#terrance williams

[reality-detective]

Terrance Williams goes ballistic on the border crisis and our government. 🤔

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[reasoningdaily]

NPR: Two missing men, one deputy, zero charged. What happened?

Marcia Williams reacts after an unidentified person comes forward with information about the disappearances during a press conference in 2013.

William DeShazer/Naples Daily News

The Last Ride investigates a disturbing mystery, examines systemic problems in media and policing and illuminates the deep wounds that are left when no one is held accountable. Listen to The Last Ride on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Nearly two decades ago, I was searching through my Southwest Florida newspaper's archives and spotted this tragic headline:

Has anyone seen my son?

It topped a 2004 letter to the editor written by Marcia Williams.

Her letter read, in part:

The letter, buried on page D17 of the Naples Daily News, was stunning for many reasons.

Steven Calkins is seen in 1999, at the scene where a boat fell off a trailer and blocked traffic. Michel Fortier/Naples Daily News hide caption

Three months earlier, in October 2003, on the same street in Naples, Felipe Santos vanished after getting into the same deputy's patrol car. Both men were driving illegally. Instead of taking them to jail, Calkins said he dropped them off at different Circle-K stores. But his stories could never be backed up.

Marcia Williams didn't know about the disappearance of Felipe Santos when she wrote the letter, but her plea helped to connect the hurting families.

As the story coalesced — two missing men, one deputy, zero charged — another stunning aspect was that there was so little media coverage. It was straight out of the "missing white woman syndrome" lesson from journalism school on how media often fail missing people of color while saturating coverage on young, pretty missing white women.

The Last Ride is a podcast that examines systemic problems in media and policing and illuminates the deep wounds that are left when no one is held accountable. Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

The letter from Terrance's mother led to one of my first investigative stories as a young reporter. I've followed the mystery throughout my career. Over the years, my colleagues and I sought to tell the haunting story of these Florida disappearances in a more impactful way, especially once previously confidential audio and case notes were released.

The disappearances gnawed at the families, the police, us, and our community. Maybe a podcast could get the cases to more people? Spur new ideas? Jostle memories?

The Last Ride, an eight-episode deep dive into the mystery, is the result.

'I'm not going to give up'

I met Marcia Williams in 2005.

When I interviewed her, I recall seeing boxes of her son's belongings in her Naples home. A suede coat. A Ralph Lauren shirt with the tag still attached. All just left behind. "I pray every night. I know God is tired of me," she said then. "I'm not going to give up."

Terrance Williams' mother, Marcia Williams, sits in her apartment surrounded by some of his possessions, which fill a corner of her dining room.

David Ahntholz/Naples Daily News

I also interviewed Felipe Santos' father. He told me Felipe came to the United States from Mexico at 19 with dreams of making money and starting a family. And, in the news reports I've dug up, I still look to be the last reporter who interviewed Calkins.

I think he only talked to me back then because I dropped in the fact that we share a hometown in rural Illinois.

"I didn't do anything wrong," he told me as his children played in the yard of his Naples home.

Struggling to get attention on the case

In the many years since, there have been several major developments.

Filmmaker Tyler Perry became an advocate for the families of the missing men and offered a reward for tips. Perry stood with Marcia Williams at a 2018 press conference and underscored how hard it was to draw media interest to the disappearances.

"When somebody goes missing and they are a blue-eyed, blonde woman, it's all over the news," Perry said at the time. "This woman has been struggling privately for many, many years just to get attention."

Media mogul Tyler Perry, left, holds the hand of Terrance Williams' mother, Marcia Williams. At the time, Perry offered a $100,000 reward for information solving the missing persons case of Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos. He later increased the offer to $200,000.

William DeShazer/Naples Daily News

When we were putting together The Last Ride, the 2021 disappearance of 22-year-old Gabby Petito dominated headlines. Stories of her disappearance, the discovery of her remains and the search for her boyfriend, who killed her and then himself, were immediate and nonstop.

The difference in coverage between her disappearance and the missing men was stark.

In 2022, The Columbia Journalism Review came out with a tool that uses data to analyze such disparities. Many people in the media are aware of these disparities but haven't bothered or figured out how to fix them.

Most missing people are found quickly. So, it's understandable that the media doesn't cover all of them. Yet I have firsthand experience of witnessing when they — we — should have.

The pursuit for answers

A woman holds a sign for Felipe Santos during a remembrance ceremony for missing persons at Cambier Park in Naples on Oct. 25, 2017.

Nicole Raucheisen/Naples Daily News

Attorney Ben Crump announced the suit at the 2018 Naples press conference: "This lawsuit is going to formally say, what people have been informally saying, and that is that he intentionally murdered Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos."

Around that time, my colleagues and I started reporting The Last Ride. Veteran reporters Ryan Mills and Melanie Payne were just as haunted by the cases. Why were they never solved? Did law enforcement drop the ball? Did we?

Our pursuit of answers went from Florida to Tennessee to Illinois to Iowa. We interviewed investigators, witnesses, Tyler Perry, Ben Crump and advocates and relatives of the missing men. We scrutinized hundreds of pages of records. And we followed the civil suit to its abrupt conclusion. Steven Calkins successfully fought the suit. The podcast features compelling court audio, dramatic polygraphs and questioning of Calkins.

This mystery began as a local story, but the issues are universal.

Janine Zeitlin is the host of The Last Ride and an award-winning Florida journalist.

The Last Ride is distributed by the NPR Network, reported by veteran journalists with the Naples Daily News and The Fort Myers News-Press, part of the USA Today Network, and produced in partnership with WGCU Public Media. Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

[loganslowdown4]

Round 2 of BTS for the Disney Friendship Mash-up ❤️❤️

Bonus! FILMING CH 4 & 5 OF ROLESLAYING IN MARCH AGSUWIWHSHAOKDW

[stochastique-blog]

Okay, this is interesting

[daddyscaddyandliquor]

super very random post about a few hcs i have for the socs !!

MARCIA :

- she does ballet and is actually really good !!

- she writes letters to people but never sends them just to soothe herself

- the biggest beatles fan to ever exist ever

- #1 paul holden hater

BEV :

- she cut her bob herself and she used to have very long hair

- literally never not at brill’s house i fear

- she (contrary to popular belief) actually does enjoy fighting

- her dream is to move to the beach and live on a beach house with brill

CHERRY :

- nancy sinatara = life

- she’s a flyer on the cheer team

- even when she’s with chet she accidentally calls him bob sometimes because unfortunately she sees bob in literally everything (especially chet’s alcoholism)

- she still has bob’s letterman jacket even years after he died

CHET :

- chocolate. he is obsessed with chocolate, if there is a chocolate flavor and it’s available it will be chosen

- he’s constantly covered in dog hair due to his dad’s k-9s (taken inspo from @sky4cherry again)

- youngest in his family 100% (and of the boys)

- bev is literally his big sister and it’s definitely totally by blood 100%

BRILL :

- only one of the guys that can truly handle his liquor

- he doesn’t mind jumping people, but prefers a ‘fair fight’

- the oldest child of his family and is actually the best big brother to grace the earth

- has had a crush on bev since middle school and even asked her to their middle school dance

BOB :

- paul is literally his actual brother wdym🤨

- once introduced marcia as his sister in front of the whole group + her and had never been more embarrassed

- he had a sickeningly huge crush on cherry before they got together

- another inspo he wears lilac because cherry one time told him he looked really good in it and now it’s suddenly his favorite color

TRIP :

- lives with his grandma and grandpa + melvin

- the best fighter in the group

- cherry and trip best friends agenda

- martrip goes downhill when he throws the first punch at two-bit in justice for tulsa (look at marley’s post about this it is SICK in the best way)

PAUL :

- sees himself in bob a LOT

- the one who taught the boys to fight

- was NOT okay when him and darry had their falling out. he became SOOO mean

- has referred to bev and marcia as “brill’s broad” and “trip’s broad” before and received two punches from two VERY angry boyfriends

lmk if i should do a greasers version !!

[nightmaretherabbitsideblog1]

#5

(January 19th 1982)

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[r4d1kal]

more gacha life 2 content with the aftons in my fnaf au..? yupp.

[officermaddie23]

Michael fighting his father

William Afton: This fight was cute in all but it's time to surrender what's rightfully mine to me

Maddie Drachenfire: NESS

Vanny: *blocks Drachenfire from running in and protecting Vanessa*

Vanessa: let me go

William Afton: HA HA HA HA (all of a sudden a bone fist punches Afton in the face sending him crashing into the window)

Vanessa (landing on arms made of bone she looks up and sees her father Michael Afton in his high voodoo vampire dragon form): Dad?

Michael Afton: sorry I got here a little late Ness

William Afton: okay seriously how many of you idiots do I have to fight

Michael Afton: oh I'm the only one that matters you see you mess with a dragon shifter's child you piss them

William Afton:

Vanny: *looks at Drachenfire*

Maddie Drachenfire: Don't look at me deranged easter bunny

Everyone else:

Terrance: well this just got interesting

Vanessa (whispers in her dad's ear): it's piss them off dad

Michael Afton: wait what did I say?

(Cue Afton running in and fighting his son while Vanessa tries to go free Drachenfire from Vanny's hold only for Afton using his laser attack aimed at Michael who dodges and it accidentally causes Vanessa to fall to her death only for Michael to fly in and save his daughter)

Michael Afton: I gotcha

William Afton: *laughing evilly as he gets ready to attack*

Vanessa: dad look out (starts turning into the high typhoon dragon and blocks Afton from hitting her father)

William Afton: WAIT WHAT THE FUCK

(cue both Vanessa and her father beating William Afton)

Michael Afton (In a deeper voice): YOU COME AT ME AND MY DAUGHTER DON'T YOU FORGET YOUR MESSING WITH MY ALLIES BITCH (beats the shit out of Afton)

[errorthedumbone]

They seem to...have fun....

This took way to long-

Anyways the cups are owned by @creator-of-monsters

HAHA

[southernpeach13]

The Afton and Emily Family

I love how all of these turned out

[cloudwhisper23]

Finally did a rough character sheet for New Body AU. This was absurdly challenging for me, but hopefully drawing all the new hairstyles and outfits will help me grow as an artist!

Individual shots under the cut

[crayonverse]

various retropop afton kids ... what will they do

junior and kelsey were both adopted, kelsey was prompted by mrs afton but Junior was Personally Selected by William, givng him a slight complex. Mike and Liz are twins, and are related to mrs afton but not william bc mrs afton was pregnant, broke up with her boyfriend at the time, met will and had the children with him.

i keep making changes to my au and designs so i hope this will be the last physical change to mike and liz lmao and i can finally make them references that stick </3

also in case it isnt obvious here kelsey is foxybro !! im going with mikenone for retropop :3

[daddyscaddyandliquor]

thinking about marcia sneaking out to see bob’s dead body before the cops arrive because she needs to let him know that she’s there.

thinking about trip begging her not to go because he saw the body and he saw all the blood and he saw the painful look on bob’s face.

thinking about how marcia has a secret grudge against cherry and how she shouldn’t have walked away to talk to ponyboy.

thinking about marcia in justice for tulsa.

thinking about marcia.

[nightmaretherabbitsideblog1]

#01

(June 6th 1973)

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