 1987, some time before the 1988 Swartz murder.
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There are a couple of newspaper prints, in one of them, Mike Warner, a boyfriend of Cathy Swartz, claimed that Robert Waters had "shown up" to the apartment with a girlfriend about a month prior to the Swartz' murder. In the other article, Mike Warner claims that he had ran into Waters, who was visiting the area, and invited him over to the apartment!
Warner recalled that Robert Waters had already moved to South Carolina but was visiting Three Rivers, Michigan when he ran into him and invited him over. Warner said after that he never had contact with Robert Waters again. The problem with this is that Robert Waters had permanently moved to Phoenix, Arizona months before the Swartz murder. But wait, if Warner never again had contact with Waters after that visit, then how did he know that Waters was living in South Carolina?
Robert Odell Waters had visited the Swartz apartment one month before the murder(s), so it's very likely that his DNA would have been at the apartment, and this does not make Waters out to look like the killer.
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Robert Odell Waters' death certification which was available on May 11, 2023, shows his parents were James Hurlen Waters and Judith Dangerfield, not John and Judith Waters as Smallcombe would have everyone believe.
Locals came forward, including Cathy Sue Swartz’ own cousin, Mary Wilma. Swartz’s mother and Mary Wilma’s father are brother and sister. We had heard rumors before that the TRPD was involved in drug dealing, including cocaine back in 1988, and allegations of officers extorting drug dealers for money. Cathy Sue Swartz’ cousin, Mary Wilma, has stated that Swartz was selling cocaine for the police and she wanted out. She wanted to get married and have a baby, it was her dream.
However, Swartz' cousin Wilma also brought up a rumor we've heard before, that Mike Mohney was seen leaving the Swartz apartment dressed as a woman during the time of the murder. Joshua Thomas Barnes has alleged that Mohney may have put on Swartz' clothes when leaving the apartment to disguise himself. This would fit into the description of the "woman" who was seen leaving the Swartz residence at the time of the murder. Locals and Joshua Thomas Barnes have alleged previously that drug dealers were selling cocaine for the TRPD back in the 1980s, and the TRPD was extorting the drug dealers for money.
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In 1988, Mohney was a White male, and in 1988 he was about 22 years old, standing 5’ 2” and weighing around 135 lbs with a stocky build. Mohney had short blonde hair with a long feathered hair style on the sides and a fair skin complexion. This is almost identical to the "woman" who was seen leaving Cathy Sue Swartz’s Riverside Townhouse apartment around the time she was murdered on December 2, 1988.
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In a South Bend, Michigan WSBT-TV Channel 22 news article from 2013, Mike Mohney stated things about how the murder suspect would need to have some type of shoes or footwear on, and "So what did you do, did you take the footwear off and change it. Did you use some of Cathy's clothes, her boyfriend's clothes." Then, near the end of the article, David Swartz, father of murder victim Cathy Swartz, stated "They can tell you the kind of shoe the person wore."
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We've also uncovered two contradicting news reports from WOODTV.com channel 8 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The two articles tell a different story about how the still alive baby was found at the scene of the murder. One news report says "Warner" was 18 when he came home from work on December 2, 1988 and discovered Swartz's body, that Swartz was 19, he called 911 and grabbed her 9-month-old baby daughter from her crib in the adjoining room.
However, an article that was published one week earlier is telling. It states that "Tom Bringman, who became the Three Rivers police chief in 2007 and retired in 2021, was 14 years into his career when Swartz died. He and fellow officer Mike Mohney were the first to see her body. He said they cleared the home before getting Swartz's baby out of the next room."
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But wait! Before you go... please hear us out! Link to full article below.
Ideally we want to produce a video for the article and add more evidence, then promote them with an ad targeting the entire state of Michigan to blow this whole thing wide open. We previously ran an ad targeting St. Joseph County, the county it happened in, and two witnesses came forward, including murder victim Swartz' own cousin. We raise the awareness of social and human rights issues with targetered ads, and we make efforts to avoid biased political content in the ads. Your support via PayPal, various crypto, CashApp, or check by mail would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.
- Kyle James Lee - Majority Owner of The AEGIS Alliance
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