This story originally aired on Nov. 15, 2025.
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The guys at the sheriff's office call her a cool dude with long hair because, they say, she's meaner than any of them -- on the gun range and in the field.
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She's a trained tracker and detective with the Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
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I go out to scenes when there's manhunts or trying to locate individuals.
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Her specialty is finding the missing — whether alive or dead.
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I have found them underneath piles of leaves.
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I've found them pretty much in any area you can think of.
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For kids and other family members caught in the crossfire of tragedy, Haven provides comfort and consolation -- a consoling presence she herself would rely on in the coming months as she embarked on one of the most heart-wrenching cases of her career.
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This case will stay with me forever.
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And it will be one that I always remember through my whole life … Because of how cruel it was.
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The last thing we said to each other, was "I love you."
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Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, began like most days for Andria Meave: with a 7 a.m. phone call from her best friend and younger sister, Makayla.
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I wish I would've known I would've said so much more. …
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At least I said, "I love you."
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The next morning, Saturday the 16th, the phone rang as usual around 7 a.m. —only this time, it wasn't Makayla.
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He's hysterical, crying, screaming, can barely understand what he's saying.
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And he says, Makayla didn't come home last night. …
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He ended up telling me that Makayla went on a date the Friday night before with a bald man in a white truck …
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They left and she never came home last night.
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At the time, Makayla and Frank Byers were headed for divorce, says Andria Meave.
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They were still living on the same 10-acre property in Macomb, Oklahoma -- but in separate homes.
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I hope she had fun.
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But Meave's mood began to shift when her many calls to Makayla went to voicemail.
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Makayla was supposed to help out at the family restaurant that afternoon.
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But she didn't show and hadn't called — unheard of for Makayla.
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And the more I prayed about it, the more I realized that something serious had happened.
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Frank Byers also reported Makayla missing to the Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office that afternoon.
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… my wife's been missing since late last night …
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she left … at 5:30ish, roughly 5:40, and the last time that anyone has heard from her has been at 8:00 p.m.
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The deputy on duty, Dustin Richardson, felt he needed to put eyes on the ground.
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He got to Macomb around 4 p.m. with his bodycam rolling.
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Deputy Dustin Richardson: … he'd given me the information over the phone, but I just wanted to see where she was coming from and -- and see more of the details.
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Frank Byers made a point of showing the deputy the last Facebook message he said Makayla sent him after she left assuring him she was "fine…" and to "back off…"
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Then he told him the story about Makayla driving off with a bald man in a white truck.
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Did you see the guy at all?
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FRANK BYERS: … I would probably say, 6, 6'1".
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He was completely bald and he had a beard.
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If I — If I had to guess a weight, I don't know, maybe 200.
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Richardson then asked if he could see the house where Makayla was temporarily living.
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Can I go take a look around?
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