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| Wendy Camp: Did her ex-husband Chad "Chazz" Noe murder her? |
Hello fellow crime enthusiasts,
Sergeant Jane Scratchaway here and, boy, do I have one that’ll get your whiskers in a knot today. Usually when I tell you about a case, I merely present you with the facts, but this one is so confusing and nonsensical that I think it’s prudent to test out a few theories as well. But first, the facts:
Wendy Camp was a mother of two in Shamrock, Oklahoma. She’d had two husbands over the course of her life – the second, Leon Camp, was still happily her husband. But the first, the father of her second child, Chad Noe, had a sordid history with Wendy. The two had been married only weeks before Wendy gave birth to their son Jonathon, but soon after the birth she was hit with a crippling bought of multiple sclerosis that left her in the hospital for an entire year. While hospitalized, Chad decided that it was in his son’s best interest to be raised by one healthy parent and filed for divorce with sole custody. Wendy was too ill at the time to contest the claim.
When Wendy recovered, she remarried to Leon Camp and moved in with her daughter Cynthia. She requested visitation with her son Jonathon, but visitation proved difficult to maintain – Chad would schedule times to meet and refuse to show up. He later moved without contacting her and registered unlisted phone numbers so as not to be contacted.
When Wendy did finally visit with Jonathon, Chad’s mother Beverly Noe claimed she’d witnessed Leon Camp sexually abusing her grandson. Because these claims could not be substantiated, visitation was restored to Wendy, however once again Chad failed to comply.
Finally after six months of not hearing from Chad, Wendy received a call from him out of the blue, claiming that Wendy was allowed visitation for the day. He even offered to send his mother Beverly out to pick her up, seeing as Wendy’s multiple sclerosis had left her unable to drive. Leon Camp felt something was fishy – and not the yummy kind of fishy – about the whole affair and asked his sister Lisa “Renee” Kregear to accompany Wendy on the trip. Wendy’s daughter Cynthia Britto went along too.
For all intents and purposes, the beginning of the day went fine for Wendy and company. She called Leon when she arrived at the designation visitation spot and again when the visitation was complete, promising to be home shortly. She then got into the car with Renee, Cynthia, Beverly, and Beverly’s mother Ida Pruitt. Now here’s where things stop matching up – according to Ida Pruitt, Wendy complained about her lack of visitation the entire ride. Thus, during a bathroom break, Ida requested to be dropped off at home, which Beverly later did. Beverly claims that Wendy’s complaining became so insufferable that she then dropped the three passengers off at a Walmart parking lot forty-five miles from Wendy’s home. Wendy never phoned Leon from the Walmart parking lot, nor was she, Renee, or Cynthia ever seen or heard from again.
Now, here’s the puzzle: let’s say that Wendy was murdered by Beverly and/or Chad. There is circumstantial evidence to suggest this, kittehs, and I would bet my best toy mouse that she was. For one thing, Beverly apparently arranged to meet Chad for dinner two hours after they’d left the visitation, however the drive would have taken three hours on a good day and Beverly took an older, slower route. She also refuses to talk about Wendy’s disappearance publicly, which is surely suspicious. Furthermore, both Beverly and her mother Ida were booked by the FBI for arson, as they had been setting fire to the houses they lived in in order to collect insurance money. One of the two women was also reportedly dating someone in the so-called “Dixie Mafia,” an organized crime ring centered in Oklahoma City, though there is no formal evidence to back this up.
But if they indeed murdered Wendy, Renee and Cynthia, why make it so obvious? Beverly and Ida were the last people to see the three alive – this much is confirmed. They had something of a motive – clearly they did not wish for Wendy to have visitation rights with her son. Most importantly, however, why would they have let Wendy see her son and make two phone calls home before murdering her, especially when their story – that Wendy was dropped off at a Walmart – seems all the more implausible because Wendy did not phone from Walmart. The fact that not only Wendy, but her sister-in-law and innocent six year-old daughter would also be murdered without any sort of dissuasion attempt on the part of the murderers also seems unlikely.
The other option is that the murder was not premeditated, though this makes me wonder if Wendy’s complaining was really awful enough to warrant her death. (I will, however, admit that the yapping from the Jack Russell that lives next door has, at times, made me consider murder, though I’d like to note that I never actually committed it. I’m just saying maybe it isn’t such a stretch, is all.) The big problem here though is that Beverly was alone in the car with the three women when they disappeared, or shortly before. Had she, on her own, killed them without pre-planning, she would then have had to have disposed all three bodies by herself, as Chad was not with her at the time. Perhaps she left the bodies in a temporary location in order to call Chad to come help, but this seems like a gamble. However they disappeared, however, it seems unlikely that Beverly’s story about the Walmart parking lot is accurate – for Wendy, who was completely dependent on Leon, to have missed a call would have meant that as soon as Beverly dropped the three off, they were all immediately abducted. This seems unlikely, to say the least.
Though Ida and Beverly are serving time, somewhere in the state of Oklahoma Chad Noe is roaming free. I even found an update on Chad from a lady on the Unsolved Mysteries board claiming to be Johnathan's aunt:
"LOL!!! BUT, when I spoke to Johnathan HE is the one who told me beverly was in jail, and when I asked if chad, his dad, had come to his graduation, he admitted that he hasnt seen chad, in, GET THIS: OVER ten years..... WHAT A FU*KIN loser my poor nephew got as a dad, HUH???? YET< in the UM segement, kiddis, it is question and answer time. WHAT was the reason he claimed he took Johnathan for??? HMMM? Well it is a lie, my PARENTS filed for a divorce for my sister, Ad Lidum, WHILE she was in a coma and my parents found out that he got a 16 year old girl pregnant, IN THE HOSPITAL HALL! He took johnathan, moved out of my parents house when my parents THREW his ass out, and took Johnathan, and apparently dropped him off at GRANDMAS house, only to return, and VISIT, NOT parent.... And after my sister and neice went missing, he saw him ONE TIME!!!! ONCE!!!!!!!!!! What a jerk! I could, and WOULD kill him, if I got the chance....And so would my Mom, Uncle or anyone else in my family. We hate him.."
Keep on your toes, Oklahomans. Not everyone has all nine lives to expend.
Signed,
Sgt. Scratchaway
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If you have an clues please contact the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation at: 405-848-6724
