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Hello friends, Steve Stockton here. This video, by popular request,
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is a marathon of some of our creepiest cases ever.
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Join me. Let's walk and see. Hello friends.
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In this video, we bring you some of the most
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unbelievably bizarre and creepiest disappearances we've ever covered. Some of
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these defy the imagination. So buckle up. It's going to
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be a wild ride. First disappearance, Jeremiah Foko. 36 year
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old Jeremiah Foko left his apartment and headed for his
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job as a software engineer at Oracle in Bellevue, Washington.
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on July 22nd, 2015, only to never be seen or
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heard from again.
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Jeremiah grew up in.
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Standish, Michigan, a small town with around 1,400 residents, and
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graduated from the Standish Sterling Central High School. In his
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spare time, Jeremiah enjoyed golfing and snowboarding, and Jeremiah's parents
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still call the small town home. On July 22nd, 2015,
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Jeremiah phoned his boss at Oracle, telling him that he
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was coming into the office to get his laptop repaired,
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but he never arrived. This was extremely out of character
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for Jeremiah. With his father, Edward, telling ABC News, it
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makes no sense. Something had to have happened. As the
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hours passed, his boss waited for Jeremiah to arrive, but
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that moment never came. His boss then contacted Jeremiah's family
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to let them know what was going on and to
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ask if they had seen him or had contact with him.
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His family was shocked to.
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Hear that Jeremiah hadn't shown up to work and they,
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in turn, contacted the police in Seattle. The Seattle Police
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Department took Jeremiah's disappearance very seriously from the get-go and
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began retracing Jeremiah's last known movements. CCTV cameras showed Jeremiah
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pulling into the parking garage of his apartment complex at 12.07 a.m.
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on July 22nd, 2015. This wasn't the only piece of
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CCT footage that the Seattle police uncovered. Later that day,
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a man matching Jeremiah's description is seen walking down the
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stairs of the International District bus station. The bus station
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that Jeremiah used to get to work. The man can
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be seen walking down the stairs carrying a backpack. Now
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friends and family are convinced that the man in the
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footage is Jeremiah. A close friend of Jeremiah's, Jocelyn Combray,
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told 213 Fox News, It's nice to see him. We
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know that he was okay as of 7.02 Wednesday. It
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was comforting to see him walk and see the back
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of his head. Just as the man approaches the bottom
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of the stairs and walks toward the tunnel, the footage
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glitches out. Once the glitch clears, the man is gone
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and there are no further sightings of him. The Seattle
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police have never publicly confirmed who the man in the
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footage is indeed Jeremiah Falco. Renee Tarchan, Jeremiah's mother, told
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ABC News, Every day I think that this can't be real,
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yet every day I wake up and it's real. He
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got up, got ready for work, and fell off the planet.
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I just hope and pray every day that there will
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be some sign. On August 25th, 2015, Jocelyn Combré, who
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runs the Facebook page Missing Jeremiah Foucault, posted, All known activity,
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including last phone call, financial activity, employment presence, vehicle use,
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iCloud use, bus pass use, even a visual by surveillance
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in the parking lot, ATM and apartment complex, all activity
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ended by midnight the morning of Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015.
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On the day that he disappeared, for whatever reason, Jeremiah
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did not use his bus pass. Viewers on Reddit have
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speculated that the person seen in the bus station is
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Jeremiah and speculate that the ticket system was down and
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therefore his pass would have not registered any activity. As
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Jeremiah has been missing for some time, he had not
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paid his rent and his family were subsequently served with
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an eviction notice. In a further post dated January 10th,
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2016 on the Facebook page, Jocelyn wrote, as mentioned in
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the previous updates, A group of his friends came with
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trucks and waited on the curb for his belongings to
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be placed outside the Uwajimaya Village Apartments to follow normal
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eviction protocol. We salvaged all of his personal belongings such
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as documents, clothes, memorabilia, and some household items, but we
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weren't able to store larger furniture. Currently, his belongings are
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stored in the garage of one of his friends' houses.
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They are slowly going through his belongings to search for clothes,
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but nothing yet. We found the shirt and shorts he
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was positively ID'd in in the apartment surveillance video in
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his dirty hamper, so we know that he changed since 12.07 a.m., Wednesday,
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July 22nd, 2015. We continue to call his cell phone
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and the number has now been disconnected. Bizarrely, after Jeremiah's disappearance,
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his car was found behind his apartment on 6th Avenue South.
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Not as unknown whether Jeremiah or another person moved his
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car out of the parking garage, Since their son's disappearance,
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Jeremiah's parents have been heavily involved with the Seattle Police
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Department and flew out to Seattle to help with the
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search for him. His parents also provided DNA samples to
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the police department so the identification of remains would be
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faster in the event that Jeremiah was found. Around 20
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to 25 of Jeremiah's closest friends and family dedicate their
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time to keeping the investigation alive and undertaking their own investigations.
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The Seattle Police Department does not suspect that Jeremiah met
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with foul play, however, they have stated that his case
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is still active and open. Jeremiah Foco was 36 years
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old when he was last seen on July 22, 2015.
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He is described as a white male with brown hair
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and brown eyes. Jeremiah sometimes uses the nickname Jay, but
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sports a shaved head. He was last seen wearing a
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black t-shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes, and also wore glasses
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for reading. If you have any information about the mysterious
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disappearance of Jeremiah Foucault, you are asked to please contact
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the Seattle Police Department at 206-625-5011. Gene Johnson. 70-year-old Gene
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Johnson lived a quiet and peaceful life in Capitan, New
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Mexico in 2019. Seven years earlier, in 2012, Jean's beloved
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husband had passed away, and since then, there was a
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hole in her heart that only.
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One man could ever fill.
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Jean found it incredibly difficult to move on and wore
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a pendant filled with his ashes on a necklace close
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to her heart, as well as wearing her wedding ring.
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By all accounts, Jean was a loving grandmother, mother, and wife,
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and devoted her time to playing with her grandchildren and
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talking to her friends in town. She also enjoyed gardening,
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and taking life at a slow pace. So when Jean
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mysteriously vanished into thin air and failed to make contact
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with her daughter Heidi, her family knew something was very wrong.
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On Sunday, May 26, 2019, Jean was dog sitting for
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a friend who was out of town and at some
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point during the day, Jean snapped a selfie of her
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and the dog and sent it to her daughter Heidi.
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Heidi told Dateline, she sent me a picture of her
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and the dog relaxing.
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My mother was my best friend. We were very close.
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We talked at least three times a day.
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This is the last known contact from Jean, and after this,
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she mysteriously vanished into thin air. On Monday, the 27th
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of May, 2019, Heidi attempted to call her mother that evening,
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but got no answer. In an NBC News report, Heidi
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tells reporter Andrea Cavaliere She was working all day, and
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her 10-year-old son had a friend over that night, so
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calling her mother slipped her mind.
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Until the evening.
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Then she tried to call her again on Tuesday, the
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28th of May, 2019, but again received no answer. Heidi
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became concerned that her mother wasn't answering her phone, and
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the next phone call she received turned her world upside down.
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A friend that Jean had been dog-sitting for called Heidi
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to let her know that Jean had never dropped a
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dog off on Monday, the 27th of May, 2019, as planned.
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This phone call confirmed Heidi's suspicions that something was terribly wrong,
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and she dropped everything to rush over to her mother's house.
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She told NBC News, That's when I panicked. I just
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felt like something was terribly wrong. I had a bad
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feeling the entire way. As Heidi pulled up outside of
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her mother's home, located on Towhee Road in Capitan, New Mexico,
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her stomach sank. The gate into the driveway was locked,
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and Jean's car was also locked and parked on the driveway.
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Heidi peered into the car and saw her mother's phone
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and purse in the car, but there was no sign
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of her mother. The front door was described as being
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slightly ajar, but nothing in the home appeared to be
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out of the ordinary. As Heidi stepped inside, she found
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the dog that her mother had been dog-sitting. The dog
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was fine, save for a few accidents it had around
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the house. Still, there was no sign of Jean. Heidi
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checked her mother's home, hoping that she would find her somewhere.
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As she moved throughout the apartment, she noticed that one
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thing was missing. A. 357 caliber pistol that Jean kept
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in the house for protection. Heidi told investigators that her
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mother would only use the gun if she was scared. Initially,
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investigators feared that Jean had used the gun to take
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her own life. Heidi called the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office
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shortly after and reported her mother missing, triggering an investigation.
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In a strange twist, the gun was turned into the
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Lincoln County Sheriff's Office two months later by an unknown person.
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The Sheriff's Office has not released a description of the
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person who handed in the gun, and they remain unidentified.
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The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said in a statement, We're
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not ruling anybody in and we're not ruling anybody out
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because we don't know yet. Jean's 10-acre property has been
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extensively searched, but no evidence was found. Heidi did tell
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investigators that her mother was sometimes forgetful, but had no history.
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Of wandering off.
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70-year-old Jean Johnson was last heard from on Sunday, May 26, 2019,
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and her last confirmed whereabouts are at her home on
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Towhee Road in Capitan, New Mexico. Jean is described as
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a white female with gray and brown hair and green eyes.
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Jean has had a left mastectomy and her right breast
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is intact. She also has a previous fracture to one
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of her big toes and her ears are pierced. We
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do not know what Jean was wearing on the day
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of her disappearance, but her general description is listed as 5'6,
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130 pounds. Her daughter, Heidi, said that she was possibly
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wearing a silver wedding band with three diamonds and a
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clear pendant with.
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Her husband's ashes inside.
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If you have any information, you're urged to contact the
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Lincoln County Sheriff's Office on 687-2419.
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Or you can.
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Contact Carrizozo Sheriff's Office at 648-2342. Abby Flynn February 2nd.
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2020 Super Bowl weekend.
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The time for celebration, anticipation, and an excuse for friends
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to get together, drink beer, eat party food, and watch
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the game together. 59-year-old Abby Flynn of Gloucester, Massachusetts spent
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the first half of February 2nd, 2020 preparing to host
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a Super Bowl party. Abby and her friends were eager
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to watch the San Francisco 49ers versus the Kansas City
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Chiefs in the Ultimate NFL Showdown. But when her friends
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arrived at her house around 6 p.m., there was no
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sign of her. Her friends were incredibly confused as everything
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was set up and ready for the party. The oven
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was still warm and Abby's phone was laid out on
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the table. After searching the house and finding no sign
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of her, her concerned friends called the Gloucester Police Department
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to report her missing. Ed Conley, the chief of police,
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said there were indications that she had been at home,
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that she had prepared for the.
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Party, but she was not there.
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At the time of the party, Abby's husband was in Houston, Texas,
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and her children were away at college, leaving just Abby
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in the home. Now, there are conflicting reports surrounding Abby's
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final movements. Some articles say that she spoke to her
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son at 2.40 p.m., while some say 4 p.m., and
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others say.
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Yet 4.30 p.m.
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While we do not have an accurate time, we do
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know that at some point in the afternoon, Abby did
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indeed call her son and told him that she was
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going for a walk. This fact was confirmed by residents
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who reported seeing Abby at around 4.30 p.m.
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That day.
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After this, Abby has never been seen or heard from again.
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Abby's family told investigators that she was a keen hiker
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and loved being outdoors. She was experienced and knew how
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to traverse the landscape around her, making her disappearance all
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the more mysterious. The investigation began almost right away, with
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investigators searching long into the night for Abby. According to
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news reports, detectives, officers, police dogs, and land, sea, and
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air patrols were sent out to look for Abby, but sadly,
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they found nothing. The Gloucester Police Department believes that Abby
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had an accident or a medical emergency.
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During her walk. However, no remains have ever been found.
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59-year-old Abby Flynn, full name Mary Abby Flynn, is described
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as a white female with brown hair and brown eyes.
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She is 5'5 to 5'7 inches tall, weighs between 190
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and 210 pounds, and has her ears pierced. She was
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last seen wearing a navy blue L.L. Bean puffer jacket,
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a long-sleeved flannel shirt, blue jeans, and L.L.
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Bean boot. L.L.
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Bean is a well-known outdoor activity and hiking brand. If
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you have any information about the mysterious disappearance of Abby Flynn,
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you're asked to please contact the Gloucester Police Department.
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978-283-1212.
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Or, you can contact the Massachusetts State Police at 978-745-8908.
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Fauna Frye In June 2020, 45-year-old Fauna Frye was coping
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with the very recent passing of her brother, Dallin. Fauna's father, John,
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said that the two siblings were very close, as they
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were each other's only siblings, and the death of her
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brother had impacted her deeply. On June 28, 2020, Fauna
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called her father, John, from a phone at the Super
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8 Hotel to check in with him. According to John,
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Fauna intended to go to Grants Pass, Oregon, from her
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home in Dexter, Oregon, to visit friends and take a
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short vacation to help her cope with her grief. While
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on the phone, John noticed that Donna sounded disoriented and
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wasn't acting her usual self. During the phone call, Donna
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told her father that she had picked up a hitchhiker near.
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Wilderville, Oregon.
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John told ABC 13 News, She talked to me about
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angels and then about the hitchhiker. It wasn't really like
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her to pick up hitchhikers, so I knew she was
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disoriented and very much in grief. She was very upset
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and distraught. On June 29th, 2020, Fauna was spotted at
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the Umpqua Bank in Rogue River, Oregon, and withdrew $ 200.
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There's also apparent CCTV footage showing Fauna leaving the Super
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8 Hotel on June 29th, 2020, between 8.30 a.m.
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And 9 a.m. with all of her bags.
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Inside Edition reported that Fauna had a reservation at the
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We Ask Who Inn, but never showed up. On July 5th, 2020,
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John Fry phoned the Josephine County Sheriff's Office and reported
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his daughter missing, explaining to them that he had last
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heard from her on June 28. Investigators searched through Fauna's
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financial records and found that she had used her credit
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card twice in the days leading up to her disappearance.
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Once to buy camping equipment and the second time to
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buy personal items. As previously mentioned, she also made a
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reservation for the We Ask Who Inn with this credit
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card but never showed up. After this, no further transactions
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were made on her credit. In a post to the
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Help Find Fauna Fry Facebook group, a person only identified
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as Jenny posted a list of what Fauna purchased.
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On that day. 8.30 a.m.
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Approximately at Fred Meyer's, $ 138.
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28.
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Socks, V05 shampoo, Pantene conditioner, two Burt's Bees, a deli sandwich,
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one bag of chips, a mug to wear clothing, two
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cans of Foster's beer. Then at 12.36 p.m. approximately at
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Big Five Sporting Goods, she purchased a three-pack of palm-held flashlights, lanterns, capris,
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tennis shoes, and a sports bra. Then at 3.39 p.m.
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at a store called Gooseberries, she bought 10 packs of tuna,
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three cans of coffee, and one smoothie. An investigation was
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launched by the Josephine County Sheriff's Office with detectives, investigators,
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and volunteers all working together to help search for Fauna.
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Investigators believed she may have been camping in the area. However,
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searches turned up nothing. Then, on September 23, 2020, Vaughn's
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2000 four-door blue Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo was found on
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a dead-end spur off Reuben Mountain Road, six miles past
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the Grave Creek boat landing in Josephine County. Vaughn's car
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was locked and investigators found personal items along with food
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inside the car. Her car was also processed for evidence
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and according to the Oregon State Police, fingerprints and DNA
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samples were recovered, but these have not been processed. This
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is because the Oregon State Police have no evidence to
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suggest that a crime was committed or occurred at the
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scene and they are having to prioritize their caseload. The
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hitchhiker that was with Fauna was extensively questioned and ruled
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out as a suspect. As this is the case, their
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name has been withheld from the public. Morgan State Police
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have no reason to believe that Fauna met with foul play, however,
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they are still investigating the case. Her father, John Fry,
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hasn't given up looking for his daughter, and explains how
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he's searched over half the state of Oregon looking for her.
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On September 30th, the Help Find Fauna Fry Facebook group
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posted a timeline of events, and it is as follows.
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6-27-20.
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That evening, Fauna drives her Jeep from Dexter, Oregon towards
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Grants Pass, Oregon. She spends the night in her car
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at an unknown location. She did not bring any additional clothing. 6.28.20
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at 10.08 a.m., Fauna stops at Creswell 76 gas station
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and makes a $ 20 purchase. Also on 6.28.20 at 11.40 a.m.,
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Fauna purchased some chicken strips. We believe that she shopped
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at the Wolf Creek store and bought them there. Also
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on 6.28.20 at 11.45 a.m., Fauna stopped at a house
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in Wolf Creek and spent 30 minutes with the people there.
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These people provided Fauna with an address via Dex to
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Onion Mountain Road. Again on 6-28-20, time unknown, Fauna picks
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up a hitchhiker and took her to Fish Hatchery Road.
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Same day, 7-04 p.m., Fauna visits the Cave Junction Chevron
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gas station and makes a $ 25 purchase.
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7-45 p.m., Fauna checks into the Super 8 Hotel.
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8 p.m., Fauna calls her dad, John, at home. 8.30 p.m.,
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Fauna visits Fred Meyers and makes a $ 138. 28 purchase, as
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discussed previously, before heading back to her hotel room. She's
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seen wearing a neon green and purple pullover and is
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shopping alone.
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8.35 a.m.
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On the 29th, video shows Fauna leaving her hotel room
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at the Super 8 in Grants Pass.
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11.44 a.m.
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That same morning, $ 200 cash withdrawn from the Umpqua Bank.
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In the Roke River.
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12.36 p.m., Big Five purchase of $ 250. 77. 2.35 p.m. on
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that day, Fauna made a reservation at We Ask.
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Who Inn.
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3.39 p.m., purchase at Gooseberry's Market for $ 56.
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61.
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After this, the timeline stops and there is no more
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activity on Fauna's credit cards or bank card. 45-year-old Vonna
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Frye was last seen on June 29, 2020, at the
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Umpqua Bank in Rogue River, Oregon. She is described as
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a white female with blonde hair and blue eyes, approximately
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5'6'' tall and between 135-150 lbs. Vonna's ears appear as
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she has a tattoo on her back and also wears
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glasses for driving at night. She was last seen wearing
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a pink or purple lightweight zip-up jacket, a white or
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light-colored shirt, black cotton capri leggings, sports bra, underwear, white
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Champion brand ankle socks, and black, gray, pink, and white
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tennis shoes. If you have any information about the disappearance
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of Fauna, you're asked to contact the Josephine County Sheriff's
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Office at 514-474-5132, or you can leave an anonymous tip
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at 541-359-5638. There's also an email address that is monitored
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by the Facebook group, which is findvonafrye at gmail.com. The
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GoFundMe campaign is currently active to help Vaughn's family cover expenses.
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The link will be listed in the description. Travis Murrow.
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40 year old Travis Murrow was a devoted father of four.
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Although some friends have said that he was sometimes a
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little rough around the edges. One friend told NBC News,
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A true friend is real hard to come by, and
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good dads are real hard to come by. And Travis,
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he was both. Travis enjoyed rodeos and bull riding and
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even encouraged his four children to do the same, taking
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joy in seeing his children compete and have a good time.
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On August 24, 2014, Travis visited an acquaintance in Enid, Oklahoma.
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Travis made several texts to friends and family that day,
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telling them that he was in the Enid and Canton
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areas of Oklahoma. Travis was last seen at the acquaintance's
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house and it is believed that he was headed for
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Oakwood or Selling, Oklahoma, to visit one of his former girlfriends. However,
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Travis never showed up at one of his former girlfriend's houses.
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The last confirmed movement from Travis is a phone call
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he placed to one of these girlfriends at around 10 p.m.
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on August 24, 2014. After this, Travis has never been
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seen or heard from again. Later that evening, Travis' Dodge
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Dakota pickup truck was found near Canton Lake in Dewey County, Oklahoma.
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His truck had been locked and abandoned, but there was
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no sign of Travis or his personal belongings anywhere. The
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Iowa Police Department confirmed that there were no signs of
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a struggle, but they did launch a full-scale search for him.
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Days of searching by land and air showed no signs
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of Travis, and in the days after his disappearance, the
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Iowa Police Department requested the involvement of the Oklahoma State
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Bureau of Investigation. In a statement to the Enid News-Eagle,
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Jessica Brown of the OSBI said, We wouldn't have taken it,
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probably as a full investigation, did we not believe that
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Val Plague could be involved. Many people have speculated that
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Travis disappeared of his own accord, as at the time
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of his disappearance he had outstanding warrants for his arrest.
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His family has heavily disputed these claims, saying that Travis
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was a devoted father and would not have left of
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his own accord. Forty-year-old Travis Murrow was last seen on
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August 24, 2014, in Enid, Oklahoma. He is described as
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a white male with light brown hair and blue eyes.
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He also wears glasses. Travis has a two- to three-inch
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scar on his left wrist that extends from the palm
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to forearm, a scar on his left thigh, and three
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scars on his chest. He has a tattoo of a
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bull skull with four feathers hanging from the horns on
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his right bicep. It is believed that he was last
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seen wearing Western-style clothing. Travis stands at 5 foot 9
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inches tall and weighs 140 pounds.
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If you.
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Have any information, you're asked to contact the Iowa Police
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Department at 580-327-2121 or the Dewey County Sheriff's Office at
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580-328-5558 or the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations at either
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405-848-6724 or toll-free.
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1-800-522-8017.
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You can also email them at tips at osbi.ok.gov.
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Well, friends, there you have it.
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What do you make of these bizarre disappearances? People just
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suddenly vanished from the face of the earth with no
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rhyme or reason, seemingly having made no plans to do so?
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Curious, indeed.
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I look forward to your comments, but we ask that
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you please keep it friendly and respectful, especially to the victims,
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victims' families, and the opinions of others. Be good to
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yourselves and each other, and I'll see you just a
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little farther down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll
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talk to you next time. Hello friends, welcome to the
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second installment in our Creepiest Disappearances series. Tonight we bring
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you five more of the most bizarre and strange disappearances
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we've come across. Sit back, relax, buckle up your seatbelts,
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it's going to be.
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A wild ride.
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Number five, Lynn Palmer. 71-year-old retired nurse Marlynn Lynn Palmer
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was an active member in her community in Fall River Mills, California.
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Lynn had previously worked at the local hospice and was
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known to many around town for her incredible work. Just
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because Lynn had retired, it didn't mean that she planned
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on slowing down. She volunteered at a thrift store to
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help keep her occupied and maintain a busy social life.
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In an interview for NBC, Lynn's son Dave said, She
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went bowling with friends every Tuesday night, and she was
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proud that she could go on a four-mile walk and
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be fine, as well as volunteer four to five times
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per week. On April 20, 2018, Lynn spent the day
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volunteering at the thrift store before returning to her home
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in the 23,000 block of Castle Fall River Road, an
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unpopulated but beautifully area, according to her son. Lynn walked
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through the door at around 4.30pm, said hello to her
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husband Bob, and grabbed a light beer out of the fridge.
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Lynn left the house once again, but this time to
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walk the dog, Lucy, that they had been taking care
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of for a few days. Lucy the dog belonged to
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Lynn's stepdaughter and Bob's biological daughter and, according to articles,
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they had been looking after her for a few days
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while the owner was unavailable. Lynn and Lucy headed southeast
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from the home and into the woods, and it would
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be four agonizing days until there was any sign of
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either of them. After 15 minutes had passed and Lynn
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still hadn't returned home, Bob began to worry. He knew
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that Lynn's route should have only taken her 15 minutes.
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Then another 10 minutes passed, and there was still no
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sign of Lynn or Lucy. Concerned, Bob left the house
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and began looking for them, but found no sign of them.
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When 45 minutes had passed, Bob began going door to
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door and asking neighbors if they had seen the duo.
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To his horror, no one had. Now in a state
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of panic, Bob called Lynn's brother-in-law, who is a volunteer
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firefighter for the Fall River Mills Fire Department, and asked
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for their assistance in finding Lynn. Her brother-in-law sprung into action,
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and along with Bob, combed the area for an hour.
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But to no avail. Realizing that something.
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Was very wrong at this point, Bob picked up the phone,
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dialed 911, and called the Shasta County Sheriff's Department to
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officially report his wife missing. By this point, Lynn's family
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had been made aware of her sudden and mysterious disappearance,
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and came from all over the U.S. to help with
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the search. The local community soon caught wind of Lynn's disappearance.
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And in a Facebook post, the Sheriff's Department said the
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Shasta County Search and Rescue was activated and numerous resources
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were deployed to the area to aid in the search
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for Ms.
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Palmer.
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These resources included dirt riders, mounted posse, ground team, jeepers,
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and mountain rescue. The Shasta County Sheriff's Office will continue
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to search for Ms. Palmer throughout the night. For four days,
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the Shasta County and the teams mentioned above searched for Lynn,
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but there was just no sign of her. Then on
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the fourth day, April 24th, something miraculous happened.
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Avery called the event.
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At an NBC interview saying, suddenly the missing dog came.
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Back on day four. They immediately brought her into the house.
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There was food and water for her, and she went
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and drank some water, but it was weird because she
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didn't eat any of the food. Another day passed, and
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sadly the search was.
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Officially called off after there was no evidence found.
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Lynn's family weren't given up that easily and brought in
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the Mendocino County Sniffer Dog Unit to see if their
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dogs would be able to shed some light on her
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mysterious disappearance. According to Dave, Lynn's son, the dog tractor
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sent along her main walking route out to an abandoned trailer,
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then to a dirt road, and then out.
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To the main road. The scent disappeared. at the main road.
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Since Lynn's mysterious disappearance in April 2018, her family have
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continued their search for her. A month after she went missing,
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the Shasta County Sheriff's Office said that she was considered
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missing under suspicious circumstances, and her case has remained open
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ever since. Now, in the months before her disappearance, Lynn
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had begun showing signs of dementia, and her son Dave said,
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there were just some things she would have to repeat
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or things she would not remember. Her family maintains that
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she couldn't have gotten lost on her walk due to
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the confusion as it was a route she walked often
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and only started to forget the little things.
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Plus, the dog knew the route as well.
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Lynn's family are desperate for answers and are offering a $ 5, 000
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reward for any information that leads to her whereabouts. Dave
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is adamant that his mother did not leave of her
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own accord, telling NBC, There's one thing I do know.
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She didn't take off on her own will.
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So her body is still out there and the dog
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stayed until she passed away and we just haven't found
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her body yet. Or someone took her and either they
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took the dog with her or the dog followed them
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and then came back. They could have disposed of her
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or the rare case is that they still have her.
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Laura Lynn Palmer was last seen on April 20th, 2018.
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She is described as a white female with brown hair
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and brown eyes. Both of her ears are pierced, and
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she has an appendectomy scar on her abdomen. Lynn was
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last seen wearing a t-shirt, blue jeans, tennis shoes, and earrings,
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and was possibly carrying a can of light beer, and
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was wearing her glasses that have thick lenses.
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If you have any information, you are urged to contact
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the Shasta County Sheriff's Department at 530-245-6540.
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If you wish to remain anonymous, you can contact the
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Secret Witness Program at 530-243-2319, and you can submit an
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anonymous tip online at the NorCal Alliance for the Missing.
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The link for this will be provided in the description.
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Number four, Stacey Smart. 52-year-old Stacey Smart was reported missing
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by her daughter, Nicole Santos-Jamond, on November 2nd, 2016, after
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nobody had heard from her for a while. On that
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same day, if you'll recall, Sherry Pepini also mysteriously disappeared,
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only to be found alive weeks later. Pepini's case garnered
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international media attention, while Stacey's case has been largely overshadowed
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and forgotten about. But here at Missing Persons and Mysteries,
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we want to make sure that we give Stacey's case
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as much exposure as possible and extend our condolences to
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her family and pray that they find closure soon. The
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details in Stacey's case are few and far between. Nicole,
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Stacey's daughter, says that she last spoke to her mother
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on October 12, 2016, and knew that she was going
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to a housewarming party in Lewiston, California on October 15, 2016.
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By October 16, all activity on Stacey's bank cards had stopped,
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and as Halloween rolled around, she failed to make contact
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with her family, which was extremely out of character. Her
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daughter also told Crime Watch Daily that Stacey's landline had
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been disconnected, which deeply concerned the family. At the time
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of her disappearance, Stacey was living with her boyfriend, Tony Brand,
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and Brand has never commented on why he did report
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his girlfriend missing or make contact with her family if
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he knew she was okay in the interim period before she.
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Was reported missing.
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Stacey's daughter, Nicole, told news media that a month before
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her mother mysteriously disappeared, she'd called her grandmother in tears,
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saying that Brand had been cheating on her and that
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the two had gotten into an argument. Stacey later followed
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up with her family, claiming that the two had made up.
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Then, a month later, she vanished.
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Investigators are keeping very tight-lipped about the investigation into Stacey's disappearance,
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and although her case was featured on an episode of
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Crime Watch Daily, few leads have surfaced. One interesting thing
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to note about this episode, which is available to watch
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on YouTube, is that Brand spoke.
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With the producers of the show, but refused to be
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on camera, instead.
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Opting to just give a statement. Now, this is in
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no way saying that he's guilty, but it is an
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important thing to note. The statement provided by Brand, read
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by his lawyer, Douglas Gardner, said, Tony was in a loving,
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intimate relationship with Stacey, which ended with as much mystery
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to him as anyone else. He has fully cooperated with
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the investigators in this case and is afraid for Stacey
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as any of her other local ones.
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Law enforcement confirmed that Brand had been cooperative.
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During their initial investigation, but requested that his lawyer, Douglas Gardner,
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be present when he took a lie detector test. The
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results of these tests have never been made public, and
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we probably shouldn't put too much weight or validity into
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those results anyway. After all, there is a reason that
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lie detector tests aren't admissible in most courts across the world.
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A KRCR article written in November 2019, three years.
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After Stacey's mysterious disappearance.
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Mentions Angie Forslund, a search manager who was hired by
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Stacey's family following her disappearance. The article reads, Angie Forslund,
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the search manager hired by the Smart family to find Stacey,
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told KRCR in an interview in 2016 she believes he's
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a suspect in her disappearance. According to Forslund and the family,
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Smart's boyfriend changed the carpet in his home near Lewiston
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Lake after Smart was reported missing. He also told the
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family she had moved out. Stacey Smart last made contact
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with her family on October 12, 2016 and has not
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been seen or heard from since. Investigators have not stated
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who they believe she has met with foul play and
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the investigation is currently ongoing. Stacey Smart is described as
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a white female with blonde hair and blue eyes. At
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the time of her disappearance, her hair was platinum blonde
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and in a pixie-style cut. Stacey also has a tattoo
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of a red lotus bloom on her lower back and likes.
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To wear hats.
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Stacey's family are desperate for answers and have teamed up
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with the Secret Witness Program to offer a $ 10, 000 reward
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information that leads to her her family's also set up
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a gofundme if you have any information you're urged to
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contact either the trinity county sheriff's department on 530-623-3740 or
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the secret witness program on 530 243-2319 Number 3 Erin
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Marie Gilbert 24-year-old Erin Marie Gilbert had the world at
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her feet, and her family described her as a smart
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and responsible young woman who was athletic but also knew
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how to glam it up. Erin loved playing basketball, and
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being six-foot tall, she was perfect for the sport. Her
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family commented that she was always happy. someone who was
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looking forward to all of her tomorrows. But sadly, Erin's
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seemingly endless supplies of tomorrow were cut short, and she
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has been officially listed as a missing person since July 1st, 1995.
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In 1994, Erin moved from her native San Francisco, California
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and Everett, Washington to Anchorage, Alaska. Erin had gotten herself
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a job as a nanny, and by 1995, she was
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living with her sister, Stephanie, and had enrolled herself in
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beauty school, which was due to start in the autumn
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of 1995. When asked about the drastic move from the
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mainland USA to Alaska, her sister Stephanie told NBC News,
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My husband traveled a lot for work, and I was
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alone so much of the time, so I told Erin
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she should come and stay with me in Alaska. She'd
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been living in San Francisco with her dad. Since the
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day that she arrived in Anchorage, Erin turned many heads,
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and her friends and family described her as a beautiful
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young woman. On June 30, 1995, while out and about,
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Erin met a man named David Combs at a bar
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called Chilkoot Charlie's, and the pair immediately hit it off.
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The two had so much in common and so much
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chemistry that they agreed to meet the next day, on
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July 1, 1995, for a proper date. July 1st rolled around,
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and David picked up Aaron and drove them out to
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the Girdwood Forest Fair in Girdwood, Alaska. The two walked
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around the fair, and witnesses recall seeing Aaron and David
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at a beer garden just before 6 p.m.
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The two left the beer.
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Garden and made their way over to David's car, but
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it wouldn't start. David had left the car lights on
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while they were at the fair, which had completely drained
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his battery. David turned to Aaron and told her that
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he would walk to his friend's house, which was nearby,
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and ask him to come and help him out. He
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then explained to the investigators that he walked around Girdwood
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and the surrounding area for two hours before realizing he
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couldn't find his friend's house. When David realized he couldn't
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find this house as initially planned, he made his way
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back to the fairground. As he walked toward his car,
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his heart sank. There was no sign of Aaron anywhere.
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In a rash decision, He tried his car one more time,
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and amazingly, this time the engine turned over and it started.
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Knowing that something still wasn't right, he traversed around the
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fair until 1 a.m. looking for his date before heading home.
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According to Aaron's family, David didn't tell them she was
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missing until 7 a.m. the next morning on July 2, 1995.
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Stephanie told NBC News, He didn't tell anyone she was
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missing until he called me around 7 a.m.
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The next morning. He said he called to make sure
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Aaron made it home okay. He was very casual about it.
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As Stephanie peered into Aaron's room and saw that it
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was empty, her heart immediately sank into her stomach. She
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too sensed that something was wrong, so she called the
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rest of the family and they drove to the fairground
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to conduct their own search. Aaron's family combed the fairground
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and the surrounding woods and even had Aaron's name broadcasted
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from the stage, akin to something you'd see when a
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child wanders off from their parents. But Aaron never appeared
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from the woods, and soon the Alaska State Troopers became involved,
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and an official missing persons case was opened. With the
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use of search dogs and helicopters, the troopers began covering
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the surrounding area looking for Aaron, but it was as
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if she had simply vanished into thin air. The state
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troopers have stressed Aaron's case is a missing person case
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and not a homicide investigation at this time. David Combs,
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the man that Aaron was last seen with on July 1, 1995,
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has been cleared as a suspect, and the authorities claim
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that he has been cooperative throughout the entire ordeal. Erin
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Marie Gilbert was last seen on July 1, 1995, at
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the Girdwood Forest Fair in Girdwood, Alaska. She is described
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as a white female with brown hair and brown eyes.
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She has a tattoo of a large blue flower on
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her chest, and at the time of her disappearance, her
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hair was cut short into a bob. Erin is around
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6 feet tall and weighs about 145 pounds. She was
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last seen wearing a black leather jacket, a black and
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white striped shirt, black jeans, and.
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Brown mountain boots.
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May 4th of 2021 would have been Erin's 50th birthday,
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and her family are desperate for answers. There's currently a $ 30, 000
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reward for information, and Stephanie, her sister, runs the Facebook
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page called Finding Erin Marie Gilbert. If you have any information,
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you're urged to contact the Alaska State Troopers on 907-428-7200
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or 907-269-5497. Number two, Stephen Kraft. February 15th, 2021, residents
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of Benton Township, Michigan and beyond huddled together in the
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crisp air to hold a vigil marked the 20th anniversary
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of Stephen Earl Kraft II's disappearance in 2001. Fred Krawczyk,
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who lives on Holly Street, the same street that 12-year-old
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Stephen disappeared from, told WNDU, I would hope that if
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someone did know something out there, that they would say something. Hopefully,
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somehow he returns. If not, well, and if he's not
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here with us anymore, then all I know is his
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family will see him in heaven if he's not here
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Nobody really knows that for sure. On February 15, 2001,
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12-year-old Stephen Kraft left his home on the dead-end street
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named Holly Street to play with the two family dogs,
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and witnesses recall seeing him on the 2100 block of
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Holly Drive between 7 p.m.
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And 8 p.m. that night. Stephen happily played outside and.
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Had promised his parents that he would be back home
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in time for supper, but Stephen never came through the door.
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According to Chief Smit of the Benton Township Police Department,
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Stephen's mother called police in the early morning hours of the.
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16th of February. Our protocol was typical.
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We went out and took the report, and since it
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was someone that young of an age, we gathered information.
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Who last saw him? Sometimes kids do run away, but
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he hadn't run away before. In the days leading up
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to his disappearance, Stephen had been suspended from Hull Elementary
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School for five days after he defended himself during a
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scuffle with another student. Both the headmaster and Stephen's parents
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said that this behavior was very out of character for
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him and that he was usually a quiet, well-behaved student
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who kept his head down.
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After Stephen had.
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Been reported missing, a wide-scale search began for him and
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this search was spurred by a sense of urgency, not
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just because of his age, but because the temperature had
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dropped well below freezing and Stephen wasn't.
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Wearing a hat or gloves.
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Police, Stephen's family, and the local community combed the area
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looking for any sign of the 12-year-old and caught a
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break when they discovered Stephen's icy footsteps walking over a
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frozen pond near his home on Holly Street. According to
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the Charlie Project, these footsteps led in the direction of
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Harbor Haven Ministries on Irving Street, which is approximately one
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block away from Holly Street where Stephen lived. After this,
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it appears that the trail goes cold, and investigators commented
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that the weather, combined with his young age, made it
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difficult for them. On February 18th, 2001, the familiar pitter-patter
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of feet was heard at the Kraft residence. Outside stood
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the older dog, a German Shepherd Chowmex, but there was
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no sign of Stephen or the other dog. The dog
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hastily led Stephen's parents and investigators to a pond, but
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according to official reports, nothing was found. The day after that,
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on February 19, 2001, the family's other dog, a six-month-old
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German Shepherd puppy, was found a mile and a half
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away from Holly Street. How had a six-month-old puppy managed
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to survive the freezing temperatures and travel.
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Over a mile and a half away?
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Could this possibly be an indication that someone took Steven
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and the dogs, only to let them loose because they
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were making too much noise or to throw off the investigation?
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Throughout the years, multiple searches have been.
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Performed for Steven.
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In 2001, authorities searched Blue Creek and the pond near
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Harbor Haven Ministries, but found nothing. In 2002, a search
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was conducted in a wooded area near the Southwestern Michigan
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Regional Airport, but again, no trace of Stephen could be found.
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There was a reported sighting of Stephen in 2004 where
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a witness called the FBI believing that a young man
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matching Stephen's description was at the Midway Airport in Chicago.
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This sighting unfortunately turned out to be a case of
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mistaken identity and since then the cases remain cold. With
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such little evidence all we are left with are theories.
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The Benton Township Police Department has said that they investigated
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the idea that Stephen ran away from home as well
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as the idea that he was abducted. It does seem
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very unlikely though that Stephen ran away, especially on a
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cold February evening when he promised his parents he would
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be home in time for supper. The FBI stated in
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their report that Stephen was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and
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has ties there as well as Lexington, Kentucky. It's also
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possible that Stephen died due to exposure or an accident
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on that evening But without a body or evidence, all
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we can do is speculate. Stephen's family have never given
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up hope and are asking for the public's assistance in
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his case. Stephen Earl Kraft II, also listed sometimes as
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Stephen Earl Kraft Jr., was last seen on February 15, 2001,
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in the 2100 block of Holly Drive in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
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Stephen is described as a white male with light brown
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hair and green eyes. There's a small red birthmark on
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his left rib. At the time he went missing, he
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was around 5'1 to 5'2 inches tall and around 100 pounds.
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Stephen was last seen wearing a white, tan, and brown
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striped shirt, tan parachute pants, an aqua and purple Charlotte
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Hornets jacket, and black Luggs boots. If still alive today,
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Stephen would be 32 years old. Anyone with any information
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is urged to contact the Benton Township Police Department at
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269-926-8221 and listen for the extension for Stephen's tip line. Alternatively,
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you can contact the FBI's St. Joseph, Michigan office on 313-965-2323.
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Number one, Shanna Boyto. We will always love you.
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No matter what. We will support you and help you.
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Just come home and we'll face everything together. We want
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you back home with us and to be a mother
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to your beautiful daughter. At the very least, call and
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let us know you're okay. So reads a message from
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the father of missing 22-year-old Shannon Boiteau. Her family describe
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her as a devoted mother and loving daughter and are
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desperate for answers as to what happened.
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On that June day in 2016.
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On that day, Shanna left her home in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin,
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and left a note for her parents, telling them that
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she was going to be sent back to prison and
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needed to sort out a few things beforehand.
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The note also stated.
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That she and her boyfriend were on their way to
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California so she could see the ocean. As far as
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we know, Shanna hopped into the car with her boyfriend
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and they began their trip from Wisconsin to California. Google
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Maps shows the two most common routes to California. The
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first route, and the route that Shanna and her boyfriend
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are assumed to have taken, drives through Minneapolis, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming.
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Utah, Nevada, and then into California.
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The second most likely route goes through southern Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska.
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Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and then into California.
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This route will become important later on. According to Shanna's family,
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her childhood had been normal, and the trouble didn't start
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until she transitioned into her teenage years, when she began
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taking drugs and exhibiting signs of behavioral problems. And that's
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when things started to go downhill. That was until 2014,
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when she found out she was pregnant. This shock announcement
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spurred her on, and she got on a path to
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sobriety and eventually got clean. Sadly, this sobriety only lasted
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for a little while, and shortly after, she began using
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drugs again and was sent to prison on drug charges.
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Shanna was released on probation and ordered to serve house
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arrest following the birth of her daughter, which she completed
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without incident, according to her father. Naturally, after being under
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house arrest, Shanna was put on parole and assigned to
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parole office. According to the Charlie Project, Shanna had been
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caught drinking in June 2016, and had an outstanding warrant
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against her for parole violations. Shanna knew that the parole
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violation meant that she would likely be back behind bars,
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leading her to leave the note for her parents and
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take care of business before she found herself back in
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an orange jumpsuit. The details in Shanna's case became somewhat
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confusing from here on out. According to some reports, Shanna
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was last seen near Interstate 94 and County Road 74
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in St. Cloud, Minnesota on June 22, 2016. Now, as
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per Google Maps, two routes to California drive through are
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close to Minneapolis and then down either into South Dakota
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or Iowa. What is really odd about this, though, is
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that St. Cloud, Minnesota is 65 miles north of Minneapolis
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and is completely off-route. There may be another route to
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California that would take you through or near this area,
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but no one knows why they might have taken this route.
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This is just a minor point found while researching that
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we wanted to bring up. Witnesses reported seeing Shanna and
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her boyfriend arguing in the car around 3 p.m. And
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in the heat of the argument, Shanna got out of
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the car and stormed off into the.
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Woods around the highway.
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It is unclear what Shanna and her boyfriend were arguing about,
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but her family did tell investigators that she was known
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to hitchhike. It is possible that she jumped into someone
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else's car to try and get to California. Another bizarre
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fact in Shanna's case is the fact that she apparently
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left home without her bag and didn't own a cell
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phone at the time. It's unclear on how the couple
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were planning on funding that trip to California and whether
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Shanna's boyfriend was.
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Going to pick up the tab.
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Shanna has no connections to St. Cloud, Minnesota and her
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family are now asking for the public's help. Shanna Boito
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was last seen in St. Cloud, Minnesota on June 22, 2016.
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as we mentioned, near Interstate 94 and County Road 74.
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She is described as a white female with brown hair
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and brown eyes and has a tattoo of two sparrows
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on her hips and a tattoo of the name Millie
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with no E.
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Behind her right ear.
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Shanna also has lip and belly button piercing and has
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stretched ear lobes. Her Charlie Project profile reads, Hoito has
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a history of drug abuse. Caution is advised when approaching her.
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She was last seen wearing a tan Victoria's Secret tank
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top with the word pink on it, black leggings, and
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no shoes. File play is not suspected at this time
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in her case, and if you have any information regarding
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her whereabouts, you're asked to please contact the Chippewa Falls
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Police Department at 715-723-4424. Well, friends, there you have it.
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What do you make of these five strange and creepy disappearances? Somewhere,
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somebody knows something. People don't just vanish.
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In thin air.
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Thank you for listening, and we look forward to reading
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your comments. But please, keep it friendly and respectful. In
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the meantime, be good to yourselves and each other, and
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I'll see you just a little farther on down the trail.
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I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to you next time.
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Hello, friends.
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Today, bringing you part three of our unbelievably bizarre and
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creepy disappearances series. These are some of the strangest disappearances
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we've come across in all our research.
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Now let's begin. Number five.
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Chance Engelbert 25-year-old Chance Engelbert was last seen leaving the
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700 block of O Street in Gearing, Nebraska at around 7.30 p.m.
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on Saturday, July 6, 2019. Chance, his wife Bailey, and
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their son Banks, who lived in Wyoming, had spent the
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sunny Saturday visiting Bailey's family with articles reporting that they
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spent the day golfing. Chance had recently accepted a new
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job with a propane company. after he had recently been
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laid off from his previous job at a coal mine.
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Bailey's family didn't seem to like this job move. Chance,
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his father-in-law, and other members of Bailey's family all began arguing.
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Bailey drove over to pick Chance up before heading to
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her grandparents' house to collect a few things. During the
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car ride, Chance became upset again and asked Bailey to
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drive him home, to which she said no. Chance then
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called up one of his friends for a ride home. Sadly,
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for Chance, the friend wasn't able to help, so Chance
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left the 700 block of O Street and began the
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walk towards Torrington, Wyoming. According to Google Maps, if Chance
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was planning to walk the whole way, it would have
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taken him close to 12 hours on foot. There were
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two routes he could have taken if he was in
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a car, both ending up on the US-26W and taking
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around 43 minutes. Bailey told investigators that she last spoke
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to Chance on the phone at 7.46 p.m. and he
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told her that he was walking south. Whereas friends told
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investigators that they had spoken to Chance around the same
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time and he told them he was headed north towards Torrington, Wyoming.
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At 9.08 p.m., Chance's phone sent a final text that
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was just a string of emojis and numbers. Chance's mother, Dawn,
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said that Chance never used emojis and speculates that the
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text was sent.
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By someone else.
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At 9pm that evening, a large thunderstorm rolled through the
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area and Bailey and her family assumed that Chance had
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found shelter somewhere and would be in contact with him soon.
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Bailey's grandfather went out looking for Chance but found no
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00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:54.039
sign of the man. Bailey told NBC News, I still
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00:59:54.059 --> 00:59:56.949
wasn't that worried. I figured he'd come slinking in late
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00:59:56.989 --> 00:59:57.510
that night.
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But he didn't.
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And when I woke up the next morning and he
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01:00:01.360 --> 01:00:06.159
wasn't there, I knew it was bad. Chance's friends and
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01:00:06.260 --> 01:00:08.780
family tried desperately to contact him, but his phone had
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01:00:08.800 --> 01:00:11.690
been turned off shortly after 9.08 p.m. when he had
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01:00:11.730 --> 01:00:16.190
sent the cryptic text message. Realizing that something was wrong,
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01:00:16.610 --> 01:00:19.710
Chance's family called the police and officially reported him missing.
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01:00:20.730 --> 01:00:22.989
Investigators discovered that Chance's phone.
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01:00:22.750 --> 01:00:25.579
Had last pinged off a tower on County Road 19
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01:00:25.579 --> 01:00:31.219
near Scotts Bluff, Nebraska. They also found CCTV footage showing
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01:00:31.260 --> 01:00:34.449
Chance walking alone along the intersection of Terry Boulevard and
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01:00:34.489 --> 01:00:41.329
Stable Club Road. After this sighting, he mysteriously vanished. Once
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01:00:41.409 --> 01:00:44.429
Chance had been reported missing, the Gearing Police Department sprung
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01:00:44.469 --> 01:00:47.130
into action and called in the help of 18 agencies,
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01:00:47.150 --> 01:00:51.429
including drones, divers, dogs, horseback riders, and 147 volunteers who
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01:00:51.449 --> 01:00:58.050
managed to cover 2,400 acres on foot. The Nebraska State
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01:00:58.070 --> 01:01:00.809
Patrol helicopter team and Air Link managed to cover a
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01:01:00.829 --> 01:01:05.150
combined 380 miles during the search effort, but no sign
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01:01:05.190 --> 01:01:08.869
of Chance could be found. Authorities were concerned for his
964
01:01:08.909 --> 01:01:11.670
well-being as the rains on the evening that Chance disappeared
965
01:01:11.710 --> 01:01:14.550
were described as heavy and cold in addition to the
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01:01:14.590 --> 01:01:18.570
dangers of lightning. It was also postulated that Chance may
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01:01:18.610 --> 01:01:21.769
have fallen into a river or stream or suffered from
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01:01:21.809 --> 01:01:26.110
hypothermia due to the weather conditions. Since that July day,
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01:01:26.570 --> 01:01:29.389
Chance Engelbert has never been seen or heard from again
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01:01:29.929 --> 01:01:33.670
and his family are desperate for answers. His mother made
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01:01:33.710 --> 01:01:36.809
a plea to Chance saying, Please call somebody. You don't
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01:01:36.849 --> 01:01:39.230
have to come home. We just want to know that
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01:01:39.250 --> 01:01:45.030
you're safe. Our heart aches every day, every night. In
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01:01:45.070 --> 01:01:48.210
the wake of Chance's disappearance, his mother Dawn created the
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01:01:48.349 --> 01:01:51.869
Help Find Chase Engelbert Facebook page that she uses to
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01:01:51.909 --> 01:01:54.610
keep his case alive as well as to post updates.
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01:01:55.929 --> 01:01:59.869
In early November 2021, an arm bone and shirt were
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01:01:59.909 --> 01:02:04.030
found near Melbetta, Nebraska, which is 8.5 miles south of
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01:02:04.070 --> 01:02:07.690
where Chance was last seen. It has not yet been
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01:02:07.730 --> 01:02:10.730
confirmed whether these belong to Chance, and DNA testing is
981
01:02:10.769 --> 01:02:16.480
currently underway. In a Facebook post on November 2, 2021,
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01:02:16.480 --> 01:02:19.880
Chance's mother Dawn wrote, We'd like to take a moment
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01:02:19.900 --> 01:02:23.420
to thank you all for prayers, calls, and messages. We
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01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:25.750
are aware of the news releases of remains found in
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01:02:25.809 --> 01:02:29.929
Scottsbluff County and have talked with officials. Until the DNA
986
01:02:30.010 --> 01:02:33.809
is released, there is not a 100% answer. It depends
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01:02:33.929 --> 01:02:36.320
on the lab's workload and it could take weeks for
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01:02:36.340 --> 01:02:39.760
those answers. So for now, please give our family a
989
01:02:39.920 --> 01:02:40.920
little extra prayers.
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01:02:41.460 --> 01:02:41.900
Thank you.
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01:02:43.619 --> 01:02:46.079
Time will tell where these remains belong to Chase or
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01:02:46.199 --> 01:02:49.929
where the family will have to keep on fighting for answers.
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01:02:49.949 --> 01:02:53.929
25-year-old Chase Engelbart. was last seen on the 700 block
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01:02:53.969 --> 01:02:58.289
of O Street in Gearing, Nebraska. According to reports, he
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01:02:58.329 --> 01:03:02.230
was either walking southbound or north, with his final destination
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01:03:02.289 --> 01:03:05.860
being Torrington, Wyoming. He is described as a white male
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01:03:05.900 --> 01:03:08.280
with brown hair and blue eyes. He has a scar
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01:03:08.320 --> 01:03:13.139
on his hip and is 5'11, 195 pounds. Chance was
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01:03:13.199 --> 01:03:17.530
last seen wearing a short-sleeved button-down Wrangler shirt, blue Wrangler jeans,
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01:03:18.090 --> 01:03:22.019
a belt with an NRCA buckle, Roper boots, and a
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01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:25.440
black and white trucker hat. If you have any information,
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01:03:25.699 --> 01:03:31.760
you're urged to contact the Gehring Police Department on 308-436-5088.
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01:03:35.420 --> 01:03:40.619
Number four, Sunny Schrammack. 18-year-old Sunny Schrammack left her home
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01:03:40.659 --> 01:03:44.679
in Trenton, Nebraska on April 20th, 2019, and told her mother,
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01:03:44.860 --> 01:03:47.280
Paula Johnson, that she was going on a road trip
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01:03:47.400 --> 01:03:52.880
with a male acquaintance. This person was not named in publications. However,
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01:03:52.900 --> 01:03:56.019
a member of Sonny's family named him as 42-year-old Floyd
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01:03:56.099 --> 01:04:00.179
Clifford Coates, who goes by Cliff. The nature of their
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01:04:00.239 --> 01:04:05.969
relationship is currently unknown. Sonny is married, however. The identity
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01:04:06.010 --> 01:04:08.349
of Sonny's husband has been withheld from the public and
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01:04:08.369 --> 01:04:11.989
her parents have not discussed this detail at length. One
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01:04:12.030 --> 01:04:15.429
article notes, her parents say she married young, believing it
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01:04:15.469 --> 01:04:18.010
was a good choice, but went through more growing and
1014
01:04:18.050 --> 01:04:20.909
trying to do things right. so was currently living with
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01:04:20.949 --> 01:04:24.889
her mother Paula to sort things out. Paula watched her
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01:04:24.929 --> 01:04:28.909
daughter get into the 2004 white Ford Explorer with Iowa
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01:04:28.929 --> 01:04:33.489
license plate HGJ341 and then watched as her daughter and
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01:04:33.510 --> 01:04:37.389
the unknown man drove away. Little did Paula know that
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01:04:37.429 --> 01:04:39.260
this would be the last time she would ever see
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01:04:39.300 --> 01:04:42.139
her daughter, who she described as bright and artistic.
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01:04:43.300 --> 01:04:44.280
At around 1 p.m.
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01:04:44.380 --> 01:04:48.349
On April 20, 2019, Sonny called her mom, Paula, to
1023
01:04:48.389 --> 01:04:50.389
let her know that everything was going well and that
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01:04:50.409 --> 01:04:54.070
they were possibly headed for Omaha, Nebraska. The pair talked,
1025
01:04:54.150 --> 01:04:57.820
and Sonny told Paula that she was in Holdridge, Nebraska,
1026
01:04:58.059 --> 01:05:02.619
and that everything was good. A KSMB local article states
1027
01:05:02.659 --> 01:05:05.260
that Sonny had called using a borrowed phone because she'd
1028
01:05:05.280 --> 01:05:08.659
left hers at home before embarking on the trip. On
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01:05:08.699 --> 01:05:12.670
the evening of April 20, 2019, Paula received a horrific
1030
01:05:12.710 --> 01:05:15.739
phone call. On the other end of the line was
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01:05:15.820 --> 01:05:17.900
Cliff Coates, who said that he had gone into the
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01:05:17.940 --> 01:05:21.179
Prairie Flower Casino in Carter Lake, Iowa, and that when
1033
01:05:21.219 --> 01:05:26.019
he stepped outside, Sonny was gone. NBC reported that Paula
1034
01:05:26.039 --> 01:05:28.719
had written on the GoFundMe page that he said he
1035
01:05:28.760 --> 01:05:31.380
had looked for her, couldn't find her, so he left.
1036
01:05:32.380 --> 01:05:33.920
He left the area without Sonny.
1037
01:05:34.320 --> 01:05:36.179
No call to the police. No nothing.
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01:05:37.719 --> 01:05:41.000
At one point, his story changed. They stopped at a
1039
01:05:41.039 --> 01:05:43.550
gas station in Omaha. and he went in to pay
1040
01:05:43.590 --> 01:05:46.889
for the gas. When he returned to the vehicle, Sonny
1041
01:05:46.929 --> 01:05:51.739
was gone. On April 21st, 2019, when Sonny had still
1042
01:05:51.889 --> 01:05:54.300
failed to make contact with her parents, Paula and Jody,
1043
01:05:54.900 --> 01:05:58.000
she was officially reported missing and an investigation was opened.
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01:05:59.139 --> 01:06:02.260
An extensive search in Nebraska and Iowa took place, but
1045
01:06:02.300 --> 01:06:06.159
there was no sign of Sonny. Because she was 18,
1046
01:06:06.159 --> 01:06:08.119
she was too old for an Amber Alert, but the
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01:06:08.159 --> 01:06:11.360
authorities still did the best they could to publicize Sonny's case.
1048
01:06:12.780 --> 01:06:15.440
Hours turned to days, and Sunny's family became more and
1049
01:06:15.480 --> 01:06:19.179
more desperate as each hour passed. Soon after she was
1050
01:06:19.219 --> 01:06:22.710
reported missing, the FBI became involved in Sunny's case and
1051
01:06:22.769 --> 01:06:25.929
are now asking for anyone with information to please come forward.
1052
01:06:27.190 --> 01:06:29.510
Sunny's family are also heavily involved in the search for
1053
01:06:29.530 --> 01:06:33.219
their missing loved one. Her cousin, Rennie Blome, created the
1054
01:06:33.340 --> 01:06:37.300
Find Sunny Ceramic Facebook page and regularly hands out flyers
1055
01:06:37.340 --> 01:06:42.389
and leaflets across Nebraska. Interestingly enough, Cliff Coates has an
1056
01:06:42.429 --> 01:06:45.769
extensive criminal history and this is something that we couldn't
1057
01:06:45.809 --> 01:06:49.969
pass up on mentioning. Heavy.com wrote an article about Sonny's
1058
01:06:50.010 --> 01:06:53.070
case and managed to dig up all of Cliff's prior convictions.
1059
01:06:54.780 --> 01:06:57.579
Turns out that he has a criminal record in Kansas, Iowa,
1060
01:06:57.659 --> 01:07:01.519
and Nebraska. In Kansas, he was charged for drug offenses
1061
01:07:01.820 --> 01:07:06.039
and attempting to evade police. His prison record isn't squeaky
1062
01:07:06.079 --> 01:07:10.599
clean either, having 25 write-ups for battery, lying, disrespect of
1063
01:07:10.619 --> 01:07:15.800
an officer, disobeying orders, and having sexually explicit material. Cliff's
1064
01:07:15.869 --> 01:07:19.530
criminal history doesn't stop there. In Nebraska, he was convicted
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01:07:19.550 --> 01:07:24.150
of false imprisonment, distribution of methamphetamine, possession of a deadly weapon,
1066
01:07:24.730 --> 01:07:29.389
carrying a concealed weapon, assault by a confined person, theft
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01:07:29.469 --> 01:07:36.679
by receiving stolen property, and possession of marijuana. On June 10, 2019,
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01:07:36.679 --> 01:07:40.119
Remy Blum posted again to the Facebook page Find Sonny
1069
01:07:40.159 --> 01:07:43.619
Schrammick saying, I have a little info to share from
1070
01:07:43.659 --> 01:07:44.079
my aunt.
1071
01:07:44.559 --> 01:07:45.340
Here's the update.
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01:07:46.239 --> 01:07:50.159
Coates was arrested recently but was bonded soon after. I'm
1073
01:07:50.199 --> 01:07:53.599
hoping that they can learn something, anything from him. At
1074
01:07:53.659 --> 01:07:57.630
least he was found. I'm sharing this so y'all are aware,
1075
01:07:57.989 --> 01:07:59.969
but as far as what happened prior to this or
1076
01:08:00.130 --> 01:08:02.989
what he was arrested for, that is not being shared
1077
01:08:03.030 --> 01:08:07.789
by the family. Investigators haven't publicly named Cliff as a
1078
01:08:07.829 --> 01:08:11.409
suspect in Sonny's case, And despite all these leads and
1079
01:08:11.449 --> 01:08:16.109
all this information, her case has sadly gone cold. Sonny's
1080
01:08:16.170 --> 01:08:18.909
family are desperately seeking answers for what happened to her.
1081
01:08:19.899 --> 01:08:22.439
She was in the process of finishing high school, and
1082
01:08:22.520 --> 01:08:24.760
it's extremely out of character for her to just have
1083
01:08:24.800 --> 01:08:28.500
wandered off. Sonny is described as a white female with
1084
01:08:28.560 --> 01:08:33.819
brown hair and blue eyes. She's 5'7, 180 pounds, and
1085
01:08:33.859 --> 01:08:38.649
has numerous distinguishing features, which are as follows. Sunny has
1086
01:08:38.699 --> 01:08:40.850
a tattoo on her left shoulder of a feather with
1087
01:08:40.869 --> 01:08:44.670
the letters FLY, a tattoo of a red tribal sun
1088
01:08:44.810 --> 01:08:48.369
on her right ankle. She also has a rectangular scar
1089
01:08:48.409 --> 01:08:51.630
on the back of her right shoulder, a small square-shaped
1090
01:08:51.670 --> 01:08:54.770
scar in the middle of her upper forehead, scarring on
1091
01:08:54.890 --> 01:08:57.930
one of her ankles and shin, scars from chicken pox
1092
01:08:58.010 --> 01:09:00.630
on her face, a scar on her left hand at
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01:09:00.670 --> 01:09:03.770
the bottom of her thumb and first finger, and assorted
1094
01:09:03.829 --> 01:09:07.800
cuts on her arm. Sunny was last seen wearing denim
1095
01:09:07.810 --> 01:09:11.140
shorts and a black vest top, but her mother Paula
1096
01:09:11.159 --> 01:09:13.500
told investigators that she was carrying a pair of jeans
1097
01:09:13.539 --> 01:09:16.500
and a hoodie when she went missing. If you have
1098
01:09:16.579 --> 01:09:20.189
any information, you're urged to please contact the FBI's Omaha
1099
01:09:20.229 --> 01:09:28.050
Division Field Office on 402-493-8688. Alternatively, if you wish to
1100
01:09:28.069 --> 01:09:31.329
remain anonymous, you can contact the Nebraska State Crime Stoppers
1101
01:09:31.970 --> 01:09:45.380
on 1-800-422-1494. Number three, Matthew Weaver Jr. 21-year-old Matthew Weaver Jr.
1102
01:09:45.439 --> 01:09:48.310
was in a transitional period in his life He'd just
1103
01:09:48.350 --> 01:09:51.210
moved into his own apartment in Granada Hills, California, to
1104
01:09:51.250 --> 01:09:54.250
be closer to his job, and he had recently broken
1105
01:09:54.310 --> 01:09:58.770
up with his long-term girlfriend. The breakup affected Matthew, but
1106
01:09:58.829 --> 01:10:00.630
as he had moved to a new area, he slowly
1107
01:10:00.689 --> 01:10:02.979
began building up a new circle of friends and was
1108
01:10:03.029 --> 01:10:08.699
back out there partying and hanging out. On August 9th, 2018,
1109
01:10:08.699 --> 01:10:11.359
Matthew spent the day working before going to hang out
1110
01:10:11.399 --> 01:10:14.560
with a new female friend that he had made. According
1111
01:10:14.600 --> 01:10:18.699
to his father, Matthew Weaver Sr., Matthew Jr. appeared excited
1112
01:10:18.739 --> 01:10:20.699
at the prospect of hanging out with his new friend
1113
01:10:21.199 --> 01:10:24.720
and said that nothing seemed out of the ordinary. According
1114
01:10:24.739 --> 01:10:27.239
to NBC, the pair hung out until the early morning
1115
01:10:27.260 --> 01:10:30.409
hours of August 10th, with Matthew Jr. dropping the woman
1116
01:10:30.449 --> 01:10:35.449
off at her place around 4.30 a.m. From there, Matthew Jr.
1117
01:10:35.489 --> 01:10:45.750
sent a text to his friend saying, Also adding, Matthew Jr.
1118
01:10:45.890 --> 01:10:49.890
also sent texts to his ex-stepmother, Brooke. The two remained
1119
01:10:49.909 --> 01:10:52.289
close friends even when Matthew Jr. 's father and she
1120
01:10:52.329 --> 01:10:54.680
divorced as she had raised him from a young age.
1121
01:10:58.800 --> 01:11:00.979
Brooke claims that some of the texts were jumbled and
1122
01:11:01.020 --> 01:11:04.840
didn't make much sense at all. At around 11.30 a.m.,
1123
01:11:05.260 --> 01:11:07.560
Matthew Jr. then calls the woman he was hanging out
1124
01:11:07.600 --> 01:11:10.609
with the night before, but she doesn't answer because she's
1125
01:11:10.649 --> 01:11:14.149
at work. She texts him asking what's wrong and telling
1126
01:11:14.189 --> 01:11:17.510
him that she is unable to answer right now. Matthew
1127
01:11:17.689 --> 01:11:20.350
never replied to the text from Brooke or the unknown woman,
1128
01:11:20.810 --> 01:11:23.279
and since then, he has mysteriously fallen off the map.
1129
01:11:24.739 --> 01:11:27.539
Brooke told NBC that Matthew's phone is still linked to
1130
01:11:27.579 --> 01:11:30.859
his ex-girlfriend's account, so they were able to retrieve phone
1131
01:11:30.899 --> 01:11:35.010
records relatively quickly. These records showed that Matthew Jr. 's
1132
01:11:35.069 --> 01:11:37.689
location at the time of sending those texts was the
1133
01:11:37.729 --> 01:11:41.140
Las Rosas Overlook near Stunt and Saddle Peak Roads, in
1134
01:11:41.180 --> 01:11:43.800
the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
1135
01:11:45.699 --> 01:11:46.560
This was later.
1136
01:11:46.359 --> 01:11:50.119
Confirmed when CCTV cameras in the area captured Matthew Jr.
1137
01:11:50.119 --> 01:11:53.359
's BMW driving along the road to Las Rosas Overlook.
1138
01:11:54.779 --> 01:11:57.569
When Brooke hadn't received a reply from her stepson, she
1139
01:11:57.590 --> 01:12:00.869
began to worry. She began calling all of his friends
1140
01:12:00.909 --> 01:12:02.689
to see if they had heard from him, but to
1141
01:12:02.710 --> 01:12:07.170
her horror, no one had. Unbeknownst to Brooke and Matthew Sr.,
1142
01:12:08.029 --> 01:12:11.510
the California Highway Patrol discovered Matthew Jr. 's car abandoned
1143
01:12:11.550 --> 01:12:14.029
on the Topanga Tower motorway close to.
1144
01:12:13.989 --> 01:12:15.350
The Las Rosas overlook.
1145
01:12:17.189 --> 01:12:19.779
They traced the car's registration and found that it belonged
1146
01:12:19.800 --> 01:12:21.020
to Matthew Weaver Jr.
1147
01:12:22.260 --> 01:12:23.060
After speaking with.
1148
01:12:23.020 --> 01:12:25.539
His family, they realized that he had not made contact
1149
01:12:25.579 --> 01:12:30.689
with them since August 11th. Subsequently, a missing person report
1150
01:12:30.699 --> 01:12:33.930
was filed and Matthew Weaver Jr. was officially listed as
1151
01:12:33.970 --> 01:12:39.220
a missing person. Multiple searches have been conducted by multiple agencies,
1152
01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:40.760
but no trace.
1153
01:12:40.520 --> 01:12:42.359
Of Matthew has ever been found.
1154
01:12:43.770 --> 01:12:47.130
Brooke told NBC, There is no way that kid just
1155
01:12:47.170 --> 01:12:51.189
fell off the grid and disappeared. For me, that's not possible.
1156
01:12:52.069 --> 01:12:55.880
I'm super close with Matthew. He tells me everything. He
1157
01:12:55.909 --> 01:12:59.140
calls me anytime he's in a bind. He would never
1158
01:12:59.220 --> 01:13:01.760
let his little sibling sit there and think he might
1159
01:13:01.819 --> 01:13:07.909
be dead. Then, in January 2019, Hikers discovered Matthew Jr.
1160
01:13:07.909 --> 01:13:10.720
's car keys just 25 meters from where his car
1161
01:13:10.739 --> 01:13:11.520
had been discovered.
1162
01:13:12.420 --> 01:13:13.899
It's unknown whether these keys were.
1163
01:13:13.840 --> 01:13:16.359
Overlooked during the initial search or whether they had been
1164
01:13:16.420 --> 01:13:21.119
intentionally placed there at a later date. While out conducting
1165
01:13:21.159 --> 01:13:24.770
his own search for his son, Matthew Sr. discovered shreds
1166
01:13:24.810 --> 01:13:26.890
of a white t-shirt that he believes his son was
1167
01:13:26.930 --> 01:13:30.810
wearing on the day he disappeared. A red Los Angeles
1168
01:13:30.930 --> 01:13:34.779
Angels hat was also found, which Matthew Sr. also said
1169
01:13:35.000 --> 01:13:39.939
belonged to his son. The Los Angeles Police Department's Missing
1170
01:13:39.979 --> 01:13:44.600
Persons Unit has since taken over Matthew's case. Matthew Weaver Jr.
1171
01:13:44.800 --> 01:13:46.840
is described as a white male with brown hair and
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brown eyes. He's 5 foot 9 inches tall and weighs
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165 pounds.
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Matthew Jr. has a tattoo of the name Jeremiah on
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01:13:55.930 --> 01:13:59.529
the left side of his chest. Some of Matthew Jr.
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01:13:59.529 --> 01:14:01.850
's friends say that he sustained a head injury in
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01:14:01.890 --> 01:14:04.630
the days before his disappearance and that he may be
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01:14:04.710 --> 01:14:07.289
concussed or have other behavior issues.
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Arriving from this. Matthew Jr.
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Was last seen wearing a plain black or white t-shirt,
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black Dickies pants, red shoes, and a Los Angeles Angels
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01:14:18.420 --> 01:14:22.300
baseball cap. If you have any information, you're urged to
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01:14:22.340 --> 01:14:28.899
please contact the Los Angeles Police Department's Missing Persons Unit.
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On 213-996-1800.
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01:14:31.270 --> 01:14:33.210
If you wish to remain anonymous, you can leave a
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01:14:33.229 --> 01:14:36.289
tip with the L.A. Regional Crime Stoppers on 1-800-222.
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Tips.
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Number two, Erica Thompson. 53-year-old Erica Thompson had recently broken
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up from a two-year relationship and was now living alone
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01:14:51.649 --> 01:14:56.770
with her cats in her Brookfield, Illinois, home. Erica's sister, Dana,
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01:14:56.949 --> 01:14:59.220
said that the pair regularly kept in contact with each
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01:14:59.300 --> 01:15:04.159
other and that Erica always kept in contact with her family. So,
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01:15:04.399 --> 01:15:08.680
when Erica failed to show up for work on September 26, 2019,
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01:15:08.680 --> 01:15:11.149
her co-workers noted that it was extremely out of character.
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01:15:12.619 --> 01:15:15.060
Dana recalled that she had last spoken with her sister
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01:15:15.100 --> 01:15:20.880
via email on September 23rd, 2019. Erica was captured on
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CCTV on September 25th, 2019, making a deposit at a bank.
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She has not been seen or heard from since. Days
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passed and Erica's family became more and more concerned when
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01:15:33.520 --> 01:15:39.220
she didn't contact him. Finally, on October 1st, 2019, Erica's son,
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01:15:39.439 --> 01:15:43.119
Michael Russo, went to her Brookfield, Illinois home to see
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01:15:43.180 --> 01:15:48.159
what was going on. Some reports state that Michael entered
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01:15:48.199 --> 01:15:50.979
the house, while others state that the Brookfield Police Department
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01:15:51.010 --> 01:15:54.510
were the ones who actually entered the home. Whoever entered
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01:15:54.529 --> 01:15:56.510
the home found that the back door was open and
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01:15:56.529 --> 01:15:57.630
that the air conditioning was.
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Running full blast.
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01:15:59.770 --> 01:16:02.710
There were dirty, moldy dishes in the sink and cat
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01:16:02.750 --> 01:16:06.029
vomit all over the house, something that Erica would never
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01:16:06.069 --> 01:16:11.590
have tolerated. Her sister Dana told Dateline, It was cause
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01:16:11.609 --> 01:16:14.430
for concern because my sister would never have left a mess.
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01:16:15.470 --> 01:16:17.449
She would have washed her dishes and taken care of
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01:16:17.479 --> 01:16:23.079
her cats. Investigators also found, interestingly enough, that recent CCTV
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01:16:23.100 --> 01:16:26.800
footage from Erica's home security cameras had been deleted, only
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01:16:26.939 --> 01:16:33.340
adding to their suspicions. Erica's phone, bag, driver's license, house
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01:16:33.380 --> 01:16:35.520
keys and car keys, along with her 2014 dark purple
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01:16:35.550 --> 01:16:42.880
Nissan Juke, Illinois' plate E273380, were missing from the home,
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01:16:43.579 --> 01:16:46.539
but her cats had been left behind. It's been said
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01:16:46.579 --> 01:16:49.680
that Erica absolutely cherished her cats, and if she'd planned
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01:16:49.760 --> 01:16:52.760
on leaving, she would have taken them with her. As
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01:16:52.840 --> 01:16:55.439
Erica's phone was missing, investigators tracked it as far as
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01:16:55.479 --> 01:16:58.779
they could and found that she had traveled through Brookfield, Decatur,
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01:16:59.100 --> 01:17:01.380
and Mount Vermont on September.
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26, 2019.
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In addition to this, the phone had also pinged in Countryside, Hodgkins, McCook, Forestview, Summit,
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01:17:08.520 --> 01:17:12.939
and Ridgeview. On October 2, 2019, her phone was found
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01:17:13.000 --> 01:17:17.340
dumped in a ditch in Springfield, Missouri, some 502 miles away.
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From her home in Brookfield, Illinois.
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Her sister, Dana, wrote a Facebook post on November 8, 2019.
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It's a long post, so we'll just summarize the key parts.
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They've searched the forest preserves, impound lots, and truck yards
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01:17:31.680 --> 01:17:35.020
in the previous town mentioned for her car, assuming that
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01:17:35.050 --> 01:17:42.779
they're leaving no stone unturned. assuring me that they're leaving
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01:17:42.880 --> 01:17:46.520
no stone unturned. Her info and her car info are
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01:17:46.590 --> 01:17:49.250
listed in a system that law enforcement uses, meaning if
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01:17:49.289 --> 01:17:51.869
her car has been left somewhere, the plates and or
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01:17:51.909 --> 01:17:56.250
VIN will alert them that she's been reported missing. If
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01:17:56.310 --> 01:17:59.579
tolls have been passed through or tow trucks come upon it, etc.,
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01:17:59.869 --> 01:18:03.449
an alert will pop up. We've registered her with NamUs,
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01:18:03.689 --> 01:18:13.229
number MP61151. NamUs, number MP61151. Clear Channel has donated their
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01:18:13.250 --> 01:18:16.130
billboard space openings to show her picture and where to call.
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I can't even express how grateful we are to them.
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Please keep Erica and us in your thoughts until we
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01:18:22.720 --> 01:18:27.439
can bring her home. 53-year-old Erica Thompson was last seen
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01:18:27.520 --> 01:18:31.340
on October 25th, 2019 and is described as a white
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01:18:31.420 --> 01:18:34.420
female with blonde hair and blue eyes. Her natural hair
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01:18:34.439 --> 01:18:37.810
color Her natural hair color is brown and her ears
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01:18:37.869 --> 01:18:40.859
are double pierced. She has a tattoo of a blue
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01:18:40.920 --> 01:18:43.220
heart on the top of her foot and a tattoo
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of fairies.
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01:18:43.819 --> 01:18:44.260
On her hip.
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01:18:45.220 --> 01:18:48.930
There is currently a $ 1, 000 reward for information and anyone
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01:18:48.970 --> 01:18:53.579
with any information at all all is urged to contact
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01:18:53.619 --> 01:18:56.779
the Brookfield Police Department on 708-244-4862 or Cook County Crime.
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01:18:56.619 --> 01:18:59.020
Stoppers on 1-800-535-STOP. 1. Glenda Peterson.
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01:19:09.659 --> 01:19:13.199
The details of Glenda Peterson's 1997 disappearance are few and
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01:19:13.239 --> 01:19:16.500
far between, and with the passage of time, those details
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01:19:16.560 --> 01:19:21.279
become harder and harder to come by. On July 4th, 1997,
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01:19:21.279 --> 01:19:25.949
40-year-old Glenda Jean Peterson spent the day celebrating at Lake
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01:19:25.970 --> 01:19:31.670
Thunderbird in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with her 16-year-old daughter. Glenda
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01:19:31.710 --> 01:19:33.729
had just been through a rough divorce from her husband
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01:19:33.770 --> 01:19:36.390
of 15 years, and she was doing everything she could
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01:19:36.449 --> 01:19:38.899
to make the Fourth of July possible. a fun family
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01:19:38.939 --> 01:19:43.079
day for her daughter. At the time, Linda had her
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01:19:43.140 --> 01:19:45.279
right leg in a cast due to a break, but
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01:19:45.319 --> 01:19:48.619
didn't let her injury dampen her spirits. Linda and her
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01:19:48.640 --> 01:19:51.239
daughter spent the day together before accepting a ride home
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01:19:51.279 --> 01:19:54.560
from a man that they had met that day. Witnesses
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01:19:54.619 --> 01:19:57.100
corroborated this story, saying that they saw the fare get
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01:19:57.119 --> 01:20:02.010
into the man's dark-colored pickup truck and drive away. Witnesses
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01:20:02.050 --> 01:20:05.090
described the man as being white, in his 40s, Six
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01:20:05.100 --> 01:20:10.470
feet tall, 180 pounds, with brown hair and a mustache. Then,
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01:20:10.649 --> 01:20:13.090
somewhere along Highway 9, the unknown man pulled over at
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Glenda's request. Glenda handed her bag to her daughter, not
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out of the car, and was never seen or heard
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01:20:17.789 --> 01:20:20.960
from again. This is about as much information as we
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01:20:21.000 --> 01:20:24.479
have in Glenda's case, Glenda's niece Brandy told Dateline. Did
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01:20:24.520 --> 01:20:26.239
she know she was in danger, so she just wanted
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01:20:26.260 --> 01:20:28.800
to keep her daughter safe? There are so many holes
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01:20:28.840 --> 01:20:32.550
in the story, we just don't know. Glenda's mysterious disappearance
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01:20:32.590 --> 01:20:34.449
is one of those cases where we are simply left
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01:20:34.489 --> 01:20:38.770
with more questions than answers. Multiple searches have been conducted
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01:20:38.789 --> 01:20:41.069
by the Norman Police Department and cadaver dogs were even
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01:20:41.109 --> 01:20:44.449
called in, but nothing has ever been found. Each year,
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Glenda's children watch other families celebrating July 4th, hoping and
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01:20:48.100 --> 01:20:49.939
praying that one day their mother will come home so
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they can do the same once again. Glenda Jean Peterson
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01:20:53.300 --> 01:20:55.640
was last seen on the side of Highway 9 on
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July 4th, 1997. She is described as a white female
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01:20:59.779 --> 01:21:02.760
with black hair and brown eyes although the photographs provided
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01:21:02.800 --> 01:21:04.000
of her show her with blonde hair.
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Glenda has a tattoo of the letter.
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01:21:06.239 --> 01:21:08.779
G on her left forearm, a letter B on her
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left hand, an artificial jaw, and a scar on her neck.
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01:21:12.859 --> 01:21:15.000
At the time of her disappearance, Glenda's right leg was
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01:21:15.039 --> 01:21:18.159
broken and was in a cast. The Charlie Project notes
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01:21:18.180 --> 01:21:21.680
that Glenda goes by the nicknames Blondie and Sunshine, and
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01:21:21.699 --> 01:21:26.260
may use the surnames Adams, Kurnit, Darlie, and Deal. Anyone
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01:21:26.279 --> 01:21:28.739
with any information is urged to contact the Norman Police
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Department on 405 366-5211 Well friends, there you have it.
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What do you think of these strange disappearances? I look
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forward to hearing your comments, but please keep it friendly
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01:21:43.069 --> 01:21:46.510
and respectful. If you'd like to see more videos like this,
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check out the playlists that we have here on our channel.
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These playlists showcase our best content and videos that many
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01:21:52.960 --> 01:21:55.859
of you may have never seen before. So check them
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out and see what you might have missed out. Until
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01:21:59.220 --> 01:22:02.220
we meet again, Be good to yourselves and each other.
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Stay safe out there.
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As for me, I'll see you a little further on
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down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to
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you next time.
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Hello, friends.
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Steve Stockton here with you. Welcome to our latest video.
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This offering is number four. and our Creepy Cases series. Now,
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01:22:32.600 --> 01:22:34.600
while many of the cases we cover on the channel
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01:22:34.619 --> 01:22:37.220
have at least some strange or weird elements to them,
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01:22:37.640 --> 01:22:40.880
these are some hand-picked cases that we feel to be
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01:22:41.079 --> 01:22:42.159
amongst the creepiest.
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Join us.
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First up, Marina Bolter. 18-year-old Marina Bolter was doing everything
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01:22:52.170 --> 01:22:54.250
within her power to get her life back on track
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01:22:54.289 --> 01:22:58.409
in 2014. She had recently graduated high school by obtaining
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01:22:58.449 --> 01:23:01.289
her GED and had plans to go to college to
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01:23:01.329 --> 01:23:05.090
study to become a pastry chef. Things hadn't always been
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01:23:05.130 --> 01:23:05.590
easy for.
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Marina, though.
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In early 2014, when she was just 17 years old,
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she found out that she was pregnant with her first child.
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At the time, Marina was in an on-off relationship with
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DJ Lockhart, and the two did their best to make
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01:23:19.170 --> 01:23:24.109
the relationship work, although this wasn't always possible. When Marina's
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01:23:24.180 --> 01:23:26.680
newborn son was just four months old, he was taken
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into care after an altercation saw the baby receive a
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01:23:29.380 --> 01:23:34.319
head injury. According to reports, Marina's son was struck when Faith,
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Marina's sister and Faith's boyfriend.
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01:23:36.489 --> 01:23:39.010
Were arguing and fighting in their Bloomfield, Indiana home.
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This event enraged Marina understandably, and after that, she refused
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01:23:44.409 --> 01:23:47.229
to talk to her sister and distanced herself from her
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01:23:47.310 --> 01:23:51.390
family on her father's side. After her child had been
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01:23:51.409 --> 01:23:54.149
taken into care, Marina was determined to get him back.
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She started working at the deli counter of the local
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01:23:57.069 --> 01:24:00.770
IGA grocery store off South Highway 231 and had recently
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01:24:00.810 --> 01:24:03.729
moved into her own apartment to show social services that
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she was more than capable of taking care of her baby.
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What social services didn't know was that Marina had moved
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01:24:10.100 --> 01:24:12.899
into the apartment with the help of a much older man, Toby,
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01:24:13.100 --> 01:24:15.640
whom she had been having an affair with. Not only
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01:24:15.739 --> 01:24:18.060
was Toby much older than Marina, but he was in
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01:24:18.140 --> 01:24:21.220
fact married, and Toby knew Marina as he was a
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01:24:21.260 --> 01:24:24.149
friend of the family. While the affair was taking place,
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Marina maintained her on-off relationship with DJ, the father of
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01:24:27.850 --> 01:24:31.819
her child. Their relationship was described as rocky at best,
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01:24:32.300 --> 01:24:34.939
but Marina felt that there was a genuine connection between
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01:24:34.960 --> 01:24:37.359
them and that one day they might finally settle their
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01:24:37.399 --> 01:24:40.920
differences and be a proper couple again and raise their child.
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In December of 2014, things were starting to look up
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01:24:45.260 --> 01:24:47.890
for Marina. She was doing well at her job and
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the prospect of college admission was drawing ever closer. New
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01:24:52.069 --> 01:24:54.710
Year's Eve quickly rolled around, and what should have been
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01:24:54.789 --> 01:24:57.689
a night of celebration turned into a living nightmare for
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the Bolter family. On December 31, 2014, New Year's Eve,
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Marina went about her day, as usual, finishing up her
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shift at the IGE grocery store at around 6 p.m.
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As she was leaving work, she ran into DJ, who
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asked her to attend a New Year's party with him.
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Knowing she had to work the next day, she politely declined.
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DJ made several attempts to convince Marina to attend the
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01:25:20.439 --> 01:25:22.619
party with him, but she was having none of it.
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According to DJ, after the two had finished their conversation,
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he watched her walk across to the Sunoco gas station
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close to the IGA grocery store and get into a
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car with a middle-aged man. The man was described as white,
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01:25:36.199 --> 01:25:38.810
in his 40s or 50s, with glasses, and he drove
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either a silver, beige, or gold Mercury Milan, year 2009
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01:25:42.390 --> 01:25:47.470
to 2011, with multi-spoke rims, a spoiler, and a Bluetooth
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01:25:47.550 --> 01:25:51.350
or shark fin antenna on top. Witnesses would later confirm
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01:25:51.390 --> 01:25:53.430
that the man in the car was indeed a regular
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01:25:53.470 --> 01:25:56.810
customer at the IGA grocery store, and when questioned, this
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01:25:56.949 --> 01:25:59.430
unnamed man claimed that he dropped Marina at a closed
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01:25:59.489 --> 01:26:02.880
pizza shop near her apartment before driving away. He told
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investigators that he had dropped her off at the pizza
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01:26:05.100 --> 01:26:07.819
shop because Marina didn't want him to know her full address.
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While this story seems sketchy, Marina's mother later confirmed that
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this sounded like something her daughter would indeed do in
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order to keep herself safe. As the clock ticked down
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to midnight, and everyone was celebrating the coming of the
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new year, nobody had any idea that Marina hadn't yet
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01:26:23.550 --> 01:26:26.350
made it home that night. It wasn't until the next
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morning when she failed to show up for work that
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the alarm was raised. This was extremely out of character
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for Marina, and her boss at the IGA grocery store
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01:26:35.260 --> 01:26:38.479
immediately called her mother, Tressie, to make sure that everything
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was okay. Tressie knew immediately that something was terribly wrong
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and jumped into her car racing over to Marina's apartment.
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As she approached the apartment, She noticed that the door
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was locked, there was no sign of a struggle, and
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Marina's phone and purse were missing. Marina's apartment gave no
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01:26:54.270 --> 01:26:57.310
clues as to her whereabouts, and in a panic, Tressie
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called the Bloomfield Police Department to report her daughter missing.
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Within minutes, the Bloomfield Police Department had descended upon Marina's apartment,
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and a missing person investigation was underway. Investigators were able
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01:27:09.869 --> 01:27:12.189
to track Marina's phone and found that it had last
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01:27:12.250 --> 01:27:14.949
pinged at an unreleased location ten minutes after she had
1405
01:27:14.989 --> 01:27:18.630
left work. investigators have not released any further information about
1406
01:27:18.670 --> 01:27:22.359
this location because of their pending investigation. During the search
1407
01:27:22.420 --> 01:27:25.720
of Marina's apartment, investigators failed to find her work clothes,
1408
01:27:25.960 --> 01:27:28.079
which suggested that she hadn't returned to her apartment at
1409
01:27:28.159 --> 01:27:30.800
all that evening, so now they were faced with the question,
1410
01:27:31.180 --> 01:27:35.210
where is Marina? They spoke with DJ, who relayed the
1411
01:27:35.229 --> 01:27:37.989
story about Marina getting into a car with a middle-aged man,
1412
01:27:38.329 --> 01:27:40.489
and it took three weeks for the man in question
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01:27:40.510 --> 01:27:44.020
to come forward and talk to investigators. According to news reports,
1414
01:27:44.560 --> 01:27:48.140
This unnamed man had his previous conviction for abduction, along
1415
01:27:48.180 --> 01:27:51.479
with other crimes too graphic to mention here, although he
1416
01:27:51.560 --> 01:27:54.279
was officially ruled out as a suspect by police during
1417
01:27:54.300 --> 01:27:59.359
the initial investigation. During their investigation, the Bloomfield police also
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01:27:59.420 --> 01:28:01.600
learned that Marina had been on the phone with Toby
1419
01:28:01.779 --> 01:28:04.060
as she was leaving work on New Year's Eve and
1420
01:28:04.079 --> 01:28:05.930
that he was hosting a New Year's party that he
1421
01:28:05.979 --> 01:28:09.050
tried to persuade her to attend. During their phone call,
1422
01:28:09.210 --> 01:28:13.409
Marina allegedly said, Oh shit, it's DJ, before hanging up
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01:28:13.449 --> 01:28:16.229
the phone. Once news got out that Marina was missing,
1424
01:28:16.609 --> 01:28:19.430
Toby refused to speak to Tressie and only cooperated with
1425
01:28:19.470 --> 01:28:22.449
Marina's father and his side of the family. It is
1426
01:28:22.529 --> 01:28:25.470
bizarre that Toby sided with Marina's father's side of the
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01:28:25.510 --> 01:28:29.810
family as Marina herself was estranged from them. It later
1428
01:28:29.850 --> 01:28:32.590
transpired that Tressie had called Toby's wife to speak to
1429
01:28:32.630 --> 01:28:35.770
her about the affair and discovered that Toby's wife had
1430
01:28:35.859 --> 01:28:39.039
no idea and that she'd only found out because Tressie
1431
01:28:39.060 --> 01:28:43.140
had phoned her. Was Toby angry that Tressie had tipped
1432
01:28:43.180 --> 01:28:45.939
off his wife about his affair or was he siding
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01:28:45.960 --> 01:28:49.840
with Marina's father to cover his own guilt? Marina's father
1434
01:28:49.939 --> 01:28:52.420
and that side of the family firmly believe that DJ
1435
01:28:52.520 --> 01:28:56.100
is responsible for Marina's disappearance and maintain to this day
1436
01:28:56.159 --> 01:28:59.380
that he had something to do with it. DJ was
1437
01:28:59.439 --> 01:29:02.750
subjected to a polygraph and passed, but just weeks after
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01:29:02.789 --> 01:29:08.310
Marina disappeared, another tragedy would strike. On February 12, 2015,
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01:29:08.310 --> 01:29:11.149
DJ died following an altercation in a bar with a
1440
01:29:11.170 --> 01:29:15.619
man by the name of Michael Rogers. Rogers was not charged,
1441
01:29:15.640 --> 01:29:18.119
as investigators deemed it to be an act of self-defense,
1442
01:29:18.779 --> 01:29:21.479
but any knowledge that DJ had about Marina was now
1443
01:29:21.539 --> 01:29:25.659
taken with him to the grave. There's also another person
1444
01:29:25.680 --> 01:29:28.680
to consider in Marina's case. and that is an ex-felon
1445
01:29:28.739 --> 01:29:31.279
who was convicted of a horrific crime against a young girl.
1446
01:29:32.300 --> 01:29:35.460
This ex-felon lived in Marina's apartment block, and the Bloomfield
1447
01:29:35.479 --> 01:29:38.060
police have said that they do not consider him a suspect.
1448
01:29:39.420 --> 01:29:42.880
While researching Marina's case, very few articles came up in
1449
01:29:42.920 --> 01:29:45.829
regards to this man, and it is hard to discern
1450
01:29:45.869 --> 01:29:49.609
the truth about him. In an interview for NBC News,
1451
01:29:50.289 --> 01:29:55.289
Ashley Bolter, Marina's sister-in-law, said, Who really knows if what he, DJ,
1452
01:29:55.430 --> 01:30:00.069
saw happened? But either way, she disappeared. There are several theories,
1453
01:30:00.189 --> 01:30:02.430
but all we know is someone out there knows what
1454
01:30:02.470 --> 01:30:06.010
happened when she left that store. It's like nine out
1455
01:30:06.050 --> 01:30:09.140
of ten days you're fine, you just push on, then
1456
01:30:09.180 --> 01:30:12.659
that tenth day comes and you collapse. The biggest thing
1457
01:30:12.760 --> 01:30:16.020
is that she's a mother. The least we want is answers,
1458
01:30:16.640 --> 01:30:18.800
so that one day we can give her little boy
1459
01:30:19.039 --> 01:30:23.949
the information he deserves. Marina Bolter was last seen on
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01:30:24.010 --> 01:30:28.090
December 31st, 2014. as described as a white female with
1461
01:30:28.130 --> 01:30:31.329
blonde hair and blue eyes. Both of her ears are
1462
01:30:31.350 --> 01:30:33.569
pierced and she has a tattoo of a star with
1463
01:30:33.609 --> 01:30:36.829
butterfly wings on her foot. She was last seen wearing
1464
01:30:36.850 --> 01:30:40.569
a black and purple plaid peacoat, jeans with rhinestones on
1465
01:30:40.609 --> 01:30:44.090
the back pockets, pink and white Nike Shock shoes with
1466
01:30:44.130 --> 01:30:46.869
a purple swoosh outlined in black and a cross necklace.
1467
01:30:48.430 --> 01:30:50.729
The Charlie Project also mentions that she was carrying a
1468
01:30:50.770 --> 01:30:54.579
bag with love written on the side. Anyone with any
1469
01:30:54.640 --> 01:30:58.130
information whatsoever is asked to please contact the Bloomfield Police
1470
01:30:58.170 --> 01:31:06.590
Department on 812-332-4411 or the Indiana State Police on 812-384-4411.
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01:31:09.489 --> 01:31:18.739
Next up, Christina Bastian. 34-year-old Christina Bastian worked as an
1472
01:31:18.819 --> 01:31:22.319
English teacher at Silverado High School in Apple Valley, California
1473
01:31:22.680 --> 01:31:25.899
in 2015. and was well liked by her students and
1474
01:31:25.939 --> 01:31:29.520
those in her community. In recent years, Christina had been
1475
01:31:29.579 --> 01:31:32.760
diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was working with doctors and
1476
01:31:32.939 --> 01:31:36.180
mental health professionals to help manage her condition. She had
1477
01:31:36.220 --> 01:31:39.039
been prescribed medication, which she had stopped in the months.
1478
01:31:38.890 --> 01:31:39.899
Before she disappeared.
1479
01:31:40.909 --> 01:31:44.050
Sources state that Christina came off her medication after counseling
1480
01:31:44.090 --> 01:31:47.390
her doctor and began telling family and friends that God
1481
01:31:47.430 --> 01:31:50.489
had healed her. When she first came off the medication,
1482
01:31:50.689 --> 01:31:53.829
she seemed as though she was doing well. However, this
1483
01:31:53.989 --> 01:31:57.350
slowly changed, and just days before she was last seen,
1484
01:31:57.770 --> 01:32:04.479
Christina's mood and personality dramatically shifted. In late October of 2015,
1485
01:32:04.479 --> 01:32:09.060
Christina began exhibiting bizarre behavior, telling her friends and family
1486
01:32:09.100 --> 01:32:11.859
that someone had broken into her apartment and that someone
1487
01:32:11.899 --> 01:32:17.300
was watching her and following her every move. Christina was inconsolable,
1488
01:32:17.420 --> 01:32:19.779
despite her friends and family trying to reassure her that
1489
01:32:19.920 --> 01:32:24.029
everything was okay, In an attempt to make her feel safe,
1490
01:32:24.550 --> 01:32:26.529
friends and family allowed her to stay with them for
1491
01:32:26.569 --> 01:32:31.289
a few days, promising her that everything would be all right. However,
1492
01:32:31.510 --> 01:32:35.130
Christina's behavior only worsened over the coming days, and the
1493
01:32:35.170 --> 01:32:38.810
day before she disappeared, she drove from Apple Valley, California
1494
01:32:38.949 --> 01:32:43.159
to Phoenix, Arizona for reasons that are unknown. According to
1495
01:32:43.199 --> 01:32:46.420
Christina's mother, Cheryl, she received a phone call from her
1496
01:32:46.439 --> 01:32:50.000
daughter telling her that she was in Phoenix. Reports indicate
1497
01:32:50.020 --> 01:32:52.479
that after this, Christina took the SIM card out of
1498
01:32:52.520 --> 01:32:56.579
her phone and then smashed the phone to bits. On
1499
01:32:56.619 --> 01:32:59.300
the day before her disappearance, Christina also spoke to her
1500
01:32:59.340 --> 01:33:02.529
brother-in-law and cryptically told him, I don't want to be
1501
01:33:02.569 --> 01:33:07.210
Christina Bastian anymore. This chilling statement was a premonition of
1502
01:33:07.250 --> 01:33:09.770
what was to come and Christina also told him that
1503
01:33:09.829 --> 01:33:14.270
she wanted to disappear. By the next day, this premonition,
1504
01:33:14.350 --> 01:33:17.020
if that's what it was, had come true and Christina
1505
01:33:17.079 --> 01:33:22.720
was nowhere to be found. On November 1st, 2015, Christina
1506
01:33:22.739 --> 01:33:25.439
arrived at a friend's house in Apple Valley after the
1507
01:33:25.479 --> 01:33:29.079
two agreed that Christina could stay the night. This wasn't
1508
01:33:29.199 --> 01:33:32.380
unusual for Christina and in the previous weeks, she'd been
1509
01:33:32.500 --> 01:33:35.420
overly paranoid that someone had broken into her apartment and
1510
01:33:35.439 --> 01:33:39.109
that someone was trying to get her. She brought with
1511
01:33:39.149 --> 01:33:41.789
her some valuable items as well as everyday items such
1512
01:33:41.829 --> 01:33:45.010
as her bag, purse and glasses along with her beloved.
1513
01:33:44.729 --> 01:33:45.710
Dog, Coco.
1514
01:33:47.310 --> 01:33:49.649
The full details of what happened that night have never
1515
01:33:49.689 --> 01:33:53.489
been released but according to the Charlie Project, Christina left
1516
01:33:53.529 --> 01:33:55.689
her friend's house at around 1.45 a.m.
1517
01:33:55.890 --> 01:33:56.979
After becoming upset.
1518
01:33:58.180 --> 01:34:01.119
It is unknown whether the two had an actual disagreement
1519
01:34:01.579 --> 01:34:04.800
or whether Christina's paranoia and altered mental state took over.
1520
01:34:05.800 --> 01:34:08.739
According to the friend, Christina jumped into her silver two-door
1521
01:34:08.819 --> 01:34:12.180
Dodge Ram 1500 pickup and drove away into the night.
1522
01:34:13.439 --> 01:34:16.029
Her friend hoped that Christina would return after taking a
1523
01:34:16.069 --> 01:34:18.569
short drive to clear her head, but as the sun rose,
1524
01:34:19.010 --> 01:34:24.210
there was no sign of Christina. That same night, 46
1525
01:34:24.210 --> 01:34:28.729
miles away on Highway 247 near Bodick Road in Johnson Valley, California,
1526
01:34:29.250 --> 01:34:32.569
the California Highway Patrol found some of Christina's personal items
1527
01:34:32.710 --> 01:34:35.930
scattered on the side of the highway. It wasn't until
1528
01:34:35.949 --> 01:34:38.449
the next morning that her car was found abandoned a
1529
01:34:38.470 --> 01:34:41.960
further 37 miles away near Valley View Road and 29
1530
01:34:41.960 --> 01:34:46.159
Palms Highway. Investigators who discovered the car noted that it
1531
01:34:46.199 --> 01:34:48.760
was covered in dents and scrapes, almost as if it
1532
01:34:48.800 --> 01:34:53.260
had been driven through rocky terrain. Christina's family held their
1533
01:34:53.270 --> 01:34:55.600
collective breath as the news of the discovery of her
1534
01:34:55.640 --> 01:34:58.300
car was relayed to them, but as the investigators went
1535
01:34:58.319 --> 01:35:01.220
through the details, they realized that there was still no
1536
01:35:01.279 --> 01:35:05.020
sign of Christina. Their concern grew as the hours passed,
1537
01:35:05.159 --> 01:35:07.159
knowing that she was in an altered state of mind
1538
01:35:07.220 --> 01:35:10.619
with no car, no wallet, no ID, and no glasses,
1539
01:35:11.000 --> 01:35:13.060
as she had left all these items behind at her
1540
01:35:13.100 --> 01:35:18.300
friend's house the night before. Also, on November 1st, 2015,
1541
01:35:18.300 --> 01:35:22.170
Christina's beloved dog, Cocoa, was found wandering in Apple Valley
1542
01:35:22.229 --> 01:35:25.229
on the side of Highway 18. A kind stranger took
1543
01:35:25.270 --> 01:35:27.850
Coco in and put up flyers and posters appealing for
1544
01:35:27.869 --> 01:35:30.989
the owner to come forward. Christina's family were alerted to
1545
01:35:31.050 --> 01:35:33.720
this and chose for Coco to remain in the woman's
1546
01:35:33.760 --> 01:35:37.640
care while they searched for Christina. As the days went on,
1547
01:35:38.039 --> 01:35:40.840
the search for Christina continued with local police forces and
1548
01:35:40.880 --> 01:35:44.300
volunteers turning out in droves to look for her, but sadly,
1549
01:35:44.590 --> 01:35:47.569
no sign of her was to be found. It wasn't
1550
01:35:47.630 --> 01:35:50.890
until 11 days later that a horrific discovery was made
1551
01:35:50.949 --> 01:35:54.369
near Bear Valley Road in Apple Valley. The area is
1552
01:35:54.430 --> 01:35:57.090
described as being a dirt road and the location of
1553
01:35:57.109 --> 01:35:59.859
the discovery only added to the fears of the investigators
1554
01:36:00.039 --> 01:36:03.060
and Christina's family. On the site of this dirt road,
1555
01:36:03.300 --> 01:36:06.449
a passerby noticed a discarded backpack and upon opening it,
1556
01:36:06.779 --> 01:36:10.699
they found medication, money and photographs that all belonged to Christina.
1557
01:36:11.319 --> 01:36:13.899
This discovery was called in to the Apple Valley PD
1558
01:36:14.159 --> 01:36:17.619
who used canines and helicopters to search the area but sadly,
1559
01:36:17.979 --> 01:36:21.619
No other clues were to be found. Cheryl, Christina's mother,
1560
01:36:21.819 --> 01:36:24.119
believes that her daughter may be in Yucca Valley or
1561
01:36:24.140 --> 01:36:27.590
the surrounding area and is homeless or living a transient lifestyle.
1562
01:36:28.670 --> 01:36:31.310
In a Facebook post to the page Help Find Christina
1563
01:36:31.350 --> 01:36:36.029
Bastion in July 2018, Cheryl wrote, A couple of months ago,
1564
01:36:36.050 --> 01:36:39.649
a young well-kept homeless man identified Christina by name from
1565
01:36:39.689 --> 01:36:42.170
a picture. He was in front of the Walmart in
1566
01:36:42.210 --> 01:36:46.439
Yucca Valley, California. I believe she is there. If you
1567
01:36:46.479 --> 01:36:48.739
see her, please snap a picture and send it to me.
1568
01:36:49.439 --> 01:36:52.859
I miss her more than words can express. According to
1569
01:36:52.880 --> 01:36:55.810
other posts made on this page, Cheryl has received several
1570
01:36:55.899 --> 01:36:58.949
emails and tips from people in California and beyond who
1571
01:36:58.989 --> 01:37:02.130
believe that they have seen Christina panhandling and begging for change.
1572
01:37:03.430 --> 01:37:07.149
Christina Bastian was last seen on November 1st, 2015 in
1573
01:37:07.229 --> 01:37:08.470
Apple Valley, California.
1574
01:37:09.430 --> 01:37:10.270
She is described as a.
1575
01:37:10.270 --> 01:37:13.649
White female with red hair, brown eyes, 5 foot 6
1576
01:37:13.649 --> 01:37:18.550
inches tall, and weighs about 170 pounds. Christina's ears and
1577
01:37:18.630 --> 01:37:21.369
cartilage are pierced, she has a scar on her thumb,
1578
01:37:22.029 --> 01:37:24.750
a scar on her right eyebrow, and a tattoo of
1579
01:37:24.789 --> 01:37:27.590
a cherry blossom with Chinese writing on her left ankle
1580
01:37:27.609 --> 01:37:31.329
and foot. She also needs glasses to see, however, these
1581
01:37:31.350 --> 01:37:34.909
were left behind at the time of her disappearance. Cheryl
1582
01:37:34.930 --> 01:37:37.409
told the media that without her glasses, Christina can only
1583
01:37:37.449 --> 01:37:39.840
see about six inches in front of her, and all
1584
01:37:39.850 --> 01:37:41.489
she had with her at the time of her disappearance
1585
01:37:41.680 --> 01:37:44.859
was the pair of contacts she was wearing. Christina was
1586
01:37:44.899 --> 01:37:49.829
diagnosed with bipolar disorder and requires medication for her condition. However,
1587
01:37:50.229 --> 01:37:53.689
she had stopped taking these months before she disappeared, apparently
1588
01:37:53.750 --> 01:37:54.170
with her.
1589
01:37:54.189 --> 01:37:55.989
Doctor's permission, according to her.
1590
01:37:56.909 --> 01:37:59.850
Anyone with any information is asked to contact the San
1591
01:37:59.869 --> 01:38:03.510
Bernardino Sheriff's Department at 909-387-3690 or the Apple Valley PD
1592
01:38:03.529 --> 01:38:19.180
at 760-240-7400. Next we have Kya Taylor. 28-year-old Kya Taylor
1593
01:38:19.260 --> 01:38:21.779
has been described by friends and family as a lively,
1594
01:38:21.979 --> 01:38:24.399
warm and affectionate person who would go out of her
1595
01:38:24.439 --> 01:38:27.329
way to help those in need. At the time of
1596
01:38:27.350 --> 01:38:30.560
her disappearance, Kaya was living in Plant City, Florida with
1597
01:38:30.579 --> 01:38:33.720
her boyfriend, although some reports state that she was couch
1598
01:38:33.760 --> 01:38:37.539
surfing and staying with friends. Kaya's family have created the
1599
01:38:37.579 --> 01:38:40.630
Facebook page, Finding Kaya, in an attempt to gather as
1600
01:38:40.689 --> 01:38:43.909
much information as possible and spread the word about her disappearance.
1601
01:38:45.170 --> 01:38:46.470
Her family has also been.
1602
01:38:46.390 --> 01:38:49.130
Very vocal about the lack of progress made in her case.
1603
01:38:50.260 --> 01:38:52.800
In August of 2020, her family made a post to
1604
01:38:52.819 --> 01:38:55.380
the Facebook page laying out the facts of Kaya's case
1605
01:38:55.840 --> 01:38:58.939
and asking anyone with information to contact the Hillsborough County
1606
01:38:58.979 --> 01:39:03.090
Sheriff's Office. Kaya Taylor was last seen at around 4pm
1607
01:39:03.170 --> 01:39:06.550
on February 6, 2020, dropping her boyfriend off at his
1608
01:39:06.569 --> 01:39:10.310
friend's house located off Cowart and Trapnell Road in Plant City, Florida.
1609
01:39:11.310 --> 01:39:14.569
According to her boyfriend, his friend and his friend's father,
1610
01:39:15.029 --> 01:39:17.909
They all saw Kaya dropping off her boyfriend before leaving
1611
01:39:17.970 --> 01:39:19.789
to make her way to Lakeland, where she was due
1612
01:39:19.829 --> 01:39:24.390
to stay with a friend. Unfortunately, Kaya never arrived at
1613
01:39:24.409 --> 01:39:27.189
her friend's house in Lakeland, and this friend informed her
1614
01:39:27.210 --> 01:39:31.220
boyfriend that she had never shown up days later. Just
1615
01:39:31.279 --> 01:39:34.060
three hours after Kaya was last seen, her car was
1616
01:39:34.119 --> 01:39:38.180
discovered abandoned on the railway tracks on Trapnell Road. Kaya's
1617
01:39:38.239 --> 01:39:40.600
family has stated that this railway was out of use
1618
01:39:40.720 --> 01:39:43.000
and maintenance works were being carried out on the tracks.
1619
01:39:44.359 --> 01:39:46.729
A concerned citizen noticed the car and called the police
1620
01:39:46.770 --> 01:39:48.829
to alert them to the situation and get it moved.
1621
01:39:50.029 --> 01:39:52.569
Plant City Police Department arrived at the scene and found
1622
01:39:52.590 --> 01:39:55.369
that Kaya's car was still running, with the windows open,
1623
01:39:55.829 --> 01:39:58.189
facing northbound, and that her phone was on the floor
1624
01:39:58.220 --> 01:40:02.039
of the vehicle. Somewhat oddly, instead of running her plates,
1625
01:40:02.220 --> 01:40:04.760
the officer who attended the scene got into Kaya's car
1626
01:40:05.020 --> 01:40:06.920
and moved it to the side of the railway tracks.
1627
01:40:08.300 --> 01:40:10.699
For another three days, Kaya's car sat at the edge
1628
01:40:10.739 --> 01:40:13.529
of these tracks until her boyfriend's mother saw it sitting there.
1629
01:40:14.470 --> 01:40:15.949
She went over to her son's house to let him
1630
01:40:15.970 --> 01:40:17.949
know what was going on, and he told his mother
1631
01:40:17.989 --> 01:40:20.109
that Kaya was supposed to be in Lakeland, so he
1632
01:40:20.130 --> 01:40:22.750
couldn't understand why her car had been abandoned where it was.
1633
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During the worst, Kaya's boyfriend called a friend in Lakeland
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01:40:26.770 --> 01:40:30.380
who confirmed that she had never arrived. After this, Kaya's
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01:40:30.409 --> 01:40:32.300
boyfriend called her mother to let her know that her
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01:40:32.340 --> 01:40:35.220
daughter hadn't been seen since February 6th and that her
1637
01:40:35.260 --> 01:40:38.600
car had been abandoned. After being notified that her daughter
1638
01:40:38.640 --> 01:40:41.239
had gone missing, Kaya's mother went to collect her car
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01:40:41.279 --> 01:40:43.380
that had been left at the side of the railroad tracks.
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01:40:44.270 --> 01:40:47.630
Inside the car, she found Kaya's phone and wallet. This
1641
01:40:47.750 --> 01:40:50.390
sent alarm bells ringing, and Kaya's mother called the Hillsborough
1642
01:40:50.430 --> 01:40:53.989
County Sheriff's Office to report her daughter missing. Four days
1643
01:40:54.069 --> 01:40:56.789
after she was last seen, Kaya Taylor was officially listed
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01:40:56.850 --> 01:41:00.510
as a missing person, and an investigation was opened. In
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01:41:00.550 --> 01:41:04.300
the days following Kaya's disappearance, friends, family, and members of
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01:41:04.310 --> 01:41:07.119
the local community gathered to help canvass the area and
1647
01:41:07.180 --> 01:41:09.859
aid the police in their search for her. The police
1648
01:41:09.960 --> 01:41:13.119
used scent dogs, helicopters, as well as officers on the ground,
1649
01:41:13.390 --> 01:41:16.789
all combing through the area looking for Kaya. A forensic
1650
01:41:16.850 --> 01:41:20.710
examination was conducted on Kaya's car, however, this yielded no results.
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01:41:21.550 --> 01:41:24.850
Kaya's family remained strong, canvassing the area, putting up flyers,
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01:41:24.970 --> 01:41:28.180
and talking to residents who may have seen something. They
1653
01:41:28.220 --> 01:41:31.340
also held a vigil to help bring awareness to Kaya's disappearance,
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01:41:31.880 --> 01:41:34.880
but despite the media coverage and attention, no one came
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01:41:34.939 --> 01:41:38.760
forward with any information. The first clue didn't come until
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01:41:38.800 --> 01:41:43.319
February 26, 2020, 20 days after Kaya had last been seen.
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01:41:44.550 --> 01:41:47.789
According to the Facebook post made by Kaya's family, 20
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01:41:47.789 --> 01:41:51.510
days after Kaya's disappearance on February 26, her shoes were
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01:41:51.550 --> 01:41:54.289
found located not too far from her car, next to
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01:41:54.350 --> 01:41:56.630
a light pole that had her picture on it attached
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01:41:56.670 --> 01:42:00.689
to a missing persons flyer. Family, friends, and police officers
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01:42:00.710 --> 01:42:03.310
searched this area prior and the shoes were not there.
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01:42:04.229 --> 01:42:08.439
It's as if someone placed them there. Another puzzling clue
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01:42:08.659 --> 01:42:12.180
that was uncovered during the investigation was Kaya's last text
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01:42:12.220 --> 01:42:15.140
to her boyfriend, which read, So you're going to send
1666
01:42:15.159 --> 01:42:17.340
your white supremacist friends to take care of me? A
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01:42:18.350 --> 01:42:20.909
post written for the Bear Press mentioned that Kaya is
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01:42:20.970 --> 01:42:24.029
biracial and that her boyfriend's social media was filled with
1669
01:42:24.069 --> 01:42:28.689
posts of the Confederate flag and other racist propaganda. Kaya's
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01:42:28.729 --> 01:42:32.630
mother also confirmed to People.com that Kaya had recently fallen
1671
01:42:32.670 --> 01:42:35.529
in with a bad crowd and had possibly been experimenting
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01:42:35.569 --> 01:42:40.069
with drugs. Since Kaya's shoes were discovered in February 2020,
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01:42:40.069 --> 01:42:42.430
her case has gone cold, despite the best efforts of
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01:42:42.470 --> 01:42:45.210
her family to keep her name in the media. Kaya
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01:42:45.229 --> 01:42:50.159
Taylor remains missing, and her family are offering a $ 10, 000
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01:42:48.539 --> 01:42:52.439
reward for any information that leads to her whereabouts. We'd
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01:42:52.479 --> 01:42:54.960
also like to mention that Kaya's boyfriend has not been
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01:42:55.079 --> 01:42:58.470
named publicly, and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office have stated
1679
01:42:58.510 --> 01:43:02.279
that he is not a suspect in Kaya's disappearance. Kaya
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01:43:02.319 --> 01:43:05.460
Taylor was last seen on February 6, 2020, and is
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01:43:05.520 --> 01:43:12.739
described as a biracial, African-American, white mix. Female, 5'6, 170lbs,
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01:43:13.119 --> 01:43:17.140
with auburn red hair and brown eyes. Kaya has multiple tattoos,
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01:43:17.479 --> 01:43:20.439
an infinity symbol on her left upper chest, two X's
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01:43:20.479 --> 01:43:22.420
with a rose on the back of her shoulder, a
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01:43:22.460 --> 01:43:24.920
rose on the inside of her forearm, a sun on
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01:43:24.960 --> 01:43:27.720
her upper right thigh, and a ladybird on her left calf.
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01:43:28.819 --> 01:43:31.060
She was last seen wearing a blue, gray, red, and
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01:43:31.100 --> 01:43:35.279
white striped short-sleeved minidress, tan knee-high boots, and possibly a
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01:43:35.319 --> 01:43:39.079
pink cardigan. Anyone with any information is urged to please
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01:43:39.119 --> 01:43:49.109
contact the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office at 813-247-8200. Next, we
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01:43:49.149 --> 01:43:54.149
have Jake Latios. 22-year-old Jake Latios was last seen on
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01:43:54.189 --> 01:43:57.930
the Interstate 10 bridge over the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge,
1693
01:43:58.449 --> 01:44:02.869
on August 29th, 2014 at around 2 a.m. A passerby
1694
01:44:02.930 --> 01:44:05.689
told investigators they had spoke to Jake at around 2 a.m.
1695
01:44:06.069 --> 01:44:07.909
as he was sitting next to his pickup truck on
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01:44:07.930 --> 01:44:11.189
the bridge. Jake informed the stranger that he was on
1697
01:44:11.229 --> 01:44:14.319
his way to West Baton Rouge, but sadly, Jake never
1698
01:44:14.359 --> 01:44:17.739
made it there. A few hours later, the Baton Rouge
1699
01:44:17.760 --> 01:44:21.039
Police Department received a bizarre call that kick-started the search
1700
01:44:21.079 --> 01:44:25.920
for Jake. In the early morning hours of August 29th, 2014,
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01:44:25.920 --> 01:44:28.260
The Baton Rouge Police Department were called to the Interstate
1702
01:44:28.260 --> 01:44:31.119
10 bridge when an anonymous caller reported seeing a person
1703
01:44:31.180 --> 01:44:31.819
jump from the.
1704
01:44:31.779 --> 01:44:33.460
Bridge into the waters below.
1705
01:44:33.479 --> 01:44:36.439
The person calling did not want to give their identity
1706
01:44:36.539 --> 01:44:38.260
and it appears they were not at the scene when
1707
01:44:38.279 --> 01:44:42.060
the police arrived. The Baton Rouge Police took this call
1708
01:44:42.119 --> 01:44:45.729
very seriously and dispatched officers to the scene however when
1709
01:44:45.739 --> 01:44:49.770
they arrived they couldn't find anything. They looked into the
1710
01:44:49.810 --> 01:44:52.529
water below but saw no sign of anyone having jumped.
1711
01:44:53.800 --> 01:44:55.819
A dive team was called to the area to recover
1712
01:44:55.899 --> 01:44:59.199
any remains or rescue the person, but again, the dive
1713
01:44:59.239 --> 01:45:03.489
team found nothing. What the Baton Rouge Police Department did
1714
01:45:03.529 --> 01:45:07.189
find was Jake's pickup truck, still running, abandoned on the
1715
01:45:07.229 --> 01:45:11.569
side of the road. Inside the vehicle were Jake's phone, cigarettes,
1716
01:45:11.630 --> 01:45:14.390
and a trolling motor that he had just purchased, but
1717
01:45:14.430 --> 01:45:16.409
his wallet and crutches that he was using at the
1718
01:45:16.449 --> 01:45:19.210
time were nowhere to be found. At the time of
1719
01:45:19.229 --> 01:45:21.810
his disappearance, Jake had a broken foot and right hand
1720
01:45:21.850 --> 01:45:24.050
and was wearing an orthopedic boot as well as using
1721
01:45:24.090 --> 01:45:27.750
crutches to get around. His crutches weren't recovered from the
1722
01:45:27.789 --> 01:45:31.390
bridge nor the water, leaving authorities with more questions than answers.
1723
01:45:32.250 --> 01:45:35.989
Jake's mother, Tina LeClerc, told NBC if he jumped off
1724
01:45:36.029 --> 01:45:39.260
the bridge, his crutches would have been found. They would
1725
01:45:39.279 --> 01:45:41.260
have been left in his room, by his truck, on
1726
01:45:41.300 --> 01:45:45.470
the bridge, floating in the water. Jake's case only became
1727
01:45:45.529 --> 01:45:48.510
more bizarre when his mother, Tina, visited his apartment after
1728
01:45:48.529 --> 01:45:51.210
the Baton Rouge Police Department contacted her to let her
1729
01:45:51.250 --> 01:45:53.300
know that his truck had been found abandoned on the
1730
01:45:53.340 --> 01:45:57.720
side of the bridge. She told NBC, When I got there,
1731
01:45:58.000 --> 01:46:01.979
it automatically seemed suspicious. The window was punched out. There
1732
01:46:02.020 --> 01:46:04.899
were holes in the wall. His personal items were missing,
1733
01:46:05.199 --> 01:46:10.310
including his TV set. Just everything was a mess. Several
1734
01:46:10.350 --> 01:46:13.270
years have passed since Jake disappeared, and sadly, the Baton
1735
01:46:13.310 --> 01:46:16.149
Rouge Police Department are still no closer to solving his case.
1736
01:46:16.970 --> 01:46:19.649
According to a Facebook post made to the Help Find
1737
01:46:19.789 --> 01:46:24.289
Missing Jake Allen Latios page in August 2021, his crutches
1738
01:46:24.449 --> 01:46:27.449
were located much later at an undisclosed time and location,
1739
01:46:27.890 --> 01:46:30.689
but no further information has been provided about this fact.
1740
01:46:31.710 --> 01:46:34.350
His mother, Tina, believes that Jake met with foul play
1741
01:46:34.550 --> 01:46:36.369
and that someone staged it to look like he took
1742
01:46:36.409 --> 01:46:39.989
his own life. Tina said she is ready for whatever
1743
01:46:40.100 --> 01:46:42.560
outcome and just wants to know the truth of what
1744
01:46:42.600 --> 01:46:47.300
happened to her son. 22-year-old Jake Latios was last seen
1745
01:46:47.439 --> 01:46:51.180
on August 29, 2014, on the Interstate 10 bridge in
1746
01:46:51.220 --> 01:46:53.880
Baton Rouge. He is described as a white male with
1747
01:46:53.939 --> 01:46:57.880
brown hair, brown eyes, stands approximately 5 foot 9 inches tall,
1748
01:46:58.180 --> 01:47:00.399
and weighs between 130 and 150 pounds.
1749
01:47:01.659 --> 01:47:02.159
Jake has a.
1750
01:47:02.159 --> 01:47:04.380
Cross-shaped scar on his left wrist, and at the time
1751
01:47:04.399 --> 01:47:07.060
of his disappearance, he had a broken foot, a broken
1752
01:47:07.119 --> 01:47:10.029
right hand, and was using an orthopedic boot and crutches.
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01:47:11.210 --> 01:47:14.390
Anyone with any information has urged to please contact the
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01:47:14.409 --> 01:47:25.760
Baton Rouge Police Department at 225-389-4617. And finally, Audrey Mae Herron.
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01:47:25.779 --> 01:47:28.359
31-year-old Audrey Mae Herron was a devoted mother of three
1756
01:47:28.560 --> 01:47:30.680
and a nurse living in Catskill, New York at the
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01:47:30.720 --> 01:47:34.699
time of her disappearance. When Audrey was just 22, she
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01:47:34.739 --> 01:47:37.630
gave birth to her first child, Sonsia, and with the
1759
01:47:37.649 --> 01:47:40.449
help of her parents, continued her studies and eventually became
1760
01:47:40.489 --> 01:47:43.930
a full-time nurse at a nearby nursing home. Audrey later
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01:47:43.949 --> 01:47:46.210
went on to marry Jeff Herron, and the couple had
1762
01:47:46.250 --> 01:47:50.189
two more children, Katie and Quinn. The blended family quickly
1763
01:47:50.250 --> 01:47:53.970
meshed together, with Sansia telling True Crime Daily, even though
1764
01:47:54.029 --> 01:47:56.689
I wasn't his child, he still considered me his.
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01:47:56.630 --> 01:47:58.489
Daughter, and I called him dad.
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01:47:59.850 --> 01:48:03.649
Life for the Herrons was going smoothly. 2002, Sansia was
1767
01:48:03.649 --> 01:48:06.529
10 years old, and a few days before Labor Day weekend,
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01:48:07.050 --> 01:48:09.310
She had just returned to her Catskill home from Florida,
1769
01:48:09.520 --> 01:48:12.399
where she had spent the last month with her grandmother, Shirley,
1770
01:48:12.560 --> 01:48:16.119
which was Audrey's mother. Shirley revealed that Audrey had just
1771
01:48:16.159 --> 01:48:18.390
been given a raise at work and was excited to
1772
01:48:18.449 --> 01:48:20.630
see her daughter after she'd been away for so long.
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01:48:22.130 --> 01:48:25.630
Audrey's shifts are working until 11 p.m. at night, and
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01:48:25.729 --> 01:48:27.710
Shirley agreed that this would be far too late for
1775
01:48:27.729 --> 01:48:31.310
her to pick Sansia from her home. Sansia stayed the
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01:48:31.380 --> 01:48:34.689
night at her grandmother's house, waiting eagerly for her mother
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01:48:34.720 --> 01:48:36.239
to come and pick her up on the morning of
1778
01:48:36.359 --> 01:48:41.979
August 30, 2002. but sadly, that knock at the door
1779
01:48:42.159 --> 01:48:46.390
and the familiar shout of Sansi's name never came. Shirley
1780
01:48:46.439 --> 01:48:49.489
told Dateline, I called Audrey and she said she had
1781
01:48:49.510 --> 01:48:52.210
a doctor's appointment the next morning, but she would pick
1782
01:48:52.250 --> 01:48:55.989
Sansi up after that. Shirley was surprised when the phone
1783
01:48:56.029 --> 01:48:58.289
rang at 6 a.m. the next morning and she heard
1784
01:48:58.350 --> 01:49:00.670
Jeff on the other end of the phone asking if
1785
01:49:00.729 --> 01:49:04.550
she had seen Audrey. She told NBC, Jeff called and
1786
01:49:04.609 --> 01:49:07.020
asked if Audrey was at my house. It would not
1787
01:49:07.060 --> 01:49:08.729
have been unusual for her to stay over with me.
1788
01:49:09.140 --> 01:49:11.229
but normally she would have called him to let him know.
1789
01:49:12.020 --> 01:49:14.930
I said she wasn't here, but I didn't think anything
1790
01:49:15.050 --> 01:49:16.029
of it, so.
1791
01:49:15.949 --> 01:49:16.909
I dozed back off.
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01:49:18.229 --> 01:49:21.329
Shirley's slumber was interrupted an hour later by another phone
1793
01:49:21.350 --> 01:49:24.890
call from Jeff. This time he sounded more panicked. He
1794
01:49:24.930 --> 01:49:27.250
told Shirley that Audrey hadn't returned home from work the
1795
01:49:27.289 --> 01:49:31.289
previous evening. According to Shirley, she relayed this information to
1796
01:49:31.329 --> 01:49:33.510
a family member who used to work in law enforcement,
1797
01:49:33.909 --> 01:49:38.340
who in turn reported Audrey as missing. A wide-scale search began,
1798
01:49:38.539 --> 01:49:41.699
and the local police, along with Audrey's family, began canvassing
1799
01:49:41.739 --> 01:49:45.579
the area. During their investigation, the New York State Police
1800
01:49:45.619 --> 01:49:49.560
came across CCTV footage that confirmed Audrey left work on
1801
01:49:49.600 --> 01:49:53.279
the evening of August 29, 2002, in her black 1999
1802
01:49:53.279 --> 01:49:58.970
Jeep Grand Cherokee. New York State Police Detective Kaminsky said,
1803
01:49:59.619 --> 01:50:02.710
We only have one grainy video from Cumberland Farms, in
1804
01:50:02.750 --> 01:50:05.229
which it appears that Audrey's vehicle does leave her place
1805
01:50:05.250 --> 01:50:08.600
of employment. and basically turned left, going west on County
1806
01:50:08.659 --> 01:50:12.739
Route 23B. That's the last of any kind of technology
1807
01:50:12.779 --> 01:50:16.369
we had. We can't confirm it's the vehicle because of
1808
01:50:16.409 --> 01:50:18.850
the quality of the video, but it appears to be.
1809
01:50:19.710 --> 01:50:21.930
The quality of the video was very poor and very grainy,
1810
01:50:22.310 --> 01:50:24.029
but it does appear to leave at the time she
1811
01:50:24.050 --> 01:50:27.939
would have ended work. Armed with this new piece of information,
1812
01:50:28.579 --> 01:50:31.859
investigators began searching bodies of water and any other areas
1813
01:50:31.880 --> 01:50:34.560
that Audrey may have ended up, but came up with nothing.
1814
01:50:35.279 --> 01:50:37.859
There was no activity on her phone, credit, or debit
1815
01:50:37.880 --> 01:50:42.659
cards since August 29, 2002, and the investigation.
1816
01:50:42.060 --> 01:50:42.920
Quickly went cold.
1817
01:50:43.939 --> 01:50:45.970
Tips and leads have been followed to their end, and
1818
01:50:46.060 --> 01:50:50.210
almost 20 years later, we're still asking the question, where
1819
01:50:50.390 --> 01:50:55.069
is Audrey Herron? Jeff, Audrey's husband, has been described as
1820
01:50:55.250 --> 01:50:59.149
uncooperative for the New York State Police. He has voluntarily
1821
01:50:59.229 --> 01:51:02.710
undergone a polygraph test, and his property has been searched extensively.
1822
01:51:03.140 --> 01:51:06.899
nothing was found in connection with Audrey's disappearance. The New
1823
01:51:06.939 --> 01:51:09.100
York State Police have said that Jeff is not considered
1824
01:51:09.159 --> 01:51:11.670
a suspect but that they are considering her case a
1825
01:51:11.689 --> 01:51:15.810
homicide rather than a missing person case. Audrey was last
1826
01:51:15.850 --> 01:51:19.489
seen leaving her workplace on August 29, 2002 in her
1827
01:51:19.529 --> 01:51:26.159
black 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee New York license plate X233UV.
1828
01:51:27.300 --> 01:51:30.060
Audrey is described as a white female with dark blonde
1829
01:51:30.079 --> 01:51:33.220
to light brown hair, hazel eyes, She stands 5 foot
1830
01:51:33.260 --> 01:51:37.159
tall and weighs 105 pounds. Audrey has a scar on
1831
01:51:37.189 --> 01:51:38.970
her right thumb and a mole on the inside of
1832
01:51:39.010 --> 01:51:42.329
her right knee. She was last seen wearing a blue turtleneck,
1833
01:51:42.670 --> 01:51:45.789
dark green medical scrubs, a yellow gold necklace with a
1834
01:51:45.810 --> 01:51:48.880
pendant that says number one mom, and a watch with
1835
01:51:48.909 --> 01:51:52.600
a white leather band and a white metal face. Anyone
1836
01:51:52.680 --> 01:51:53.279
with any.
1837
01:51:53.180 --> 01:51:55.859
Information is asked to please contact the New York State
1838
01:51:55.899 --> 01:51:56.840
Police at 518-622-8600.
1839
01:52:01.880 --> 01:52:04.699
Well, folks, there you have it. What do you think
1840
01:52:04.779 --> 01:52:11.189
of these creepy cases? Somewhere, somebody knows the truth. Hopefully,
1841
01:52:11.350 --> 01:52:13.409
the day will come when all these cases can be
1842
01:52:13.470 --> 01:52:16.250
solved and the families can have the closure that they deserve.
1843
01:52:18.470 --> 01:52:21.289
Thank you for listening. I look forward to your comments,
1844
01:52:21.989 --> 01:52:25.619
but please keep it friendly and respectful. Meanwhile, be good
1845
01:52:25.640 --> 01:52:28.840
to yourselves and each other. Be careful out there, and
1846
01:52:28.880 --> 01:52:30.739
I'll see you a little farther on down the trail.
1847
01:52:31.989 --> 01:52:34.569
I'm Steve Stockton and I'll talk to you next time.
1848
01:52:52.409 --> 01:52:56.409
Hello friends, this is episode number five in our Creepy
1849
01:52:56.430 --> 01:53:00.199
Cases series. Although many of the cases we cover on
1850
01:53:00.220 --> 01:53:02.779
the channel have at least some bizarre or strange element
1851
01:53:02.819 --> 01:53:06.699
to them, these are five more hand-picked cases that we
1852
01:53:06.760 --> 01:53:08.840
feel have the highest creep factor.
1853
01:53:09.640 --> 01:53:14.680
Join us! Number 5.
1854
01:53:14.680 --> 01:53:19.619
Marilyn Bergeron 24-year-old Marilyn Bergeron was once a happy and
1855
01:53:19.659 --> 01:53:24.100
positive young woman, but in late 2007, her family noticed
1856
01:53:24.159 --> 01:53:27.000
a troubling change in her. Her outlook had changed from
1857
01:53:27.020 --> 01:53:29.439
a positive one to a gloomy one, and it was
1858
01:53:29.500 --> 01:53:32.899
clear that something was bothering her. She was often tearful
1859
01:53:32.960 --> 01:53:35.619
and told her mother that she didn't have healthy relationships,
1860
01:53:36.100 --> 01:53:41.760
but did not disclose exactly what the problem was. Early 2008,
1861
01:53:41.760 --> 01:53:45.970
Marilyn had moved from her apartment in Hochelaga, Maisonneuve, back
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to her parents' house in Quebec, telling them that she
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no longer felt safe living where she had been.
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The neighborhood in which.
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Marilyn lived was notorious for criminal activity and was described
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as an impoverished area with many issues. She had moved
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there in 2005 and had taken up freelance work with
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local TV stations and was slowly beginning to pull her
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career together. But something had changed in recent months and
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the events of February 2008 would send her family on
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a hunt for justice and answers. Between February 15th and 16th,
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Marilyn made trips between the two places, moving her things
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and saying goodbye to her friends. Everyone tried to talk
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to Marilyn pleading with her to let them know what
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was wrong. Her family later told investigators that any attempt
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to talk to Marilyn about her problems would result in
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her breaking down and shutting down the conversation. She'd even
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cryptically ask her sister, is there a light at the
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end of the tunnel? During the move, her family tried
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to coax more information out of her, but each time
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she shut them down, showing a blank expression or simply
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breaking down in tears. It was at this point that
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her family referred her to a psychologist and hoped that
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the move back home would provide her with a safe
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and comfortable place to recover and explore her issues with
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a medical professional. According to the psychologist that saw Marilyn,
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her case was big and would require hospitalization. Unfortunately, Marilyn
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disappeared before any further help or intervention could be offered.
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Her family were incredibly worried for her well-being and asked
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her if someone had hurt her or whether she had
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problems with her relationships debt, etc. But each time, Marilyn said, oh,
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everything's fine. By February 17, 2008, Marilyn had moved all
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of her things back into the family home and was
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resettling herself in a familiar environment. She told her family
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that she wanted to leave her life in Montreal behind
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for good, and her family said that they would help
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her along the way. At around 11 a.m. on February 17, 2008,
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Marilyn left the family home for what, unfortunately, would be
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the last time. She told her mother that she was
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going for a walk and that she would be back soon.
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She stepped out of the house wearing only a long
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black coat with gray fake fur trim and boots and
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headed off on her walk. The next time that Marilyn
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would be spotted.
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Was on CCTV, and she had an unusual item with her.
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At 11.09 a.m., Marilyn was seen on CCTV at an
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ATM on Boulevard de la Mierre. attempting to withdraw a
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$ 60 Canadian, but the transaction failed. Her family believes that
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she had simply forgotten her PIN number, but her behavior
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while at the cash machine raised several alarms. The card
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that Marilyn attempted to use was a credit card that
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was linked to her father that she had been given
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in case of emergency. In the footage, Marilyn is seen
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looking over her shoulder several times and appears very paranoid.
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Marilyn's mother also noticed that she was wearing a black
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backpack over one shoulder an item that she had not
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had with her when she left the house. So where
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had she gotten this strange backpack? And what were her plans?
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Things only grow more mysterious with the next confirmed sighting
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of Marilyn, which occurred at 4.03 p.m. in the Cafe
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Depot at St.
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Romain.
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Now, going to a coffee shop isn't an out-of-the-ordinary activity,
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but the fact that this coffee shop was over 12
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miles away from her home was rather suspicious.
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Why was Marilyn in.
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A coffee shop so far away from home when the
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neighborhoods around her had plenty of coffee shops she could
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have visited? The barista who served Marilyn in this particular
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coffee shop was later questioned and confirmed that Marilyn was
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alone and paid with a credit card. She ordered her
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coffee and then walked out of the coffee shop, never
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to be seen again. After this sighting, Marilyn has never
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been seen or heard from. There's been no activity on
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her phone or the cards and it's as if she
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simply dropped off the map. Investigators believe that Marilyn was
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driven to the coffee shop 12 miles away from her
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home as the weather conditions would have made it near
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impossible for her to walk that far. It is unknown
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whether the possibility of public transport has ever been explored
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in this instance. When Marilyn failed to return home, her
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family knew that something was very wrong and called the
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police straight away.
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After learning about Marilyn's.
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Situation and the circumstances leading up to her disappearance, the
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search for her began immediately, with police scouring the area
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and combing through her bank records and CCTV footage. Unfortunately,
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the two CCTV sightings previously mentioned are the only confirmed
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sightings of Marilyn. The police have put out numerous appeals
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for anyone who may have seen Marilyn or may have
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given her a ride to please come forward. So far,
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nobody has. There have been several alleged sightings of Marilyn,
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including sightings in Hawkesbury, Ontario. According to reports, people have
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seen a woman matching Marilyn's description in Hawkesbury in the
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company of a man. The two were often known to
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move around the town, and those who saw her said
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that she looked anxious and like she was possibly being
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held captive. Unfortunately, none of these sightings have ever been substantiated,
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and despite numerous searches by both the police and Marilyn's family,
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no sign of her has ever been found. Her family
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are of the opinion that she took her own life,
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but friends have alluded to something much, much darker. In
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late 2007, Jonathan Gautier, who knew Marilyn from college, met
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up with her and noticed that her personality and behavior
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had completely changed. She was no longer the happy and
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lively Marilyn that he once knew. The night that they
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met up, they'd attended a party before heading back to
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Marilyn's apartment. It was here that she broke down crying.
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Jonathan rushed to her side to comfort her. He tried
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to get more information from her and pressed the matter,
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asking whether she had witnessed something horrific or if something
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horrific had happened to her. According to Jonathan, Marilyn told him, No,
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it's worse. Joe, you can't even imagine. what I went through. Sadly,
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she didn't elaborate any further. The investigation into Marilyn's disappearance
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has continued over the years, with her family initially posting
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a $ 10, 000 Canadian reward for information. This amount has now
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grown to $ 30, 000 Canadian, but we are still no closer
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to finding out what happened to Marilyn. Her mother told
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the CBC in 2017, Marilyn, if you're still alive, for us.
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It's like yesterday you disappeared. We love you.
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We're waiting for you with open arms, and we miss
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you so much. Her family believed that Marilyn's life was
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either in danger or that she perceived to have been
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in danger in Montreal and believes that her friends and
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associates may hold the answers. Marilyn Bergeron was last seen
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on February 17, 2008, has not been seen or heard
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from since. Marilyn displayed worrying behavior in the lead-up to
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her disappearance and and there have been several unconfirmed sightings
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of her in the Hawkesbury, Ontario area. Marilyn is described
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as a white female with brown hair, green eyes.
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5'7, and 115 pounds.
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She has a tattoo of Pegasus on her chest, below
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her right collarbone, and she was last seen wearing boots
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and a black coat with grey fake fur trim. Anyone
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with any information is urged to please contact the Quebec
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Police Services at 418-641-7000. Or you can contact the family's lawyer,
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Mark Belmare, on 418-681-1227 or toll-free 1-800-840-1526. Number four, Andrew Gosden.
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The disappearance of 14-year-old Andrew Gosden is one of the
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UK's most baffling missing person cases. South Yorkshire police have
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worked tirelessly over the years to find Andrew, but there
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have been very few leads to work on. Those from
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the UK will have many strong memories on Andrew's disappearance
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and the media storm and investigation that followed. It's been
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over a decade since Andrew disappeared, and the South Yorkshire
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police are still no closer to cracking this mystifying case.
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Andrew Gosden lived in Balby, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, with his parents,
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Kevin and Glynis. The two provided Andrew with a happy
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and stable home life, and as a result, he was
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flourishing academically. He was in the young, gifted, and talented
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program at school, and had a perfect attendance record. It
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was clear that Andrew was destined for great things academically,
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and he excelled in every subject at school. With this,
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Andrew's father, Kevin, said that he was not streetwise and
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preferred to stay home and play on his Xbox and
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listen to metal music. This behavior is not uncommon for
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teenagers and his parents were happy that he was flourishing
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academically and did have a small social circle of friends,
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good dependable ones. The lives of the Gosden family would
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be turned upside down one September afternoon, however, shortly after
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the new school year had started. Andrew had spent part
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of his summer holiday, which was six weeks, attending a
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gifted and talented program and was apparently very happy and
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had a bright outlook for what lay ahead of him
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after he'd finished school. But September 14th, 2007 was different.
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Something inside Andrew had changed. And within the space of
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a few hours, his parents would be thrown into a
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missing person investigation that has spanned over a decade. On
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September 14th, 2007, Andrew got up and got ready for
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school as normal. He said goodbye to his parents and
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headed out the front door at around 8.05 a.m. By
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all accounts, this was just another day at school and
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Andrew was seen heading toward the bus stop. However, instead
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of boarding the bus to school, Andrew kept walking and
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headed into the local park. Nobody knows why Andrew chose
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to skip school that day, but we do know that
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he waited in the park until around 8.30 a.m. By
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this time, his parents would have left for work and
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Andrew knew that he would have the house to himself.
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This is just the beginning of the bizarre details surrounding
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the disappearance of Andrew Gosden, and things only become more
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mysterious from here. After waiting in the park, as we said,
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Andrew returned home, took off his school uniform, and put
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it straight.
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Into the washing machine.
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He changed into a Slipknot t-shirt, dark jeans, and packed
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his bag with his keys, wallet, and his PSP gaming system.
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Andrew didn't take his PSP charger with him, which indicated
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that he probably had every intention of coming back. But unfortunately,
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that is not what happened. As Glynnis and Kevin went
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about their work day, they had no idea that their
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son was headed to Doncaster train station. Bank records confirm
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that Andrew withdrew 200 pounds from his account, leaving about
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14 pounds in the balance. Andrew walked into Doncaster train station,
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went up to the ticket office, and bought a one-way
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ticket to London.
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The woman who.
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Served Andrew recalled telling him that for just 50p extra
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he could get a return ticket, but Andrew declined. He
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confidently stated that he wanted the one-way ticket, handed over
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the money, took the ticket, and made his way to
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the platform. No one knows why Andrew bought a ticket
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to London, nor why he only bought a one-way ticket.
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Was Andrew planning to meet with someone in London who
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had promised to take him back home, or did he
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plan to stay in London indefinitely? Witnesses reported seeing Andrew
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boarding the 9.35 a.m. train to London King's Cross Station,
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and by 11.25 a.m., he was captured on CCTV leaving
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King's Cross. This is the last confirmed sighting of Andrew,
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and over a decade later, we are still no closer
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to the truth. When Andrew's school noticed that he was
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absent that day, his parents were called. However, a clerical
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error was made and the wrong number was dialed. It
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wasn't until Glynnis and Kevin arrived home from work to
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find Andrew's uniform in the house that they knew something
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was off. After calling out Andrew's name and searching all
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over the house, his parents realized that he was missing
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and dialed 999. South Yorkshire police responded to the call
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immediately and the search for Andrew commenced. The area of
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Bobby was searched thoroughly and investigators began combing through Andrew's life.
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At the time of his disappearance, Andrew didn't have a
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phone as he was known to lose them and preferred
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to spend time on his Xbox and listening to music anyway. Flyers, posters,
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and news reports were circulated around South Yorkshire, and Yorkshire
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with the South Yorkshire Police hoping that somebody would come
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forward with information.
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As the days passed, and there was no word, the.
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Gostins began to realize that the situation that they were
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in was incredibly serious. Then, days after Andrew disappeared, the
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South Yorkshire Police got their first lead. the woman who
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sold Andrew the ticket at Doncaster train station came forward,
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and from here, the police were able to check CCTV
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and confirm that Andrew had traveled to King's Cross. Sadly,
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Andrew was not spotted on CCTV after he left King's
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02:07:14.819 --> 02:07:18.279
Cross station, and CCTV in the surrounding areas failed to
2095
02:07:18.319 --> 02:07:22.319
show up anything. Now, there are three main theories in
2096
02:07:22.399 --> 02:07:24.939
Andrew's case, with the first being that he was lured
2097
02:07:24.979 --> 02:07:28.560
away by someone online. As we said, Andrew had an
2098
02:07:28.659 --> 02:07:32.359
Xbox and a PSP, but forensic analysis of these and
2099
02:07:32.399 --> 02:07:35.329
the data showed that Andrew was not registered online with
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02:07:35.369 --> 02:07:39.229
an account. He reportedly didn't even use the family computer
2101
02:07:39.750 --> 02:07:43.329
and didn't really touch online communications at all. This was
2102
02:07:43.409 --> 02:07:46.439
backed up by digital forensic investigations that failed to turn
2103
02:07:46.479 --> 02:07:51.279
up any online presence from Andrew whatsoever. His family did
2104
02:07:51.319 --> 02:07:54.159
confirm to investigators that Andrew knew several people who lived
2105
02:07:54.199 --> 02:07:56.979
in London but none of these people have reported seeing
2106
02:07:57.060 --> 02:08:01.750
Andrew on the date of or after his disappearance. The
2107
02:08:01.789 --> 02:08:04.489
next theory that was well publicized in the British media
2108
02:08:05.010 --> 02:08:07.270
was that Andrew had possibly gone to London to attend
2109
02:08:07.329 --> 02:08:08.569
a gig or some sort.
2110
02:08:08.430 --> 02:08:09.569
Of music-related event.
2111
02:08:10.529 --> 02:08:13.189
Andrew loved his metal music, and a few gigs were
2112
02:08:13.220 --> 02:08:15.829
going on around that time, but if that were the.
2113
02:08:15.800 --> 02:08:18.869
Case, then why would he buy a one-way ticket? There
2114
02:08:18.909 --> 02:08:19.289
were no.
2115
02:08:19.210 --> 02:08:21.729
Sightings of Andrew at any of these music events, and
2116
02:08:21.789 --> 02:08:23.939
there has been no proof to suggest that Andrew had
2117
02:08:24.000 --> 02:08:27.840
tickets for any of these events either. The last theory
2118
02:08:28.039 --> 02:08:31.720
is one that Andrew's father, Kevin, came up with. Kevin
2119
02:08:31.739 --> 02:08:34.739
postulated that perhaps Andrew left to start a new life somewhere,
2120
02:08:35.050 --> 02:08:39.310
without the intervention of his family. His family were religious,
2121
02:08:39.489 --> 02:08:42.090
but also said that they were open to sexuality and
2122
02:08:42.149 --> 02:08:45.909
gender expression. This theory ties in with an interesting clue
2123
02:08:45.930 --> 02:08:48.489
that came to light in 2018.
2124
02:08:48.489 --> 02:08:49.949
It's important to preface this.
2125
02:08:49.890 --> 02:08:53.300
Next section by saying that Andrew's nickname was Rue, and
2126
02:08:53.310 --> 02:08:55.539
it was a nickname that only those closest to him
2127
02:08:55.600 --> 02:09:00.060
knew and called him. According to reports, an anonymous witness
2128
02:09:00.079 --> 02:09:03.140
told the police that in 2018, he had a conversation
2129
02:09:03.159 --> 02:09:06.840
with someone online by the name of Andy Rue. The
2130
02:09:06.859 --> 02:09:09.720
two people had started talking, and Andy Rue asked the
2131
02:09:09.739 --> 02:09:12.890
anonymous witness for £ 200 so that he could pay his rent.
2132
02:09:14.020 --> 02:09:16.289
This Andy Rue person went on to explain that he
2133
02:09:16.310 --> 02:09:18.949
had left home at 14 and didn't have a bank account,
2134
02:09:19.409 --> 02:09:23.529
so sending money via bank transfer would be difficult. He
2135
02:09:23.569 --> 02:09:25.789
said that he needed the money because his boyfriend had
2136
02:09:25.829 --> 02:09:28.210
left him, but never went into further detail about his
2137
02:09:28.270 --> 02:09:32.159
private life. This lead gave the Metropolitan Police and the
2138
02:09:32.220 --> 02:09:35.159
South Yorkshire Police a glimmer of hope, but it appears
2139
02:09:35.199 --> 02:09:38.979
the person calling themselves Andy Rue has never been formally identified,
2140
02:09:39.579 --> 02:09:42.699
and we cannot confirm whether or not this person is
2141
02:09:42.939 --> 02:09:48.039
Andrew Gosden. Following Andrew's disappearance, his family traveled to London
2142
02:09:48.159 --> 02:09:50.500
to hand out flyers and to appeal to witnesses and
2143
02:09:50.619 --> 02:09:54.779
anyone with information to come forward. Kevin and Glynnis have
2144
02:09:54.800 --> 02:09:57.659
been the driving force behind keeping Andrew's name in the media,
2145
02:09:57.960 --> 02:10:00.390
and they've continued to put pressure on the South Yorkshire
2146
02:10:00.430 --> 02:10:05.350
Police and the Metropolitan Police to investigate his disappearance. This
2147
02:10:05.369 --> 02:10:08.090
case has been incredibly well publicized, and in towns and
2148
02:10:08.130 --> 02:10:11.829
cities across the UK, Andrew's missing person poster can still
2149
02:10:11.869 --> 02:10:16.140
be seen. The charity, UK Missing Persons, works with the
2150
02:10:16.180 --> 02:10:18.380
families of those who are missing to create posters and
2151
02:10:18.399 --> 02:10:21.039
they also run a tip line for those with information
2152
02:10:21.579 --> 02:10:23.619
or for those who are missing and need someone to
2153
02:10:23.680 --> 02:10:29.090
talk to. Despite all this media attention and investigation, no
2154
02:10:29.130 --> 02:10:32.569
trace of Andrew has ever been located. After he left
2155
02:10:32.630 --> 02:10:36.189
Kings Cross Station, he seemingly vanished into thin air and
2156
02:10:36.210 --> 02:10:40.779
the investigation has laid dormant ever since. Well, that was
2157
02:10:40.859 --> 02:10:45.029
until January 22nd. when once again the Andrew Gosden case
2158
02:10:45.130 --> 02:10:50.739
made headlines. On January 11th, 2022, the BBC published an
2159
02:10:50.779 --> 02:10:55.399
article titled, Andrew Gosden, Two Men Arrested for Trafficking and Kidnap.
2160
02:10:56.300 --> 02:10:58.739
This headline shocked the nation and the details of the
2161
02:10:58.779 --> 02:11:03.260
arrest would shock them even more. According to the BBC,
2162
02:11:03.920 --> 02:11:07.479
two men, aged 38 and 45, were arrested in December
2163
02:11:07.520 --> 02:11:12.140
in London on suspicion of kidnap and human trafficking. The
2164
02:11:12.159 --> 02:11:15.960
45-year-old man was also arrested on suspicion of possessing indecent images.
2165
02:11:17.300 --> 02:11:20.260
The two men were released on bail pending a further investigation,
2166
02:11:20.479 --> 02:11:23.399
and the Metropolitan Police and the South Yorkshire Police are
2167
02:11:23.439 --> 02:11:27.090
currently working the case. No further details have been released
2168
02:11:27.149 --> 02:11:29.569
in regards to these charges, and the police are keeping
2169
02:11:29.590 --> 02:11:33.630
their cards very close to their chests. Throughout the years,
2170
02:11:33.890 --> 02:11:36.529
several age progression photos have been issued to show what
2171
02:11:36.609 --> 02:11:39.640
Andrew may look like now as an adult. The River
2172
02:11:39.680 --> 02:11:42.590
Thames has been searched numerous times by divers and with
2173
02:11:42.619 --> 02:11:45.279
a sonar scanner, but this has not turned up any
2174
02:11:45.319 --> 02:11:49.550
leads either. The South Yorkshire Police and the Metropolitan Police,
2175
02:11:49.689 --> 02:11:52.789
along with Andrew's family, continue to search for him and
2176
02:11:52.829 --> 02:11:55.170
hope that one day they will have answers or at
2177
02:11:55.229 --> 02:12:00.430
least closure. Andrew Gosden was last seen wearing a slipknot t-shirt,
2178
02:12:00.949 --> 02:12:04.449
dark jeans, and was carrying a bag containing his keys, wallet,
2179
02:12:04.510 --> 02:12:08.010
and PSP gaming system. He had bought a one-way ticket
2180
02:12:08.029 --> 02:12:11.470
from Doncaster to King's Cross, London, and was last seen
2181
02:12:11.569 --> 02:12:16.600
leaving King's Cross Station at 11.25am on September 14th, 2007.
2182
02:12:16.600 --> 02:12:21.100
Andrew has brown hair, has a unique double ridge on
2183
02:12:21.140 --> 02:12:23.979
his right ear, is deaf in his left ear, and
2184
02:12:24.020 --> 02:12:28.600
wears strong prescription glasses. Anyone with any information is asked
2185
02:12:28.619 --> 02:12:35.420
to please contact 101 UK Missing People on 116-000. the
2186
02:12:35.460 --> 02:12:38.130
South Yorkshire Police on 0114-220-2020, the Metropolitan Police on 4420-7230-1212,
2187
02:12:38.279 --> 02:12:41.979
or Crime Stoppers on 0800-555-111. Number three, Ben Padilla. The
2188
02:12:42.020 --> 02:12:45.079
disappearance of Ben Padilla is a confusing and complex case
2189
02:13:04.130 --> 02:13:06.770
and it requires a bit of background information to preface
2190
02:13:06.850 --> 02:13:12.779
his disappearance. In 2002, American Airlines retired a Boeing 727-223
2191
02:13:13.659 --> 02:13:20.220
with registration N844AA, and this plane was purchased by Mari Joseph,
2192
02:13:20.680 --> 02:13:24.920
who owned an aerospace company in Florida. Different sources give
2193
02:13:24.960 --> 02:13:28.189
different stories, but the main gist of the situation is
2194
02:13:28.229 --> 02:13:31.569
that a businessman came and leased the plane, located in Angola,
2195
02:13:31.930 --> 02:13:35.329
from Mari, only to default on his payments or abandon
2196
02:13:35.529 --> 02:13:39.289
the plans that he had for the plane. Apparently, this
2197
02:13:39.350 --> 02:13:41.970
businessman wanted to use the plane to transport oil to
2198
02:13:42.010 --> 02:13:45.949
diamond mines across Angola, and this same businessman and Maury
2199
02:13:45.989 --> 02:13:48.630
Joseph had come to a payment agreement that never came
2200
02:13:48.670 --> 02:13:52.069
to fruition. This meant that the plane went back into
2201
02:13:52.090 --> 02:13:55.970
storage and racked up over $ 4 million in airport fees.
2202
02:13:57.250 --> 02:14:00.970
The plane with number N844AA was then back in the
2203
02:14:01.010 --> 02:14:03.960
hands of Maury Joseph, who brought Ben Padilla on board.
2204
02:14:04.880 --> 02:14:08.420
Ben was a certified aircraft mechanic, flight engineer, and pilot,
2205
02:14:08.840 --> 02:14:13.039
and he was perfect for the job. The N844AA was
2206
02:14:13.039 --> 02:14:16.079
25 years old, and it needed repair work done to
2207
02:14:16.119 --> 02:14:19.600
it before it was suitable for use. So, Ben got
2208
02:14:19.619 --> 02:14:22.060
to work fixing up the plane, and all was going well.
2209
02:14:22.939 --> 02:14:27.949
That was until May 25, 2003, when something truly bizarre happened.
2210
02:14:29.569 --> 02:14:31.680
On this day, The plane was due to fly from
2211
02:14:31.760 --> 02:14:34.380
Angola to Germany, but as the crew arrived at the
2212
02:14:34.439 --> 02:14:37.560
airport for their flight, they noticed that the plane had gone.
2213
02:14:38.619 --> 02:14:40.779
Everyone checked their watches to ensure that they had not
2214
02:14:40.840 --> 02:14:43.560
made a mistake, but the events that would follow would
2215
02:14:43.600 --> 02:14:47.819
only confuse them further. Shortly after the crew arrived, air
2216
02:14:47.859 --> 02:14:54.810
traffic control noticed Boeing 727 N844AA taxiing erratically on the runway.
2217
02:14:55.729 --> 02:14:59.689
Several attempts were made by air traffic control to establish contact, However,
2218
02:14:59.890 --> 02:15:03.520
no one responded. All air traffic could do was watch
2219
02:15:03.640 --> 02:15:06.760
on as the Boeing took off into the skies. The
2220
02:15:06.779 --> 02:15:09.739
only two men on board were Ben Padilla and a
2221
02:15:09.800 --> 02:15:13.479
man named John Michael Mutantu who had been working alongside
2222
02:15:13.539 --> 02:15:17.779
Ben as an aircraft technician. The plane had not been
2223
02:15:17.840 --> 02:15:20.640
cleared for takeoff at that time and had also not
2224
02:15:20.680 --> 02:15:23.479
submitted a flight plan which immediately caught the attention of
2225
02:15:23.539 --> 02:15:27.470
air traffic control. Several more attempts were made to establish
2226
02:15:27.510 --> 02:15:30.649
contact But as the plane soared higher into the sky,
2227
02:15:31.189 --> 02:15:35.210
their attempts proved futile. Now, as the plane was being
2228
02:15:35.270 --> 02:15:37.689
used for private business, the seats had been ripped out
2229
02:15:37.750 --> 02:15:38.529
and it was made.
2230
02:15:38.369 --> 02:15:39.430
To carry diesel fuel.
2231
02:15:40.529 --> 02:15:43.649
Regardless of who or what was on board, air traffic
2232
02:15:43.689 --> 02:15:46.449
control was on red alert and soon the word of
2233
02:15:46.489 --> 02:15:50.130
the rogue plane had spread. This incident, just two years
2234
02:15:50.210 --> 02:15:53.390
shy of 9-11, sent a wave of panic through Angola.
2235
02:15:54.550 --> 02:15:57.689
Officials tried desperately to track the plane but found nothing.
2236
02:15:59.199 --> 02:16:02.279
The plane had been fueled up with over 14,000 gallons
2237
02:16:02.350 --> 02:16:07.250
of jet fuel, which would only take the plane about 2,400 miles. Well,
2238
02:16:07.569 --> 02:16:10.449
as you know, what goes up must come down. But
2239
02:16:10.510 --> 02:16:12.850
as the days dragged on, there were no reports of
2240
02:16:12.890 --> 02:16:18.289
a Boeing 727 with ID number N844AA landing at any airport,
2241
02:16:18.869 --> 02:16:22.739
nor were there any reports of a crash. The plane
2242
02:16:22.760 --> 02:16:26.520
had seemingly taken off and vanished into thin air, almost
2243
02:16:26.539 --> 02:16:29.979
as if it had flown right into a portal. According
2244
02:16:30.020 --> 02:16:32.579
to reports, the plane, with its lights off and its
2245
02:16:32.620 --> 02:16:38.200
transponder not transmitting, N844AA, took off over the southwest.
2246
02:16:37.760 --> 02:16:41.409
And headed out over the Atlantic Ocean. So where did
2247
02:16:41.450 --> 02:16:42.329
Ben Padilla go?
2248
02:16:42.870 --> 02:16:46.069
And what happened to the 727 that seemingly disappeared into
2249
02:16:46.110 --> 02:16:46.569
thin air?
2250
02:16:48.270 --> 02:16:51.110
One theory is that the mysterious disappearance is down to
2251
02:16:51.190 --> 02:16:52.049
insurance fraud.
2252
02:16:53.030 --> 02:16:55.229
As previously mentioned, the plane was due to be leased
2253
02:16:55.290 --> 02:16:58.590
by someone, however, the deal fell through and the plane
2254
02:16:58.649 --> 02:17:01.819
ended up procuring millions of dollars in fees the time
2255
02:17:01.860 --> 02:17:05.399
it was stored at the airport in Angola. Some people
2256
02:17:05.459 --> 02:17:08.020
are of the opinion that Mari Joseph and Ben Padilla
2257
02:17:08.120 --> 02:17:11.280
planned the plane's disappearance in order to claim insurance to
2258
02:17:11.319 --> 02:17:15.319
help pay those fees. Another theory is perhaps the two
2259
02:17:15.360 --> 02:17:17.840
men were on the plane at the wrong time, and
2260
02:17:17.860 --> 02:17:19.670
they were forced to fly the plane to wherever the
2261
02:17:19.700 --> 02:17:25.069
hijacker demanded. The FBI, NSA, and the CIA became involved
2262
02:17:25.129 --> 02:17:28.280
in the search for Ben and the missing Boeing 727
2263
02:17:28.280 --> 02:17:32.100
along with several other countries, but so far nothing has
2264
02:17:32.159 --> 02:17:36.319
ever been discovered or recovered. When Ben first took the job,
2265
02:17:36.799 --> 02:17:39.559
his brother recalled having a conversation.
2266
02:17:38.940 --> 02:17:40.250
With him about hijacking.
2267
02:17:41.180 --> 02:17:43.329
Ben told his brother that he would rather crash the
2268
02:17:43.350 --> 02:17:46.770
plane than comply with anyone's demands and wondered whether Ben
2269
02:17:46.809 --> 02:17:49.530
was harmed or was being held against his will somewhere.
2270
02:17:50.770 --> 02:17:54.059
The investigation into Ben's sudden disappearance and the disappearance of
2271
02:17:54.100 --> 02:17:57.819
the Boeing 727 is still ongoing but very little evidence
2272
02:17:57.860 --> 02:18:02.040
has surfaced. Ben Padilla is described as a white male
2273
02:18:02.159 --> 02:18:04.659
with brown hair, brown eyes and stands 6 foot 2
2274
02:18:04.659 --> 02:18:05.260
inches tall.
2275
02:18:06.579 --> 02:18:07.159
The Boeing 727-223.
2276
02:18:09.899 --> 02:18:16.520
Has a tail number of N844AA and the serial number 20985.
2277
02:18:16.549 --> 02:18:19.159
The plane also is an unpainted silver color with a
2278
02:18:19.180 --> 02:18:23.969
stripe of red, white, and blue. Anyone with information about
2279
02:18:24.049 --> 02:18:26.850
Ben or the plane is asked to contact the FBI
2280
02:18:26.989 --> 02:18:39.909
at 202-324-3000. Number two, Melanie Ethier. September 28th, 2022 will
2281
02:18:40.430 --> 02:18:44.829
mark the 26th anniversary of the disappearance of 15-year-old Melanie
2282
02:18:45.090 --> 02:18:50.770
Nadia Ethier from her home in New Liskeard, Ontario. Born
2283
02:18:50.829 --> 02:18:54.239
on Christmas Day in 1980, Melanie was a great joy
2284
02:18:54.280 --> 02:18:56.120
in her mother's life and to all.
2285
02:18:56.020 --> 02:18:59.399
Those who knew her. Melanie, her five-year-old.
2286
02:18:58.979 --> 02:19:01.799
Sister Jessie, and her mother Celine had lived in the
2287
02:19:01.840 --> 02:19:05.219
New Liskeard area for almost nine years, and those in
2288
02:19:05.260 --> 02:19:09.069
the community knew Melanie well. Melanie was known for her
2289
02:19:09.129 --> 02:19:11.670
vibrant personality and the fact that she was an honors
2290
02:19:11.709 --> 02:19:16.379
student at the Ecole Secondary Catholic School. Melanie had dreams
2291
02:19:16.420 --> 02:19:18.940
of becoming a teacher after she graduated from high school,
2292
02:19:19.760 --> 02:19:23.299
and in between completing homework, Melanie worked at a daycare
2293
02:19:23.340 --> 02:19:27.040
that was attached to her school. This job provided Melanie
2294
02:19:27.079 --> 02:19:29.790
with some independence and gave her valuable skills to take
2295
02:19:29.829 --> 02:19:34.889
into her future teaching career. Unfortunately, this bright and promising
2296
02:19:34.930 --> 02:19:37.299
young woman was taken and never got to live out
2297
02:19:37.340 --> 02:19:42.059
her dream of being a teacher. September 28th, 1996 was
2298
02:19:42.079 --> 02:19:44.440
the day that the lives of the Ethier family would
2299
02:19:44.479 --> 02:19:49.409
change forever. On that morning, Melanie headed towards the local
2300
02:19:49.440 --> 02:19:52.530
library after visiting a family friend and bumped into one
2301
02:19:52.549 --> 02:19:55.870
of her friends. The two girls decided to spend the
2302
02:19:55.889 --> 02:19:58.370
day together and they went into the city to do
2303
02:19:58.409 --> 02:20:01.870
a bit of shopping and relax. According to this friend,
2304
02:20:02.329 --> 02:20:05.280
Melanie bought a cake tin and cake making supplies that
2305
02:20:05.319 --> 02:20:08.500
she could make a birthday cake for her grandmother. Melanie
2306
02:20:08.520 --> 02:20:12.020
seemed excited about the trip, and the two girls enjoyed themselves.
2307
02:20:13.879 --> 02:20:16.100
As the day wore on, the girls made plans to
2308
02:20:16.149 --> 02:20:20.129
meet up with Melanie's boyfriend, Neil Fortier, and three other friends,
2309
02:20:20.370 --> 02:20:25.250
Dave Bromley, Jay Deneau, and Ryan Chatwin. The group of
2310
02:20:25.290 --> 02:20:27.649
teenagers hung out and planned what they wanted to do
2311
02:20:27.690 --> 02:20:31.530
together for the rest of the day and evening. September 28th,
2312
02:20:31.510 --> 02:20:35.809
1996 was a Saturday. so the youngsters wanted to make
2313
02:20:35.850 --> 02:20:38.629
the most of not having to go to bed early. So,
2314
02:20:38.729 --> 02:20:41.159
the group headed to a video store and rented a
2315
02:20:41.200 --> 02:20:42.760
copy of the film Sudden Death.
2316
02:20:43.620 --> 02:20:44.600
The original plan.
2317
02:20:44.360 --> 02:20:47.000
Was to head to Melanie's house, however, as Melanie's grandparents
2318
02:20:47.020 --> 02:20:50.020
were staying over, the house was already a hub of activity,
2319
02:20:50.819 --> 02:20:53.180
Melanie's room was a mess, and there was no place
2320
02:20:53.200 --> 02:20:56.459
for the teens to kick back and relax. This didn't
2321
02:20:56.479 --> 02:20:58.520
bother them though, and they merely decided to head to
2322
02:20:58.579 --> 02:21:02.329
another home, eventually settling on the home of Ryan Chatwin
2323
02:21:02.729 --> 02:21:06.579
on Pine Avenue. After wandering around, calling in at their
2324
02:21:06.620 --> 02:21:09.799
friends' homes, hoping to get a quiet room, the teens
2325
02:21:09.819 --> 02:21:13.049
were relieved to find that Ryan's parents were upstairs, leaving
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02:21:13.100 --> 02:21:16.110
them with free reign of the house. They settled in
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02:21:16.149 --> 02:21:18.350
to watch the film and just to chat and enjoy
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02:21:18.389 --> 02:21:22.250
each other's company. The hours ticked by and slowly, one
2329
02:21:22.290 --> 02:21:26.120
by one, the teens left and headed home. Melanie was
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02:21:26.180 --> 02:21:29.020
one of the last to leave Ryan Chatwin's house, unaware
2331
02:21:29.059 --> 02:21:32.899
of what her best friend had just encountered outside. That
2332
02:21:32.959 --> 02:21:35.579
best friend would later tell investigators that when she left
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02:21:35.659 --> 02:21:40.000
Ryan's house at 12.30 a.m., she saw a light-covered Chevrolet
2334
02:21:40.059 --> 02:21:43.899
Monte Carlo, or a similar car, crawling slowly down the street.
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02:21:44.780 --> 02:21:47.059
The driver of the car paid special attention to her
2336
02:21:47.159 --> 02:21:49.219
as she walked to the place where she's being picked up,
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02:21:49.940 --> 02:21:52.079
and she said that the driver scared her so much
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02:21:52.489 --> 02:21:56.450
that she took off running. Between 1.30 and 2 a.m.,
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02:21:56.950 --> 02:21:59.870
Melanie left Ryan's house, and this would be the last
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02:21:59.909 --> 02:22:03.010
time she was ever seen or heard from. Those left
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02:22:03.110 --> 02:22:05.819
over at Ryan's house watched as Melanie walked down Pine
2342
02:22:05.920 --> 02:22:10.040
Avenue and into the darkness. Her home was only about
2343
02:22:10.079 --> 02:22:14.479
a half mile away, but unfortunately, Melanie never completed the journey.
2344
02:22:15.559 --> 02:22:18.770
Her disappearance wasn't noted until much later that morning when
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02:22:18.790 --> 02:22:23.090
the Ethier household awoke to find no sign of Melanie. Selene,
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02:22:23.229 --> 02:22:26.489
her mother, checked with Melanie's friends, hoping that she had
2347
02:22:26.510 --> 02:22:29.190
stayed the night and just forgotten to call, but her
2348
02:22:29.229 --> 02:22:31.530
heart sank when her friends said that she wasn't there
2349
02:22:32.020 --> 02:22:32.309
and had.
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02:22:32.280 --> 02:22:33.569
Left about 2 a.m.
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02:22:35.030 --> 02:22:37.569
Celine rushed to the daycare where Melanie worked, and she
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02:22:37.610 --> 02:22:40.850
wasn't there either. That was the moment she knew it
2353
02:22:40.889 --> 02:22:44.430
was serious. She picked up the phone and called the police.
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02:22:46.579 --> 02:22:49.639
The New Lascard Police, along with the Ontario Provincial Police,
2355
02:22:49.719 --> 02:22:52.639
began their search for Melanie, and began knocking on doors
2356
02:22:52.700 --> 02:22:56.620
of homes and businesses in the community. Melanie's personal life
2357
02:22:56.639 --> 02:22:58.260
was looked at, and those who were with her on
2358
02:22:58.280 --> 02:23:02.750
the night she disappeared were also questioned. Investigators were very
2359
02:23:02.809 --> 02:23:06.079
interested in the account given by Melanie's best friend, and
2360
02:23:06.090 --> 02:23:10.139
believed that Melanie may have either been targeted or mistakenly targeted,
2361
02:23:10.760 --> 02:23:15.299
as her attackers may have believed she was someone else. Helicopters,
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02:23:15.540 --> 02:23:18.940
scent dogs, and search and rescue personnel combed through Nula's cart,
2363
02:23:19.459 --> 02:23:22.639
looking for any sign of Melanie, but nothing could be found.
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02:23:23.500 --> 02:23:25.170
It was as if she had simply vanished.
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02:23:26.309 --> 02:23:28.989
There were a few reports of a girl matching Melanie's
2366
02:23:29.030 --> 02:23:33.030
description walking on the Armstrong Street Bridge across the Wabi River.
2367
02:23:33.870 --> 02:23:36.489
The Wabi River has been searched by dive teams, but
2368
02:23:36.569 --> 02:23:41.290
nothing was ever found. Multiple searches were conducted, but so far,
2369
02:23:41.610 --> 02:23:43.829
the police have yet to find any evidence of what
2370
02:23:43.889 --> 02:23:44.729
happened to Melanie.
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02:23:45.590 --> 02:23:46.889
Her mother, Celine, made.
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02:23:46.770 --> 02:23:49.729
A post to the Let's Work Together to Find Melanie
2373
02:23:49.870 --> 02:23:52.229
FDA Facebook group in November 2020.
2374
02:23:52.229 --> 02:23:54.629
Here's part of that post.
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02:23:56.010 --> 02:23:59.569
For many years, I've felt that Melanie is no longer alive,
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02:24:00.530 --> 02:24:02.909
and I know that finding the truth about her disappearance
2377
02:24:02.930 --> 02:24:03.969
will not change that.
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02:24:05.270 --> 02:24:08.479
I'm not driven by justice, anger, or vengeance.
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02:24:09.700 --> 02:24:12.920
I'm a mother searching for a missing child so that
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02:24:12.940 --> 02:24:16.260
I can give her the dignified memorial she deserves and
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02:24:16.299 --> 02:24:20.280
enable my family to finally grieve, find closure, and heal.
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02:24:21.549 --> 02:24:23.770
You may not be able to bring Melanie back to life,
2383
02:24:24.649 --> 02:24:27.370
but by providing the police with the information needed to
2384
02:24:27.409 --> 02:24:29.989
bring back her body, you can help me and my
2385
02:24:30.069 --> 02:24:35.579
family begin to rebuild ours. Also in the Facebook group,
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02:24:35.840 --> 02:24:38.899
Celine and others have made numerous posts about Dennis Lavier.
2387
02:24:39.440 --> 02:24:42.959
Who is a family friend. Three days after Melanie's.
2388
02:24:42.659 --> 02:24:46.360
Disappearance, Dennis made a chilling statement to Celine's mother who
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02:24:46.389 --> 02:24:50.250
had been staying at the home for birthday celebrations. According
2390
02:24:50.290 --> 02:24:53.659
to the grandmother, which is Celine's mother, Dennis came around
2391
02:24:53.700 --> 02:24:55.899
to the house and was smoking a cigarette in the basement,
2392
02:24:56.340 --> 02:24:59.319
which was extremely out of character and something that Celine
2393
02:24:59.399 --> 02:25:03.620
wouldn't have allowed. Then, as Dennis smoked a cigarette, he
2394
02:25:03.680 --> 02:25:07.280
chillingly told the grandmother that the person responsible had to
2395
02:25:07.309 --> 02:25:11.729
have been very strong. As previously mentioned, Melanie had taken
2396
02:25:11.790 --> 02:25:14.989
self-defense classes and she also loved ballet and other sports,
2397
02:25:15.530 --> 02:25:18.090
so she was in good shape and strong for her age.
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02:25:19.149 --> 02:25:21.610
That wasn't the only chilling thing that Dennis said, though.
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02:25:22.510 --> 02:25:26.159
He rolled up his sleeves and showed the grandmother fresh, deep.
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02:25:26.280 --> 02:25:27.479
Nail marks on his arm.
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02:25:28.979 --> 02:25:32.280
This discovery sent chills through the Ethier family, but Dennis
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02:25:32.340 --> 02:25:34.940
played it off and told Celine and the family that
2403
02:25:34.979 --> 02:25:37.250
Melanie had done that to him while they were play
2404
02:25:37.309 --> 02:25:41.430
fighting in the days before she disappeared. Nobody in the
2405
02:25:41.489 --> 02:25:45.110
Ethier family believed Dennis' version of events, and it later
2406
02:25:45.190 --> 02:25:48.000
transpired that Dennis was known to try and inappropriately talk
2407
02:25:48.010 --> 02:25:52.250
to and engage with minors. The scope of Melanie's case
2408
02:25:52.350 --> 02:25:55.149
deserves a video of its own, and many theories come
2409
02:25:55.209 --> 02:26:00.709
up in this case. Unfortunately, Dennis passed away in 2016,
2410
02:26:00.709 --> 02:26:02.959
taking any secrets he had with him to the grave.
2411
02:26:04.079 --> 02:26:06.840
Many people have came forward claiming that Dennis had admitted
2412
02:26:06.879 --> 02:26:09.579
to them that he had harmed Melanie, but these claims
2413
02:26:09.639 --> 02:26:13.920
could never be substantiated. Celine believes that Dennis is the
2414
02:26:13.959 --> 02:26:17.670
most likely suspect in Melanie's disappearance, and while Dennis has
2415
02:26:17.709 --> 02:26:20.819
now passed away, She believes that someone out there has
2416
02:26:20.860 --> 02:26:24.120
the right information to bring the right person to justice
2417
02:26:24.520 --> 02:26:27.680
for what they did to Melanie. There are many ins
2418
02:26:27.739 --> 02:26:30.280
and outs in this case, and Celine has been the
2419
02:26:30.360 --> 02:26:33.040
driving force behind keeping her daughter's name in the media.
2420
02:26:33.979 --> 02:26:37.959
She's created numerous posters, billboards, and social media accounts to
2421
02:26:38.000 --> 02:26:40.739
help keep her daughter's memory alive and to help bring
2422
02:26:40.799 --> 02:26:44.899
her home. Melanie Atier was last seen on September 28, 1996,
2423
02:26:44.879 --> 02:26:51.180
on Pine Avenue in in Newless Garden, Ontario. She is
2424
02:26:51.219 --> 02:26:54.200
described as a black female with long braided black hair,
2425
02:26:54.819 --> 02:26:56.540
brown eyes, standing.
2426
02:26:57.000 --> 02:26:58.639
5'5 and weighing 120 pounds.
2427
02:26:59.540 --> 02:27:02.760
She was last seen wearing a green Nike jacket, blue jeans,
2428
02:27:03.319 --> 02:27:06.360
a white t-shirt with a blue heart, peppy logo, and
2429
02:27:06.399 --> 02:27:10.780
black boots. Anyone with information is asked to please contact
2430
02:27:10.879 --> 02:27:18.079
any of the following. Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 the Lascard
2431
02:27:18.120 --> 02:27:21.260
Police Service at 7005-647-4388, the Ontario Provincial Police at 1-888-310-1122,
2432
02:27:21.340 --> 02:27:23.520
or you can send an anonymous letter to Celine Entier
2433
02:27:23.540 --> 02:27:32.010
at Box 2055, New Lascard, Ontario, TOJ. or you can
2434
02:27:32.030 --> 02:27:37.399
send an anonymous letter to Celine Entier at Box 2055,
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02:27:37.399 --> 02:27:41.719
New Liscard, Ontario, POJ1PO.
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02:27:44.940 --> 02:27:48.610
Number 1, August Rieger.
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02:27:48.629 --> 02:27:52.329
18-year-old August Rieger had recently graduated from the Classin School
2438
02:27:52.350 --> 02:27:55.270
of Advanced Studies and was even awarded the honor of
2439
02:27:55.329 --> 02:27:59.899
being that year's valedictorian. For August, Life was just beginning,
2440
02:28:00.059 --> 02:28:02.420
and the world was truly his oyster, and he had
2441
02:28:02.500 --> 02:28:07.639
earned himself a full scholarship at the University of Oklahoma. Unfortunately,
2442
02:28:07.799 --> 02:28:10.459
that summer was snatched away right from under the nose
2443
02:28:10.500 --> 02:28:13.940
of August's family, and almost a decade later on, his
2444
02:28:14.120 --> 02:28:19.969
case remains unsolved. On June 16, 2013, August and his
2445
02:28:20.010 --> 02:28:22.510
family took the trip of a lifetime to Ecuador to
2446
02:28:22.549 --> 02:28:27.090
celebrate his graduation. According to his parents, Chris and Randa,
2447
02:28:27.739 --> 02:28:30.379
August had asked for a holiday to a Spanish-speaking country,
2448
02:28:30.860 --> 02:28:33.959
as he wanted to practice his Spanish. His parents would
2449
02:28:34.000 --> 02:28:36.299
later tell news outlets that this was just the kind
2450
02:28:36.319 --> 02:28:39.959
of person August is, always wanting to learn and improve himself.
2451
02:28:40.819 --> 02:28:43.200
The family packed up their things and headed to Ecuador,
2452
02:28:43.670 --> 02:28:47.690
not knowing the horrors that awaited them. The family was
2453
02:28:47.709 --> 02:28:51.329
staying in Banos, central Ecuador, and were counting down the
2454
02:28:51.370 --> 02:28:54.850
days until their dream tour came around. The family had
2455
02:28:54.889 --> 02:28:57.670
booked on to a three-day tour of the Amazon jungle,
2456
02:28:58.170 --> 02:29:00.090
something August was especially.
2457
02:28:59.670 --> 02:29:00.549
Looking forward to.
2458
02:29:01.629 --> 02:29:04.950
With time to spare, Chris, Randa, August and his siblings
2459
02:29:05.350 --> 02:29:07.270
decided to take a hike on a trail close to
2460
02:29:07.309 --> 02:29:10.270
their hotel. This would give them a chance to experience
2461
02:29:10.309 --> 02:29:13.030
the natural beauty that Ecuador has to offer while still
2462
02:29:13.079 --> 02:29:18.379
being close to civilization. Unfortunately, despite being close to their
2463
02:29:18.420 --> 02:29:23.290
hotel and other populated areas, the unthinkable happened. As the
2464
02:29:23.329 --> 02:29:26.610
family went along the trail, August sped ahead and told
2465
02:29:26.629 --> 02:29:28.209
them that he would wait for them at the top.
2466
02:29:29.069 --> 02:29:32.010
The rest of the family followed behind, expecting to see
2467
02:29:32.090 --> 02:29:35.569
August smiling and waiting for them, but he was nowhere
2468
02:29:35.610 --> 02:29:38.809
to be found. His family looked around for him, but
2469
02:29:38.870 --> 02:29:42.389
saw nothing. They decided to head back to the hotel,
2470
02:29:42.649 --> 02:29:45.690
thinking that August had possibly gone there, maybe taking another
2471
02:29:45.750 --> 02:29:48.959
route down, but as they reached their room, there was
2472
02:29:49.000 --> 02:29:53.280
still no sign of August. The Rieger family waited, hoping
2473
02:29:53.319 --> 02:29:57.909
that August would return. Hours later, when that didn't transpire,
2474
02:29:58.440 --> 02:30:01.930
they reported their son missing to the Ecuadorian authorities, and
2475
02:30:01.930 --> 02:30:04.969
24 hours after he was last seen, a search party
2476
02:30:05.010 --> 02:30:09.030
was established to find the missing teen. The governor's office
2477
02:30:09.049 --> 02:30:11.190
of the province where the Riggers were staying made a
2478
02:30:11.190 --> 02:30:14.750
statement in the wake of August's disappearance, reassuring the media
2479
02:30:15.059 --> 02:30:18.360
and U.S. citizens watching the story closely that all efforts
2480
02:30:18.420 --> 02:30:21.319
were being made to find the young man. Part of
2481
02:30:21.379 --> 02:30:25.149
the statement read, A special team of local authorities, including
2482
02:30:25.209 --> 02:30:29.729
members of the armed forces, police, fire department, and some volunteers,
2483
02:30:30.209 --> 02:30:31.170
were deployed.
2484
02:30:30.829 --> 02:30:32.469
In order to find Mr. Rieger.
2485
02:30:33.229 --> 02:30:36.020
Hours slowly turned into days, and there was still no
2486
02:30:36.079 --> 02:30:40.040
word from August. His family waited patiently for any updates
2487
02:30:40.100 --> 02:30:44.280
or leads as to their son's whereabouts. August's missing person
2488
02:30:44.319 --> 02:30:47.850
poster was distributed across Ecuador, and locals kept a close
2489
02:30:47.989 --> 02:30:51.780
eye out for him. Ten days later, a bizarre sighting
2490
02:30:51.819 --> 02:30:55.540
was reported to the Ecuadorian authorities. According to an ABC
2491
02:30:55.559 --> 02:30:59.190
News article written on June 26, 2013, there had been
2492
02:30:59.209 --> 02:31:02.790
a possible sighting of August. The article goes on to say,
2493
02:31:03.270 --> 02:31:06.450
a high school valedictorian from Oklahoma who has been missing
2494
02:31:06.489 --> 02:31:08.790
for more than a week in Ecuador might have been
2495
02:31:08.829 --> 02:31:11.319
spotted on the back of a truck headed toward the
2496
02:31:11.379 --> 02:31:14.739
Amazon rainforest, the family told ABC News.
2497
02:31:15.920 --> 02:31:16.659
This wouldn't be the.
2498
02:31:16.659 --> 02:31:19.500
Only sighting of August, though, and as the months passed,
2499
02:31:19.879 --> 02:31:23.479
more sightings would be called in to the authorities. Christy Rieger,
2500
02:31:23.819 --> 02:31:28.819
August's aunt, spoke to KOCO5 News in 2014, telling the
2501
02:31:28.860 --> 02:31:32.819
station that authorities had received several credible sightings of August
2502
02:31:33.200 --> 02:31:35.860
over the last few weeks and that the family held
2503
02:31:35.959 --> 02:31:39.959
out hope that August was still out there unharmed. This
2504
02:31:40.000 --> 02:31:43.760
sentiment was also echoed on the Facebook page Find August Rieger,
2505
02:31:44.200 --> 02:31:48.819
which is run by his family. On May 7th, 2014,
2506
02:31:48.819 --> 02:31:51.799
A post was made to the Facebook page reading, We
2507
02:31:51.840 --> 02:31:53.860
are excited to report that there have been a few
2508
02:31:53.920 --> 02:31:57.540
recent sightings of August. We are grateful for the Ecuadorian
2509
02:31:57.579 --> 02:31:59.860
citizens who are helping out with the goodness of their hearts.
2510
02:32:00.680 --> 02:32:01.920
We will bring him home.
2511
02:32:03.360 --> 02:32:06.260
Underneath this post, a comment was also added by the
2512
02:32:06.280 --> 02:32:10.600
page that reads, No more info for now. The investigation
2513
02:32:10.639 --> 02:32:13.659
is obviously active and on the move. Sharing too much
2514
02:32:13.860 --> 02:32:18.909
could compromise that. Since then, the Ecuadorian authorities and August's
2515
02:32:18.950 --> 02:32:21.709
family have continued to look for him, and his family
2516
02:32:21.989 --> 02:32:26.329
have praised the authorities and the people of Ecuador. Posters
2517
02:32:26.370 --> 02:32:29.389
with August's face were widely distributed, and it's a case
2518
02:32:29.430 --> 02:32:31.510
that many Ecuadorians will not forget.
2519
02:32:32.639 --> 02:32:33.680
Years have passed.
2520
02:32:33.420 --> 02:32:36.079
Since August vanished, and his family still holds out hope
2521
02:32:36.120 --> 02:32:39.760
that he is alive somewhere. No ransom demands have ever
2522
02:32:39.799 --> 02:32:43.000
been made, and the authorities cannot figure out why anyone
2523
02:32:43.059 --> 02:32:46.549
would have wanted to kidnap August. There's also the theory
2524
02:32:46.590 --> 02:32:48.690
that August fell over the edge while on the hike,
2525
02:32:49.319 --> 02:32:52.299
but his remains have never been recovered to support this theory.
2526
02:32:52.319 --> 02:32:56.659
The August family runs the Find August Rieger Facebook page,
2527
02:32:57.159 --> 02:32:59.959
along with making media appearances to keep his story in
2528
02:32:59.979 --> 02:33:04.760
the public eye. August Rieger was last seen on June 16, 2013,
2529
02:33:04.760 --> 02:33:10.079
in the mountains of Banos in Ecuador. Photos showing possible
2530
02:33:10.159 --> 02:33:14.309
alterations in August's appearance are available via the Facebook page, alternatively,
2531
02:33:14.760 --> 02:33:20.680
you can contact your nearest U.S. Embassy or consulate office. Well, folks,
2532
02:33:20.899 --> 02:33:23.299
there you have it. What do you think of these
2533
02:33:23.379 --> 02:33:28.559
strange and creepy disappearances? I look forward to hearing your comments.
2534
02:33:29.500 --> 02:33:34.379
Please keep it friendly and respectful. Meanwhile, be good to
2535
02:33:34.399 --> 02:33:39.100
yourselves and each other. Stay safe out there. As for me,
2536
02:33:39.500 --> 02:33:41.389
I'll see you a little farther on down the trail.
2537
02:33:42.409 --> 02:34:10.850
I'm Steve Stockton, And I'll talk to you next time. Hello, friends.
2538
02:34:11.709 --> 02:34:12.780
Steve Stockton here with you.
2539
02:34:14.510 --> 02:34:16.899
In this video, we're going to be discussing some strange
2540
02:34:17.059 --> 02:34:22.379
wilderness disappearances you may never have heard of. So sit back, relax,
2541
02:34:23.219 --> 02:34:27.780
and let the stories begin. Now, for some, a walk
2542
02:34:27.819 --> 02:34:30.200
in the wilderness can be the perfect getaway from everyday
2543
02:34:30.239 --> 02:34:35.020
life and a chance to reconnect with Mother Nature. For others,
2544
02:34:35.520 --> 02:34:38.440
the great outdoors can be a dangerous place, and unfortunately,
2545
02:34:38.700 --> 02:34:41.000
it's a place where many people meet their end or
2546
02:34:41.239 --> 02:34:45.459
just mysteriously vanish. Here are four such cases for you
2547
02:34:45.479 --> 02:34:53.510
to consider. Number four, Brian Skolinski. 40-year-old Brian Skolinski was
2548
02:34:53.549 --> 02:34:56.430
at a turning point in his life. He was admittedly
2549
02:34:56.450 --> 02:34:59.030
in the midst of a midlife crisis and was desperately
2550
02:34:59.129 --> 02:35:02.790
seeking answers and a purpose in his life. He told
2551
02:35:02.850 --> 02:35:06.309
CBS Denver, I was trying to find motivation for the
2552
02:35:06.370 --> 02:35:09.969
next 40 years of my life. I wanted to exert myself.
2553
02:35:10.670 --> 02:35:12.690
I didn't want to go to the extremes that I did.
2554
02:35:14.280 --> 02:35:16.729
In a bid to clear his head and reconnect with nature,
2555
02:35:17.370 --> 02:35:20.069
Brian headed out into the Great Sand Dunes National Park
2556
02:35:20.129 --> 02:35:25.010
and Preserve. What should have been a life-changing expedition almost
2557
02:35:25.049 --> 02:35:29.129
turned into a tragedy. On February 11th, Brian entered the
2558
02:35:29.190 --> 02:35:32.030
Great Sand Dunes National Park, headed for the Coal Creek
2559
02:35:32.090 --> 02:35:34.879
Drainage Area, which would have seen him hiking 10 miles
2560
02:35:34.959 --> 02:35:37.979
around the perimeter of the park. Coal Creek Drainage is
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02:35:38.040 --> 02:35:40.420
located at the base of Mount Harold. and what had
2562
02:35:40.459 --> 02:35:43.729
provided Brian with spectacular views and the perfect amount of
2563
02:35:43.750 --> 02:35:47.469
quiet time to clear his head. Sometime into his walk,
2564
02:35:48.149 --> 02:35:51.909
the conditions changed, however, and he began to encounter snowdrifts.
2565
02:35:52.790 --> 02:35:54.790
Any other person would probably have turned around and headed
2566
02:35:54.850 --> 02:35:58.829
back to their car, but Brian had other ideas. In
2567
02:35:58.879 --> 02:36:02.379
an interview with CBS Denver, he says, I said, this
2568
02:36:02.459 --> 02:36:03.540
isn't going to stop me.
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02:36:03.940 --> 02:36:07.280
Three feet of snow. Three feet isn't going to stop me.
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02:36:07.840 --> 02:36:10.319
Four feet isn't going to stop me. I'm going to
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02:36:10.340 --> 02:36:16.920
keep going. Why? I couldn't tell you. Unfortunately, this mistake.
2572
02:36:16.620 --> 02:36:21.360
Would almost cost Brian his life. After becoming stranded, Brian
2573
02:36:21.479 --> 02:36:24.879
soon realized the mistake he had made. He had no shelter,
2574
02:36:25.139 --> 02:36:28.079
no extra clothing, and only two small meals meant to
2575
02:36:28.139 --> 02:36:32.049
sustain him for one day. As the sun rose on
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02:36:32.090 --> 02:36:35.649
the second day, Brian desperately tried to continue his fight
2577
02:36:35.690 --> 02:36:39.149
to find his way home. The freezing temperatures and snow
2578
02:36:39.250 --> 02:36:41.950
did little to help, of course, and by the third day,
2579
02:36:42.450 --> 02:36:44.290
he had to cut the laces and tongues out of
2580
02:36:44.329 --> 02:36:48.629
his boots as they had frozen over. Now, with damaged boots,
2581
02:36:48.809 --> 02:36:52.840
no food, no water, no warm clothes, Brian carried on walking.
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02:36:53.799 --> 02:36:56.680
To make matters worse, Brian had gotten lost and had
2583
02:36:56.719 --> 02:37:01.329
found himself on the sand dunes. His absence had gone unnoticed, though,
2584
02:37:01.909 --> 02:37:04.569
and by the fifth day of him being missing, Ragers
2585
02:37:04.590 --> 02:37:06.409
from the park noticed that his car had been parked
2586
02:37:06.430 --> 02:37:10.409
there an unusually long time. After failing to make contact
2587
02:37:10.450 --> 02:37:14.370
with the owner, they set about looking for him. Park ragers,
2588
02:37:14.549 --> 02:37:18.469
along with volunteers, horse and aero units, began scanning the park,
2589
02:37:18.909 --> 02:37:21.409
looking for any sign of the missing man, but there
2590
02:37:21.469 --> 02:37:25.030
was nothing to be seen. Sniffer dogs were even brought in,
2591
02:37:25.110 --> 02:37:28.590
and while his footprints and scent were found, Brian wasn't.
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02:37:29.750 --> 02:37:32.299
As the fifth day was drawn to a close, the
2593
02:37:32.379 --> 02:37:35.620
outlook was looking very bleak for Brian and his chance
2594
02:37:35.659 --> 02:37:38.379
of survival was growing slimmer and slimmer by the minute.
2595
02:37:39.340 --> 02:37:44.159
Then a miracle happened. He told CBS Denver, I'd given
2596
02:37:44.239 --> 02:37:47.040
up on my mission to the stars. I saw a
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02:37:47.079 --> 02:37:50.930
road and that's when I was discovered by rescuers. He
2598
02:37:50.969 --> 02:37:53.649
was escorted to the Great Sand Dunes Visitor Center and said,
2599
02:37:54.270 --> 02:37:55.969
I walk in there and I see a picture of
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02:37:56.010 --> 02:37:58.870
myself on the bulletin board and a map. To be
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02:37:58.889 --> 02:38:01.129
honest with you, I didn't even think people were looking
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02:38:01.190 --> 02:38:01.530
for me.
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02:38:02.989 --> 02:38:03.920
It was a miracle.
2604
02:38:04.979 --> 02:38:07.799
Brian had been found alive and well after surviving for
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02:38:07.899 --> 02:38:12.540
five days in below freezing temperatures without food, water, shelter,
2606
02:38:12.680 --> 02:38:17.250
or adequate clothing. His extremities had suffered from frostbite, but
2607
02:38:17.290 --> 02:38:21.090
he refused to accept medical treatment. Instead, all he asked
2608
02:38:21.129 --> 02:38:23.090
of his rescuers was to help him get back home
2609
02:38:23.159 --> 02:38:27.299
to New York. Brian's story doesn't end there, though. This
2610
02:38:27.420 --> 02:38:29.899
wouldn't be the last time he would disappear into the wilderness.
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02:38:30.860 --> 02:38:34.659
In early May 2017, Brian Skalinski would hit the headlines
2612
02:38:34.799 --> 02:38:38.200
once again when he disappeared from the Great Sand Dunes
2613
02:38:38.260 --> 02:38:42.979
National Park and Preserve. According to reports, Brian went missing
2614
02:38:43.180 --> 02:38:46.280
and again Park Rangers discovered his car in a picnic
2615
02:38:46.360 --> 02:38:49.379
area and tried to track him down. When they failed
2616
02:38:49.399 --> 02:38:52.040
to do so, they got together a search and rescue team.
2617
02:38:52.559 --> 02:38:57.280
But this time, the outcome wasn't so bright. Unfortunately, bad
2618
02:38:57.340 --> 02:39:00.120
weather prevented the search teams from conducting a thorough search,
2619
02:39:00.719 --> 02:39:05.530
and on June 28th, 2017, Brian's body was discovered, covered
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02:39:05.549 --> 02:39:14.350
with deep snow. Number three, Randy Rasko. On November 19th, 2015,
2621
02:39:14.350 --> 02:39:17.190
Park rangers at the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky
2622
02:39:17.610 --> 02:39:19.270
noticed that a car had been sitting in the car
2623
02:39:19.309 --> 02:39:23.659
park for around two weeks. This immediately set off warning bells,
2624
02:39:24.620 --> 02:39:27.799
and after doing some digging for information, they discovered that
2625
02:39:27.840 --> 02:39:31.659
the car belonged to 40-year-old Randy Rasko. As the car
2626
02:39:31.680 --> 02:39:33.979
had been there for quite some time, the park rangers
2627
02:39:34.000 --> 02:39:36.989
set about searching for Randy right away. But when he
2628
02:39:37.020 --> 02:39:39.569
couldn't be found in or near the parking area, they
2629
02:39:39.629 --> 02:39:43.930
opened an investigation and widened their search. Park rangers and
2630
02:39:43.979 --> 02:39:47.139
investigators contacted Randy's family to see if they had spoken
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02:39:47.200 --> 02:39:51.020
to him, but chillingly, they had been out of contact.
2632
02:39:50.540 --> 02:39:51.340
For a few months.
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02:39:53.020 --> 02:39:57.159
According to his sister Sherry, up until May 2015, everything
2634
02:39:57.219 --> 02:40:00.309
was normal. On a regular basis, he was doing his
2635
02:40:00.370 --> 02:40:04.190
normal things. Hunting, fishing, and kept in contact with our
2636
02:40:04.209 --> 02:40:05.690
brother who lived close to his.
2637
02:40:05.610 --> 02:40:06.610
Bowling Green apartment.
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02:40:07.409 --> 02:40:09.520
Then one day out of the blue... He packed up
2639
02:40:09.559 --> 02:40:12.260
his belongings, quit his job, and had his mail forwarded
2640
02:40:12.309 --> 02:40:16.329
to another address, and just left. Sherry said they filed
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02:40:16.370 --> 02:40:18.510
a missing persons report after they found out he had
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02:40:18.549 --> 02:40:21.829
just fled and were worried as he had recently gotten divorced.
2643
02:40:23.069 --> 02:40:25.930
For a month, the Rasco family waited for any news,
2644
02:40:26.510 --> 02:40:28.510
and in June, he was found safe and sound in
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02:40:28.579 --> 02:40:31.860
Washington State. Randy made it clear that he didn't want
2646
02:40:31.879 --> 02:40:34.040
to speak to his family at that time and wanted
2647
02:40:34.079 --> 02:40:37.790
to be alone. As painful as it was, His family
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02:40:37.829 --> 02:40:40.159
respected his boundaries and assured him they would welcome him
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02:40:40.190 --> 02:40:43.979
back with open arms whenever he was ready. For the
2650
02:40:44.020 --> 02:40:47.180
next few months, it's believed that Randy traveled all around
2651
02:40:47.219 --> 02:40:51.879
the U.S. while maintaining his privacy and secrecy. His family
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02:40:51.940 --> 02:40:54.420
didn't know that anything was wrong until the Mammoth Cave
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02:40:54.479 --> 02:40:57.469
National Park Rangers contacted them to let them know that
2654
02:40:57.500 --> 02:41:01.370
his car had been found abandoned. With this second disappearance,
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02:41:01.969 --> 02:41:04.549
his family hoped that there would be a positive resolution.
2656
02:41:05.569 --> 02:41:10.020
But sadly, As of 2022, Randy Rasko is still missing.
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02:41:10.940 --> 02:41:13.739
Search crews, volunteers, and even the Civil Air Patrol all
2658
02:41:13.819 --> 02:41:18.110
joined in on the search for Randy, scouring the over 53,000
2659
02:41:18.110 --> 02:41:21.569
acres of land in the park. Despite their best efforts
2660
02:41:21.670 --> 02:41:25.129
and multiple searches, no sign of Randy has ever been found,
2661
02:41:25.690 --> 02:41:27.579
and his car is the only clue we have in
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02:41:27.610 --> 02:41:31.940
terms of his mysterious disappearance. Randy Rasko is described as
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02:41:31.979 --> 02:41:36.469
a white male, 6'2, with black hair, hazel eyes, and
2664
02:41:36.489 --> 02:41:40.950
a slim athletic build. Anyone with any information is asked
2665
02:41:40.989 --> 02:41:47.299
to please contact the Mammoth Cave National Park at 270-758-2180.
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02:41:50.340 --> 02:41:51.620
Number 2.
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02:41:51.620 --> 02:41:56.420
Maureen Kelly 19-year-old Maureen Kelly embarked on what she thought
2668
02:41:56.479 --> 02:42:00.159
would be a spiritual adventure of a lifetime. However, this
2669
02:42:00.219 --> 02:42:03.510
adventure quickly turned sour and she has been missing ever since.
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02:42:04.659 --> 02:42:08.040
On June 19th of 2013, Maureen and a group of
2671
02:42:08.100 --> 02:42:11.260
friends arrived at the Canyon Creek Campground in the Gifford
2672
02:42:11.299 --> 02:42:15.459
Pinchot National Park in Washington State. Ready to camp and
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02:42:15.540 --> 02:42:18.469
hang out together and have a good time. The friends
2674
02:42:18.489 --> 02:42:20.829
were relaxing and taking in the natural beauty of the
2675
02:42:20.850 --> 02:42:23.909
park when Maureen abruptly announced that she was going on
2676
02:42:23.950 --> 02:42:27.829
a spiritual adventure. She took off all of her clothes,
2677
02:42:28.290 --> 02:42:30.909
removed her shoes, and was equipped with nothing but a
2678
02:42:30.950 --> 02:42:33.049
fanny pack that is believed to have held a pocket knife,
2679
02:42:33.250 --> 02:42:37.049
a compass, and a few matches. After declaring that she
2680
02:42:37.069 --> 02:42:40.350
was going on a spiritual adventure, Maureen headed out into
2681
02:42:40.389 --> 02:42:44.590
the woods, never to be seen again. Maureen didn't tell
2682
02:42:44.629 --> 02:42:46.770
her friends how long she was going to be or
2683
02:42:46.950 --> 02:42:49.549
even where she was headed, but they figured she would
2684
02:42:49.590 --> 02:42:52.110
be back at least within a few hours to tell
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02:42:52.129 --> 02:42:55.930
them all about her spiritual journey. As darkness rolled in
2686
02:42:56.090 --> 02:42:59.379
and Maureen still hadn't returned, A group of friends alerted
2687
02:42:59.420 --> 02:43:03.479
the Skamania County Sheriff's Office, and she was officially reported missing.
2688
02:43:04.420 --> 02:43:07.219
There were added concerns about her welfare, due to the
2689
02:43:07.260 --> 02:43:10.100
fact that she'd left without clothes, shoes, food and water,
2690
02:43:10.600 --> 02:43:15.930
and within hours, a huge search and rescue mission began. Volunteers,
2691
02:43:16.049 --> 02:43:18.909
park rangers, and search and rescue coordinators combed through the park,
2692
02:43:19.149 --> 02:43:22.729
looking for any sign of her. But, despite their best efforts,
2693
02:43:23.129 --> 02:43:25.629
it was as if she had vanished into thin air.
2694
02:43:26.950 --> 02:43:30.149
One clue did surface, however, and as search teams were
2695
02:43:30.190 --> 02:43:33.809
looking on the ground, they came across footprints, bare footprints,
2696
02:43:34.450 --> 02:43:37.829
that were the same size as Marine's feet. Working on
2697
02:43:37.889 --> 02:43:40.860
this singular clue, sniffer dogs were brought in in an
2698
02:43:40.920 --> 02:43:43.760
attempt to trace her scent, but due to the rainfall,
2699
02:43:43.840 --> 02:43:45.280
they were unable to pick up anything.
2700
02:43:46.420 --> 02:43:48.180
The footprints showed that Marine.
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02:43:47.940 --> 02:43:52.040
Had perhaps headed north towards Forest Service 54 Road, but
2702
02:43:52.120 --> 02:43:55.360
as previously mentioned, the trail ended where the road began.
2703
02:43:56.600 --> 02:43:59.059
Helicopters were brought in, but they were unable to search
2704
02:43:59.100 --> 02:44:01.500
for Maureen in the initial hours and days following her
2705
02:44:01.520 --> 02:44:07.780
disappearance due to severe weather conditions. 19-year-old Maureen Kelly remains missing,
2706
02:44:08.219 --> 02:44:11.479
and the Skamania County Sheriff's Office is still no closer
2707
02:44:11.520 --> 02:44:14.829
to finding out what happened to her. Many believe that
2708
02:44:14.860 --> 02:44:17.729
she succumbed to the ailments that very night, but as
2709
02:44:17.770 --> 02:44:20.709
her body has never been found, nobody knows for sure.
2710
02:44:21.690 --> 02:44:24.909
Maureen is described as an Asian Pacific Islander with black hair,
2711
02:44:25.129 --> 02:44:28.989
brown eyes, She stands 5'7 inches tall and weighs about
2712
02:44:28.989 --> 02:44:33.389
150 pounds. Anyone with any information is asked to please
2713
02:44:33.450 --> 02:44:37.010
contact the Skamania County Sheriff's Office at 509-427-9490 and reference
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02:44:37.049 --> 02:44:40.409
case number 13-04081. Number 1. Kat Hamantre On April 11, 2019,
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02:44:40.379 --> 02:44:58.260
68-year-old Kat Hamantre Her dog Tootsie, her husband, her daughter,
2716
02:44:58.600 --> 02:45:00.569
and a group of other hikers set off into the
2717
02:45:00.620 --> 02:45:04.829
San Felipe Desert in Baja, California, Mexico. The group were
2718
02:45:04.870 --> 02:45:08.930
either headed for or near the Diablo Canyon, uh-oh, when
2719
02:45:08.989 --> 02:45:12.719
tragedy struck. In this community, we know all about places
2720
02:45:12.750 --> 02:45:16.819
with devil in the name. According to the Seattle Times,
2721
02:45:17.040 --> 02:45:19.219
Kate had lived in Mexico for the past 20 years
2722
02:45:19.239 --> 02:45:21.799
and would often make the trip to Seattle, Washington to
2723
02:45:21.840 --> 02:45:25.860
visit her friends and family. The details surrounding Kat's disappearance
2724
02:45:25.909 --> 02:45:29.590
are sparse, but here is what we do know. According
2725
02:45:29.629 --> 02:45:33.530
to Kat's daughter, Desiree Blair, about 10 minutes into the hike,
2726
02:45:33.809 --> 02:45:35.790
Kat complained that she had hurt her foot or ankle
2727
02:45:36.110 --> 02:45:37.879
and told the group that she would take a quick
2728
02:45:37.930 --> 02:45:41.639
break while they continued on. Her husband later commented that
2729
02:45:41.680 --> 02:45:44.139
the injury seemed severe and he believed that Kat may
2730
02:45:44.180 --> 02:45:47.719
have actually broken her foot or ankle. The group left
2731
02:45:47.780 --> 02:45:50.389
Kat and her dog Tootsie behind as they made their.
2732
02:45:50.329 --> 02:45:51.290
Way to the waterfall.
2733
02:45:52.209 --> 02:45:55.030
And as they circled back around, Kat was nowhere to
2734
02:45:55.069 --> 02:45:59.329
be found. Her husband, Warren Sundquist, went and waited at
2735
02:45:59.350 --> 02:46:02.309
their car, thinking that perhaps she had headed there, but
2736
02:46:02.489 --> 02:46:05.610
she never showed up. Hours passed and there was no
2737
02:46:05.649 --> 02:46:08.930
sign of Kat. The group and her family reported her missing.
2738
02:46:10.049 --> 02:46:12.229
Kat was very familiar with the area and showed no
2739
02:46:12.270 --> 02:46:15.110
concerns about being left alone while the others finished their hike.
2740
02:46:16.350 --> 02:46:19.530
She also apparently showed no signs of distress, making her
2741
02:46:19.590 --> 02:46:24.170
disappearance all the more mystifying. After Kat was reported missing,
2742
02:46:24.530 --> 02:46:28.079
search and rescue crews, volunteers, and even the Mexican armed
2743
02:46:28.159 --> 02:46:31.100
forces all pitched in to help find her. But as
2744
02:46:31.139 --> 02:46:35.760
of 2022, no trace has ever been found. The authorities
2745
02:46:35.819 --> 02:46:38.620
in San Felipe did believe at one point that someone
2746
02:46:38.659 --> 02:46:42.590
in the hiking group may have been responsible, however. Although
2747
02:46:42.770 --> 02:46:45.790
everyone present was questioned and no charges have ever been
2748
02:46:45.809 --> 02:46:49.950
brought about. One theory suggests that Kat perhaps stumbled across
2749
02:46:50.069 --> 02:46:53.159
cartel activity. and that she was taken out for what
2750
02:46:53.200 --> 02:46:56.819
she saw. Another theory is that Kat was attacked by
2751
02:46:56.840 --> 02:46:59.940
a wild animal, but the first attending officers noted that
2752
02:46:59.979 --> 02:47:02.520
the scene was devoid of any signs of a struggle,
2753
02:47:02.540 --> 02:47:06.530
and there was no blood. As of this recording, in
2754
02:47:06.629 --> 02:47:11.409
March of 2022, Kat Hamantre and her dog, Tootsie, remain missing,
2755
02:47:11.909 --> 02:47:15.629
and her family are desperate for answers. Anyone with any
2756
02:47:15.690 --> 02:47:19.389
information is asked to contact the San Felipe Police Department
2757
02:47:19.909 --> 02:47:29.659
at 686-577-1134. Well folks, there you have it. What do
2758
02:47:29.690 --> 02:47:32.260
you think of these strange cases? Had you heard of
2759
02:47:32.299 --> 02:47:36.840
these before? I look forward to your comments, but please
2760
02:47:36.959 --> 02:47:41.409
keep it friendly and respectful. In the meanwhile, be good
2761
02:47:41.420 --> 02:47:44.090
to yourselves and each other, and I'll see you just
2762
02:47:44.149 --> 02:47:47.829
a little farther on down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton,
2763
02:47:48.530 --> 02:47:49.809
and I'll talk to you next time.
2764
02:48:06.399 --> 02:48:07.319
Well, there you have it.
2765
02:48:08.489 --> 02:48:14.780
Hope you've enjoyed this creepy case marathon. Until we meet again,
2766
02:48:15.159 --> 02:48:17.940
be good to yourselves and each other. As for me,
2767
02:48:18.559 --> 02:48:20.379
I'll see you a little further on down the trail.
2768
02:48:21.360 --> 02:48:24.030
I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to you next time.
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02:48:24.049 --> 02:48:27.110
Until you're animals, Steve says hi.
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Hello friends, Steve Stockton here. This video, by popular request,
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00:00:06.650 --> 00:00:10.279
is a marathon of some of our creepiest cases ever.
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Join me. Let's walk and see. Hello friends.
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In this video, we bring you some of the most
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unbelievably bizarre and creepiest disappearances we've ever covered. Some of
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these defy the imagination. So buckle up. It's going to
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be a wild ride. First disappearance, Jeremiah Foko. 36 year
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00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:11.879
old Jeremiah Foko left his apartment and headed for his
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job as a software engineer at Oracle in Bellevue, Washington.
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on July 22nd, 2015, only to never be seen or
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heard from again.
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Jeremiah grew up in.
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Standish, Michigan, a small town with around 1,400 residents, and
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graduated from the Standish Sterling Central High School. In his
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spare time, Jeremiah enjoyed golfing and snowboarding, and Jeremiah's parents
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still call the small town home. On July 22nd, 2015,
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Jeremiah phoned his boss at Oracle, telling him that he
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was coming into the office to get his laptop repaired,
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but he never arrived. This was extremely out of character
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for Jeremiah. With his father, Edward, telling ABC News, it
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makes no sense. Something had to have happened. As the
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hours passed, his boss waited for Jeremiah to arrive, but
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that moment never came. His boss then contacted Jeremiah's family
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to let them know what was going on and to
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ask if they had seen him or had contact with him.
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His family was shocked to.
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Hear that Jeremiah hadn't shown up to work and they,
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in turn, contacted the police in Seattle. The Seattle Police
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Department took Jeremiah's disappearance very seriously from the get-go and
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began retracing Jeremiah's last known movements. CCTV cameras showed Jeremiah
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pulling into the parking garage of his apartment complex at 12.07 a.m.
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on July 22nd, 2015. This wasn't the only piece of
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CCT footage that the Seattle police uncovered. Later that day,
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a man matching Jeremiah's description is seen walking down the
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stairs of the International District bus station. The bus station
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that Jeremiah used to get to work. The man can
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be seen walking down the stairs carrying a backpack. Now
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friends and family are convinced that the man in the
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footage is Jeremiah. A close friend of Jeremiah's, Jocelyn Combray,
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told 213 Fox News, It's nice to see him. We
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know that he was okay as of 7.02 Wednesday. It
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was comforting to see him walk and see the back
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of his head. Just as the man approaches the bottom
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of the stairs and walks toward the tunnel, the footage
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glitches out. Once the glitch clears, the man is gone
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and there are no further sightings of him. The Seattle
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police have never publicly confirmed who the man in the
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footage is indeed Jeremiah Falco. Renee Tarchan, Jeremiah's mother, told
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ABC News, Every day I think that this can't be real,
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yet every day I wake up and it's real. He
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got up, got ready for work, and fell off the planet.
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I just hope and pray every day that there will
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be some sign. On August 25th, 2015, Jocelyn Combré, who
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runs the Facebook page Missing Jeremiah Foucault, posted, All known activity,
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including last phone call, financial activity, employment presence, vehicle use,
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iCloud use, bus pass use, even a visual by surveillance
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in the parking lot, ATM and apartment complex, all activity
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ended by midnight the morning of Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015.
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On the day that he disappeared, for whatever reason, Jeremiah
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did not use his bus pass. Viewers on Reddit have
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speculated that the person seen in the bus station is
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Jeremiah and speculate that the ticket system was down and
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therefore his pass would have not registered any activity. As
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Jeremiah has been missing for some time, he had not
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paid his rent and his family were subsequently served with
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an eviction notice. In a further post dated January 10th,
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2016 on the Facebook page, Jocelyn wrote, as mentioned in
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the previous updates, A group of his friends came with
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trucks and waited on the curb for his belongings to
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be placed outside the Uwajimaya Village Apartments to follow normal
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eviction protocol. We salvaged all of his personal belongings such
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as documents, clothes, memorabilia, and some household items, but we
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weren't able to store larger furniture. Currently, his belongings are
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stored in the garage of one of his friends' houses.
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They are slowly going through his belongings to search for clothes,
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but nothing yet. We found the shirt and shorts he
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was positively ID'd in in the apartment surveillance video in
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his dirty hamper, so we know that he changed since 12.07 a.m., Wednesday,
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July 22nd, 2015. We continue to call his cell phone
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and the number has now been disconnected. Bizarrely, after Jeremiah's disappearance,
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his car was found behind his apartment on 6th Avenue South.
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Not as unknown whether Jeremiah or another person moved his
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car out of the parking garage, Since their son's disappearance,
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Jeremiah's parents have been heavily involved with the Seattle Police
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Department and flew out to Seattle to help with the
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search for him. His parents also provided DNA samples to
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the police department so the identification of remains would be
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faster in the event that Jeremiah was found. Around 20
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to 25 of Jeremiah's closest friends and family dedicate their
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time to keeping the investigation alive and undertaking their own investigations.
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The Seattle Police Department does not suspect that Jeremiah met
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with foul play, however, they have stated that his case
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is still active and open. Jeremiah Foco was 36 years
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old when he was last seen on July 22, 2015.
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He is described as a white male with brown hair
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and brown eyes. Jeremiah sometimes uses the nickname Jay, but
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sports a shaved head. He was last seen wearing a
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black t-shirt, jeans, and tennis shoes, and also wore glasses
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for reading. If you have any information about the mysterious
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disappearance of Jeremiah Foucault, you are asked to please contact
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the Seattle Police Department at 206-625-5011. Gene Johnson. 70-year-old Gene
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Johnson lived a quiet and peaceful life in Capitan, New
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Mexico in 2019. Seven years earlier, in 2012, Jean's beloved
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husband had passed away, and since then, there was a
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hole in her heart that only.
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One man could ever fill.
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Jean found it incredibly difficult to move on and wore
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a pendant filled with his ashes on a necklace close
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to her heart, as well as wearing her wedding ring.
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By all accounts, Jean was a loving grandmother, mother, and wife,
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and devoted her time to playing with her grandchildren and
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talking to her friends in town. She also enjoyed gardening,
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and taking life at a slow pace. So when Jean
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mysteriously vanished into thin air and failed to make contact
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with her daughter Heidi, her family knew something was very wrong.
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On Sunday, May 26, 2019, Jean was dog sitting for
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a friend who was out of town and at some
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point during the day, Jean snapped a selfie of her
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and the dog and sent it to her daughter Heidi.
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Heidi told Dateline, she sent me a picture of her
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and the dog relaxing.
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My mother was my best friend. We were very close.
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We talked at least three times a day.
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This is the last known contact from Jean, and after this,
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she mysteriously vanished into thin air. On Monday, the 27th
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of May, 2019, Heidi attempted to call her mother that evening,
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but got no answer. In an NBC News report, Heidi
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tells reporter Andrea Cavaliere She was working all day, and
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her 10-year-old son had a friend over that night, so
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calling her mother slipped her mind.
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Until the evening.
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Then she tried to call her again on Tuesday, the
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28th of May, 2019, but again received no answer. Heidi
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became concerned that her mother wasn't answering her phone, and
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the next phone call she received turned her world upside down.
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A friend that Jean had been dog-sitting for called Heidi
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to let her know that Jean had never dropped a
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dog off on Monday, the 27th of May, 2019, as planned.
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This phone call confirmed Heidi's suspicions that something was terribly wrong,
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and she dropped everything to rush over to her mother's house.
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She told NBC News, That's when I panicked. I just
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felt like something was terribly wrong. I had a bad
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feeling the entire way. As Heidi pulled up outside of
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her mother's home, located on Towhee Road in Capitan, New Mexico,
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her stomach sank. The gate into the driveway was locked,
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and Jean's car was also locked and parked on the driveway.
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Heidi peered into the car and saw her mother's phone
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and purse in the car, but there was no sign
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of her mother. The front door was described as being
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slightly ajar, but nothing in the home appeared to be
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out of the ordinary. As Heidi stepped inside, she found
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the dog that her mother had been dog-sitting. The dog
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was fine, save for a few accidents it had around
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the house. Still, there was no sign of Jean. Heidi
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checked her mother's home, hoping that she would find her somewhere.
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As she moved throughout the apartment, she noticed that one
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thing was missing. A. 357 caliber pistol that Jean kept
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in the house for protection. Heidi told investigators that her
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mother would only use the gun if she was scared. Initially,
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investigators feared that Jean had used the gun to take
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her own life. Heidi called the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office
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shortly after and reported her mother missing, triggering an investigation.
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In a strange twist, the gun was turned into the
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Lincoln County Sheriff's Office two months later by an unknown person.
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The Sheriff's Office has not released a description of the
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person who handed in the gun, and they remain unidentified.
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The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said in a statement, We're
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not ruling anybody in and we're not ruling anybody out
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because we don't know yet. Jean's 10-acre property has been
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extensively searched, but no evidence was found. Heidi did tell
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investigators that her mother was sometimes forgetful, but had no history.
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Of wandering off.
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70-year-old Jean Johnson was last heard from on Sunday, May 26, 2019,
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and her last confirmed whereabouts are at her home on
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Towhee Road in Capitan, New Mexico. Jean is described as
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a white female with gray and brown hair and green eyes.
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Jean has had a left mastectomy and her right breast
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is intact. She also has a previous fracture to one
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of her big toes and her ears are pierced. We
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do not know what Jean was wearing on the day
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of her disappearance, but her general description is listed as 5'6,
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130 pounds. Her daughter, Heidi, said that she was possibly
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wearing a silver wedding band with three diamonds and a
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clear pendant with.
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Her husband's ashes inside.
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If you have any information, you're urged to contact the
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Lincoln County Sheriff's Office on 687-2419.
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Or you can.
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Contact Carrizozo Sheriff's Office at 648-2342. Abby Flynn February 2nd.
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2020 Super Bowl weekend.
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The time for celebration, anticipation, and an excuse for friends
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to get together, drink beer, eat party food, and watch
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the game together. 59-year-old Abby Flynn of Gloucester, Massachusetts spent
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the first half of February 2nd, 2020 preparing to host
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a Super Bowl party. Abby and her friends were eager
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to watch the San Francisco 49ers versus the Kansas City
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Chiefs in the Ultimate NFL Showdown. But when her friends
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arrived at her house around 6 p.m., there was no
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sign of her. Her friends were incredibly confused as everything
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was set up and ready for the party. The oven
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was still warm and Abby's phone was laid out on
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the table. After searching the house and finding no sign
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of her, her concerned friends called the Gloucester Police Department
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to report her missing. Ed Conley, the chief of police,
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said there were indications that she had been at home,
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that she had prepared for the.
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Party, but she was not there.
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At the time of the party, Abby's husband was in Houston, Texas,
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and her children were away at college, leaving just Abby
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in the home. Now, there are conflicting reports surrounding Abby's
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final movements. Some articles say that she spoke to her
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son at 2.40 p.m., while some say 4 p.m., and
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others say.
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Yet 4.30 p.m.
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know that at some point in the afternoon, Abby did
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indeed call her son and told him that she was
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going for a walk. This fact was confirmed by residents
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who reported seeing Abby at around 4.30 p.m.
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That day.
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After this, Abby has never been seen or heard from again.
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Abby's family told investigators that she was a keen hiker
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and loved being outdoors. She was experienced and knew how
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to traverse the landscape around her, making her disappearance all
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the more mysterious. The investigation began almost right away, with
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investigators searching long into the night for Abby. According to
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news reports, detectives, officers, police dogs, and land, sea, and
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air patrols were sent out to look for Abby, but sadly,
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they found nothing. The Gloucester Police Department believes that Abby
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had an accident or a medical emergency.
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During her walk. However, no remains have ever been found.
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59-year-old Abby Flynn, full name Mary Abby Flynn, is described
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as a white female with brown hair and brown eyes.
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She is 5'5 to 5'7 inches tall, weighs between 190
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and 210 pounds, and has her ears pierced. She was
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last seen wearing a navy blue L.L. Bean puffer jacket,
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a long-sleeved flannel shirt, blue jeans, and L.L.
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Bean boot. L.L.
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Bean is a well-known outdoor activity and hiking brand. If
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you have any information about the mysterious disappearance of Abby Flynn,
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you're asked to please contact the Gloucester Police Department.
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978-283-1212.
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Or, you can contact the Massachusetts State Police at 978-745-8908.
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Fauna Frye In June 2020, 45-year-old Fauna Frye was coping
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with the very recent passing of her brother, Dallin. Fauna's father, John,
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said that the two siblings were very close, as they
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were each other's only siblings, and the death of her
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brother had impacted her deeply. On June 28, 2020, Fauna
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called her father, John, from a phone at the Super
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8 Hotel to check in with him. According to John,
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Fauna intended to go to Grants Pass, Oregon, from her
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home in Dexter, Oregon, to visit friends and take a
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short vacation to help her cope with her grief. While
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on the phone, John noticed that Donna sounded disoriented and
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wasn't acting her usual self. During the phone call, Donna
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told her father that she had picked up a hitchhiker near.
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Wilderville, Oregon.
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John told ABC 13 News, She talked to me about
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angels and then about the hitchhiker. It wasn't really like
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her to pick up hitchhikers, so I knew she was
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disoriented and very much in grief. She was very upset
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and distraught. On June 29th, 2020, Fauna was spotted at
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the Umpqua Bank in Rogue River, Oregon, and withdrew $ 200.
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There's also apparent CCTV footage showing Fauna leaving the Super
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8 Hotel on June 29th, 2020, between 8.30 a.m.
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And 9 a.m. with all of her bags.
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Inside Edition reported that Fauna had a reservation at the
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We Ask Who Inn, but never showed up. On July 5th, 2020,
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John Fry phoned the Josephine County Sheriff's Office and reported
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his daughter missing, explaining to them that he had last
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heard from her on June 28. Investigators searched through Fauna's
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financial records and found that she had used her credit
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card twice in the days leading up to her disappearance.
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Once to buy camping equipment and the second time to
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buy personal items. As previously mentioned, she also made a
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reservation for the We Ask Who Inn with this credit
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card but never showed up. After this, no further transactions
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were made on her credit. In a post to the
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Help Find Fauna Fry Facebook group, a person only identified
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as Jenny posted a list of what Fauna purchased.
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On that day. 8.30 a.m.
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Approximately at Fred Meyer's, $ 138.
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28.
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Socks, V05 shampoo, Pantene conditioner, two Burt's Bees, a deli sandwich,
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one bag of chips, a mug to wear clothing, two
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cans of Foster's beer. Then at 12.36 p.m. approximately at
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Big Five Sporting Goods, she purchased a three-pack of palm-held flashlights, lanterns, capris,
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tennis shoes, and a sports bra. Then at 3.39 p.m.
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at a store called Gooseberries, she bought 10 packs of tuna,
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three cans of coffee, and one smoothie. An investigation was
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launched by the Josephine County Sheriff's Office with detectives, investigators,
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and volunteers all working together to help search for Fauna.
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Investigators believed she may have been camping in the area. However,
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searches turned up nothing. Then, on September 23, 2020, Vaughn's
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2000 four-door blue Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo was found on
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a dead-end spur off Reuben Mountain Road, six miles past
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the Grave Creek boat landing in Josephine County. Vaughn's car
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was locked and investigators found personal items along with food
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inside the car. Her car was also processed for evidence
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and according to the Oregon State Police, fingerprints and DNA
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samples were recovered, but these have not been processed. This
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is because the Oregon State Police have no evidence to
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suggest that a crime was committed or occurred at the
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scene and they are having to prioritize their caseload. The
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hitchhiker that was with Fauna was extensively questioned and ruled
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out as a suspect. As this is the case, their
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name has been withheld from the public. Morgan State Police
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have no reason to believe that Fauna met with foul play, however,
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they are still investigating the case. Her father, John Fry,
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hasn't given up looking for his daughter, and explains how
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he's searched over half the state of Oregon looking for her.
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On September 30th, the Help Find Fauna Fry Facebook group
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posted a timeline of events, and it is as follows.
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6-27-20.
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That evening, Fauna drives her Jeep from Dexter, Oregon towards
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Grants Pass, Oregon. She spends the night in her car
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at an unknown location. She did not bring any additional clothing. 6.28.20
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at 10.08 a.m., Fauna stops at Creswell 76 gas station
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and makes a $ 20 purchase. Also on 6.28.20 at 11.40 a.m.,
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Fauna purchased some chicken strips. We believe that she shopped
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at the Wolf Creek store and bought them there. Also
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on 6.28.20 at 11.45 a.m., Fauna stopped at a house
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in Wolf Creek and spent 30 minutes with the people there.
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These people provided Fauna with an address via Dex to
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Onion Mountain Road. Again on 6-28-20, time unknown, Fauna picks
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up a hitchhiker and took her to Fish Hatchery Road.
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Same day, 7-04 p.m., Fauna visits the Cave Junction Chevron
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gas station and makes a $ 25 purchase.
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7-45 p.m., Fauna checks into the Super 8 Hotel.
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8 p.m., Fauna calls her dad, John, at home. 8.30 p.m.,
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Fauna visits Fred Meyers and makes a $ 138. 28 purchase, as
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discussed previously, before heading back to her hotel room. She's
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seen wearing a neon green and purple pullover and is
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shopping alone.
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8.35 a.m.
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On the 29th, video shows Fauna leaving her hotel room
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at the Super 8 in Grants Pass.
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11.44 a.m.
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That same morning, $ 200 cash withdrawn from the Umpqua Bank.
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In the Roke River.
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12.36 p.m., Big Five purchase of $ 250. 77. 2.35 p.m. on
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that day, Fauna made a reservation at We Ask.
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Who Inn.
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3.39 p.m., purchase at Gooseberry's Market for $ 56.
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61.
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After this, the timeline stops and there is no more
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activity on Fauna's credit cards or bank card. 45-year-old Vonna
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Frye was last seen on June 29, 2020, at the
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Umpqua Bank in Rogue River, Oregon. She is described as
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a white female with blonde hair and blue eyes, approximately
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5'6'' tall and between 135-150 lbs. Vonna's ears appear as
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she has a tattoo on her back and also wears
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glasses for driving at night. She was last seen wearing
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a pink or purple lightweight zip-up jacket, a white or
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light-colored shirt, black cotton capri leggings, sports bra, underwear, white
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Champion brand ankle socks, and black, gray, pink, and white
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tennis shoes. If you have any information about the disappearance
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of Fauna, you're asked to contact the Josephine County Sheriff's
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Office at 514-474-5132, or you can leave an anonymous tip
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at 541-359-5638. There's also an email address that is monitored
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by the Facebook group, which is findvonafrye at gmail.com. The
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GoFundMe campaign is currently active to help Vaughn's family cover expenses.
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The link will be listed in the description. Travis Murrow.
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40 year old Travis Murrow was a devoted father of four.
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Although some friends have said that he was sometimes a
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little rough around the edges. One friend told NBC News,
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A true friend is real hard to come by, and
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good dads are real hard to come by. And Travis,
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he was both. Travis enjoyed rodeos and bull riding and
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even encouraged his four children to do the same, taking
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joy in seeing his children compete and have a good time.
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On August 24, 2014, Travis visited an acquaintance in Enid, Oklahoma.
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Travis made several texts to friends and family that day,
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telling them that he was in the Enid and Canton
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areas of Oklahoma. Travis was last seen at the acquaintance's
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house and it is believed that he was headed for
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Oakwood or Selling, Oklahoma, to visit one of his former girlfriends. However,
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Travis never showed up at one of his former girlfriend's houses.
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The last confirmed movement from Travis is a phone call
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he placed to one of these girlfriends at around 10 p.m.
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on August 24, 2014. After this, Travis has never been
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seen or heard from again. Later that evening, Travis' Dodge
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Dakota pickup truck was found near Canton Lake in Dewey County, Oklahoma.
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His truck had been locked and abandoned, but there was
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no sign of Travis or his personal belongings anywhere. The
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Iowa Police Department confirmed that there were no signs of
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a struggle, but they did launch a full-scale search for him.
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Days of searching by land and air showed no signs
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of Travis, and in the days after his disappearance, the
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Iowa Police Department requested the involvement of the Oklahoma State
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Bureau of Investigation. In a statement to the Enid News-Eagle,
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Jessica Brown of the OSBI said, We wouldn't have taken it,
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probably as a full investigation, did we not believe that
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Val Plague could be involved. Many people have speculated that
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Travis disappeared of his own accord, as at the time
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of his disappearance he had outstanding warrants for his arrest.
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His family has heavily disputed these claims, saying that Travis
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was a devoted father and would not have left of
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his own accord. Forty-year-old Travis Murrow was last seen on
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August 24, 2014, in Enid, Oklahoma. He is described as
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a white male with light brown hair and blue eyes.
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He also wears glasses. Travis has a two- to three-inch
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scar on his left wrist that extends from the palm
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to forearm, a scar on his left thigh, and three
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scars on his chest. He has a tattoo of a
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bull skull with four feathers hanging from the horns on
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his right bicep. It is believed that he was last
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seen wearing Western-style clothing. Travis stands at 5 foot 9
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inches tall and weighs 140 pounds.
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If you.
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Have any information, you're asked to contact the Iowa Police
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Department at 580-327-2121 or the Dewey County Sheriff's Office at
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580-328-5558 or the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations at either
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405-848-6724 or toll-free.
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1-800-522-8017.
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You can also email them at tips at osbi.ok.gov.
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Well, friends, there you have it.
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What do you make of these bizarre disappearances? People just
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suddenly vanished from the face of the earth with no
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rhyme or reason, seemingly having made no plans to do so?
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Curious, indeed.
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I look forward to your comments, but we ask that
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you please keep it friendly and respectful, especially to the victims,
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victims' families, and the opinions of others. Be good to
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yourselves and each other, and I'll see you just a
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little farther down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll
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talk to you next time. Hello friends, welcome to the
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second installment in our Creepiest Disappearances series. Tonight we bring
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you five more of the most bizarre and strange disappearances
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we've come across. Sit back, relax, buckle up your seatbelts,
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it's going to be.
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A wild ride.
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Number five, Lynn Palmer. 71-year-old retired nurse Marlynn Lynn Palmer
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was an active member in her community in Fall River Mills, California.
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Lynn had previously worked at the local hospice and was
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known to many around town for her incredible work. Just
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because Lynn had retired, it didn't mean that she planned
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on slowing down. She volunteered at a thrift store to
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help keep her occupied and maintain a busy social life.
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In an interview for NBC, Lynn's son Dave said, She
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went bowling with friends every Tuesday night, and she was
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proud that she could go on a four-mile walk and
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be fine, as well as volunteer four to five times
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per week. On April 20, 2018, Lynn spent the day
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volunteering at the thrift store before returning to her home
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in the 23,000 block of Castle Fall River Road, an
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unpopulated but beautifully area, according to her son. Lynn walked
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through the door at around 4.30pm, said hello to her
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husband Bob, and grabbed a light beer out of the fridge.
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Lynn left the house once again, but this time to
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walk the dog, Lucy, that they had been taking care
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of for a few days. Lucy the dog belonged to
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Lynn's stepdaughter and Bob's biological daughter and, according to articles,
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they had been looking after her for a few days
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while the owner was unavailable. Lynn and Lucy headed southeast
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from the home and into the woods, and it would
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be four agonizing days until there was any sign of
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either of them. After 15 minutes had passed and Lynn
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still hadn't returned home, Bob began to worry. He knew
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that Lynn's route should have only taken her 15 minutes.
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Then another 10 minutes passed, and there was still no
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sign of Lynn or Lucy. Concerned, Bob left the house
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and began looking for them, but found no sign of them.
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When 45 minutes had passed, Bob began going door to
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door and asking neighbors if they had seen the duo.
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To his horror, no one had. Now in a state
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of panic, Bob called Lynn's brother-in-law, who is a volunteer
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firefighter for the Fall River Mills Fire Department, and asked
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for their assistance in finding Lynn. Her brother-in-law sprung into action,
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and along with Bob, combed the area for an hour.
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But to no avail. Realizing that something.
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Was very wrong at this point, Bob picked up the phone,
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dialed 911, and called the Shasta County Sheriff's Department to
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officially report his wife missing. By this point, Lynn's family
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had been made aware of her sudden and mysterious disappearance,
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and came from all over the U.S. to help with
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the search. The local community soon caught wind of Lynn's disappearance.
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And in a Facebook post, the Sheriff's Department said the
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Shasta County Search and Rescue was activated and numerous resources
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were deployed to the area to aid in the search
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for Ms.
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Palmer.
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These resources included dirt riders, mounted posse, ground team, jeepers,
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and mountain rescue. The Shasta County Sheriff's Office will continue
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to search for Ms. Palmer throughout the night. For four days,
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the Shasta County and the teams mentioned above searched for Lynn,
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but there was just no sign of her. Then on
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the fourth day, April 24th, something miraculous happened.
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Avery called the event.
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At an NBC interview saying, suddenly the missing dog came.
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Back on day four. They immediately brought her into the house.
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There was food and water for her, and she went
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and drank some water, but it was weird because she
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didn't eat any of the food. Another day passed, and
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sadly the search was.
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Officially called off after there was no evidence found.
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Lynn's family weren't given up that easily and brought in
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the Mendocino County Sniffer Dog Unit to see if their
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dogs would be able to shed some light on her
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mysterious disappearance. According to Dave, Lynn's son, the dog tractor
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sent along her main walking route out to an abandoned trailer,
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then to a dirt road, and then out.
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To the main road. The scent disappeared. at the main road.
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Since Lynn's mysterious disappearance in April 2018, her family have
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continued their search for her. A month after she went missing,
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the Shasta County Sheriff's Office said that she was considered
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missing under suspicious circumstances, and her case has remained open
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ever since. Now, in the months before her disappearance, Lynn
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had begun showing signs of dementia, and her son Dave said,
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there were just some things she would have to repeat
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or things she would not remember. Her family maintains that
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she couldn't have gotten lost on her walk due to
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the confusion as it was a route she walked often
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and only started to forget the little things.
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Plus, the dog knew the route as well.
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Lynn's family are desperate for answers and are offering a $ 5, 000
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reward for any information that leads to her whereabouts. Dave
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is adamant that his mother did not leave of her
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own accord, telling NBC, There's one thing I do know.
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She didn't take off on her own will.
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So her body is still out there and the dog
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stayed until she passed away and we just haven't found
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her body yet. Or someone took her and either they
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took the dog with her or the dog followed them
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and then came back. They could have disposed of her
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or the rare case is that they still have her.
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Laura Lynn Palmer was last seen on April 20th, 2018.
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She is described as a white female with brown hair
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and brown eyes. Both of her ears are pierced, and
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she has an appendectomy scar on her abdomen. Lynn was
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last seen wearing a t-shirt, blue jeans, tennis shoes, and earrings,
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and was possibly carrying a can of light beer, and
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was wearing her glasses that have thick lenses.
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If you have any information, you are urged to contact
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the Shasta County Sheriff's Department at 530-245-6540.
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If you wish to remain anonymous, you can contact the
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Secret Witness Program at 530-243-2319, and you can submit an
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anonymous tip online at the NorCal Alliance for the Missing.
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The link for this will be provided in the description.
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Number four, Stacey Smart. 52-year-old Stacey Smart was reported missing
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by her daughter, Nicole Santos-Jamond, on November 2nd, 2016, after
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nobody had heard from her for a while. On that
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same day, if you'll recall, Sherry Pepini also mysteriously disappeared,
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only to be found alive weeks later. Pepini's case garnered
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international media attention, while Stacey's case has been largely overshadowed
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and forgotten about. But here at Missing Persons and Mysteries,
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we want to make sure that we give Stacey's case
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as much exposure as possible and extend our condolences to
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her family and pray that they find closure soon. The
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details in Stacey's case are few and far between. Nicole,
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Stacey's daughter, says that she last spoke to her mother
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on October 12, 2016, and knew that she was going
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to a housewarming party in Lewiston, California on October 15, 2016.
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By October 16, all activity on Stacey's bank cards had stopped,
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and as Halloween rolled around, she failed to make contact
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with her family, which was extremely out of character. Her
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daughter also told Crime Watch Daily that Stacey's landline had
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been disconnected, which deeply concerned the family. At the time
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of her disappearance, Stacey was living with her boyfriend, Tony Brand,
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and Brand has never commented on why he did report
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his girlfriend missing or make contact with her family if
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he knew she was okay in the interim period before she.
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Was reported missing.
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Stacey's daughter, Nicole, told news media that a month before
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her mother mysteriously disappeared, she'd called her grandmother in tears,
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saying that Brand had been cheating on her and that
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the two had gotten into an argument. Stacey later followed
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up with her family, claiming that the two had made up.
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Then, a month later, she vanished.
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Investigators are keeping very tight-lipped about the investigation into Stacey's disappearance,
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and although her case was featured on an episode of
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Crime Watch Daily, few leads have surfaced. One interesting thing
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to note about this episode, which is available to watch
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on YouTube, is that Brand spoke.
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With the producers of the show, but refused to be
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on camera, instead.
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Opting to just give a statement. Now, this is in
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no way saying that he's guilty, but it is an
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important thing to note. The statement provided by Brand, read
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by his lawyer, Douglas Gardner, said, Tony was in a loving,
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intimate relationship with Stacey, which ended with as much mystery
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to him as anyone else. He has fully cooperated with
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the investigators in this case and is afraid for Stacey
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as any of her other local ones.
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Law enforcement confirmed that Brand had been cooperative.
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During their initial investigation, but requested that his lawyer, Douglas Gardner,
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be present when he took a lie detector test. The
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results of these tests have never been made public, and
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we probably shouldn't put too much weight or validity into
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those results anyway. After all, there is a reason that
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lie detector tests aren't admissible in most courts across the world.
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A KRCR article written in November 2019, three years.
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After Stacey's mysterious disappearance.
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Mentions Angie Forslund, a search manager who was hired by
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Stacey's family following her disappearance. The article reads, Angie Forslund,
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the search manager hired by the Smart family to find Stacey,
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told KRCR in an interview in 2016 she believes he's
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a suspect in her disappearance. According to Forslund and the family,
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Smart's boyfriend changed the carpet in his home near Lewiston
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Lake after Smart was reported missing. He also told the
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family she had moved out. Stacey Smart last made contact
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with her family on October 12, 2016 and has not
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been seen or heard from since. Investigators have not stated
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who they believe she has met with foul play and
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the investigation is currently ongoing. Stacey Smart is described as
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a white female with blonde hair and blue eyes. At
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the time of her disappearance, her hair was platinum blonde
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and in a pixie-style cut. Stacey also has a tattoo
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of a red lotus bloom on her lower back and likes.
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To wear hats.
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Stacey's family are desperate for answers and have teamed up
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with the Secret Witness Program to offer a $ 10, 000 reward
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information that leads to her her family's also set up
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a gofundme if you have any information you're urged to
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contact either the trinity county sheriff's department on 530-623-3740 or
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the secret witness program on 530 243-2319 Number 3 Erin
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Marie Gilbert 24-year-old Erin Marie Gilbert had the world at
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her feet, and her family described her as a smart
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and responsible young woman who was athletic but also knew
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how to glam it up. Erin loved playing basketball, and
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being six-foot tall, she was perfect for the sport. Her
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family commented that she was always happy. someone who was
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looking forward to all of her tomorrows. But sadly, Erin's
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seemingly endless supplies of tomorrow were cut short, and she
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has been officially listed as a missing person since July 1st, 1995.
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In 1994, Erin moved from her native San Francisco, California
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and Everett, Washington to Anchorage, Alaska. Erin had gotten herself
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a job as a nanny, and by 1995, she was
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living with her sister, Stephanie, and had enrolled herself in
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beauty school, which was due to start in the autumn
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of 1995. When asked about the drastic move from the
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mainland USA to Alaska, her sister Stephanie told NBC News,
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My husband traveled a lot for work, and I was
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alone so much of the time, so I told Erin
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she should come and stay with me in Alaska. She'd
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been living in San Francisco with her dad. Since the
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day that she arrived in Anchorage, Erin turned many heads,
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and her friends and family described her as a beautiful
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young woman. On June 30, 1995, while out and about,
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Erin met a man named David Combs at a bar
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called Chilkoot Charlie's, and the pair immediately hit it off.
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The two had so much in common and so much
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chemistry that they agreed to meet the next day, on
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July 1, 1995, for a proper date. July 1st rolled around,
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and David picked up Aaron and drove them out to
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the Girdwood Forest Fair in Girdwood, Alaska. The two walked
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around the fair, and witnesses recall seeing Aaron and David
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at a beer garden just before 6 p.m.
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The two left the beer.
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Garden and made their way over to David's car, but
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it wouldn't start. David had left the car lights on
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while they were at the fair, which had completely drained
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his battery. David turned to Aaron and told her that
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he would walk to his friend's house, which was nearby,
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and ask him to come and help him out. He
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then explained to the investigators that he walked around Girdwood
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and the surrounding area for two hours before realizing he
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couldn't find his friend's house. When David realized he couldn't
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find this house as initially planned, he made his way
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back to the fairground. As he walked toward his car,
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his heart sank. There was no sign of Aaron anywhere.
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In a rash decision, He tried his car one more time,
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and amazingly, this time the engine turned over and it started.
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Knowing that something still wasn't right, he traversed around the
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fair until 1 a.m. looking for his date before heading home.
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According to Aaron's family, David didn't tell them she was
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missing until 7 a.m. the next morning on July 2, 1995.
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Stephanie told NBC News, He didn't tell anyone she was
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missing until he called me around 7 a.m.
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The next morning. He said he called to make sure
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Aaron made it home okay. He was very casual about it.
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As Stephanie peered into Aaron's room and saw that it
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was empty, her heart immediately sank into her stomach. She
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too sensed that something was wrong, so she called the
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rest of the family and they drove to the fairground
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to conduct their own search. Aaron's family combed the fairground
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and the surrounding woods and even had Aaron's name broadcasted
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from the stage, akin to something you'd see when a
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child wanders off from their parents. But Aaron never appeared
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from the woods, and soon the Alaska State Troopers became involved,
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and an official missing persons case was opened. With the
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use of search dogs and helicopters, the troopers began covering
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the surrounding area looking for Aaron, but it was as
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if she had simply vanished into thin air. The state
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troopers have stressed Aaron's case is a missing person case
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and not a homicide investigation at this time. David Combs,
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the man that Aaron was last seen with on July 1, 1995,
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has been cleared as a suspect, and the authorities claim
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that he has been cooperative throughout the entire ordeal. Erin
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Marie Gilbert was last seen on July 1, 1995, at
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the Girdwood Forest Fair in Girdwood, Alaska. She is described
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as a white female with brown hair and brown eyes.
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She has a tattoo of a large blue flower on
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her chest, and at the time of her disappearance, her
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hair was cut short into a bob. Erin is around
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6 feet tall and weighs about 145 pounds. She was
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last seen wearing a black leather jacket, a black and
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white striped shirt, black jeans, and.
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Brown mountain boots.
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May 4th of 2021 would have been Erin's 50th birthday,
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and her family are desperate for answers. There's currently a $ 30, 000
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reward for information, and Stephanie, her sister, runs the Facebook
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page called Finding Erin Marie Gilbert. If you have any information,
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you're urged to contact the Alaska State Troopers on 907-428-7200
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or 907-269-5497. Number two, Stephen Kraft. February 15th, 2021, residents
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of Benton Township, Michigan and beyond huddled together in the
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crisp air to hold a vigil marked the 20th anniversary
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of Stephen Earl Kraft II's disappearance in 2001. Fred Krawczyk,
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who lives on Holly Street, the same street that 12-year-old
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Stephen disappeared from, told WNDU, I would hope that if
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someone did know something out there, that they would say something. Hopefully,
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somehow he returns. If not, well, and if he's not
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here with us anymore, then all I know is his
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family will see him in heaven if he's not here
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Nobody really knows that for sure. On February 15, 2001,
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12-year-old Stephen Kraft left his home on the dead-end street
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named Holly Street to play with the two family dogs,
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and witnesses recall seeing him on the 2100 block of
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Holly Drive between 7 p.m.
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And 8 p.m. that night. Stephen happily played outside and.
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Had promised his parents that he would be back home
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in time for supper, but Stephen never came through the door.
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According to Chief Smit of the Benton Township Police Department,
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Stephen's mother called police in the early morning hours of the.
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16th of February. Our protocol was typical.
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We went out and took the report, and since it
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was someone that young of an age, we gathered information.
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Who last saw him? Sometimes kids do run away, but
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he hadn't run away before. In the days leading up
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to his disappearance, Stephen had been suspended from Hull Elementary
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School for five days after he defended himself during a
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scuffle with another student. Both the headmaster and Stephen's parents
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said that this behavior was very out of character for
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him and that he was usually a quiet, well-behaved student
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who kept his head down.
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After Stephen had.
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Been reported missing, a wide-scale search began for him and
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this search was spurred by a sense of urgency, not
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just because of his age, but because the temperature had
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dropped well below freezing and Stephen wasn't.
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Wearing a hat or gloves.
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Police, Stephen's family, and the local community combed the area
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looking for any sign of the 12-year-old and caught a
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break when they discovered Stephen's icy footsteps walking over a
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frozen pond near his home on Holly Street. According to
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the Charlie Project, these footsteps led in the direction of
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Harbor Haven Ministries on Irving Street, which is approximately one
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block away from Holly Street where Stephen lived. After this,
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it appears that the trail goes cold, and investigators commented
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that the weather, combined with his young age, made it
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difficult for them. On February 18th, 2001, the familiar pitter-patter
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of feet was heard at the Kraft residence. Outside stood
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the older dog, a German Shepherd Chowmex, but there was
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no sign of Stephen or the other dog. The dog
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hastily led Stephen's parents and investigators to a pond, but
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according to official reports, nothing was found. The day after that,
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on February 19, 2001, the family's other dog, a six-month-old
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German Shepherd puppy, was found a mile and a half
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away from Holly Street. How had a six-month-old puppy managed
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to survive the freezing temperatures and travel.
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Over a mile and a half away?
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Could this possibly be an indication that someone took Steven
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and the dogs, only to let them loose because they
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were making too much noise or to throw off the investigation?
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Throughout the years, multiple searches have been.
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Performed for Steven.
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In 2001, authorities searched Blue Creek and the pond near
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Harbor Haven Ministries, but found nothing. In 2002, a search
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was conducted in a wooded area near the Southwestern Michigan
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Regional Airport, but again, no trace of Stephen could be found.
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There was a reported sighting of Stephen in 2004 where
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a witness called the FBI believing that a young man
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matching Stephen's description was at the Midway Airport in Chicago.
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This sighting unfortunately turned out to be a case of
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mistaken identity and since then the cases remain cold. With
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such little evidence all we are left with are theories.
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The Benton Township Police Department has said that they investigated
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the idea that Stephen ran away from home as well
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as the idea that he was abducted. It does seem
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very unlikely though that Stephen ran away, especially on a
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cold February evening when he promised his parents he would
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be home in time for supper. The FBI stated in
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their report that Stephen was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and
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has ties there as well as Lexington, Kentucky. It's also
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possible that Stephen died due to exposure or an accident
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on that evening But without a body or evidence, all
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we can do is speculate. Stephen's family have never given
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up hope and are asking for the public's assistance in
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his case. Stephen Earl Kraft II, also listed sometimes as
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Stephen Earl Kraft Jr., was last seen on February 15, 2001,
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in the 2100 block of Holly Drive in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
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Stephen is described as a white male with light brown
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hair and green eyes. There's a small red birthmark on
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his left rib. At the time he went missing, he
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was around 5'1 to 5'2 inches tall and around 100 pounds.
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Stephen was last seen wearing a white, tan, and brown
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striped shirt, tan parachute pants, an aqua and purple Charlotte
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Hornets jacket, and black Luggs boots. If still alive today,
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Stephen would be 32 years old. Anyone with any information
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is urged to contact the Benton Township Police Department at
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269-926-8221 and listen for the extension for Stephen's tip line. Alternatively,
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you can contact the FBI's St. Joseph, Michigan office on 313-965-2323.
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Number one, Shanna Boyto. We will always love you.
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No matter what. We will support you and help you.
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Just come home and we'll face everything together. We want
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you back home with us and to be a mother
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to your beautiful daughter. At the very least, call and
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let us know you're okay. So reads a message from
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the father of missing 22-year-old Shannon Boiteau. Her family describe
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her as a devoted mother and loving daughter and are
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desperate for answers as to what happened.
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On that June day in 2016.
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On that day, Shanna left her home in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin,
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and left a note for her parents, telling them that
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she was going to be sent back to prison and
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needed to sort out a few things beforehand.
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The note also stated.
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That she and her boyfriend were on their way to
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California so she could see the ocean. As far as
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we know, Shanna hopped into the car with her boyfriend
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and they began their trip from Wisconsin to California. Google
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Maps shows the two most common routes to California. The
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first route, and the route that Shanna and her boyfriend
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are assumed to have taken, drives through Minneapolis, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming.
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Utah, Nevada, and then into California.
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The second most likely route goes through southern Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska.
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Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and then into California.
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This route will become important later on. According to Shanna's family,
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her childhood had been normal, and the trouble didn't start
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until she transitioned into her teenage years, when she began
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taking drugs and exhibiting signs of behavioral problems. And that's
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when things started to go downhill. That was until 2014,
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when she found out she was pregnant. This shock announcement
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spurred her on, and she got on a path to
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sobriety and eventually got clean. Sadly, this sobriety only lasted
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for a little while, and shortly after, she began using
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drugs again and was sent to prison on drug charges.
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Shanna was released on probation and ordered to serve house
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arrest following the birth of her daughter, which she completed
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without incident, according to her father. Naturally, after being under
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house arrest, Shanna was put on parole and assigned to
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parole office. According to the Charlie Project, Shanna had been
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caught drinking in June 2016, and had an outstanding warrant
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against her for parole violations. Shanna knew that the parole
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violation meant that she would likely be back behind bars,
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leading her to leave the note for her parents and
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take care of business before she found herself back in
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an orange jumpsuit. The details in Shanna's case became somewhat
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confusing from here on out. According to some reports, Shanna
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was last seen near Interstate 94 and County Road 74
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in St. Cloud, Minnesota on June 22, 2016. Now, as
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per Google Maps, two routes to California drive through are
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close to Minneapolis and then down either into South Dakota
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or Iowa. What is really odd about this, though, is
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that St. Cloud, Minnesota is 65 miles north of Minneapolis
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and is completely off-route. There may be another route to
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California that would take you through or near this area,
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but no one knows why they might have taken this route.
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This is just a minor point found while researching that
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we wanted to bring up. Witnesses reported seeing Shanna and
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her boyfriend arguing in the car around 3 p.m. And
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in the heat of the argument, Shanna got out of
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the car and stormed off into the.
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Woods around the highway.
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It is unclear what Shanna and her boyfriend were arguing about,
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but her family did tell investigators that she was known
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to hitchhike. It is possible that she jumped into someone
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else's car to try and get to California. Another bizarre
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fact in Shanna's case is the fact that she apparently
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left home without her bag and didn't own a cell
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phone at the time. It's unclear on how the couple
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were planning on funding that trip to California and whether
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Shanna's boyfriend was.
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Going to pick up the tab.
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Shanna has no connections to St. Cloud, Minnesota and her
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family are now asking for the public's help. Shanna Boito
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was last seen in St. Cloud, Minnesota on June 22, 2016.
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as we mentioned, near Interstate 94 and County Road 74.
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She is described as a white female with brown hair
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and brown eyes and has a tattoo of two sparrows
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on her hips and a tattoo of the name Millie
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with no E.
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Behind her right ear.
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Shanna also has lip and belly button piercing and has
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stretched ear lobes. Her Charlie Project profile reads, Hoito has
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a history of drug abuse. Caution is advised when approaching her.
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She was last seen wearing a tan Victoria's Secret tank
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top with the word pink on it, black leggings, and
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no shoes. File play is not suspected at this time
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in her case, and if you have any information regarding
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her whereabouts, you're asked to please contact the Chippewa Falls
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Police Department at 715-723-4424. Well, friends, there you have it.
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What do you make of these five strange and creepy disappearances? Somewhere,
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00:56:49.179 --> 00:56:52.539
somebody knows something. People don't just vanish.
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In thin air.
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Thank you for listening, and we look forward to reading
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your comments. But please, keep it friendly and respectful. In
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the meantime, be good to yourselves and each other, and
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I'll see you just a little farther on down the trail.
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I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to you next time.
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Hello, friends.
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Today, bringing you part three of our unbelievably bizarre and
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creepy disappearances series. These are some of the strangest disappearances
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we've come across in all our research.
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Now let's begin. Number five.
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Chance Engelbert 25-year-old Chance Engelbert was last seen leaving the
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700 block of O Street in Gearing, Nebraska at around 7.30 p.m.
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on Saturday, July 6, 2019. Chance, his wife Bailey, and
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their son Banks, who lived in Wyoming, had spent the
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sunny Saturday visiting Bailey's family with articles reporting that they
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spent the day golfing. Chance had recently accepted a new
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job with a propane company. after he had recently been
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laid off from his previous job at a coal mine.
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Bailey's family didn't seem to like this job move. Chance,
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his father-in-law, and other members of Bailey's family all began arguing.
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Bailey drove over to pick Chance up before heading to
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her grandparents' house to collect a few things. During the
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car ride, Chance became upset again and asked Bailey to
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drive him home, to which she said no. Chance then
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called up one of his friends for a ride home. Sadly,
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for Chance, the friend wasn't able to help, so Chance
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left the 700 block of O Street and began the
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walk towards Torrington, Wyoming. According to Google Maps, if Chance
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was planning to walk the whole way, it would have
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taken him close to 12 hours on foot. There were
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two routes he could have taken if he was in
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a car, both ending up on the US-26W and taking
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around 43 minutes. Bailey told investigators that she last spoke
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to Chance on the phone at 7.46 p.m. and he
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told her that he was walking south. Whereas friends told
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investigators that they had spoken to Chance around the same
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time and he told them he was headed north towards Torrington, Wyoming.
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At 9.08 p.m., Chance's phone sent a final text that
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was just a string of emojis and numbers. Chance's mother, Dawn,
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said that Chance never used emojis and speculates that the
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text was sent.
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By someone else.
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At 9pm that evening, a large thunderstorm rolled through the
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area and Bailey and her family assumed that Chance had
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found shelter somewhere and would be in contact with him soon.
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Bailey's grandfather went out looking for Chance but found no
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sign of the man. Bailey told NBC News, I still
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wasn't that worried. I figured he'd come slinking in late
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that night.
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But he didn't.
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And when I woke up the next morning and he
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wasn't there, I knew it was bad. Chance's friends and
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family tried desperately to contact him, but his phone had
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been turned off shortly after 9.08 p.m. when he had
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sent the cryptic text message. Realizing that something was wrong,
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Chance's family called the police and officially reported him missing.
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Investigators discovered that Chance's phone.
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Had last pinged off a tower on County Road 19
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near Scotts Bluff, Nebraska. They also found CCTV footage showing
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Chance walking alone along the intersection of Terry Boulevard and
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Stable Club Road. After this sighting, he mysteriously vanished. Once
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Chance had been reported missing, the Gearing Police Department sprung
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into action and called in the help of 18 agencies,
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01:00:47.150 --> 01:00:51.429
including drones, divers, dogs, horseback riders, and 147 volunteers who
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01:00:51.449 --> 01:00:58.050
managed to cover 2,400 acres on foot. The Nebraska State
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01:00:58.070 --> 01:01:00.809
Patrol helicopter team and Air Link managed to cover a
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01:01:00.829 --> 01:01:05.150
combined 380 miles during the search effort, but no sign
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01:01:05.190 --> 01:01:08.869
of Chance could be found. Authorities were concerned for his
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01:01:08.909 --> 01:01:11.670
well-being as the rains on the evening that Chance disappeared
965
01:01:11.710 --> 01:01:14.550
were described as heavy and cold in addition to the
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01:01:14.590 --> 01:01:18.570
dangers of lightning. It was also postulated that Chance may
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01:01:18.610 --> 01:01:21.769
have fallen into a river or stream or suffered from
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01:01:21.809 --> 01:01:26.110
hypothermia due to the weather conditions. Since that July day,
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01:01:26.570 --> 01:01:29.389
Chance Engelbert has never been seen or heard from again
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01:01:29.929 --> 01:01:33.670
and his family are desperate for answers. His mother made
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01:01:33.710 --> 01:01:36.809
a plea to Chance saying, Please call somebody. You don't
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01:01:36.849 --> 01:01:39.230
have to come home. We just want to know that
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01:01:39.250 --> 01:01:45.030
you're safe. Our heart aches every day, every night. In
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01:01:45.070 --> 01:01:48.210
the wake of Chance's disappearance, his mother Dawn created the
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01:01:48.349 --> 01:01:51.869
Help Find Chase Engelbert Facebook page that she uses to
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01:01:51.909 --> 01:01:54.610
keep his case alive as well as to post updates.
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01:01:55.929 --> 01:01:59.869
In early November 2021, an arm bone and shirt were
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01:01:59.909 --> 01:02:04.030
found near Melbetta, Nebraska, which is 8.5 miles south of
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01:02:04.070 --> 01:02:07.690
where Chance was last seen. It has not yet been
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01:02:07.730 --> 01:02:10.730
confirmed whether these belong to Chance, and DNA testing is
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01:02:10.769 --> 01:02:16.480
currently underway. In a Facebook post on November 2, 2021,
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01:02:16.480 --> 01:02:19.880
Chance's mother Dawn wrote, We'd like to take a moment
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01:02:19.900 --> 01:02:23.420
to thank you all for prayers, calls, and messages. We
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01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:25.750
are aware of the news releases of remains found in
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01:02:25.809 --> 01:02:29.929
Scottsbluff County and have talked with officials. Until the DNA
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01:02:30.010 --> 01:02:33.809
is released, there is not a 100% answer. It depends
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01:02:33.929 --> 01:02:36.320
on the lab's workload and it could take weeks for
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01:02:36.340 --> 01:02:39.760
those answers. So for now, please give our family a
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01:02:39.920 --> 01:02:40.920
little extra prayers.
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01:02:41.460 --> 01:02:41.900
Thank you.
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01:02:43.619 --> 01:02:46.079
Time will tell where these remains belong to Chase or
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01:02:46.199 --> 01:02:49.929
where the family will have to keep on fighting for answers.
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01:02:49.949 --> 01:02:53.929
25-year-old Chase Engelbart. was last seen on the 700 block
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01:02:53.969 --> 01:02:58.289
of O Street in Gearing, Nebraska. According to reports, he
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01:02:58.329 --> 01:03:02.230
was either walking southbound or north, with his final destination
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01:03:02.289 --> 01:03:05.860
being Torrington, Wyoming. He is described as a white male
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01:03:05.900 --> 01:03:08.280
with brown hair and blue eyes. He has a scar
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01:03:08.320 --> 01:03:13.139
on his hip and is 5'11, 195 pounds. Chance was
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01:03:13.199 --> 01:03:17.530
last seen wearing a short-sleeved button-down Wrangler shirt, blue Wrangler jeans,
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01:03:18.090 --> 01:03:22.019
a belt with an NRCA buckle, Roper boots, and a
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01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:25.440
black and white trucker hat. If you have any information,
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01:03:25.699 --> 01:03:31.760
you're urged to contact the Gehring Police Department on 308-436-5088.
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01:03:35.420 --> 01:03:40.619
Number four, Sunny Schrammack. 18-year-old Sunny Schrammack left her home
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01:03:40.659 --> 01:03:44.679
in Trenton, Nebraska on April 20th, 2019, and told her mother,
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01:03:44.860 --> 01:03:47.280
Paula Johnson, that she was going on a road trip
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01:03:47.400 --> 01:03:52.880
with a male acquaintance. This person was not named in publications. However,
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01:03:52.900 --> 01:03:56.019
a member of Sonny's family named him as 42-year-old Floyd
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01:03:56.099 --> 01:04:00.179
Clifford Coates, who goes by Cliff. The nature of their
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01:04:00.239 --> 01:04:05.969
relationship is currently unknown. Sonny is married, however. The identity
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01:04:06.010 --> 01:04:08.349
of Sonny's husband has been withheld from the public and
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01:04:08.369 --> 01:04:11.989
her parents have not discussed this detail at length. One
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01:04:12.030 --> 01:04:15.429
article notes, her parents say she married young, believing it
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01:04:15.469 --> 01:04:18.010
was a good choice, but went through more growing and
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01:04:18.050 --> 01:04:20.909
trying to do things right. so was currently living with
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01:04:20.949 --> 01:04:24.889
her mother Paula to sort things out. Paula watched her
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01:04:24.929 --> 01:04:28.909
daughter get into the 2004 white Ford Explorer with Iowa
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01:04:28.929 --> 01:04:33.489
license plate HGJ341 and then watched as her daughter and
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01:04:33.510 --> 01:04:37.389
the unknown man drove away. Little did Paula know that
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01:04:37.429 --> 01:04:39.260
this would be the last time she would ever see
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01:04:39.300 --> 01:04:42.139
her daughter, who she described as bright and artistic.
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01:04:43.300 --> 01:04:44.280
At around 1 p.m.
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01:04:44.380 --> 01:04:48.349
On April 20, 2019, Sonny called her mom, Paula, to
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01:04:48.389 --> 01:04:50.389
let her know that everything was going well and that
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01:04:50.409 --> 01:04:54.070
they were possibly headed for Omaha, Nebraska. The pair talked,
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01:04:54.150 --> 01:04:57.820
and Sonny told Paula that she was in Holdridge, Nebraska,
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01:04:58.059 --> 01:05:02.619
and that everything was good. A KSMB local article states
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01:05:02.659 --> 01:05:05.260
that Sonny had called using a borrowed phone because she'd
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01:05:05.280 --> 01:05:08.659
left hers at home before embarking on the trip. On
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01:05:08.699 --> 01:05:12.670
the evening of April 20, 2019, Paula received a horrific
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01:05:12.710 --> 01:05:15.739
phone call. On the other end of the line was
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01:05:15.820 --> 01:05:17.900
Cliff Coates, who said that he had gone into the
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01:05:17.940 --> 01:05:21.179
Prairie Flower Casino in Carter Lake, Iowa, and that when
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01:05:21.219 --> 01:05:26.019
he stepped outside, Sonny was gone. NBC reported that Paula
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01:05:26.039 --> 01:05:28.719
had written on the GoFundMe page that he said he
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01:05:28.760 --> 01:05:31.380
had looked for her, couldn't find her, so he left.
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01:05:32.380 --> 01:05:33.920
He left the area without Sonny.
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01:05:34.320 --> 01:05:36.179
No call to the police. No nothing.
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01:05:37.719 --> 01:05:41.000
At one point, his story changed. They stopped at a
1039
01:05:41.039 --> 01:05:43.550
gas station in Omaha. and he went in to pay
1040
01:05:43.590 --> 01:05:46.889
for the gas. When he returned to the vehicle, Sonny
1041
01:05:46.929 --> 01:05:51.739
was gone. On April 21st, 2019, when Sonny had still
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01:05:51.889 --> 01:05:54.300
failed to make contact with her parents, Paula and Jody,
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01:05:54.900 --> 01:05:58.000
she was officially reported missing and an investigation was opened.
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01:05:59.139 --> 01:06:02.260
An extensive search in Nebraska and Iowa took place, but
1045
01:06:02.300 --> 01:06:06.159
there was no sign of Sonny. Because she was 18,
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01:06:06.159 --> 01:06:08.119
she was too old for an Amber Alert, but the
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01:06:08.159 --> 01:06:11.360
authorities still did the best they could to publicize Sonny's case.
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01:06:12.780 --> 01:06:15.440
Hours turned to days, and Sunny's family became more and
1049
01:06:15.480 --> 01:06:19.179
more desperate as each hour passed. Soon after she was
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01:06:19.219 --> 01:06:22.710
reported missing, the FBI became involved in Sunny's case and
1051
01:06:22.769 --> 01:06:25.929
are now asking for anyone with information to please come forward.
1052
01:06:27.190 --> 01:06:29.510
Sunny's family are also heavily involved in the search for
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01:06:29.530 --> 01:06:33.219
their missing loved one. Her cousin, Rennie Blome, created the
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01:06:33.340 --> 01:06:37.300
Find Sunny Ceramic Facebook page and regularly hands out flyers
1055
01:06:37.340 --> 01:06:42.389
and leaflets across Nebraska. Interestingly enough, Cliff Coates has an
1056
01:06:42.429 --> 01:06:45.769
extensive criminal history and this is something that we couldn't
1057
01:06:45.809 --> 01:06:49.969
pass up on mentioning. Heavy.com wrote an article about Sonny's
1058
01:06:50.010 --> 01:06:53.070
case and managed to dig up all of Cliff's prior convictions.
1059
01:06:54.780 --> 01:06:57.579
Turns out that he has a criminal record in Kansas, Iowa,
1060
01:06:57.659 --> 01:07:01.519
and Nebraska. In Kansas, he was charged for drug offenses
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01:07:01.820 --> 01:07:06.039
and attempting to evade police. His prison record isn't squeaky
1062
01:07:06.079 --> 01:07:10.599
clean either, having 25 write-ups for battery, lying, disrespect of
1063
01:07:10.619 --> 01:07:15.800
an officer, disobeying orders, and having sexually explicit material. Cliff's
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01:07:15.869 --> 01:07:19.530
criminal history doesn't stop there. In Nebraska, he was convicted
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01:07:19.550 --> 01:07:24.150
of false imprisonment, distribution of methamphetamine, possession of a deadly weapon,
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01:07:24.730 --> 01:07:29.389
carrying a concealed weapon, assault by a confined person, theft
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01:07:29.469 --> 01:07:36.679
by receiving stolen property, and possession of marijuana. On June 10, 2019,
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01:07:36.679 --> 01:07:40.119
Remy Blum posted again to the Facebook page Find Sonny
1069
01:07:40.159 --> 01:07:43.619
Schrammick saying, I have a little info to share from
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01:07:43.659 --> 01:07:44.079
my aunt.
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01:07:44.559 --> 01:07:45.340
Here's the update.
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01:07:46.239 --> 01:07:50.159
Coates was arrested recently but was bonded soon after. I'm
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01:07:50.199 --> 01:07:53.599
hoping that they can learn something, anything from him. At
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01:07:53.659 --> 01:07:57.630
least he was found. I'm sharing this so y'all are aware,
1075
01:07:57.989 --> 01:07:59.969
but as far as what happened prior to this or
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01:08:00.130 --> 01:08:02.989
what he was arrested for, that is not being shared
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01:08:03.030 --> 01:08:07.789
by the family. Investigators haven't publicly named Cliff as a
1078
01:08:07.829 --> 01:08:11.409
suspect in Sonny's case, And despite all these leads and
1079
01:08:11.449 --> 01:08:16.109
all this information, her case has sadly gone cold. Sonny's
1080
01:08:16.170 --> 01:08:18.909
family are desperately seeking answers for what happened to her.
1081
01:08:19.899 --> 01:08:22.439
She was in the process of finishing high school, and
1082
01:08:22.520 --> 01:08:24.760
it's extremely out of character for her to just have
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01:08:24.800 --> 01:08:28.500
wandered off. Sonny is described as a white female with
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01:08:28.560 --> 01:08:33.819
brown hair and blue eyes. She's 5'7, 180 pounds, and
1085
01:08:33.859 --> 01:08:38.649
has numerous distinguishing features, which are as follows. Sunny has
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01:08:38.699 --> 01:08:40.850
a tattoo on her left shoulder of a feather with
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01:08:40.869 --> 01:08:44.670
the letters FLY, a tattoo of a red tribal sun
1088
01:08:44.810 --> 01:08:48.369
on her right ankle. She also has a rectangular scar
1089
01:08:48.409 --> 01:08:51.630
on the back of her right shoulder, a small square-shaped
1090
01:08:51.670 --> 01:08:54.770
scar in the middle of her upper forehead, scarring on
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01:08:54.890 --> 01:08:57.930
one of her ankles and shin, scars from chicken pox
1092
01:08:58.010 --> 01:09:00.630
on her face, a scar on her left hand at
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01:09:00.670 --> 01:09:03.770
the bottom of her thumb and first finger, and assorted
1094
01:09:03.829 --> 01:09:07.800
cuts on her arm. Sunny was last seen wearing denim
1095
01:09:07.810 --> 01:09:11.140
shorts and a black vest top, but her mother Paula
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01:09:11.159 --> 01:09:13.500
told investigators that she was carrying a pair of jeans
1097
01:09:13.539 --> 01:09:16.500
and a hoodie when she went missing. If you have
1098
01:09:16.579 --> 01:09:20.189
any information, you're urged to please contact the FBI's Omaha
1099
01:09:20.229 --> 01:09:28.050
Division Field Office on 402-493-8688. Alternatively, if you wish to
1100
01:09:28.069 --> 01:09:31.329
remain anonymous, you can contact the Nebraska State Crime Stoppers
1101
01:09:31.970 --> 01:09:45.380
on 1-800-422-1494. Number three, Matthew Weaver Jr. 21-year-old Matthew Weaver Jr.
1102
01:09:45.439 --> 01:09:48.310
was in a transitional period in his life He'd just
1103
01:09:48.350 --> 01:09:51.210
moved into his own apartment in Granada Hills, California, to
1104
01:09:51.250 --> 01:09:54.250
be closer to his job, and he had recently broken
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01:09:54.310 --> 01:09:58.770
up with his long-term girlfriend. The breakup affected Matthew, but
1106
01:09:58.829 --> 01:10:00.630
as he had moved to a new area, he slowly
1107
01:10:00.689 --> 01:10:02.979
began building up a new circle of friends and was
1108
01:10:03.029 --> 01:10:08.699
back out there partying and hanging out. On August 9th, 2018,
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01:10:08.699 --> 01:10:11.359
Matthew spent the day working before going to hang out
1110
01:10:11.399 --> 01:10:14.560
with a new female friend that he had made. According
1111
01:10:14.600 --> 01:10:18.699
to his father, Matthew Weaver Sr., Matthew Jr. appeared excited
1112
01:10:18.739 --> 01:10:20.699
at the prospect of hanging out with his new friend
1113
01:10:21.199 --> 01:10:24.720
and said that nothing seemed out of the ordinary. According
1114
01:10:24.739 --> 01:10:27.239
to NBC, the pair hung out until the early morning
1115
01:10:27.260 --> 01:10:30.409
hours of August 10th, with Matthew Jr. dropping the woman
1116
01:10:30.449 --> 01:10:35.449
off at her place around 4.30 a.m. From there, Matthew Jr.
1117
01:10:35.489 --> 01:10:45.750
sent a text to his friend saying, Also adding, Matthew Jr.
1118
01:10:45.890 --> 01:10:49.890
also sent texts to his ex-stepmother, Brooke. The two remained
1119
01:10:49.909 --> 01:10:52.289
close friends even when Matthew Jr. 's father and she
1120
01:10:52.329 --> 01:10:54.680
divorced as she had raised him from a young age.
1121
01:10:58.800 --> 01:11:00.979
Brooke claims that some of the texts were jumbled and
1122
01:11:01.020 --> 01:11:04.840
didn't make much sense at all. At around 11.30 a.m.,
1123
01:11:05.260 --> 01:11:07.560
Matthew Jr. then calls the woman he was hanging out
1124
01:11:07.600 --> 01:11:10.609
with the night before, but she doesn't answer because she's
1125
01:11:10.649 --> 01:11:14.149
at work. She texts him asking what's wrong and telling
1126
01:11:14.189 --> 01:11:17.510
him that she is unable to answer right now. Matthew
1127
01:11:17.689 --> 01:11:20.350
never replied to the text from Brooke or the unknown woman,
1128
01:11:20.810 --> 01:11:23.279
and since then, he has mysteriously fallen off the map.
1129
01:11:24.739 --> 01:11:27.539
Brooke told NBC that Matthew's phone is still linked to
1130
01:11:27.579 --> 01:11:30.859
his ex-girlfriend's account, so they were able to retrieve phone
1131
01:11:30.899 --> 01:11:35.010
records relatively quickly. These records showed that Matthew Jr. 's
1132
01:11:35.069 --> 01:11:37.689
location at the time of sending those texts was the
1133
01:11:37.729 --> 01:11:41.140
Las Rosas Overlook near Stunt and Saddle Peak Roads, in
1134
01:11:41.180 --> 01:11:43.800
the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
1135
01:11:45.699 --> 01:11:46.560
This was later.
1136
01:11:46.359 --> 01:11:50.119
Confirmed when CCTV cameras in the area captured Matthew Jr.
1137
01:11:50.119 --> 01:11:53.359
's BMW driving along the road to Las Rosas Overlook.
1138
01:11:54.779 --> 01:11:57.569
When Brooke hadn't received a reply from her stepson, she
1139
01:11:57.590 --> 01:12:00.869
began to worry. She began calling all of his friends
1140
01:12:00.909 --> 01:12:02.689
to see if they had heard from him, but to
1141
01:12:02.710 --> 01:12:07.170
her horror, no one had. Unbeknownst to Brooke and Matthew Sr.,
1142
01:12:08.029 --> 01:12:11.510
the California Highway Patrol discovered Matthew Jr. 's car abandoned
1143
01:12:11.550 --> 01:12:14.029
on the Topanga Tower motorway close to.
1144
01:12:13.989 --> 01:12:15.350
The Las Rosas overlook.
1145
01:12:17.189 --> 01:12:19.779
They traced the car's registration and found that it belonged
1146
01:12:19.800 --> 01:12:21.020
to Matthew Weaver Jr.
1147
01:12:22.260 --> 01:12:23.060
After speaking with.
1148
01:12:23.020 --> 01:12:25.539
His family, they realized that he had not made contact
1149
01:12:25.579 --> 01:12:30.689
with them since August 11th. Subsequently, a missing person report
1150
01:12:30.699 --> 01:12:33.930
was filed and Matthew Weaver Jr. was officially listed as
1151
01:12:33.970 --> 01:12:39.220
a missing person. Multiple searches have been conducted by multiple agencies,
1152
01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:40.760
but no trace.
1153
01:12:40.520 --> 01:12:42.359
Of Matthew has ever been found.
1154
01:12:43.770 --> 01:12:47.130
Brooke told NBC, There is no way that kid just
1155
01:12:47.170 --> 01:12:51.189
fell off the grid and disappeared. For me, that's not possible.
1156
01:12:52.069 --> 01:12:55.880
I'm super close with Matthew. He tells me everything. He
1157
01:12:55.909 --> 01:12:59.140
calls me anytime he's in a bind. He would never
1158
01:12:59.220 --> 01:13:01.760
let his little sibling sit there and think he might
1159
01:13:01.819 --> 01:13:07.909
be dead. Then, in January 2019, Hikers discovered Matthew Jr.
1160
01:13:07.909 --> 01:13:10.720
's car keys just 25 meters from where his car
1161
01:13:10.739 --> 01:13:11.520
had been discovered.
1162
01:13:12.420 --> 01:13:13.899
It's unknown whether these keys were.
1163
01:13:13.840 --> 01:13:16.359
Overlooked during the initial search or whether they had been
1164
01:13:16.420 --> 01:13:21.119
intentionally placed there at a later date. While out conducting
1165
01:13:21.159 --> 01:13:24.770
his own search for his son, Matthew Sr. discovered shreds
1166
01:13:24.810 --> 01:13:26.890
of a white t-shirt that he believes his son was
1167
01:13:26.930 --> 01:13:30.810
wearing on the day he disappeared. A red Los Angeles
1168
01:13:30.930 --> 01:13:34.779
Angels hat was also found, which Matthew Sr. also said
1169
01:13:35.000 --> 01:13:39.939
belonged to his son. The Los Angeles Police Department's Missing
1170
01:13:39.979 --> 01:13:44.600
Persons Unit has since taken over Matthew's case. Matthew Weaver Jr.
1171
01:13:44.800 --> 01:13:46.840
is described as a white male with brown hair and
1172
01:13:46.880 --> 01:13:50.340
brown eyes. He's 5 foot 9 inches tall and weighs
1173
01:13:50.340 --> 01:13:51.380
165 pounds.
1174
01:13:53.060 --> 01:13:55.890
Matthew Jr. has a tattoo of the name Jeremiah on
1175
01:13:55.930 --> 01:13:59.529
the left side of his chest. Some of Matthew Jr.
1176
01:13:59.529 --> 01:14:01.850
's friends say that he sustained a head injury in
1177
01:14:01.890 --> 01:14:04.630
the days before his disappearance and that he may be
1178
01:14:04.710 --> 01:14:07.289
concussed or have other behavior issues.
1179
01:14:06.949 --> 01:14:10.220
Arriving from this. Matthew Jr.
1180
01:14:10.260 --> 01:14:12.739
Was last seen wearing a plain black or white t-shirt,
1181
01:14:13.659 --> 01:14:18.380
black Dickies pants, red shoes, and a Los Angeles Angels
1182
01:14:18.420 --> 01:14:22.300
baseball cap. If you have any information, you're urged to
1183
01:14:22.340 --> 01:14:28.899
please contact the Los Angeles Police Department's Missing Persons Unit.
1184
01:14:29.310 --> 01:14:29.670
On 213-996-1800.
1185
01:14:31.270 --> 01:14:33.210
If you wish to remain anonymous, you can leave a
1186
01:14:33.229 --> 01:14:36.289
tip with the L.A. Regional Crime Stoppers on 1-800-222.
1187
01:14:39.380 --> 01:14:39.699
Tips.
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01:14:42.550 --> 01:14:48.630
Number two, Erica Thompson. 53-year-old Erica Thompson had recently broken
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up from a two-year relationship and was now living alone
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with her cats in her Brookfield, Illinois, home. Erica's sister, Dana,
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said that the pair regularly kept in contact with each
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other and that Erica always kept in contact with her family. So,
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when Erica failed to show up for work on September 26, 2019,
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her co-workers noted that it was extremely out of character.
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Dana recalled that she had last spoken with her sister
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via email on September 23rd, 2019. Erica was captured on
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CCTV on September 25th, 2019, making a deposit at a bank.
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She has not been seen or heard from since. Days
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passed and Erica's family became more and more concerned when
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she didn't contact him. Finally, on October 1st, 2019, Erica's son,
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Michael Russo, went to her Brookfield, Illinois home to see
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what was going on. Some reports state that Michael entered
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the house, while others state that the Brookfield Police Department
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were the ones who actually entered the home. Whoever entered
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the home found that the back door was open and
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that the air conditioning was.
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Running full blast.
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There were dirty, moldy dishes in the sink and cat
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vomit all over the house, something that Erica would never
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have tolerated. Her sister Dana told Dateline, It was cause
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for concern because my sister would never have left a mess.
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She would have washed her dishes and taken care of
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her cats. Investigators also found, interestingly enough, that recent CCTV
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footage from Erica's home security cameras had been deleted, only
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adding to their suspicions. Erica's phone, bag, driver's license, house
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keys and car keys, along with her 2014 dark purple
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Nissan Juke, Illinois' plate E273380, were missing from the home,
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but her cats had been left behind. It's been said
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that Erica absolutely cherished her cats, and if she'd planned
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on leaving, she would have taken them with her. As
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Erica's phone was missing, investigators tracked it as far as
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they could and found that she had traveled through Brookfield, Decatur,
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and Mount Vermont on September.
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26, 2019.
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In addition to this, the phone had also pinged in Countryside, Hodgkins, McCook, Forestview, Summit,
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and Ridgeview. On October 2, 2019, her phone was found
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dumped in a ditch in Springfield, Missouri, some 502 miles away.
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From her home in Brookfield, Illinois.
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Her sister, Dana, wrote a Facebook post on November 8, 2019.
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It's a long post, so we'll just summarize the key parts.
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They've searched the forest preserves, impound lots, and truck yards
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in the previous town mentioned for her car, assuming that
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they're leaving no stone unturned. assuring me that they're leaving
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no stone unturned. Her info and her car info are
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listed in a system that law enforcement uses, meaning if
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her car has been left somewhere, the plates and or
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VIN will alert them that she's been reported missing. If
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tolls have been passed through or tow trucks come upon it, etc.,
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an alert will pop up. We've registered her with NamUs,
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number MP61151. NamUs, number MP61151. Clear Channel has donated their
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billboard space openings to show her picture and where to call.
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I can't even express how grateful we are to them.
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Please keep Erica and us in your thoughts until we
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can bring her home. 53-year-old Erica Thompson was last seen
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on October 25th, 2019 and is described as a white
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female with blonde hair and blue eyes. Her natural hair
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color Her natural hair color is brown and her ears
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are double pierced. She has a tattoo of a blue
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heart on the top of her foot and a tattoo
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of fairies.
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On her hip.
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There is currently a $ 1, 000 reward for information and anyone
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with any information at all all is urged to contact
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the Brookfield Police Department on 708-244-4862 or Cook County Crime.
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Stoppers on 1-800-535-STOP. 1. Glenda Peterson.
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The details of Glenda Peterson's 1997 disappearance are few and
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far between, and with the passage of time, those details
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become harder and harder to come by. On July 4th, 1997,
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40-year-old Glenda Jean Peterson spent the day celebrating at Lake
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Thunderbird in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with her 16-year-old daughter. Glenda
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had just been through a rough divorce from her husband
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of 15 years, and she was doing everything she could
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to make the Fourth of July possible. a fun family
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day for her daughter. At the time, Linda had her
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right leg in a cast due to a break, but
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didn't let her injury dampen her spirits. Linda and her
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daughter spent the day together before accepting a ride home
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from a man that they had met that day. Witnesses
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corroborated this story, saying that they saw the fare get
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into the man's dark-colored pickup truck and drive away. Witnesses
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described the man as being white, in his 40s, Six
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feet tall, 180 pounds, with brown hair and a mustache. Then,
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somewhere along Highway 9, the unknown man pulled over at
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Glenda's request. Glenda handed her bag to her daughter, not
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out of the car, and was never seen or heard
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from again. This is about as much information as we
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have in Glenda's case, Glenda's niece Brandy told Dateline. Did
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she know she was in danger, so she just wanted
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to keep her daughter safe? There are so many holes
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in the story, we just don't know. Glenda's mysterious disappearance
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is one of those cases where we are simply left
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with more questions than answers. Multiple searches have been conducted
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by the Norman Police Department and cadaver dogs were even
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called in, but nothing has ever been found. Each year,
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Glenda's children watch other families celebrating July 4th, hoping and
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praying that one day their mother will come home so
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they can do the same once again. Glenda Jean Peterson
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was last seen on the side of Highway 9 on
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July 4th, 1997. She is described as a white female
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with black hair and brown eyes although the photographs provided
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of her show her with blonde hair.
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Glenda has a tattoo of the letter.
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G on her left forearm, a letter B on her
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left hand, an artificial jaw, and a scar on her neck.
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At the time of her disappearance, Glenda's right leg was
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broken and was in a cast. The Charlie Project notes
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that Glenda goes by the nicknames Blondie and Sunshine, and
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may use the surnames Adams, Kurnit, Darlie, and Deal. Anyone
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with any information is urged to contact the Norman Police
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Department on 405 366-5211 Well friends, there you have it.
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What do you think of these strange disappearances? I look
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forward to hearing your comments, but please keep it friendly
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and respectful. If you'd like to see more videos like this,
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check out the playlists that we have here on our channel.
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These playlists showcase our best content and videos that many
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of you may have never seen before. So check them
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out and see what you might have missed out. Until
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we meet again, Be good to yourselves and each other.
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Stay safe out there.
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As for me, I'll see you a little further on
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down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to
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you next time.
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Hello, friends.
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Steve Stockton here with you. Welcome to our latest video.
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This offering is number four. and our Creepy Cases series. Now,
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while many of the cases we cover on the channel
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have at least some strange or weird elements to them,
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these are some hand-picked cases that we feel to be
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amongst the creepiest.
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Join us.
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First up, Marina Bolter. 18-year-old Marina Bolter was doing everything
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within her power to get her life back on track
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in 2014. She had recently graduated high school by obtaining
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her GED and had plans to go to college to
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study to become a pastry chef. Things hadn't always been
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easy for.
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Marina, though.
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In early 2014, when she was just 17 years old,
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she found out that she was pregnant with her first child.
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At the time, Marina was in an on-off relationship with
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DJ Lockhart, and the two did their best to make
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the relationship work, although this wasn't always possible. When Marina's
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newborn son was just four months old, he was taken
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into care after an altercation saw the baby receive a
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head injury. According to reports, Marina's son was struck when Faith,
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Marina's sister and Faith's boyfriend.
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Were arguing and fighting in their Bloomfield, Indiana home.
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This event enraged Marina understandably, and after that, she refused
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to talk to her sister and distanced herself from her
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family on her father's side. After her child had been
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taken into care, Marina was determined to get him back.
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She started working at the deli counter of the local
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IGA grocery store off South Highway 231 and had recently
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moved into her own apartment to show social services that
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she was more than capable of taking care of her baby.
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What social services didn't know was that Marina had moved
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into the apartment with the help of a much older man, Toby,
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whom she had been having an affair with. Not only
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was Toby much older than Marina, but he was in
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fact married, and Toby knew Marina as he was a
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friend of the family. While the affair was taking place,
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Marina maintained her on-off relationship with DJ, the father of
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her child. Their relationship was described as rocky at best,
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but Marina felt that there was a genuine connection between
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them and that one day they might finally settle their
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differences and be a proper couple again and raise their child.
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In December of 2014, things were starting to look up
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for Marina. She was doing well at her job and
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the prospect of college admission was drawing ever closer. New
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Year's Eve quickly rolled around, and what should have been
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a night of celebration turned into a living nightmare for
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the Bolter family. On December 31, 2014, New Year's Eve,
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Marina went about her day, as usual, finishing up her
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shift at the IGE grocery store at around 6 p.m.
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As she was leaving work, she ran into DJ, who
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asked her to attend a New Year's party with him.
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Knowing she had to work the next day, she politely declined.
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DJ made several attempts to convince Marina to attend the
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party with him, but she was having none of it.
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According to DJ, after the two had finished their conversation,
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he watched her walk across to the Sunoco gas station
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close to the IGA grocery store and get into a
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car with a middle-aged man. The man was described as white,
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in his 40s or 50s, with glasses, and he drove
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either a silver, beige, or gold Mercury Milan, year 2009
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to 2011, with multi-spoke rims, a spoiler, and a Bluetooth
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or shark fin antenna on top. Witnesses would later confirm
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that the man in the car was indeed a regular
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customer at the IGA grocery store, and when questioned, this
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unnamed man claimed that he dropped Marina at a closed
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pizza shop near her apartment before driving away. He told
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investigators that he had dropped her off at the pizza
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shop because Marina didn't want him to know her full address.
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While this story seems sketchy, Marina's mother later confirmed that
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this sounded like something her daughter would indeed do in
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order to keep herself safe. As the clock ticked down
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to midnight, and everyone was celebrating the coming of the
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new year, nobody had any idea that Marina hadn't yet
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made it home that night. It wasn't until the next
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morning when she failed to show up for work that
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the alarm was raised. This was extremely out of character
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for Marina, and her boss at the IGA grocery store
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immediately called her mother, Tressie, to make sure that everything
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was okay. Tressie knew immediately that something was terribly wrong
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and jumped into her car racing over to Marina's apartment.
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As she approached the apartment, She noticed that the door
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was locked, there was no sign of a struggle, and
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Marina's phone and purse were missing. Marina's apartment gave no
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clues as to her whereabouts, and in a panic, Tressie
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called the Bloomfield Police Department to report her daughter missing.
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Within minutes, the Bloomfield Police Department had descended upon Marina's apartment,
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and a missing person investigation was underway. Investigators were able
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to track Marina's phone and found that it had last
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pinged at an unreleased location ten minutes after she had
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left work. investigators have not released any further information about
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this location because of their pending investigation. During the search
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of Marina's apartment, investigators failed to find her work clothes,
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which suggested that she hadn't returned to her apartment at
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all that evening, so now they were faced with the question,
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where is Marina? They spoke with DJ, who relayed the
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story about Marina getting into a car with a middle-aged man,
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and it took three weeks for the man in question
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to come forward and talk to investigators. According to news reports,
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This unnamed man had his previous conviction for abduction, along
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with other crimes too graphic to mention here, although he
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was officially ruled out as a suspect by police during
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the initial investigation. During their investigation, the Bloomfield police also
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learned that Marina had been on the phone with Toby
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01:28:01.779 --> 01:28:04.060
as she was leaving work on New Year's Eve and
1420
01:28:04.079 --> 01:28:05.930
that he was hosting a New Year's party that he
1421
01:28:05.979 --> 01:28:09.050
tried to persuade her to attend. During their phone call,
1422
01:28:09.210 --> 01:28:13.409
Marina allegedly said, Oh shit, it's DJ, before hanging up
1423
01:28:13.449 --> 01:28:16.229
the phone. Once news got out that Marina was missing,
1424
01:28:16.609 --> 01:28:19.430
Toby refused to speak to Tressie and only cooperated with
1425
01:28:19.470 --> 01:28:22.449
Marina's father and his side of the family. It is
1426
01:28:22.529 --> 01:28:25.470
bizarre that Toby sided with Marina's father's side of the
1427
01:28:25.510 --> 01:28:29.810
family as Marina herself was estranged from them. It later
1428
01:28:29.850 --> 01:28:32.590
transpired that Tressie had called Toby's wife to speak to
1429
01:28:32.630 --> 01:28:35.770
her about the affair and discovered that Toby's wife had
1430
01:28:35.859 --> 01:28:39.039
no idea and that she'd only found out because Tressie
1431
01:28:39.060 --> 01:28:43.140
had phoned her. Was Toby angry that Tressie had tipped
1432
01:28:43.180 --> 01:28:45.939
off his wife about his affair or was he siding
1433
01:28:45.960 --> 01:28:49.840
with Marina's father to cover his own guilt? Marina's father
1434
01:28:49.939 --> 01:28:52.420
and that side of the family firmly believe that DJ
1435
01:28:52.520 --> 01:28:56.100
is responsible for Marina's disappearance and maintain to this day
1436
01:28:56.159 --> 01:28:59.380
that he had something to do with it. DJ was
1437
01:28:59.439 --> 01:29:02.750
subjected to a polygraph and passed, but just weeks after
1438
01:29:02.789 --> 01:29:08.310
Marina disappeared, another tragedy would strike. On February 12, 2015,
1439
01:29:08.310 --> 01:29:11.149
DJ died following an altercation in a bar with a
1440
01:29:11.170 --> 01:29:15.619
man by the name of Michael Rogers. Rogers was not charged,
1441
01:29:15.640 --> 01:29:18.119
as investigators deemed it to be an act of self-defense,
1442
01:29:18.779 --> 01:29:21.479
but any knowledge that DJ had about Marina was now
1443
01:29:21.539 --> 01:29:25.659
taken with him to the grave. There's also another person
1444
01:29:25.680 --> 01:29:28.680
to consider in Marina's case. and that is an ex-felon
1445
01:29:28.739 --> 01:29:31.279
who was convicted of a horrific crime against a young girl.
1446
01:29:32.300 --> 01:29:35.460
This ex-felon lived in Marina's apartment block, and the Bloomfield
1447
01:29:35.479 --> 01:29:38.060
police have said that they do not consider him a suspect.
1448
01:29:39.420 --> 01:29:42.880
While researching Marina's case, very few articles came up in
1449
01:29:42.920 --> 01:29:45.829
regards to this man, and it is hard to discern
1450
01:29:45.869 --> 01:29:49.609
the truth about him. In an interview for NBC News,
1451
01:29:50.289 --> 01:29:55.289
Ashley Bolter, Marina's sister-in-law, said, Who really knows if what he, DJ,
1452
01:29:55.430 --> 01:30:00.069
saw happened? But either way, she disappeared. There are several theories,
1453
01:30:00.189 --> 01:30:02.430
but all we know is someone out there knows what
1454
01:30:02.470 --> 01:30:06.010
happened when she left that store. It's like nine out
1455
01:30:06.050 --> 01:30:09.140
of ten days you're fine, you just push on, then
1456
01:30:09.180 --> 01:30:12.659
that tenth day comes and you collapse. The biggest thing
1457
01:30:12.760 --> 01:30:16.020
is that she's a mother. The least we want is answers,
1458
01:30:16.640 --> 01:30:18.800
so that one day we can give her little boy
1459
01:30:19.039 --> 01:30:23.949
the information he deserves. Marina Bolter was last seen on
1460
01:30:24.010 --> 01:30:28.090
December 31st, 2014. as described as a white female with
1461
01:30:28.130 --> 01:30:31.329
blonde hair and blue eyes. Both of her ears are
1462
01:30:31.350 --> 01:30:33.569
pierced and she has a tattoo of a star with
1463
01:30:33.609 --> 01:30:36.829
butterfly wings on her foot. She was last seen wearing
1464
01:30:36.850 --> 01:30:40.569
a black and purple plaid peacoat, jeans with rhinestones on
1465
01:30:40.609 --> 01:30:44.090
the back pockets, pink and white Nike Shock shoes with
1466
01:30:44.130 --> 01:30:46.869
a purple swoosh outlined in black and a cross necklace.
1467
01:30:48.430 --> 01:30:50.729
The Charlie Project also mentions that she was carrying a
1468
01:30:50.770 --> 01:30:54.579
bag with love written on the side. Anyone with any
1469
01:30:54.640 --> 01:30:58.130
information whatsoever is asked to please contact the Bloomfield Police
1470
01:30:58.170 --> 01:31:06.590
Department on 812-332-4411 or the Indiana State Police on 812-384-4411.
1471
01:31:09.489 --> 01:31:18.739
Next up, Christina Bastian. 34-year-old Christina Bastian worked as an
1472
01:31:18.819 --> 01:31:22.319
English teacher at Silverado High School in Apple Valley, California
1473
01:31:22.680 --> 01:31:25.899
in 2015. and was well liked by her students and
1474
01:31:25.939 --> 01:31:29.520
those in her community. In recent years, Christina had been
1475
01:31:29.579 --> 01:31:32.760
diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was working with doctors and
1476
01:31:32.939 --> 01:31:36.180
mental health professionals to help manage her condition. She had
1477
01:31:36.220 --> 01:31:39.039
been prescribed medication, which she had stopped in the months.
1478
01:31:38.890 --> 01:31:39.899
Before she disappeared.
1479
01:31:40.909 --> 01:31:44.050
Sources state that Christina came off her medication after counseling
1480
01:31:44.090 --> 01:31:47.390
her doctor and began telling family and friends that God
1481
01:31:47.430 --> 01:31:50.489
had healed her. When she first came off the medication,
1482
01:31:50.689 --> 01:31:53.829
she seemed as though she was doing well. However, this
1483
01:31:53.989 --> 01:31:57.350
slowly changed, and just days before she was last seen,
1484
01:31:57.770 --> 01:32:04.479
Christina's mood and personality dramatically shifted. In late October of 2015,
1485
01:32:04.479 --> 01:32:09.060
Christina began exhibiting bizarre behavior, telling her friends and family
1486
01:32:09.100 --> 01:32:11.859
that someone had broken into her apartment and that someone
1487
01:32:11.899 --> 01:32:17.300
was watching her and following her every move. Christina was inconsolable,
1488
01:32:17.420 --> 01:32:19.779
despite her friends and family trying to reassure her that
1489
01:32:19.920 --> 01:32:24.029
everything was okay, In an attempt to make her feel safe,
1490
01:32:24.550 --> 01:32:26.529
friends and family allowed her to stay with them for
1491
01:32:26.569 --> 01:32:31.289
a few days, promising her that everything would be all right. However,
1492
01:32:31.510 --> 01:32:35.130
Christina's behavior only worsened over the coming days, and the
1493
01:32:35.170 --> 01:32:38.810
day before she disappeared, she drove from Apple Valley, California
1494
01:32:38.949 --> 01:32:43.159
to Phoenix, Arizona for reasons that are unknown. According to
1495
01:32:43.199 --> 01:32:46.420
Christina's mother, Cheryl, she received a phone call from her
1496
01:32:46.439 --> 01:32:50.000
daughter telling her that she was in Phoenix. Reports indicate
1497
01:32:50.020 --> 01:32:52.479
that after this, Christina took the SIM card out of
1498
01:32:52.520 --> 01:32:56.579
her phone and then smashed the phone to bits. On
1499
01:32:56.619 --> 01:32:59.300
the day before her disappearance, Christina also spoke to her
1500
01:32:59.340 --> 01:33:02.529
brother-in-law and cryptically told him, I don't want to be
1501
01:33:02.569 --> 01:33:07.210
Christina Bastian anymore. This chilling statement was a premonition of
1502
01:33:07.250 --> 01:33:09.770
what was to come and Christina also told him that
1503
01:33:09.829 --> 01:33:14.270
she wanted to disappear. By the next day, this premonition,
1504
01:33:14.350 --> 01:33:17.020
if that's what it was, had come true and Christina
1505
01:33:17.079 --> 01:33:22.720
was nowhere to be found. On November 1st, 2015, Christina
1506
01:33:22.739 --> 01:33:25.439
arrived at a friend's house in Apple Valley after the
1507
01:33:25.479 --> 01:33:29.079
two agreed that Christina could stay the night. This wasn't
1508
01:33:29.199 --> 01:33:32.380
unusual for Christina and in the previous weeks, she'd been
1509
01:33:32.500 --> 01:33:35.420
overly paranoid that someone had broken into her apartment and
1510
01:33:35.439 --> 01:33:39.109
that someone was trying to get her. She brought with
1511
01:33:39.149 --> 01:33:41.789
her some valuable items as well as everyday items such
1512
01:33:41.829 --> 01:33:45.010
as her bag, purse and glasses along with her beloved.
1513
01:33:44.729 --> 01:33:45.710
Dog, Coco.
1514
01:33:47.310 --> 01:33:49.649
The full details of what happened that night have never
1515
01:33:49.689 --> 01:33:53.489
been released but according to the Charlie Project, Christina left
1516
01:33:53.529 --> 01:33:55.689
her friend's house at around 1.45 a.m.
1517
01:33:55.890 --> 01:33:56.979
After becoming upset.
1518
01:33:58.180 --> 01:34:01.119
It is unknown whether the two had an actual disagreement
1519
01:34:01.579 --> 01:34:04.800
or whether Christina's paranoia and altered mental state took over.
1520
01:34:05.800 --> 01:34:08.739
According to the friend, Christina jumped into her silver two-door
1521
01:34:08.819 --> 01:34:12.180
Dodge Ram 1500 pickup and drove away into the night.
1522
01:34:13.439 --> 01:34:16.029
Her friend hoped that Christina would return after taking a
1523
01:34:16.069 --> 01:34:18.569
short drive to clear her head, but as the sun rose,
1524
01:34:19.010 --> 01:34:24.210
there was no sign of Christina. That same night, 46
1525
01:34:24.210 --> 01:34:28.729
miles away on Highway 247 near Bodick Road in Johnson Valley, California,
1526
01:34:29.250 --> 01:34:32.569
the California Highway Patrol found some of Christina's personal items
1527
01:34:32.710 --> 01:34:35.930
scattered on the side of the highway. It wasn't until
1528
01:34:35.949 --> 01:34:38.449
the next morning that her car was found abandoned a
1529
01:34:38.470 --> 01:34:41.960
further 37 miles away near Valley View Road and 29
1530
01:34:41.960 --> 01:34:46.159
Palms Highway. Investigators who discovered the car noted that it
1531
01:34:46.199 --> 01:34:48.760
was covered in dents and scrapes, almost as if it
1532
01:34:48.800 --> 01:34:53.260
had been driven through rocky terrain. Christina's family held their
1533
01:34:53.270 --> 01:34:55.600
collective breath as the news of the discovery of her
1534
01:34:55.640 --> 01:34:58.300
car was relayed to them, but as the investigators went
1535
01:34:58.319 --> 01:35:01.220
through the details, they realized that there was still no
1536
01:35:01.279 --> 01:35:05.020
sign of Christina. Their concern grew as the hours passed,
1537
01:35:05.159 --> 01:35:07.159
knowing that she was in an altered state of mind
1538
01:35:07.220 --> 01:35:10.619
with no car, no wallet, no ID, and no glasses,
1539
01:35:11.000 --> 01:35:13.060
as she had left all these items behind at her
1540
01:35:13.100 --> 01:35:18.300
friend's house the night before. Also, on November 1st, 2015,
1541
01:35:18.300 --> 01:35:22.170
Christina's beloved dog, Cocoa, was found wandering in Apple Valley
1542
01:35:22.229 --> 01:35:25.229
on the side of Highway 18. A kind stranger took
1543
01:35:25.270 --> 01:35:27.850
Coco in and put up flyers and posters appealing for
1544
01:35:27.869 --> 01:35:30.989
the owner to come forward. Christina's family were alerted to
1545
01:35:31.050 --> 01:35:33.720
this and chose for Coco to remain in the woman's
1546
01:35:33.760 --> 01:35:37.640
care while they searched for Christina. As the days went on,
1547
01:35:38.039 --> 01:35:40.840
the search for Christina continued with local police forces and
1548
01:35:40.880 --> 01:35:44.300
volunteers turning out in droves to look for her, but sadly,
1549
01:35:44.590 --> 01:35:47.569
no sign of her was to be found. It wasn't
1550
01:35:47.630 --> 01:35:50.890
until 11 days later that a horrific discovery was made
1551
01:35:50.949 --> 01:35:54.369
near Bear Valley Road in Apple Valley. The area is
1552
01:35:54.430 --> 01:35:57.090
described as being a dirt road and the location of
1553
01:35:57.109 --> 01:35:59.859
the discovery only added to the fears of the investigators
1554
01:36:00.039 --> 01:36:03.060
and Christina's family. On the site of this dirt road,
1555
01:36:03.300 --> 01:36:06.449
a passerby noticed a discarded backpack and upon opening it,
1556
01:36:06.779 --> 01:36:10.699
they found medication, money and photographs that all belonged to Christina.
1557
01:36:11.319 --> 01:36:13.899
This discovery was called in to the Apple Valley PD
1558
01:36:14.159 --> 01:36:17.619
who used canines and helicopters to search the area but sadly,
1559
01:36:17.979 --> 01:36:21.619
No other clues were to be found. Cheryl, Christina's mother,
1560
01:36:21.819 --> 01:36:24.119
believes that her daughter may be in Yucca Valley or
1561
01:36:24.140 --> 01:36:27.590
the surrounding area and is homeless or living a transient lifestyle.
1562
01:36:28.670 --> 01:36:31.310
In a Facebook post to the page Help Find Christina
1563
01:36:31.350 --> 01:36:36.029
Bastion in July 2018, Cheryl wrote, A couple of months ago,
1564
01:36:36.050 --> 01:36:39.649
a young well-kept homeless man identified Christina by name from
1565
01:36:39.689 --> 01:36:42.170
a picture. He was in front of the Walmart in
1566
01:36:42.210 --> 01:36:46.439
Yucca Valley, California. I believe she is there. If you
1567
01:36:46.479 --> 01:36:48.739
see her, please snap a picture and send it to me.
1568
01:36:49.439 --> 01:36:52.859
I miss her more than words can express. According to
1569
01:36:52.880 --> 01:36:55.810
other posts made on this page, Cheryl has received several
1570
01:36:55.899 --> 01:36:58.949
emails and tips from people in California and beyond who
1571
01:36:58.989 --> 01:37:02.130
believe that they have seen Christina panhandling and begging for change.
1572
01:37:03.430 --> 01:37:07.149
Christina Bastian was last seen on November 1st, 2015 in
1573
01:37:07.229 --> 01:37:08.470
Apple Valley, California.
1574
01:37:09.430 --> 01:37:10.270
She is described as a.
1575
01:37:10.270 --> 01:37:13.649
White female with red hair, brown eyes, 5 foot 6
1576
01:37:13.649 --> 01:37:18.550
inches tall, and weighs about 170 pounds. Christina's ears and
1577
01:37:18.630 --> 01:37:21.369
cartilage are pierced, she has a scar on her thumb,
1578
01:37:22.029 --> 01:37:24.750
a scar on her right eyebrow, and a tattoo of
1579
01:37:24.789 --> 01:37:27.590
a cherry blossom with Chinese writing on her left ankle
1580
01:37:27.609 --> 01:37:31.329
and foot. She also needs glasses to see, however, these
1581
01:37:31.350 --> 01:37:34.909
were left behind at the time of her disappearance. Cheryl
1582
01:37:34.930 --> 01:37:37.409
told the media that without her glasses, Christina can only
1583
01:37:37.449 --> 01:37:39.840
see about six inches in front of her, and all
1584
01:37:39.850 --> 01:37:41.489
she had with her at the time of her disappearance
1585
01:37:41.680 --> 01:37:44.859
was the pair of contacts she was wearing. Christina was
1586
01:37:44.899 --> 01:37:49.829
diagnosed with bipolar disorder and requires medication for her condition. However,
1587
01:37:50.229 --> 01:37:53.689
she had stopped taking these months before she disappeared, apparently
1588
01:37:53.750 --> 01:37:54.170
with her.
1589
01:37:54.189 --> 01:37:55.989
Doctor's permission, according to her.
1590
01:37:56.909 --> 01:37:59.850
Anyone with any information is asked to contact the San
1591
01:37:59.869 --> 01:38:03.510
Bernardino Sheriff's Department at 909-387-3690 or the Apple Valley PD
1592
01:38:03.529 --> 01:38:19.180
at 760-240-7400. Next we have Kya Taylor. 28-year-old Kya Taylor
1593
01:38:19.260 --> 01:38:21.779
has been described by friends and family as a lively,
1594
01:38:21.979 --> 01:38:24.399
warm and affectionate person who would go out of her
1595
01:38:24.439 --> 01:38:27.329
way to help those in need. At the time of
1596
01:38:27.350 --> 01:38:30.560
her disappearance, Kaya was living in Plant City, Florida with
1597
01:38:30.579 --> 01:38:33.720
her boyfriend, although some reports state that she was couch
1598
01:38:33.760 --> 01:38:37.539
surfing and staying with friends. Kaya's family have created the
1599
01:38:37.579 --> 01:38:40.630
Facebook page, Finding Kaya, in an attempt to gather as
1600
01:38:40.689 --> 01:38:43.909
much information as possible and spread the word about her disappearance.
1601
01:38:45.170 --> 01:38:46.470
Her family has also been.
1602
01:38:46.390 --> 01:38:49.130
Very vocal about the lack of progress made in her case.
1603
01:38:50.260 --> 01:38:52.800
In August of 2020, her family made a post to
1604
01:38:52.819 --> 01:38:55.380
the Facebook page laying out the facts of Kaya's case
1605
01:38:55.840 --> 01:38:58.939
and asking anyone with information to contact the Hillsborough County
1606
01:38:58.979 --> 01:39:03.090
Sheriff's Office. Kaya Taylor was last seen at around 4pm
1607
01:39:03.170 --> 01:39:06.550
on February 6, 2020, dropping her boyfriend off at his
1608
01:39:06.569 --> 01:39:10.310
friend's house located off Cowart and Trapnell Road in Plant City, Florida.
1609
01:39:11.310 --> 01:39:14.569
According to her boyfriend, his friend and his friend's father,
1610
01:39:15.029 --> 01:39:17.909
They all saw Kaya dropping off her boyfriend before leaving
1611
01:39:17.970 --> 01:39:19.789
to make her way to Lakeland, where she was due
1612
01:39:19.829 --> 01:39:24.390
to stay with a friend. Unfortunately, Kaya never arrived at
1613
01:39:24.409 --> 01:39:27.189
her friend's house in Lakeland, and this friend informed her
1614
01:39:27.210 --> 01:39:31.220
boyfriend that she had never shown up days later. Just
1615
01:39:31.279 --> 01:39:34.060
three hours after Kaya was last seen, her car was
1616
01:39:34.119 --> 01:39:38.180
discovered abandoned on the railway tracks on Trapnell Road. Kaya's
1617
01:39:38.239 --> 01:39:40.600
family has stated that this railway was out of use
1618
01:39:40.720 --> 01:39:43.000
and maintenance works were being carried out on the tracks.
1619
01:39:44.359 --> 01:39:46.729
A concerned citizen noticed the car and called the police
1620
01:39:46.770 --> 01:39:48.829
to alert them to the situation and get it moved.
1621
01:39:50.029 --> 01:39:52.569
Plant City Police Department arrived at the scene and found
1622
01:39:52.590 --> 01:39:55.369
that Kaya's car was still running, with the windows open,
1623
01:39:55.829 --> 01:39:58.189
facing northbound, and that her phone was on the floor
1624
01:39:58.220 --> 01:40:02.039
of the vehicle. Somewhat oddly, instead of running her plates,
1625
01:40:02.220 --> 01:40:04.760
the officer who attended the scene got into Kaya's car
1626
01:40:05.020 --> 01:40:06.920
and moved it to the side of the railway tracks.
1627
01:40:08.300 --> 01:40:10.699
For another three days, Kaya's car sat at the edge
1628
01:40:10.739 --> 01:40:13.529
of these tracks until her boyfriend's mother saw it sitting there.
1629
01:40:14.470 --> 01:40:15.949
She went over to her son's house to let him
1630
01:40:15.970 --> 01:40:17.949
know what was going on, and he told his mother
1631
01:40:17.989 --> 01:40:20.109
that Kaya was supposed to be in Lakeland, so he
1632
01:40:20.130 --> 01:40:22.750
couldn't understand why her car had been abandoned where it was.
1633
01:40:23.869 --> 01:40:26.729
During the worst, Kaya's boyfriend called a friend in Lakeland
1634
01:40:26.770 --> 01:40:30.380
who confirmed that she had never arrived. After this, Kaya's
1635
01:40:30.409 --> 01:40:32.300
boyfriend called her mother to let her know that her
1636
01:40:32.340 --> 01:40:35.220
daughter hadn't been seen since February 6th and that her
1637
01:40:35.260 --> 01:40:38.600
car had been abandoned. After being notified that her daughter
1638
01:40:38.640 --> 01:40:41.239
had gone missing, Kaya's mother went to collect her car
1639
01:40:41.279 --> 01:40:43.380
that had been left at the side of the railroad tracks.
1640
01:40:44.270 --> 01:40:47.630
Inside the car, she found Kaya's phone and wallet. This
1641
01:40:47.750 --> 01:40:50.390
sent alarm bells ringing, and Kaya's mother called the Hillsborough
1642
01:40:50.430 --> 01:40:53.989
County Sheriff's Office to report her daughter missing. Four days
1643
01:40:54.069 --> 01:40:56.789
after she was last seen, Kaya Taylor was officially listed
1644
01:40:56.850 --> 01:41:00.510
as a missing person, and an investigation was opened. In
1645
01:41:00.550 --> 01:41:04.300
the days following Kaya's disappearance, friends, family, and members of
1646
01:41:04.310 --> 01:41:07.119
the local community gathered to help canvass the area and
1647
01:41:07.180 --> 01:41:09.859
aid the police in their search for her. The police
1648
01:41:09.960 --> 01:41:13.119
used scent dogs, helicopters, as well as officers on the ground,
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01:41:13.390 --> 01:41:16.789
all combing through the area looking for Kaya. A forensic
1650
01:41:16.850 --> 01:41:20.710
examination was conducted on Kaya's car, however, this yielded no results.
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01:41:21.550 --> 01:41:24.850
Kaya's family remained strong, canvassing the area, putting up flyers,
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01:41:24.970 --> 01:41:28.180
and talking to residents who may have seen something. They
1653
01:41:28.220 --> 01:41:31.340
also held a vigil to help bring awareness to Kaya's disappearance,
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01:41:31.880 --> 01:41:34.880
but despite the media coverage and attention, no one came
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01:41:34.939 --> 01:41:38.760
forward with any information. The first clue didn't come until
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01:41:38.800 --> 01:41:43.319
February 26, 2020, 20 days after Kaya had last been seen.
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01:41:44.550 --> 01:41:47.789
According to the Facebook post made by Kaya's family, 20
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01:41:47.789 --> 01:41:51.510
days after Kaya's disappearance on February 26, her shoes were
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01:41:51.550 --> 01:41:54.289
found located not too far from her car, next to
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01:41:54.350 --> 01:41:56.630
a light pole that had her picture on it attached
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01:41:56.670 --> 01:42:00.689
to a missing persons flyer. Family, friends, and police officers
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01:42:00.710 --> 01:42:03.310
searched this area prior and the shoes were not there.
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01:42:04.229 --> 01:42:08.439
It's as if someone placed them there. Another puzzling clue
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01:42:08.659 --> 01:42:12.180
that was uncovered during the investigation was Kaya's last text
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01:42:12.220 --> 01:42:15.140
to her boyfriend, which read, So you're going to send
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01:42:15.159 --> 01:42:17.340
your white supremacist friends to take care of me? A
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01:42:18.350 --> 01:42:20.909
post written for the Bear Press mentioned that Kaya is
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01:42:20.970 --> 01:42:24.029
biracial and that her boyfriend's social media was filled with
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01:42:24.069 --> 01:42:28.689
posts of the Confederate flag and other racist propaganda. Kaya's
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01:42:28.729 --> 01:42:32.630
mother also confirmed to People.com that Kaya had recently fallen
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01:42:32.670 --> 01:42:35.529
in with a bad crowd and had possibly been experimenting
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01:42:35.569 --> 01:42:40.069
with drugs. Since Kaya's shoes were discovered in February 2020,
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01:42:40.069 --> 01:42:42.430
her case has gone cold, despite the best efforts of
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01:42:42.470 --> 01:42:45.210
her family to keep her name in the media. Kaya
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01:42:45.229 --> 01:42:50.159
Taylor remains missing, and her family are offering a $ 10, 000
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01:42:48.539 --> 01:42:52.439
reward for any information that leads to her whereabouts. We'd
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01:42:52.479 --> 01:42:54.960
also like to mention that Kaya's boyfriend has not been
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01:42:55.079 --> 01:42:58.470
named publicly, and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office have stated
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01:42:58.510 --> 01:43:02.279
that he is not a suspect in Kaya's disappearance. Kaya
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01:43:02.319 --> 01:43:05.460
Taylor was last seen on February 6, 2020, and is
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01:43:05.520 --> 01:43:12.739
described as a biracial, African-American, white mix. Female, 5'6, 170lbs,
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01:43:13.119 --> 01:43:17.140
with auburn red hair and brown eyes. Kaya has multiple tattoos,
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01:43:17.479 --> 01:43:20.439
an infinity symbol on her left upper chest, two X's
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01:43:20.479 --> 01:43:22.420
with a rose on the back of her shoulder, a
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01:43:22.460 --> 01:43:24.920
rose on the inside of her forearm, a sun on
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01:43:24.960 --> 01:43:27.720
her upper right thigh, and a ladybird on her left calf.
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01:43:28.819 --> 01:43:31.060
She was last seen wearing a blue, gray, red, and
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01:43:31.100 --> 01:43:35.279
white striped short-sleeved minidress, tan knee-high boots, and possibly a
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01:43:35.319 --> 01:43:39.079
pink cardigan. Anyone with any information is urged to please
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01:43:39.119 --> 01:43:49.109
contact the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office at 813-247-8200. Next, we
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01:43:49.149 --> 01:43:54.149
have Jake Latios. 22-year-old Jake Latios was last seen on
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01:43:54.189 --> 01:43:57.930
the Interstate 10 bridge over the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge,
1693
01:43:58.449 --> 01:44:02.869
on August 29th, 2014 at around 2 a.m. A passerby
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01:44:02.930 --> 01:44:05.689
told investigators they had spoke to Jake at around 2 a.m.
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01:44:06.069 --> 01:44:07.909
as he was sitting next to his pickup truck on
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01:44:07.930 --> 01:44:11.189
the bridge. Jake informed the stranger that he was on
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01:44:11.229 --> 01:44:14.319
his way to West Baton Rouge, but sadly, Jake never
1698
01:44:14.359 --> 01:44:17.739
made it there. A few hours later, the Baton Rouge
1699
01:44:17.760 --> 01:44:21.039
Police Department received a bizarre call that kick-started the search
1700
01:44:21.079 --> 01:44:25.920
for Jake. In the early morning hours of August 29th, 2014,
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01:44:25.920 --> 01:44:28.260
The Baton Rouge Police Department were called to the Interstate
1702
01:44:28.260 --> 01:44:31.119
10 bridge when an anonymous caller reported seeing a person
1703
01:44:31.180 --> 01:44:31.819
jump from the.
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01:44:31.779 --> 01:44:33.460
Bridge into the waters below.
1705
01:44:33.479 --> 01:44:36.439
The person calling did not want to give their identity
1706
01:44:36.539 --> 01:44:38.260
and it appears they were not at the scene when
1707
01:44:38.279 --> 01:44:42.060
the police arrived. The Baton Rouge Police took this call
1708
01:44:42.119 --> 01:44:45.729
very seriously and dispatched officers to the scene however when
1709
01:44:45.739 --> 01:44:49.770
they arrived they couldn't find anything. They looked into the
1710
01:44:49.810 --> 01:44:52.529
water below but saw no sign of anyone having jumped.
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01:44:53.800 --> 01:44:55.819
A dive team was called to the area to recover
1712
01:44:55.899 --> 01:44:59.199
any remains or rescue the person, but again, the dive
1713
01:44:59.239 --> 01:45:03.489
team found nothing. What the Baton Rouge Police Department did
1714
01:45:03.529 --> 01:45:07.189
find was Jake's pickup truck, still running, abandoned on the
1715
01:45:07.229 --> 01:45:11.569
side of the road. Inside the vehicle were Jake's phone, cigarettes,
1716
01:45:11.630 --> 01:45:14.390
and a trolling motor that he had just purchased, but
1717
01:45:14.430 --> 01:45:16.409
his wallet and crutches that he was using at the
1718
01:45:16.449 --> 01:45:19.210
time were nowhere to be found. At the time of
1719
01:45:19.229 --> 01:45:21.810
his disappearance, Jake had a broken foot and right hand
1720
01:45:21.850 --> 01:45:24.050
and was wearing an orthopedic boot as well as using
1721
01:45:24.090 --> 01:45:27.750
crutches to get around. His crutches weren't recovered from the
1722
01:45:27.789 --> 01:45:31.390
bridge nor the water, leaving authorities with more questions than answers.
1723
01:45:32.250 --> 01:45:35.989
Jake's mother, Tina LeClerc, told NBC if he jumped off
1724
01:45:36.029 --> 01:45:39.260
the bridge, his crutches would have been found. They would
1725
01:45:39.279 --> 01:45:41.260
have been left in his room, by his truck, on
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01:45:41.300 --> 01:45:45.470
the bridge, floating in the water. Jake's case only became
1727
01:45:45.529 --> 01:45:48.510
more bizarre when his mother, Tina, visited his apartment after
1728
01:45:48.529 --> 01:45:51.210
the Baton Rouge Police Department contacted her to let her
1729
01:45:51.250 --> 01:45:53.300
know that his truck had been found abandoned on the
1730
01:45:53.340 --> 01:45:57.720
side of the bridge. She told NBC, When I got there,
1731
01:45:58.000 --> 01:46:01.979
it automatically seemed suspicious. The window was punched out. There
1732
01:46:02.020 --> 01:46:04.899
were holes in the wall. His personal items were missing,
1733
01:46:05.199 --> 01:46:10.310
including his TV set. Just everything was a mess. Several
1734
01:46:10.350 --> 01:46:13.270
years have passed since Jake disappeared, and sadly, the Baton
1735
01:46:13.310 --> 01:46:16.149
Rouge Police Department are still no closer to solving his case.
1736
01:46:16.970 --> 01:46:19.649
According to a Facebook post made to the Help Find
1737
01:46:19.789 --> 01:46:24.289
Missing Jake Allen Latios page in August 2021, his crutches
1738
01:46:24.449 --> 01:46:27.449
were located much later at an undisclosed time and location,
1739
01:46:27.890 --> 01:46:30.689
but no further information has been provided about this fact.
1740
01:46:31.710 --> 01:46:34.350
His mother, Tina, believes that Jake met with foul play
1741
01:46:34.550 --> 01:46:36.369
and that someone staged it to look like he took
1742
01:46:36.409 --> 01:46:39.989
his own life. Tina said she is ready for whatever
1743
01:46:40.100 --> 01:46:42.560
outcome and just wants to know the truth of what
1744
01:46:42.600 --> 01:46:47.300
happened to her son. 22-year-old Jake Latios was last seen
1745
01:46:47.439 --> 01:46:51.180
on August 29, 2014, on the Interstate 10 bridge in
1746
01:46:51.220 --> 01:46:53.880
Baton Rouge. He is described as a white male with
1747
01:46:53.939 --> 01:46:57.880
brown hair, brown eyes, stands approximately 5 foot 9 inches tall,
1748
01:46:58.180 --> 01:47:00.399
and weighs between 130 and 150 pounds.
1749
01:47:01.659 --> 01:47:02.159
Jake has a.
1750
01:47:02.159 --> 01:47:04.380
Cross-shaped scar on his left wrist, and at the time
1751
01:47:04.399 --> 01:47:07.060
of his disappearance, he had a broken foot, a broken
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01:47:07.119 --> 01:47:10.029
right hand, and was using an orthopedic boot and crutches.
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01:47:11.210 --> 01:47:14.390
Anyone with any information has urged to please contact the
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01:47:14.409 --> 01:47:25.760
Baton Rouge Police Department at 225-389-4617. And finally, Audrey Mae Herron.
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01:47:25.779 --> 01:47:28.359
31-year-old Audrey Mae Herron was a devoted mother of three
1756
01:47:28.560 --> 01:47:30.680
and a nurse living in Catskill, New York at the
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01:47:30.720 --> 01:47:34.699
time of her disappearance. When Audrey was just 22, she
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01:47:34.739 --> 01:47:37.630
gave birth to her first child, Sonsia, and with the
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01:47:37.649 --> 01:47:40.449
help of her parents, continued her studies and eventually became
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01:47:40.489 --> 01:47:43.930
a full-time nurse at a nearby nursing home. Audrey later
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01:47:43.949 --> 01:47:46.210
went on to marry Jeff Herron, and the couple had
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01:47:46.250 --> 01:47:50.189
two more children, Katie and Quinn. The blended family quickly
1763
01:47:50.250 --> 01:47:53.970
meshed together, with Sansia telling True Crime Daily, even though
1764
01:47:54.029 --> 01:47:56.689
I wasn't his child, he still considered me his.
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01:47:56.630 --> 01:47:58.489
Daughter, and I called him dad.
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01:47:59.850 --> 01:48:03.649
Life for the Herrons was going smoothly. 2002, Sansia was
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01:48:03.649 --> 01:48:06.529
10 years old, and a few days before Labor Day weekend,
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01:48:07.050 --> 01:48:09.310
She had just returned to her Catskill home from Florida,
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01:48:09.520 --> 01:48:12.399
where she had spent the last month with her grandmother, Shirley,
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01:48:12.560 --> 01:48:16.119
which was Audrey's mother. Shirley revealed that Audrey had just
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01:48:16.159 --> 01:48:18.390
been given a raise at work and was excited to
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01:48:18.449 --> 01:48:20.630
see her daughter after she'd been away for so long.
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01:48:22.130 --> 01:48:25.630
Audrey's shifts are working until 11 p.m. at night, and
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01:48:25.729 --> 01:48:27.710
Shirley agreed that this would be far too late for
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01:48:27.729 --> 01:48:31.310
her to pick Sansia from her home. Sansia stayed the
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01:48:31.380 --> 01:48:34.689
night at her grandmother's house, waiting eagerly for her mother
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01:48:34.720 --> 01:48:36.239
to come and pick her up on the morning of
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01:48:36.359 --> 01:48:41.979
August 30, 2002. but sadly, that knock at the door
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01:48:42.159 --> 01:48:46.390
and the familiar shout of Sansi's name never came. Shirley
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01:48:46.439 --> 01:48:49.489
told Dateline, I called Audrey and she said she had
1781
01:48:49.510 --> 01:48:52.210
a doctor's appointment the next morning, but she would pick
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01:48:52.250 --> 01:48:55.989
Sansi up after that. Shirley was surprised when the phone
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01:48:56.029 --> 01:48:58.289
rang at 6 a.m. the next morning and she heard
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01:48:58.350 --> 01:49:00.670
Jeff on the other end of the phone asking if
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01:49:00.729 --> 01:49:04.550
she had seen Audrey. She told NBC, Jeff called and
1786
01:49:04.609 --> 01:49:07.020
asked if Audrey was at my house. It would not
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01:49:07.060 --> 01:49:08.729
have been unusual for her to stay over with me.
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01:49:09.140 --> 01:49:11.229
but normally she would have called him to let him know.
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01:49:12.020 --> 01:49:14.930
I said she wasn't here, but I didn't think anything
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01:49:15.050 --> 01:49:16.029
of it, so.
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01:49:15.949 --> 01:49:16.909
I dozed back off.
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01:49:18.229 --> 01:49:21.329
Shirley's slumber was interrupted an hour later by another phone
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01:49:21.350 --> 01:49:24.890
call from Jeff. This time he sounded more panicked. He
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01:49:24.930 --> 01:49:27.250
told Shirley that Audrey hadn't returned home from work the
1795
01:49:27.289 --> 01:49:31.289
previous evening. According to Shirley, she relayed this information to
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01:49:31.329 --> 01:49:33.510
a family member who used to work in law enforcement,
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01:49:33.909 --> 01:49:38.340
who in turn reported Audrey as missing. A wide-scale search began,
1798
01:49:38.539 --> 01:49:41.699
and the local police, along with Audrey's family, began canvassing
1799
01:49:41.739 --> 01:49:45.579
the area. During their investigation, the New York State Police
1800
01:49:45.619 --> 01:49:49.560
came across CCTV footage that confirmed Audrey left work on
1801
01:49:49.600 --> 01:49:53.279
the evening of August 29, 2002, in her black 1999
1802
01:49:53.279 --> 01:49:58.970
Jeep Grand Cherokee. New York State Police Detective Kaminsky said,
1803
01:49:59.619 --> 01:50:02.710
We only have one grainy video from Cumberland Farms, in
1804
01:50:02.750 --> 01:50:05.229
which it appears that Audrey's vehicle does leave her place
1805
01:50:05.250 --> 01:50:08.600
of employment. and basically turned left, going west on County
1806
01:50:08.659 --> 01:50:12.739
Route 23B. That's the last of any kind of technology
1807
01:50:12.779 --> 01:50:16.369
we had. We can't confirm it's the vehicle because of
1808
01:50:16.409 --> 01:50:18.850
the quality of the video, but it appears to be.
1809
01:50:19.710 --> 01:50:21.930
The quality of the video was very poor and very grainy,
1810
01:50:22.310 --> 01:50:24.029
but it does appear to leave at the time she
1811
01:50:24.050 --> 01:50:27.939
would have ended work. Armed with this new piece of information,
1812
01:50:28.579 --> 01:50:31.859
investigators began searching bodies of water and any other areas
1813
01:50:31.880 --> 01:50:34.560
that Audrey may have ended up, but came up with nothing.
1814
01:50:35.279 --> 01:50:37.859
There was no activity on her phone, credit, or debit
1815
01:50:37.880 --> 01:50:42.659
cards since August 29, 2002, and the investigation.
1816
01:50:42.060 --> 01:50:42.920
Quickly went cold.
1817
01:50:43.939 --> 01:50:45.970
Tips and leads have been followed to their end, and
1818
01:50:46.060 --> 01:50:50.210
almost 20 years later, we're still asking the question, where
1819
01:50:50.390 --> 01:50:55.069
is Audrey Herron? Jeff, Audrey's husband, has been described as
1820
01:50:55.250 --> 01:50:59.149
uncooperative for the New York State Police. He has voluntarily
1821
01:50:59.229 --> 01:51:02.710
undergone a polygraph test, and his property has been searched extensively.
1822
01:51:03.140 --> 01:51:06.899
nothing was found in connection with Audrey's disappearance. The New
1823
01:51:06.939 --> 01:51:09.100
York State Police have said that Jeff is not considered
1824
01:51:09.159 --> 01:51:11.670
a suspect but that they are considering her case a
1825
01:51:11.689 --> 01:51:15.810
homicide rather than a missing person case. Audrey was last
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01:51:15.850 --> 01:51:19.489
seen leaving her workplace on August 29, 2002 in her
1827
01:51:19.529 --> 01:51:26.159
black 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee New York license plate X233UV.
1828
01:51:27.300 --> 01:51:30.060
Audrey is described as a white female with dark blonde
1829
01:51:30.079 --> 01:51:33.220
to light brown hair, hazel eyes, She stands 5 foot
1830
01:51:33.260 --> 01:51:37.159
tall and weighs 105 pounds. Audrey has a scar on
1831
01:51:37.189 --> 01:51:38.970
her right thumb and a mole on the inside of
1832
01:51:39.010 --> 01:51:42.329
her right knee. She was last seen wearing a blue turtleneck,
1833
01:51:42.670 --> 01:51:45.789
dark green medical scrubs, a yellow gold necklace with a
1834
01:51:45.810 --> 01:51:48.880
pendant that says number one mom, and a watch with
1835
01:51:48.909 --> 01:51:52.600
a white leather band and a white metal face. Anyone
1836
01:51:52.680 --> 01:51:53.279
with any.
1837
01:51:53.180 --> 01:51:55.859
Information is asked to please contact the New York State
1838
01:51:55.899 --> 01:51:56.840
Police at 518-622-8600.
1839
01:52:01.880 --> 01:52:04.699
Well, folks, there you have it. What do you think
1840
01:52:04.779 --> 01:52:11.189
of these creepy cases? Somewhere, somebody knows the truth. Hopefully,
1841
01:52:11.350 --> 01:52:13.409
the day will come when all these cases can be
1842
01:52:13.470 --> 01:52:16.250
solved and the families can have the closure that they deserve.
1843
01:52:18.470 --> 01:52:21.289
Thank you for listening. I look forward to your comments,
1844
01:52:21.989 --> 01:52:25.619
but please keep it friendly and respectful. Meanwhile, be good
1845
01:52:25.640 --> 01:52:28.840
to yourselves and each other. Be careful out there, and
1846
01:52:28.880 --> 01:52:30.739
I'll see you a little farther on down the trail.
1847
01:52:31.989 --> 01:52:34.569
I'm Steve Stockton and I'll talk to you next time.
1848
01:52:52.409 --> 01:52:56.409
Hello friends, this is episode number five in our Creepy
1849
01:52:56.430 --> 01:53:00.199
Cases series. Although many of the cases we cover on
1850
01:53:00.220 --> 01:53:02.779
the channel have at least some bizarre or strange element
1851
01:53:02.819 --> 01:53:06.699
to them, these are five more hand-picked cases that we
1852
01:53:06.760 --> 01:53:08.840
feel have the highest creep factor.
1853
01:53:09.640 --> 01:53:14.680
Join us! Number 5.
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01:53:14.680 --> 01:53:19.619
Marilyn Bergeron 24-year-old Marilyn Bergeron was once a happy and
1855
01:53:19.659 --> 01:53:24.100
positive young woman, but in late 2007, her family noticed
1856
01:53:24.159 --> 01:53:27.000
a troubling change in her. Her outlook had changed from
1857
01:53:27.020 --> 01:53:29.439
a positive one to a gloomy one, and it was
1858
01:53:29.500 --> 01:53:32.899
clear that something was bothering her. She was often tearful
1859
01:53:32.960 --> 01:53:35.619
and told her mother that she didn't have healthy relationships,
1860
01:53:36.100 --> 01:53:41.760
but did not disclose exactly what the problem was. Early 2008,
1861
01:53:41.760 --> 01:53:45.970
Marilyn had moved from her apartment in Hochelaga, Maisonneuve, back
1862
01:53:45.979 --> 01:53:48.890
to her parents' house in Quebec, telling them that she
1863
01:53:48.949 --> 01:53:51.229
no longer felt safe living where she had been.
1864
01:53:52.550 --> 01:53:53.670
The neighborhood in which.
1865
01:53:53.550 --> 01:53:57.090
Marilyn lived was notorious for criminal activity and was described
1866
01:53:57.130 --> 01:54:00.630
as an impoverished area with many issues. She had moved
1867
01:54:00.649 --> 01:54:03.449
there in 2005 and had taken up freelance work with
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01:54:03.489 --> 01:54:06.729
local TV stations and was slowly beginning to pull her
1869
01:54:06.770 --> 01:54:11.010
career together. But something had changed in recent months and
1870
01:54:11.050 --> 01:54:14.069
the events of February 2008 would send her family on
1871
01:54:14.109 --> 01:54:19.140
a hunt for justice and answers. Between February 15th and 16th,
1872
01:54:19.739 --> 01:54:22.800
Marilyn made trips between the two places, moving her things
1873
01:54:22.899 --> 01:54:25.899
and saying goodbye to her friends. Everyone tried to talk
1874
01:54:25.939 --> 01:54:28.100
to Marilyn pleading with her to let them know what
1875
01:54:28.140 --> 01:54:32.060
was wrong. Her family later told investigators that any attempt
1876
01:54:32.079 --> 01:54:34.739
to talk to Marilyn about her problems would result in
1877
01:54:34.779 --> 01:54:38.920
her breaking down and shutting down the conversation. She'd even
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cryptically ask her sister, is there a light at the
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end of the tunnel? During the move, her family tried
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to coax more information out of her, but each time
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she shut them down, showing a blank expression or simply
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breaking down in tears. It was at this point that
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her family referred her to a psychologist and hoped that
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the move back home would provide her with a safe
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and comfortable place to recover and explore her issues with
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a medical professional. According to the psychologist that saw Marilyn,
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her case was big and would require hospitalization. Unfortunately, Marilyn
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disappeared before any further help or intervention could be offered.
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Her family were incredibly worried for her well-being and asked
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her if someone had hurt her or whether she had
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problems with her relationships debt, etc. But each time, Marilyn said, oh,
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everything's fine. By February 17, 2008, Marilyn had moved all
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of her things back into the family home and was
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resettling herself in a familiar environment. She told her family
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that she wanted to leave her life in Montreal behind
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for good, and her family said that they would help
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her along the way. At around 11 a.m. on February 17, 2008,
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Marilyn left the family home for what, unfortunately, would be
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the last time. She told her mother that she was
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going for a walk and that she would be back soon.
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She stepped out of the house wearing only a long
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black coat with gray fake fur trim and boots and
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01:56:04.979 --> 01:56:08.420
headed off on her walk. The next time that Marilyn
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01:56:08.460 --> 01:56:09.479
would be spotted.
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Was on CCTV, and she had an unusual item with her.
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At 11.09 a.m., Marilyn was seen on CCTV at an
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01:56:18.159 --> 01:56:22.529
ATM on Boulevard de la Mierre. attempting to withdraw a
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$ 60 Canadian, but the transaction failed. Her family believes that
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she had simply forgotten her PIN number, but her behavior
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while at the cash machine raised several alarms. The card
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that Marilyn attempted to use was a credit card that
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was linked to her father that she had been given
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in case of emergency. In the footage, Marilyn is seen
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looking over her shoulder several times and appears very paranoid.
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Marilyn's mother also noticed that she was wearing a black
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backpack over one shoulder an item that she had not
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had with her when she left the house. So where
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had she gotten this strange backpack? And what were her plans?
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01:57:00.880 --> 01:57:03.859
Things only grow more mysterious with the next confirmed sighting
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of Marilyn, which occurred at 4.03 p.m. in the Cafe
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Depot at St.
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Romain.
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Now, going to a coffee shop isn't an out-of-the-ordinary activity,
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01:57:13.319 --> 01:57:15.699
but the fact that this coffee shop was over 12
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01:57:15.699 --> 01:57:18.439
miles away from her home was rather suspicious.
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Why was Marilyn in.
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A coffee shop so far away from home when the
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01:57:22.939 --> 01:57:25.460
neighborhoods around her had plenty of coffee shops she could
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01:57:25.500 --> 01:57:29.659
have visited? The barista who served Marilyn in this particular
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coffee shop was later questioned and confirmed that Marilyn was
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01:57:33.680 --> 01:57:36.810
alone and paid with a credit card. She ordered her
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coffee and then walked out of the coffee shop, never
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to be seen again. After this sighting, Marilyn has never
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01:57:43.770 --> 01:57:47.149
been seen or heard from. There's been no activity on
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her phone or the cards and it's as if she
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simply dropped off the map. Investigators believe that Marilyn was
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driven to the coffee shop 12 miles away from her
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home as the weather conditions would have made it near
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impossible for her to walk that far. It is unknown
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whether the possibility of public transport has ever been explored
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01:58:05.689 --> 01:58:09.369
in this instance. When Marilyn failed to return home, her
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family knew that something was very wrong and called the
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police straight away.
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After learning about Marilyn's.
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Situation and the circumstances leading up to her disappearance, the
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01:58:18.380 --> 01:58:21.300
search for her began immediately, with police scouring the area
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01:58:21.600 --> 01:58:26.399
and combing through her bank records and CCTV footage. Unfortunately,
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the two CCTV sightings previously mentioned are the only confirmed
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01:58:30.560 --> 01:58:33.850
sightings of Marilyn. The police have put out numerous appeals
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for anyone who may have seen Marilyn or may have
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01:58:36.189 --> 01:58:39.250
given her a ride to please come forward. So far,
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01:58:39.770 --> 01:58:43.710
nobody has. There have been several alleged sightings of Marilyn,
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01:58:43.829 --> 01:58:48.850
including sightings in Hawkesbury, Ontario. According to reports, people have
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01:58:48.880 --> 01:58:51.979
seen a woman matching Marilyn's description in Hawkesbury in the
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company of a man. The two were often known to
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01:58:55.100 --> 01:58:57.180
move around the town, and those who saw her said
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01:58:57.220 --> 01:58:59.890
that she looked anxious and like she was possibly being
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01:58:59.930 --> 01:59:05.090
held captive. Unfortunately, none of these sightings have ever been substantiated,
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01:59:05.430 --> 01:59:08.810
and despite numerous searches by both the police and Marilyn's family,
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no sign of her has ever been found. Her family
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01:59:13.119 --> 01:59:15.119
are of the opinion that she took her own life,
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01:59:15.600 --> 01:59:19.359
but friends have alluded to something much, much darker. In
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01:59:19.399 --> 01:59:23.640
late 2007, Jonathan Gautier, who knew Marilyn from college, met
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01:59:23.699 --> 01:59:26.199
up with her and noticed that her personality and behavior
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01:59:26.300 --> 01:59:29.569
had completely changed. She was no longer the happy and
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01:59:29.609 --> 01:59:33.189
lively Marilyn that he once knew. The night that they
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01:59:33.210 --> 01:59:35.869
met up, they'd attended a party before heading back to
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Marilyn's apartment. It was here that she broke down crying.
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Jonathan rushed to her side to comfort her. He tried
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01:59:42.550 --> 01:59:44.890
to get more information from her and pressed the matter,
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01:59:45.550 --> 01:59:48.789
asking whether she had witnessed something horrific or if something
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01:59:48.829 --> 01:59:54.140
horrific had happened to her. According to Jonathan, Marilyn told him, No,
1973
01:59:54.699 --> 01:59:59.979
it's worse. Joe, you can't even imagine. what I went through. Sadly,
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she didn't elaborate any further. The investigation into Marilyn's disappearance
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02:00:05.289 --> 02:00:08.189
has continued over the years, with her family initially posting
1976
02:00:08.750 --> 02:00:12.470
a $ 10, 000 Canadian reward for information. This amount has now
1977
02:00:12.529 --> 02:00:16.260
grown to $ 30, 000 Canadian, but we are still no closer
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02:00:16.300 --> 02:00:19.819
to finding out what happened to Marilyn. Her mother told
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the CBC in 2017, Marilyn, if you're still alive, for us.
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It's like yesterday you disappeared. We love you.
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We're waiting for you with open arms, and we miss
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02:00:31.930 --> 02:00:35.970
you so much. Her family believed that Marilyn's life was
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02:00:36.029 --> 02:00:38.609
either in danger or that she perceived to have been
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02:00:38.649 --> 02:00:41.390
in danger in Montreal and believes that her friends and
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associates may hold the answers. Marilyn Bergeron was last seen
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02:00:46.380 --> 02:00:50.479
on February 17, 2008, has not been seen or heard
1987
02:00:50.520 --> 02:00:54.260
from since. Marilyn displayed worrying behavior in the lead-up to
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her disappearance and and there have been several unconfirmed sightings
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02:00:57.369 --> 02:01:01.409
of her in the Hawkesbury, Ontario area. Marilyn is described
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as a white female with brown hair, green eyes.
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5'7, and 115 pounds.
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02:01:07.369 --> 02:01:09.930
She has a tattoo of Pegasus on her chest, below
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02:01:09.949 --> 02:01:13.090
her right collarbone, and she was last seen wearing boots
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02:01:13.229 --> 02:01:16.909
and a black coat with grey fake fur trim. Anyone
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02:01:16.939 --> 02:01:19.920
with any information is urged to please contact the Quebec
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Police Services at 418-641-7000. Or you can contact the family's lawyer,
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Mark Belmare, on 418-681-1227 or toll-free 1-800-840-1526. Number four, Andrew Gosden.
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The disappearance of 14-year-old Andrew Gosden is one of the
1999
02:01:52.359 --> 02:01:56.899
UK's most baffling missing person cases. South Yorkshire police have
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02:01:56.939 --> 02:01:59.859
worked tirelessly over the years to find Andrew, but there
2001
02:01:59.899 --> 02:02:03.789
have been very few leads to work on. Those from
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02:02:03.810 --> 02:02:07.149
the UK will have many strong memories on Andrew's disappearance
2003
02:02:07.770 --> 02:02:11.670
and the media storm and investigation that followed. It's been
2004
02:02:11.710 --> 02:02:15.029
over a decade since Andrew disappeared, and the South Yorkshire
2005
02:02:15.069 --> 02:02:18.180
police are still no closer to cracking this mystifying case.
2006
02:02:19.579 --> 02:02:23.619
Andrew Gosden lived in Balby, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, with his parents,
2007
02:02:23.659 --> 02:02:27.310
Kevin and Glynis. The two provided Andrew with a happy
2008
02:02:27.329 --> 02:02:29.829
and stable home life, and as a result, he was
2009
02:02:29.890 --> 02:02:33.850
flourishing academically. He was in the young, gifted, and talented
2010
02:02:33.890 --> 02:02:37.550
program at school, and had a perfect attendance record. It
2011
02:02:37.590 --> 02:02:40.630
was clear that Andrew was destined for great things academically,
2012
02:02:41.189 --> 02:02:44.710
and he excelled in every subject at school. With this,
2013
02:02:45.109 --> 02:02:47.810
Andrew's father, Kevin, said that he was not streetwise and
2014
02:02:47.850 --> 02:02:50.010
preferred to stay home and play on his Xbox and
2015
02:02:50.029 --> 02:02:53.979
listen to metal music. This behavior is not uncommon for
2016
02:02:53.989 --> 02:02:56.460
teenagers and his parents were happy that he was flourishing
2017
02:02:56.579 --> 02:02:59.760
academically and did have a small social circle of friends,
2018
02:03:00.039 --> 02:03:03.880
good dependable ones. The lives of the Gosden family would
2019
02:03:03.899 --> 02:03:07.600
be turned upside down one September afternoon, however, shortly after
2020
02:03:07.640 --> 02:03:11.149
the new school year had started. Andrew had spent part
2021
02:03:11.159 --> 02:03:14.420
of his summer holiday, which was six weeks, attending a
2022
02:03:14.460 --> 02:03:17.270
gifted and talented program and was apparently very happy and
2023
02:03:17.310 --> 02:03:19.130
had a bright outlook for what lay ahead of him
2024
02:03:19.250 --> 02:03:24.390
after he'd finished school. But September 14th, 2007 was different.
2025
02:03:25.189 --> 02:03:29.090
Something inside Andrew had changed. And within the space of
2026
02:03:29.149 --> 02:03:31.180
a few hours, his parents would be thrown into a
2027
02:03:31.189 --> 02:03:35.979
missing person investigation that has spanned over a decade. On
2028
02:03:36.020 --> 02:03:39.819
September 14th, 2007, Andrew got up and got ready for
2029
02:03:39.859 --> 02:03:42.800
school as normal. He said goodbye to his parents and
2030
02:03:42.859 --> 02:03:46.500
headed out the front door at around 8.05 a.m. By
2031
02:03:46.560 --> 02:03:49.020
all accounts, this was just another day at school and
2032
02:03:49.100 --> 02:03:53.170
Andrew was seen heading toward the bus stop. However, instead
2033
02:03:53.210 --> 02:03:56.250
of boarding the bus to school, Andrew kept walking and
2034
02:03:56.289 --> 02:04:00.229
headed into the local park. Nobody knows why Andrew chose
2035
02:04:00.250 --> 02:04:02.829
to skip school that day, but we do know that
2036
02:04:02.869 --> 02:04:06.479
he waited in the park until around 8.30 a.m. By
2037
02:04:06.529 --> 02:04:08.520
this time, his parents would have left for work and
2038
02:04:08.699 --> 02:04:10.479
Andrew knew that he would have the house to himself.
2039
02:04:11.590 --> 02:04:14.989
This is just the beginning of the bizarre details surrounding
2040
02:04:15.010 --> 02:04:18.670
the disappearance of Andrew Gosden, and things only become more
2041
02:04:18.710 --> 02:04:22.729
mysterious from here. After waiting in the park, as we said,
2042
02:04:23.390 --> 02:04:26.670
Andrew returned home, took off his school uniform, and put
2043
02:04:26.710 --> 02:04:27.310
it straight.
2044
02:04:27.069 --> 02:04:28.210
Into the washing machine.
2045
02:04:29.310 --> 02:04:32.670
He changed into a Slipknot t-shirt, dark jeans, and packed
2046
02:04:32.710 --> 02:04:36.090
his bag with his keys, wallet, and his PSP gaming system.
2047
02:04:36.949 --> 02:04:40.109
Andrew didn't take his PSP charger with him, which indicated
2048
02:04:40.170 --> 02:04:44.189
that he probably had every intention of coming back. But unfortunately,
2049
02:04:44.449 --> 02:04:47.489
that is not what happened. As Glynnis and Kevin went
2050
02:04:47.510 --> 02:04:50.189
about their work day, they had no idea that their
2051
02:04:50.210 --> 02:04:54.449
son was headed to Doncaster train station. Bank records confirm
2052
02:04:54.470 --> 02:04:57.850
that Andrew withdrew 200 pounds from his account, leaving about
2053
02:04:57.850 --> 02:05:03.229
14 pounds in the balance. Andrew walked into Doncaster train station,
2054
02:05:03.850 --> 02:05:05.949
went up to the ticket office, and bought a one-way
2055
02:05:05.979 --> 02:05:06.649
ticket to London.
2056
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The woman who.
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02:05:08.029 --> 02:05:11.109
Served Andrew recalled telling him that for just 50p extra
2058
02:05:11.449 --> 02:05:15.270
he could get a return ticket, but Andrew declined. He
2059
02:05:15.310 --> 02:05:18.609
confidently stated that he wanted the one-way ticket, handed over
2060
02:05:18.649 --> 02:05:20.609
the money, took the ticket, and made his way to
2061
02:05:20.640 --> 02:05:24.279
the platform. No one knows why Andrew bought a ticket
2062
02:05:24.319 --> 02:05:26.500
to London, nor why he only bought a one-way ticket.
2063
02:05:27.500 --> 02:05:29.560
Was Andrew planning to meet with someone in London who
2064
02:05:29.579 --> 02:05:31.880
had promised to take him back home, or did he
2065
02:05:31.899 --> 02:05:36.420
plan to stay in London indefinitely? Witnesses reported seeing Andrew
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02:05:36.500 --> 02:05:40.039
boarding the 9.35 a.m. train to London King's Cross Station,
2067
02:05:40.600 --> 02:05:44.770
and by 11.25 a.m., he was captured on CCTV leaving
2068
02:05:44.810 --> 02:05:48.689
King's Cross. This is the last confirmed sighting of Andrew,
2069
02:05:49.050 --> 02:05:51.789
and over a decade later, we are still no closer
2070
02:05:51.829 --> 02:05:55.680
to the truth. When Andrew's school noticed that he was
2071
02:05:55.779 --> 02:05:59.359
absent that day, his parents were called. However, a clerical
2072
02:05:59.420 --> 02:06:02.539
error was made and the wrong number was dialed. It
2073
02:06:02.579 --> 02:06:04.880
wasn't until Glynnis and Kevin arrived home from work to
2074
02:06:04.920 --> 02:06:07.920
find Andrew's uniform in the house that they knew something
2075
02:06:07.960 --> 02:06:11.859
was off. After calling out Andrew's name and searching all
2076
02:06:11.920 --> 02:06:14.600
over the house, his parents realized that he was missing
2077
02:06:14.720 --> 02:06:18.779
and dialed 999. South Yorkshire police responded to the call
2078
02:06:18.810 --> 02:06:22.789
immediately and the search for Andrew commenced. The area of
2079
02:06:22.850 --> 02:06:26.649
Bobby was searched thoroughly and investigators began combing through Andrew's life.
2080
02:06:27.710 --> 02:06:29.789
At the time of his disappearance, Andrew didn't have a
2081
02:06:29.829 --> 02:06:32.069
phone as he was known to lose them and preferred
2082
02:06:32.090 --> 02:06:36.859
to spend time on his Xbox and listening to music anyway. Flyers, posters,
2083
02:06:36.920 --> 02:06:40.560
and news reports were circulated around South Yorkshire, and Yorkshire
2084
02:06:40.579 --> 02:06:43.180
with the South Yorkshire Police hoping that somebody would come
2085
02:06:43.239 --> 02:06:44.300
forward with information.
2086
02:06:46.090 --> 02:06:48.829
As the days passed, and there was no word, the.
2087
02:06:48.789 --> 02:06:51.350
Gostins began to realize that the situation that they were
2088
02:06:51.449 --> 02:06:56.750
in was incredibly serious. Then, days after Andrew disappeared, the
2089
02:06:56.789 --> 02:07:00.289
South Yorkshire Police got their first lead. the woman who
2090
02:07:00.329 --> 02:07:03.350
sold Andrew the ticket at Doncaster train station came forward,
2091
02:07:03.750 --> 02:07:06.609
and from here, the police were able to check CCTV
2092
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and confirm that Andrew had traveled to King's Cross. Sadly,
2093
02:07:11.800 --> 02:07:14.779
Andrew was not spotted on CCTV after he left King's
2094
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Cross station, and CCTV in the surrounding areas failed to
2095
02:07:18.319 --> 02:07:22.319
show up anything. Now, there are three main theories in
2096
02:07:22.399 --> 02:07:24.939
Andrew's case, with the first being that he was lured
2097
02:07:24.979 --> 02:07:28.560
away by someone online. As we said, Andrew had an
2098
02:07:28.659 --> 02:07:32.359
Xbox and a PSP, but forensic analysis of these and
2099
02:07:32.399 --> 02:07:35.329
the data showed that Andrew was not registered online with
2100
02:07:35.369 --> 02:07:39.229
an account. He reportedly didn't even use the family computer
2101
02:07:39.750 --> 02:07:43.329
and didn't really touch online communications at all. This was
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02:07:43.409 --> 02:07:46.439
backed up by digital forensic investigations that failed to turn
2103
02:07:46.479 --> 02:07:51.279
up any online presence from Andrew whatsoever. His family did
2104
02:07:51.319 --> 02:07:54.159
confirm to investigators that Andrew knew several people who lived
2105
02:07:54.199 --> 02:07:56.979
in London but none of these people have reported seeing
2106
02:07:57.060 --> 02:08:01.750
Andrew on the date of or after his disappearance. The
2107
02:08:01.789 --> 02:08:04.489
next theory that was well publicized in the British media
2108
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was that Andrew had possibly gone to London to attend
2109
02:08:07.329 --> 02:08:08.569
a gig or some sort.
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02:08:08.430 --> 02:08:09.569
Of music-related event.
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Andrew loved his metal music, and a few gigs were
2112
02:08:13.220 --> 02:08:15.829
going on around that time, but if that were the.
2113
02:08:15.800 --> 02:08:18.869
Case, then why would he buy a one-way ticket? There
2114
02:08:18.909 --> 02:08:19.289
were no.
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02:08:19.210 --> 02:08:21.729
Sightings of Andrew at any of these music events, and
2116
02:08:21.789 --> 02:08:23.939
there has been no proof to suggest that Andrew had
2117
02:08:24.000 --> 02:08:27.840
tickets for any of these events either. The last theory
2118
02:08:28.039 --> 02:08:31.720
is one that Andrew's father, Kevin, came up with. Kevin
2119
02:08:31.739 --> 02:08:34.739
postulated that perhaps Andrew left to start a new life somewhere,
2120
02:08:35.050 --> 02:08:39.310
without the intervention of his family. His family were religious,
2121
02:08:39.489 --> 02:08:42.090
but also said that they were open to sexuality and
2122
02:08:42.149 --> 02:08:45.909
gender expression. This theory ties in with an interesting clue
2123
02:08:45.930 --> 02:08:48.489
that came to light in 2018.
2124
02:08:48.489 --> 02:08:49.949
It's important to preface this.
2125
02:08:49.890 --> 02:08:53.300
Next section by saying that Andrew's nickname was Rue, and
2126
02:08:53.310 --> 02:08:55.539
it was a nickname that only those closest to him
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02:08:55.600 --> 02:09:00.060
knew and called him. According to reports, an anonymous witness
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02:09:00.079 --> 02:09:03.140
told the police that in 2018, he had a conversation
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02:09:03.159 --> 02:09:06.840
with someone online by the name of Andy Rue. The
2130
02:09:06.859 --> 02:09:09.720
two people had started talking, and Andy Rue asked the
2131
02:09:09.739 --> 02:09:12.890
anonymous witness for £ 200 so that he could pay his rent.
2132
02:09:14.020 --> 02:09:16.289
This Andy Rue person went on to explain that he
2133
02:09:16.310 --> 02:09:18.949
had left home at 14 and didn't have a bank account,
2134
02:09:19.409 --> 02:09:23.529
so sending money via bank transfer would be difficult. He
2135
02:09:23.569 --> 02:09:25.789
said that he needed the money because his boyfriend had
2136
02:09:25.829 --> 02:09:28.210
left him, but never went into further detail about his
2137
02:09:28.270 --> 02:09:32.159
private life. This lead gave the Metropolitan Police and the
2138
02:09:32.220 --> 02:09:35.159
South Yorkshire Police a glimmer of hope, but it appears
2139
02:09:35.199 --> 02:09:38.979
the person calling themselves Andy Rue has never been formally identified,
2140
02:09:39.579 --> 02:09:42.699
and we cannot confirm whether or not this person is
2141
02:09:42.939 --> 02:09:48.039
Andrew Gosden. Following Andrew's disappearance, his family traveled to London
2142
02:09:48.159 --> 02:09:50.500
to hand out flyers and to appeal to witnesses and
2143
02:09:50.619 --> 02:09:54.779
anyone with information to come forward. Kevin and Glynnis have
2144
02:09:54.800 --> 02:09:57.659
been the driving force behind keeping Andrew's name in the media,
2145
02:09:57.960 --> 02:10:00.390
and they've continued to put pressure on the South Yorkshire
2146
02:10:00.430 --> 02:10:05.350
Police and the Metropolitan Police to investigate his disappearance. This
2147
02:10:05.369 --> 02:10:08.090
case has been incredibly well publicized, and in towns and
2148
02:10:08.130 --> 02:10:11.829
cities across the UK, Andrew's missing person poster can still
2149
02:10:11.869 --> 02:10:16.140
be seen. The charity, UK Missing Persons, works with the
2150
02:10:16.180 --> 02:10:18.380
families of those who are missing to create posters and
2151
02:10:18.399 --> 02:10:21.039
they also run a tip line for those with information
2152
02:10:21.579 --> 02:10:23.619
or for those who are missing and need someone to
2153
02:10:23.680 --> 02:10:29.090
talk to. Despite all this media attention and investigation, no
2154
02:10:29.130 --> 02:10:32.569
trace of Andrew has ever been located. After he left
2155
02:10:32.630 --> 02:10:36.189
Kings Cross Station, he seemingly vanished into thin air and
2156
02:10:36.210 --> 02:10:40.779
the investigation has laid dormant ever since. Well, that was
2157
02:10:40.859 --> 02:10:45.029
until January 22nd. when once again the Andrew Gosden case
2158
02:10:45.130 --> 02:10:50.739
made headlines. On January 11th, 2022, the BBC published an
2159
02:10:50.779 --> 02:10:55.399
article titled, Andrew Gosden, Two Men Arrested for Trafficking and Kidnap.
2160
02:10:56.300 --> 02:10:58.739
This headline shocked the nation and the details of the
2161
02:10:58.779 --> 02:11:03.260
arrest would shock them even more. According to the BBC,
2162
02:11:03.920 --> 02:11:07.479
two men, aged 38 and 45, were arrested in December
2163
02:11:07.520 --> 02:11:12.140
in London on suspicion of kidnap and human trafficking. The
2164
02:11:12.159 --> 02:11:15.960
45-year-old man was also arrested on suspicion of possessing indecent images.
2165
02:11:17.300 --> 02:11:20.260
The two men were released on bail pending a further investigation,
2166
02:11:20.479 --> 02:11:23.399
and the Metropolitan Police and the South Yorkshire Police are
2167
02:11:23.439 --> 02:11:27.090
currently working the case. No further details have been released
2168
02:11:27.149 --> 02:11:29.569
in regards to these charges, and the police are keeping
2169
02:11:29.590 --> 02:11:33.630
their cards very close to their chests. Throughout the years,
2170
02:11:33.890 --> 02:11:36.529
several age progression photos have been issued to show what
2171
02:11:36.609 --> 02:11:39.640
Andrew may look like now as an adult. The River
2172
02:11:39.680 --> 02:11:42.590
Thames has been searched numerous times by divers and with
2173
02:11:42.619 --> 02:11:45.279
a sonar scanner, but this has not turned up any
2174
02:11:45.319 --> 02:11:49.550
leads either. The South Yorkshire Police and the Metropolitan Police,
2175
02:11:49.689 --> 02:11:52.789
along with Andrew's family, continue to search for him and
2176
02:11:52.829 --> 02:11:55.170
hope that one day they will have answers or at
2177
02:11:55.229 --> 02:12:00.430
least closure. Andrew Gosden was last seen wearing a slipknot t-shirt,
2178
02:12:00.949 --> 02:12:04.449
dark jeans, and was carrying a bag containing his keys, wallet,
2179
02:12:04.510 --> 02:12:08.010
and PSP gaming system. He had bought a one-way ticket
2180
02:12:08.029 --> 02:12:11.470
from Doncaster to King's Cross, London, and was last seen
2181
02:12:11.569 --> 02:12:16.600
leaving King's Cross Station at 11.25am on September 14th, 2007.
2182
02:12:16.600 --> 02:12:21.100
Andrew has brown hair, has a unique double ridge on
2183
02:12:21.140 --> 02:12:23.979
his right ear, is deaf in his left ear, and
2184
02:12:24.020 --> 02:12:28.600
wears strong prescription glasses. Anyone with any information is asked
2185
02:12:28.619 --> 02:12:35.420
to please contact 101 UK Missing People on 116-000. the
2186
02:12:35.460 --> 02:12:38.130
South Yorkshire Police on 0114-220-2020, the Metropolitan Police on 4420-7230-1212,
2187
02:12:38.279 --> 02:12:41.979
or Crime Stoppers on 0800-555-111. Number three, Ben Padilla. The
2188
02:12:42.020 --> 02:12:45.079
disappearance of Ben Padilla is a confusing and complex case
2189
02:13:04.130 --> 02:13:06.770
and it requires a bit of background information to preface
2190
02:13:06.850 --> 02:13:12.779
his disappearance. In 2002, American Airlines retired a Boeing 727-223
2191
02:13:13.659 --> 02:13:20.220
with registration N844AA, and this plane was purchased by Mari Joseph,
2192
02:13:20.680 --> 02:13:24.920
who owned an aerospace company in Florida. Different sources give
2193
02:13:24.960 --> 02:13:28.189
different stories, but the main gist of the situation is
2194
02:13:28.229 --> 02:13:31.569
that a businessman came and leased the plane, located in Angola,
2195
02:13:31.930 --> 02:13:35.329
from Mari, only to default on his payments or abandon
2196
02:13:35.529 --> 02:13:39.289
the plans that he had for the plane. Apparently, this
2197
02:13:39.350 --> 02:13:41.970
businessman wanted to use the plane to transport oil to
2198
02:13:42.010 --> 02:13:45.949
diamond mines across Angola, and this same businessman and Maury
2199
02:13:45.989 --> 02:13:48.630
Joseph had come to a payment agreement that never came
2200
02:13:48.670 --> 02:13:52.069
to fruition. This meant that the plane went back into
2201
02:13:52.090 --> 02:13:55.970
storage and racked up over $ 4 million in airport fees.
2202
02:13:57.250 --> 02:14:00.970
The plane with number N844AA was then back in the
2203
02:14:01.010 --> 02:14:03.960
hands of Maury Joseph, who brought Ben Padilla on board.
2204
02:14:04.880 --> 02:14:08.420
Ben was a certified aircraft mechanic, flight engineer, and pilot,
2205
02:14:08.840 --> 02:14:13.039
and he was perfect for the job. The N844AA was
2206
02:14:13.039 --> 02:14:16.079
25 years old, and it needed repair work done to
2207
02:14:16.119 --> 02:14:19.600
it before it was suitable for use. So, Ben got
2208
02:14:19.619 --> 02:14:22.060
to work fixing up the plane, and all was going well.
2209
02:14:22.939 --> 02:14:27.949
That was until May 25, 2003, when something truly bizarre happened.
2210
02:14:29.569 --> 02:14:31.680
On this day, The plane was due to fly from
2211
02:14:31.760 --> 02:14:34.380
Angola to Germany, but as the crew arrived at the
2212
02:14:34.439 --> 02:14:37.560
airport for their flight, they noticed that the plane had gone.
2213
02:14:38.619 --> 02:14:40.779
Everyone checked their watches to ensure that they had not
2214
02:14:40.840 --> 02:14:43.560
made a mistake, but the events that would follow would
2215
02:14:43.600 --> 02:14:47.819
only confuse them further. Shortly after the crew arrived, air
2216
02:14:47.859 --> 02:14:54.810
traffic control noticed Boeing 727 N844AA taxiing erratically on the runway.
2217
02:14:55.729 --> 02:14:59.689
Several attempts were made by air traffic control to establish contact, However,
2218
02:14:59.890 --> 02:15:03.520
no one responded. All air traffic could do was watch
2219
02:15:03.640 --> 02:15:06.760
on as the Boeing took off into the skies. The
2220
02:15:06.779 --> 02:15:09.739
only two men on board were Ben Padilla and a
2221
02:15:09.800 --> 02:15:13.479
man named John Michael Mutantu who had been working alongside
2222
02:15:13.539 --> 02:15:17.779
Ben as an aircraft technician. The plane had not been
2223
02:15:17.840 --> 02:15:20.640
cleared for takeoff at that time and had also not
2224
02:15:20.680 --> 02:15:23.479
submitted a flight plan which immediately caught the attention of
2225
02:15:23.539 --> 02:15:27.470
air traffic control. Several more attempts were made to establish
2226
02:15:27.510 --> 02:15:30.649
contact But as the plane soared higher into the sky,
2227
02:15:31.189 --> 02:15:35.210
their attempts proved futile. Now, as the plane was being
2228
02:15:35.270 --> 02:15:37.689
used for private business, the seats had been ripped out
2229
02:15:37.750 --> 02:15:38.529
and it was made.
2230
02:15:38.369 --> 02:15:39.430
To carry diesel fuel.
2231
02:15:40.529 --> 02:15:43.649
Regardless of who or what was on board, air traffic
2232
02:15:43.689 --> 02:15:46.449
control was on red alert and soon the word of
2233
02:15:46.489 --> 02:15:50.130
the rogue plane had spread. This incident, just two years
2234
02:15:50.210 --> 02:15:53.390
shy of 9-11, sent a wave of panic through Angola.
2235
02:15:54.550 --> 02:15:57.689
Officials tried desperately to track the plane but found nothing.
2236
02:15:59.199 --> 02:16:02.279
The plane had been fueled up with over 14,000 gallons
2237
02:16:02.350 --> 02:16:07.250
of jet fuel, which would only take the plane about 2,400 miles. Well,
2238
02:16:07.569 --> 02:16:10.449
as you know, what goes up must come down. But
2239
02:16:10.510 --> 02:16:12.850
as the days dragged on, there were no reports of
2240
02:16:12.890 --> 02:16:18.289
a Boeing 727 with ID number N844AA landing at any airport,
2241
02:16:18.869 --> 02:16:22.739
nor were there any reports of a crash. The plane
2242
02:16:22.760 --> 02:16:26.520
had seemingly taken off and vanished into thin air, almost
2243
02:16:26.539 --> 02:16:29.979
as if it had flown right into a portal. According
2244
02:16:30.020 --> 02:16:32.579
to reports, the plane, with its lights off and its
2245
02:16:32.620 --> 02:16:38.200
transponder not transmitting, N844AA, took off over the southwest.
2246
02:16:37.760 --> 02:16:41.409
And headed out over the Atlantic Ocean. So where did
2247
02:16:41.450 --> 02:16:42.329
Ben Padilla go?
2248
02:16:42.870 --> 02:16:46.069
And what happened to the 727 that seemingly disappeared into
2249
02:16:46.110 --> 02:16:46.569
thin air?
2250
02:16:48.270 --> 02:16:51.110
One theory is that the mysterious disappearance is down to
2251
02:16:51.190 --> 02:16:52.049
insurance fraud.
2252
02:16:53.030 --> 02:16:55.229
As previously mentioned, the plane was due to be leased
2253
02:16:55.290 --> 02:16:58.590
by someone, however, the deal fell through and the plane
2254
02:16:58.649 --> 02:17:01.819
ended up procuring millions of dollars in fees the time
2255
02:17:01.860 --> 02:17:05.399
it was stored at the airport in Angola. Some people
2256
02:17:05.459 --> 02:17:08.020
are of the opinion that Mari Joseph and Ben Padilla
2257
02:17:08.120 --> 02:17:11.280
planned the plane's disappearance in order to claim insurance to
2258
02:17:11.319 --> 02:17:15.319
help pay those fees. Another theory is perhaps the two
2259
02:17:15.360 --> 02:17:17.840
men were on the plane at the wrong time, and
2260
02:17:17.860 --> 02:17:19.670
they were forced to fly the plane to wherever the
2261
02:17:19.700 --> 02:17:25.069
hijacker demanded. The FBI, NSA, and the CIA became involved
2262
02:17:25.129 --> 02:17:28.280
in the search for Ben and the missing Boeing 727
2263
02:17:28.280 --> 02:17:32.100
along with several other countries, but so far nothing has
2264
02:17:32.159 --> 02:17:36.319
ever been discovered or recovered. When Ben first took the job,
2265
02:17:36.799 --> 02:17:39.559
his brother recalled having a conversation.
2266
02:17:38.940 --> 02:17:40.250
With him about hijacking.
2267
02:17:41.180 --> 02:17:43.329
Ben told his brother that he would rather crash the
2268
02:17:43.350 --> 02:17:46.770
plane than comply with anyone's demands and wondered whether Ben
2269
02:17:46.809 --> 02:17:49.530
was harmed or was being held against his will somewhere.
2270
02:17:50.770 --> 02:17:54.059
The investigation into Ben's sudden disappearance and the disappearance of
2271
02:17:54.100 --> 02:17:57.819
the Boeing 727 is still ongoing but very little evidence
2272
02:17:57.860 --> 02:18:02.040
has surfaced. Ben Padilla is described as a white male
2273
02:18:02.159 --> 02:18:04.659
with brown hair, brown eyes and stands 6 foot 2
2274
02:18:04.659 --> 02:18:05.260
inches tall.
2275
02:18:06.579 --> 02:18:07.159
The Boeing 727-223.
2276
02:18:09.899 --> 02:18:16.520
Has a tail number of N844AA and the serial number 20985.
2277
02:18:16.549 --> 02:18:19.159
The plane also is an unpainted silver color with a
2278
02:18:19.180 --> 02:18:23.969
stripe of red, white, and blue. Anyone with information about
2279
02:18:24.049 --> 02:18:26.850
Ben or the plane is asked to contact the FBI
2280
02:18:26.989 --> 02:18:39.909
at 202-324-3000. Number two, Melanie Ethier. September 28th, 2022 will
2281
02:18:40.430 --> 02:18:44.829
mark the 26th anniversary of the disappearance of 15-year-old Melanie
2282
02:18:45.090 --> 02:18:50.770
Nadia Ethier from her home in New Liskeard, Ontario. Born
2283
02:18:50.829 --> 02:18:54.239
on Christmas Day in 1980, Melanie was a great joy
2284
02:18:54.280 --> 02:18:56.120
in her mother's life and to all.
2285
02:18:56.020 --> 02:18:59.399
Those who knew her. Melanie, her five-year-old.
2286
02:18:58.979 --> 02:19:01.799
Sister Jessie, and her mother Celine had lived in the
2287
02:19:01.840 --> 02:19:05.219
New Liskeard area for almost nine years, and those in
2288
02:19:05.260 --> 02:19:09.069
the community knew Melanie well. Melanie was known for her
2289
02:19:09.129 --> 02:19:11.670
vibrant personality and the fact that she was an honors
2290
02:19:11.709 --> 02:19:16.379
student at the Ecole Secondary Catholic School. Melanie had dreams
2291
02:19:16.420 --> 02:19:18.940
of becoming a teacher after she graduated from high school,
2292
02:19:19.760 --> 02:19:23.299
and in between completing homework, Melanie worked at a daycare
2293
02:19:23.340 --> 02:19:27.040
that was attached to her school. This job provided Melanie
2294
02:19:27.079 --> 02:19:29.790
with some independence and gave her valuable skills to take
2295
02:19:29.829 --> 02:19:34.889
into her future teaching career. Unfortunately, this bright and promising
2296
02:19:34.930 --> 02:19:37.299
young woman was taken and never got to live out
2297
02:19:37.340 --> 02:19:42.059
her dream of being a teacher. September 28th, 1996 was
2298
02:19:42.079 --> 02:19:44.440
the day that the lives of the Ethier family would
2299
02:19:44.479 --> 02:19:49.409
change forever. On that morning, Melanie headed towards the local
2300
02:19:49.440 --> 02:19:52.530
library after visiting a family friend and bumped into one
2301
02:19:52.549 --> 02:19:55.870
of her friends. The two girls decided to spend the
2302
02:19:55.889 --> 02:19:58.370
day together and they went into the city to do
2303
02:19:58.409 --> 02:20:01.870
a bit of shopping and relax. According to this friend,
2304
02:20:02.329 --> 02:20:05.280
Melanie bought a cake tin and cake making supplies that
2305
02:20:05.319 --> 02:20:08.500
she could make a birthday cake for her grandmother. Melanie
2306
02:20:08.520 --> 02:20:12.020
seemed excited about the trip, and the two girls enjoyed themselves.
2307
02:20:13.879 --> 02:20:16.100
As the day wore on, the girls made plans to
2308
02:20:16.149 --> 02:20:20.129
meet up with Melanie's boyfriend, Neil Fortier, and three other friends,
2309
02:20:20.370 --> 02:20:25.250
Dave Bromley, Jay Deneau, and Ryan Chatwin. The group of
2310
02:20:25.290 --> 02:20:27.649
teenagers hung out and planned what they wanted to do
2311
02:20:27.690 --> 02:20:31.530
together for the rest of the day and evening. September 28th,
2312
02:20:31.510 --> 02:20:35.809
1996 was a Saturday. so the youngsters wanted to make
2313
02:20:35.850 --> 02:20:38.629
the most of not having to go to bed early. So,
2314
02:20:38.729 --> 02:20:41.159
the group headed to a video store and rented a
2315
02:20:41.200 --> 02:20:42.760
copy of the film Sudden Death.
2316
02:20:43.620 --> 02:20:44.600
The original plan.
2317
02:20:44.360 --> 02:20:47.000
Was to head to Melanie's house, however, as Melanie's grandparents
2318
02:20:47.020 --> 02:20:50.020
were staying over, the house was already a hub of activity,
2319
02:20:50.819 --> 02:20:53.180
Melanie's room was a mess, and there was no place
2320
02:20:53.200 --> 02:20:56.459
for the teens to kick back and relax. This didn't
2321
02:20:56.479 --> 02:20:58.520
bother them though, and they merely decided to head to
2322
02:20:58.579 --> 02:21:02.329
another home, eventually settling on the home of Ryan Chatwin
2323
02:21:02.729 --> 02:21:06.579
on Pine Avenue. After wandering around, calling in at their
2324
02:21:06.620 --> 02:21:09.799
friends' homes, hoping to get a quiet room, the teens
2325
02:21:09.819 --> 02:21:13.049
were relieved to find that Ryan's parents were upstairs, leaving
2326
02:21:13.100 --> 02:21:16.110
them with free reign of the house. They settled in
2327
02:21:16.149 --> 02:21:18.350
to watch the film and just to chat and enjoy
2328
02:21:18.389 --> 02:21:22.250
each other's company. The hours ticked by and slowly, one
2329
02:21:22.290 --> 02:21:26.120
by one, the teens left and headed home. Melanie was
2330
02:21:26.180 --> 02:21:29.020
one of the last to leave Ryan Chatwin's house, unaware
2331
02:21:29.059 --> 02:21:32.899
of what her best friend had just encountered outside. That
2332
02:21:32.959 --> 02:21:35.579
best friend would later tell investigators that when she left
2333
02:21:35.659 --> 02:21:40.000
Ryan's house at 12.30 a.m., she saw a light-covered Chevrolet
2334
02:21:40.059 --> 02:21:43.899
Monte Carlo, or a similar car, crawling slowly down the street.
2335
02:21:44.780 --> 02:21:47.059
The driver of the car paid special attention to her
2336
02:21:47.159 --> 02:21:49.219
as she walked to the place where she's being picked up,
2337
02:21:49.940 --> 02:21:52.079
and she said that the driver scared her so much
2338
02:21:52.489 --> 02:21:56.450
that she took off running. Between 1.30 and 2 a.m.,
2339
02:21:56.950 --> 02:21:59.870
Melanie left Ryan's house, and this would be the last
2340
02:21:59.909 --> 02:22:03.010
time she was ever seen or heard from. Those left
2341
02:22:03.110 --> 02:22:05.819
over at Ryan's house watched as Melanie walked down Pine
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02:22:05.920 --> 02:22:10.040
Avenue and into the darkness. Her home was only about
2343
02:22:10.079 --> 02:22:14.479
a half mile away, but unfortunately, Melanie never completed the journey.
2344
02:22:15.559 --> 02:22:18.770
Her disappearance wasn't noted until much later that morning when
2345
02:22:18.790 --> 02:22:23.090
the Ethier household awoke to find no sign of Melanie. Selene,
2346
02:22:23.229 --> 02:22:26.489
her mother, checked with Melanie's friends, hoping that she had
2347
02:22:26.510 --> 02:22:29.190
stayed the night and just forgotten to call, but her
2348
02:22:29.229 --> 02:22:31.530
heart sank when her friends said that she wasn't there
2349
02:22:32.020 --> 02:22:32.309
and had.
2350
02:22:32.280 --> 02:22:33.569
Left about 2 a.m.
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02:22:35.030 --> 02:22:37.569
Celine rushed to the daycare where Melanie worked, and she
2352
02:22:37.610 --> 02:22:40.850
wasn't there either. That was the moment she knew it
2353
02:22:40.889 --> 02:22:44.430
was serious. She picked up the phone and called the police.
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02:22:46.579 --> 02:22:49.639
The New Lascard Police, along with the Ontario Provincial Police,
2355
02:22:49.719 --> 02:22:52.639
began their search for Melanie, and began knocking on doors
2356
02:22:52.700 --> 02:22:56.620
of homes and businesses in the community. Melanie's personal life
2357
02:22:56.639 --> 02:22:58.260
was looked at, and those who were with her on
2358
02:22:58.280 --> 02:23:02.750
the night she disappeared were also questioned. Investigators were very
2359
02:23:02.809 --> 02:23:06.079
interested in the account given by Melanie's best friend, and
2360
02:23:06.090 --> 02:23:10.139
believed that Melanie may have either been targeted or mistakenly targeted,
2361
02:23:10.760 --> 02:23:15.299
as her attackers may have believed she was someone else. Helicopters,
2362
02:23:15.540 --> 02:23:18.940
scent dogs, and search and rescue personnel combed through Nula's cart,
2363
02:23:19.459 --> 02:23:22.639
looking for any sign of Melanie, but nothing could be found.
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02:23:23.500 --> 02:23:25.170
It was as if she had simply vanished.
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02:23:26.309 --> 02:23:28.989
There were a few reports of a girl matching Melanie's
2366
02:23:29.030 --> 02:23:33.030
description walking on the Armstrong Street Bridge across the Wabi River.
2367
02:23:33.870 --> 02:23:36.489
The Wabi River has been searched by dive teams, but
2368
02:23:36.569 --> 02:23:41.290
nothing was ever found. Multiple searches were conducted, but so far,
2369
02:23:41.610 --> 02:23:43.829
the police have yet to find any evidence of what
2370
02:23:43.889 --> 02:23:44.729
happened to Melanie.
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02:23:45.590 --> 02:23:46.889
Her mother, Celine, made.
2372
02:23:46.770 --> 02:23:49.729
A post to the Let's Work Together to Find Melanie
2373
02:23:49.870 --> 02:23:52.229
FDA Facebook group in November 2020.
2374
02:23:52.229 --> 02:23:54.629
Here's part of that post.
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02:23:56.010 --> 02:23:59.569
For many years, I've felt that Melanie is no longer alive,
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02:24:00.530 --> 02:24:02.909
and I know that finding the truth about her disappearance
2377
02:24:02.930 --> 02:24:03.969
will not change that.
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02:24:05.270 --> 02:24:08.479
I'm not driven by justice, anger, or vengeance.
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02:24:09.700 --> 02:24:12.920
I'm a mother searching for a missing child so that
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02:24:12.940 --> 02:24:16.260
I can give her the dignified memorial she deserves and
2381
02:24:16.299 --> 02:24:20.280
enable my family to finally grieve, find closure, and heal.
2382
02:24:21.549 --> 02:24:23.770
You may not be able to bring Melanie back to life,
2383
02:24:24.649 --> 02:24:27.370
but by providing the police with the information needed to
2384
02:24:27.409 --> 02:24:29.989
bring back her body, you can help me and my
2385
02:24:30.069 --> 02:24:35.579
family begin to rebuild ours. Also in the Facebook group,
2386
02:24:35.840 --> 02:24:38.899
Celine and others have made numerous posts about Dennis Lavier.
2387
02:24:39.440 --> 02:24:42.959
Who is a family friend. Three days after Melanie's.
2388
02:24:42.659 --> 02:24:46.360
Disappearance, Dennis made a chilling statement to Celine's mother who
2389
02:24:46.389 --> 02:24:50.250
had been staying at the home for birthday celebrations. According
2390
02:24:50.290 --> 02:24:53.659
to the grandmother, which is Celine's mother, Dennis came around
2391
02:24:53.700 --> 02:24:55.899
to the house and was smoking a cigarette in the basement,
2392
02:24:56.340 --> 02:24:59.319
which was extremely out of character and something that Celine
2393
02:24:59.399 --> 02:25:03.620
wouldn't have allowed. Then, as Dennis smoked a cigarette, he
2394
02:25:03.680 --> 02:25:07.280
chillingly told the grandmother that the person responsible had to
2395
02:25:07.309 --> 02:25:11.729
have been very strong. As previously mentioned, Melanie had taken
2396
02:25:11.790 --> 02:25:14.989
self-defense classes and she also loved ballet and other sports,
2397
02:25:15.530 --> 02:25:18.090
so she was in good shape and strong for her age.
2398
02:25:19.149 --> 02:25:21.610
That wasn't the only chilling thing that Dennis said, though.
2399
02:25:22.510 --> 02:25:26.159
He rolled up his sleeves and showed the grandmother fresh, deep.
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02:25:26.280 --> 02:25:27.479
Nail marks on his arm.
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02:25:28.979 --> 02:25:32.280
This discovery sent chills through the Ethier family, but Dennis
2402
02:25:32.340 --> 02:25:34.940
played it off and told Celine and the family that
2403
02:25:34.979 --> 02:25:37.250
Melanie had done that to him while they were play
2404
02:25:37.309 --> 02:25:41.430
fighting in the days before she disappeared. Nobody in the
2405
02:25:41.489 --> 02:25:45.110
Ethier family believed Dennis' version of events, and it later
2406
02:25:45.190 --> 02:25:48.000
transpired that Dennis was known to try and inappropriately talk
2407
02:25:48.010 --> 02:25:52.250
to and engage with minors. The scope of Melanie's case
2408
02:25:52.350 --> 02:25:55.149
deserves a video of its own, and many theories come
2409
02:25:55.209 --> 02:26:00.709
up in this case. Unfortunately, Dennis passed away in 2016,
2410
02:26:00.709 --> 02:26:02.959
taking any secrets he had with him to the grave.
2411
02:26:04.079 --> 02:26:06.840
Many people have came forward claiming that Dennis had admitted
2412
02:26:06.879 --> 02:26:09.579
to them that he had harmed Melanie, but these claims
2413
02:26:09.639 --> 02:26:13.920
could never be substantiated. Celine believes that Dennis is the
2414
02:26:13.959 --> 02:26:17.670
most likely suspect in Melanie's disappearance, and while Dennis has
2415
02:26:17.709 --> 02:26:20.819
now passed away, She believes that someone out there has
2416
02:26:20.860 --> 02:26:24.120
the right information to bring the right person to justice
2417
02:26:24.520 --> 02:26:27.680
for what they did to Melanie. There are many ins
2418
02:26:27.739 --> 02:26:30.280
and outs in this case, and Celine has been the
2419
02:26:30.360 --> 02:26:33.040
driving force behind keeping her daughter's name in the media.
2420
02:26:33.979 --> 02:26:37.959
She's created numerous posters, billboards, and social media accounts to
2421
02:26:38.000 --> 02:26:40.739
help keep her daughter's memory alive and to help bring
2422
02:26:40.799 --> 02:26:44.899
her home. Melanie Atier was last seen on September 28, 1996,
2423
02:26:44.879 --> 02:26:51.180
on Pine Avenue in in Newless Garden, Ontario. She is
2424
02:26:51.219 --> 02:26:54.200
described as a black female with long braided black hair,
2425
02:26:54.819 --> 02:26:56.540
brown eyes, standing.
2426
02:26:57.000 --> 02:26:58.639
5'5 and weighing 120 pounds.
2427
02:26:59.540 --> 02:27:02.760
She was last seen wearing a green Nike jacket, blue jeans,
2428
02:27:03.319 --> 02:27:06.360
a white t-shirt with a blue heart, peppy logo, and
2429
02:27:06.399 --> 02:27:10.780
black boots. Anyone with information is asked to please contact
2430
02:27:10.879 --> 02:27:18.079
any of the following. Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 the Lascard
2431
02:27:18.120 --> 02:27:21.260
Police Service at 7005-647-4388, the Ontario Provincial Police at 1-888-310-1122,
2432
02:27:21.340 --> 02:27:23.520
or you can send an anonymous letter to Celine Entier
2433
02:27:23.540 --> 02:27:32.010
at Box 2055, New Lascard, Ontario, TOJ. or you can
2434
02:27:32.030 --> 02:27:37.399
send an anonymous letter to Celine Entier at Box 2055,
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02:27:37.399 --> 02:27:41.719
New Liscard, Ontario, POJ1PO.
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02:27:44.940 --> 02:27:48.610
Number 1, August Rieger.
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02:27:48.629 --> 02:27:52.329
18-year-old August Rieger had recently graduated from the Classin School
2438
02:27:52.350 --> 02:27:55.270
of Advanced Studies and was even awarded the honor of
2439
02:27:55.329 --> 02:27:59.899
being that year's valedictorian. For August, Life was just beginning,
2440
02:28:00.059 --> 02:28:02.420
and the world was truly his oyster, and he had
2441
02:28:02.500 --> 02:28:07.639
earned himself a full scholarship at the University of Oklahoma. Unfortunately,
2442
02:28:07.799 --> 02:28:10.459
that summer was snatched away right from under the nose
2443
02:28:10.500 --> 02:28:13.940
of August's family, and almost a decade later on, his
2444
02:28:14.120 --> 02:28:19.969
case remains unsolved. On June 16, 2013, August and his
2445
02:28:20.010 --> 02:28:22.510
family took the trip of a lifetime to Ecuador to
2446
02:28:22.549 --> 02:28:27.090
celebrate his graduation. According to his parents, Chris and Randa,
2447
02:28:27.739 --> 02:28:30.379
August had asked for a holiday to a Spanish-speaking country,
2448
02:28:30.860 --> 02:28:33.959
as he wanted to practice his Spanish. His parents would
2449
02:28:34.000 --> 02:28:36.299
later tell news outlets that this was just the kind
2450
02:28:36.319 --> 02:28:39.959
of person August is, always wanting to learn and improve himself.
2451
02:28:40.819 --> 02:28:43.200
The family packed up their things and headed to Ecuador,
2452
02:28:43.670 --> 02:28:47.690
not knowing the horrors that awaited them. The family was
2453
02:28:47.709 --> 02:28:51.329
staying in Banos, central Ecuador, and were counting down the
2454
02:28:51.370 --> 02:28:54.850
days until their dream tour came around. The family had
2455
02:28:54.889 --> 02:28:57.670
booked on to a three-day tour of the Amazon jungle,
2456
02:28:58.170 --> 02:29:00.090
something August was especially.
2457
02:28:59.670 --> 02:29:00.549
Looking forward to.
2458
02:29:01.629 --> 02:29:04.950
With time to spare, Chris, Randa, August and his siblings
2459
02:29:05.350 --> 02:29:07.270
decided to take a hike on a trail close to
2460
02:29:07.309 --> 02:29:10.270
their hotel. This would give them a chance to experience
2461
02:29:10.309 --> 02:29:13.030
the natural beauty that Ecuador has to offer while still
2462
02:29:13.079 --> 02:29:18.379
being close to civilization. Unfortunately, despite being close to their
2463
02:29:18.420 --> 02:29:23.290
hotel and other populated areas, the unthinkable happened. As the
2464
02:29:23.329 --> 02:29:26.610
family went along the trail, August sped ahead and told
2465
02:29:26.629 --> 02:29:28.209
them that he would wait for them at the top.
2466
02:29:29.069 --> 02:29:32.010
The rest of the family followed behind, expecting to see
2467
02:29:32.090 --> 02:29:35.569
August smiling and waiting for them, but he was nowhere
2468
02:29:35.610 --> 02:29:38.809
to be found. His family looked around for him, but
2469
02:29:38.870 --> 02:29:42.389
saw nothing. They decided to head back to the hotel,
2470
02:29:42.649 --> 02:29:45.690
thinking that August had possibly gone there, maybe taking another
2471
02:29:45.750 --> 02:29:48.959
route down, but as they reached their room, there was
2472
02:29:49.000 --> 02:29:53.280
still no sign of August. The Rieger family waited, hoping
2473
02:29:53.319 --> 02:29:57.909
that August would return. Hours later, when that didn't transpire,
2474
02:29:58.440 --> 02:30:01.930
they reported their son missing to the Ecuadorian authorities, and
2475
02:30:01.930 --> 02:30:04.969
24 hours after he was last seen, a search party
2476
02:30:05.010 --> 02:30:09.030
was established to find the missing teen. The governor's office
2477
02:30:09.049 --> 02:30:11.190
of the province where the Riggers were staying made a
2478
02:30:11.190 --> 02:30:14.750
statement in the wake of August's disappearance, reassuring the media
2479
02:30:15.059 --> 02:30:18.360
and U.S. citizens watching the story closely that all efforts
2480
02:30:18.420 --> 02:30:21.319
were being made to find the young man. Part of
2481
02:30:21.379 --> 02:30:25.149
the statement read, A special team of local authorities, including
2482
02:30:25.209 --> 02:30:29.729
members of the armed forces, police, fire department, and some volunteers,
2483
02:30:30.209 --> 02:30:31.170
were deployed.
2484
02:30:30.829 --> 02:30:32.469
In order to find Mr. Rieger.
2485
02:30:33.229 --> 02:30:36.020
Hours slowly turned into days, and there was still no
2486
02:30:36.079 --> 02:30:40.040
word from August. His family waited patiently for any updates
2487
02:30:40.100 --> 02:30:44.280
or leads as to their son's whereabouts. August's missing person
2488
02:30:44.319 --> 02:30:47.850
poster was distributed across Ecuador, and locals kept a close
2489
02:30:47.989 --> 02:30:51.780
eye out for him. Ten days later, a bizarre sighting
2490
02:30:51.819 --> 02:30:55.540
was reported to the Ecuadorian authorities. According to an ABC
2491
02:30:55.559 --> 02:30:59.190
News article written on June 26, 2013, there had been
2492
02:30:59.209 --> 02:31:02.790
a possible sighting of August. The article goes on to say,
2493
02:31:03.270 --> 02:31:06.450
a high school valedictorian from Oklahoma who has been missing
2494
02:31:06.489 --> 02:31:08.790
for more than a week in Ecuador might have been
2495
02:31:08.829 --> 02:31:11.319
spotted on the back of a truck headed toward the
2496
02:31:11.379 --> 02:31:14.739
Amazon rainforest, the family told ABC News.
2497
02:31:15.920 --> 02:31:16.659
This wouldn't be the.
2498
02:31:16.659 --> 02:31:19.500
Only sighting of August, though, and as the months passed,
2499
02:31:19.879 --> 02:31:23.479
more sightings would be called in to the authorities. Christy Rieger,
2500
02:31:23.819 --> 02:31:28.819
August's aunt, spoke to KOCO5 News in 2014, telling the
2501
02:31:28.860 --> 02:31:32.819
station that authorities had received several credible sightings of August
2502
02:31:33.200 --> 02:31:35.860
over the last few weeks and that the family held
2503
02:31:35.959 --> 02:31:39.959
out hope that August was still out there unharmed. This
2504
02:31:40.000 --> 02:31:43.760
sentiment was also echoed on the Facebook page Find August Rieger,
2505
02:31:44.200 --> 02:31:48.819
which is run by his family. On May 7th, 2014,
2506
02:31:48.819 --> 02:31:51.799
A post was made to the Facebook page reading, We
2507
02:31:51.840 --> 02:31:53.860
are excited to report that there have been a few
2508
02:31:53.920 --> 02:31:57.540
recent sightings of August. We are grateful for the Ecuadorian
2509
02:31:57.579 --> 02:31:59.860
citizens who are helping out with the goodness of their hearts.
2510
02:32:00.680 --> 02:32:01.920
We will bring him home.
2511
02:32:03.360 --> 02:32:06.260
Underneath this post, a comment was also added by the
2512
02:32:06.280 --> 02:32:10.600
page that reads, No more info for now. The investigation
2513
02:32:10.639 --> 02:32:13.659
is obviously active and on the move. Sharing too much
2514
02:32:13.860 --> 02:32:18.909
could compromise that. Since then, the Ecuadorian authorities and August's
2515
02:32:18.950 --> 02:32:21.709
family have continued to look for him, and his family
2516
02:32:21.989 --> 02:32:26.329
have praised the authorities and the people of Ecuador. Posters
2517
02:32:26.370 --> 02:32:29.389
with August's face were widely distributed, and it's a case
2518
02:32:29.430 --> 02:32:31.510
that many Ecuadorians will not forget.
2519
02:32:32.639 --> 02:32:33.680
Years have passed.
2520
02:32:33.420 --> 02:32:36.079
Since August vanished, and his family still holds out hope
2521
02:32:36.120 --> 02:32:39.760
that he is alive somewhere. No ransom demands have ever
2522
02:32:39.799 --> 02:32:43.000
been made, and the authorities cannot figure out why anyone
2523
02:32:43.059 --> 02:32:46.549
would have wanted to kidnap August. There's also the theory
2524
02:32:46.590 --> 02:32:48.690
that August fell over the edge while on the hike,
2525
02:32:49.319 --> 02:32:52.299
but his remains have never been recovered to support this theory.
2526
02:32:52.319 --> 02:32:56.659
The August family runs the Find August Rieger Facebook page,
2527
02:32:57.159 --> 02:32:59.959
along with making media appearances to keep his story in
2528
02:32:59.979 --> 02:33:04.760
the public eye. August Rieger was last seen on June 16, 2013,
2529
02:33:04.760 --> 02:33:10.079
in the mountains of Banos in Ecuador. Photos showing possible
2530
02:33:10.159 --> 02:33:14.309
alterations in August's appearance are available via the Facebook page, alternatively,
2531
02:33:14.760 --> 02:33:20.680
you can contact your nearest U.S. Embassy or consulate office. Well, folks,
2532
02:33:20.899 --> 02:33:23.299
there you have it. What do you think of these
2533
02:33:23.379 --> 02:33:28.559
strange and creepy disappearances? I look forward to hearing your comments.
2534
02:33:29.500 --> 02:33:34.379
Please keep it friendly and respectful. Meanwhile, be good to
2535
02:33:34.399 --> 02:33:39.100
yourselves and each other. Stay safe out there. As for me,
2536
02:33:39.500 --> 02:33:41.389
I'll see you a little farther on down the trail.
2537
02:33:42.409 --> 02:34:10.850
I'm Steve Stockton, And I'll talk to you next time. Hello, friends.
2538
02:34:11.709 --> 02:34:12.780
Steve Stockton here with you.
2539
02:34:14.510 --> 02:34:16.899
In this video, we're going to be discussing some strange
2540
02:34:17.059 --> 02:34:22.379
wilderness disappearances you may never have heard of. So sit back, relax,
2541
02:34:23.219 --> 02:34:27.780
and let the stories begin. Now, for some, a walk
2542
02:34:27.819 --> 02:34:30.200
in the wilderness can be the perfect getaway from everyday
2543
02:34:30.239 --> 02:34:35.020
life and a chance to reconnect with Mother Nature. For others,
2544
02:34:35.520 --> 02:34:38.440
the great outdoors can be a dangerous place, and unfortunately,
2545
02:34:38.700 --> 02:34:41.000
it's a place where many people meet their end or
2546
02:34:41.239 --> 02:34:45.459
just mysteriously vanish. Here are four such cases for you
2547
02:34:45.479 --> 02:34:53.510
to consider. Number four, Brian Skolinski. 40-year-old Brian Skolinski was
2548
02:34:53.549 --> 02:34:56.430
at a turning point in his life. He was admittedly
2549
02:34:56.450 --> 02:34:59.030
in the midst of a midlife crisis and was desperately
2550
02:34:59.129 --> 02:35:02.790
seeking answers and a purpose in his life. He told
2551
02:35:02.850 --> 02:35:06.309
CBS Denver, I was trying to find motivation for the
2552
02:35:06.370 --> 02:35:09.969
next 40 years of my life. I wanted to exert myself.
2553
02:35:10.670 --> 02:35:12.690
I didn't want to go to the extremes that I did.
2554
02:35:14.280 --> 02:35:16.729
In a bid to clear his head and reconnect with nature,
2555
02:35:17.370 --> 02:35:20.069
Brian headed out into the Great Sand Dunes National Park
2556
02:35:20.129 --> 02:35:25.010
and Preserve. What should have been a life-changing expedition almost
2557
02:35:25.049 --> 02:35:29.129
turned into a tragedy. On February 11th, Brian entered the
2558
02:35:29.190 --> 02:35:32.030
Great Sand Dunes National Park, headed for the Coal Creek
2559
02:35:32.090 --> 02:35:34.879
Drainage Area, which would have seen him hiking 10 miles
2560
02:35:34.959 --> 02:35:37.979
around the perimeter of the park. Coal Creek Drainage is
2561
02:35:38.040 --> 02:35:40.420
located at the base of Mount Harold. and what had
2562
02:35:40.459 --> 02:35:43.729
provided Brian with spectacular views and the perfect amount of
2563
02:35:43.750 --> 02:35:47.469
quiet time to clear his head. Sometime into his walk,
2564
02:35:48.149 --> 02:35:51.909
the conditions changed, however, and he began to encounter snowdrifts.
2565
02:35:52.790 --> 02:35:54.790
Any other person would probably have turned around and headed
2566
02:35:54.850 --> 02:35:58.829
back to their car, but Brian had other ideas. In
2567
02:35:58.879 --> 02:36:02.379
an interview with CBS Denver, he says, I said, this
2568
02:36:02.459 --> 02:36:03.540
isn't going to stop me.
2569
02:36:03.940 --> 02:36:07.280
Three feet of snow. Three feet isn't going to stop me.
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02:36:07.840 --> 02:36:10.319
Four feet isn't going to stop me. I'm going to
2571
02:36:10.340 --> 02:36:16.920
keep going. Why? I couldn't tell you. Unfortunately, this mistake.
2572
02:36:16.620 --> 02:36:21.360
Would almost cost Brian his life. After becoming stranded, Brian
2573
02:36:21.479 --> 02:36:24.879
soon realized the mistake he had made. He had no shelter,
2574
02:36:25.139 --> 02:36:28.079
no extra clothing, and only two small meals meant to
2575
02:36:28.139 --> 02:36:32.049
sustain him for one day. As the sun rose on
2576
02:36:32.090 --> 02:36:35.649
the second day, Brian desperately tried to continue his fight
2577
02:36:35.690 --> 02:36:39.149
to find his way home. The freezing temperatures and snow
2578
02:36:39.250 --> 02:36:41.950
did little to help, of course, and by the third day,
2579
02:36:42.450 --> 02:36:44.290
he had to cut the laces and tongues out of
2580
02:36:44.329 --> 02:36:48.629
his boots as they had frozen over. Now, with damaged boots,
2581
02:36:48.809 --> 02:36:52.840
no food, no water, no warm clothes, Brian carried on walking.
2582
02:36:53.799 --> 02:36:56.680
To make matters worse, Brian had gotten lost and had
2583
02:36:56.719 --> 02:37:01.329
found himself on the sand dunes. His absence had gone unnoticed, though,
2584
02:37:01.909 --> 02:37:04.569
and by the fifth day of him being missing, Ragers
2585
02:37:04.590 --> 02:37:06.409
from the park noticed that his car had been parked
2586
02:37:06.430 --> 02:37:10.409
there an unusually long time. After failing to make contact
2587
02:37:10.450 --> 02:37:14.370
with the owner, they set about looking for him. Park ragers,
2588
02:37:14.549 --> 02:37:18.469
along with volunteers, horse and aero units, began scanning the park,
2589
02:37:18.909 --> 02:37:21.409
looking for any sign of the missing man, but there
2590
02:37:21.469 --> 02:37:25.030
was nothing to be seen. Sniffer dogs were even brought in,
2591
02:37:25.110 --> 02:37:28.590
and while his footprints and scent were found, Brian wasn't.
2592
02:37:29.750 --> 02:37:32.299
As the fifth day was drawn to a close, the
2593
02:37:32.379 --> 02:37:35.620
outlook was looking very bleak for Brian and his chance
2594
02:37:35.659 --> 02:37:38.379
of survival was growing slimmer and slimmer by the minute.
2595
02:37:39.340 --> 02:37:44.159
Then a miracle happened. He told CBS Denver, I'd given
2596
02:37:44.239 --> 02:37:47.040
up on my mission to the stars. I saw a
2597
02:37:47.079 --> 02:37:50.930
road and that's when I was discovered by rescuers. He
2598
02:37:50.969 --> 02:37:53.649
was escorted to the Great Sand Dunes Visitor Center and said,
2599
02:37:54.270 --> 02:37:55.969
I walk in there and I see a picture of
2600
02:37:56.010 --> 02:37:58.870
myself on the bulletin board and a map. To be
2601
02:37:58.889 --> 02:38:01.129
honest with you, I didn't even think people were looking
2602
02:38:01.190 --> 02:38:01.530
for me.
2603
02:38:02.989 --> 02:38:03.920
It was a miracle.
2604
02:38:04.979 --> 02:38:07.799
Brian had been found alive and well after surviving for
2605
02:38:07.899 --> 02:38:12.540
five days in below freezing temperatures without food, water, shelter,
2606
02:38:12.680 --> 02:38:17.250
or adequate clothing. His extremities had suffered from frostbite, but
2607
02:38:17.290 --> 02:38:21.090
he refused to accept medical treatment. Instead, all he asked
2608
02:38:21.129 --> 02:38:23.090
of his rescuers was to help him get back home
2609
02:38:23.159 --> 02:38:27.299
to New York. Brian's story doesn't end there, though. This
2610
02:38:27.420 --> 02:38:29.899
wouldn't be the last time he would disappear into the wilderness.
2611
02:38:30.860 --> 02:38:34.659
In early May 2017, Brian Skalinski would hit the headlines
2612
02:38:34.799 --> 02:38:38.200
once again when he disappeared from the Great Sand Dunes
2613
02:38:38.260 --> 02:38:42.979
National Park and Preserve. According to reports, Brian went missing
2614
02:38:43.180 --> 02:38:46.280
and again Park Rangers discovered his car in a picnic
2615
02:38:46.360 --> 02:38:49.379
area and tried to track him down. When they failed
2616
02:38:49.399 --> 02:38:52.040
to do so, they got together a search and rescue team.
2617
02:38:52.559 --> 02:38:57.280
But this time, the outcome wasn't so bright. Unfortunately, bad
2618
02:38:57.340 --> 02:39:00.120
weather prevented the search teams from conducting a thorough search,
2619
02:39:00.719 --> 02:39:05.530
and on June 28th, 2017, Brian's body was discovered, covered
2620
02:39:05.549 --> 02:39:14.350
with deep snow. Number three, Randy Rasko. On November 19th, 2015,
2621
02:39:14.350 --> 02:39:17.190
Park rangers at the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky
2622
02:39:17.610 --> 02:39:19.270
noticed that a car had been sitting in the car
2623
02:39:19.309 --> 02:39:23.659
park for around two weeks. This immediately set off warning bells,
2624
02:39:24.620 --> 02:39:27.799
and after doing some digging for information, they discovered that
2625
02:39:27.840 --> 02:39:31.659
the car belonged to 40-year-old Randy Rasko. As the car
2626
02:39:31.680 --> 02:39:33.979
had been there for quite some time, the park rangers
2627
02:39:34.000 --> 02:39:36.989
set about searching for Randy right away. But when he
2628
02:39:37.020 --> 02:39:39.569
couldn't be found in or near the parking area, they
2629
02:39:39.629 --> 02:39:43.930
opened an investigation and widened their search. Park rangers and
2630
02:39:43.979 --> 02:39:47.139
investigators contacted Randy's family to see if they had spoken
2631
02:39:47.200 --> 02:39:51.020
to him, but chillingly, they had been out of contact.
2632
02:39:50.540 --> 02:39:51.340
For a few months.
2633
02:39:53.020 --> 02:39:57.159
According to his sister Sherry, up until May 2015, everything
2634
02:39:57.219 --> 02:40:00.309
was normal. On a regular basis, he was doing his
2635
02:40:00.370 --> 02:40:04.190
normal things. Hunting, fishing, and kept in contact with our
2636
02:40:04.209 --> 02:40:05.690
brother who lived close to his.
2637
02:40:05.610 --> 02:40:06.610
Bowling Green apartment.
2638
02:40:07.409 --> 02:40:09.520
Then one day out of the blue... He packed up
2639
02:40:09.559 --> 02:40:12.260
his belongings, quit his job, and had his mail forwarded
2640
02:40:12.309 --> 02:40:16.329
to another address, and just left. Sherry said they filed
2641
02:40:16.370 --> 02:40:18.510
a missing persons report after they found out he had
2642
02:40:18.549 --> 02:40:21.829
just fled and were worried as he had recently gotten divorced.
2643
02:40:23.069 --> 02:40:25.930
For a month, the Rasco family waited for any news,
2644
02:40:26.510 --> 02:40:28.510
and in June, he was found safe and sound in
2645
02:40:28.579 --> 02:40:31.860
Washington State. Randy made it clear that he didn't want
2646
02:40:31.879 --> 02:40:34.040
to speak to his family at that time and wanted
2647
02:40:34.079 --> 02:40:37.790
to be alone. As painful as it was, His family
2648
02:40:37.829 --> 02:40:40.159
respected his boundaries and assured him they would welcome him
2649
02:40:40.190 --> 02:40:43.979
back with open arms whenever he was ready. For the
2650
02:40:44.020 --> 02:40:47.180
next few months, it's believed that Randy traveled all around
2651
02:40:47.219 --> 02:40:51.879
the U.S. while maintaining his privacy and secrecy. His family
2652
02:40:51.940 --> 02:40:54.420
didn't know that anything was wrong until the Mammoth Cave
2653
02:40:54.479 --> 02:40:57.469
National Park Rangers contacted them to let them know that
2654
02:40:57.500 --> 02:41:01.370
his car had been found abandoned. With this second disappearance,
2655
02:41:01.969 --> 02:41:04.549
his family hoped that there would be a positive resolution.
2656
02:41:05.569 --> 02:41:10.020
But sadly, As of 2022, Randy Rasko is still missing.
2657
02:41:10.940 --> 02:41:13.739
Search crews, volunteers, and even the Civil Air Patrol all
2658
02:41:13.819 --> 02:41:18.110
joined in on the search for Randy, scouring the over 53,000
2659
02:41:18.110 --> 02:41:21.569
acres of land in the park. Despite their best efforts
2660
02:41:21.670 --> 02:41:25.129
and multiple searches, no sign of Randy has ever been found,
2661
02:41:25.690 --> 02:41:27.579
and his car is the only clue we have in
2662
02:41:27.610 --> 02:41:31.940
terms of his mysterious disappearance. Randy Rasko is described as
2663
02:41:31.979 --> 02:41:36.469
a white male, 6'2, with black hair, hazel eyes, and
2664
02:41:36.489 --> 02:41:40.950
a slim athletic build. Anyone with any information is asked
2665
02:41:40.989 --> 02:41:47.299
to please contact the Mammoth Cave National Park at 270-758-2180.
2666
02:41:50.340 --> 02:41:51.620
Number 2.
2667
02:41:51.620 --> 02:41:56.420
Maureen Kelly 19-year-old Maureen Kelly embarked on what she thought
2668
02:41:56.479 --> 02:42:00.159
would be a spiritual adventure of a lifetime. However, this
2669
02:42:00.219 --> 02:42:03.510
adventure quickly turned sour and she has been missing ever since.
2670
02:42:04.659 --> 02:42:08.040
On June 19th of 2013, Maureen and a group of
2671
02:42:08.100 --> 02:42:11.260
friends arrived at the Canyon Creek Campground in the Gifford
2672
02:42:11.299 --> 02:42:15.459
Pinchot National Park in Washington State. Ready to camp and
2673
02:42:15.540 --> 02:42:18.469
hang out together and have a good time. The friends
2674
02:42:18.489 --> 02:42:20.829
were relaxing and taking in the natural beauty of the
2675
02:42:20.850 --> 02:42:23.909
park when Maureen abruptly announced that she was going on
2676
02:42:23.950 --> 02:42:27.829
a spiritual adventure. She took off all of her clothes,
2677
02:42:28.290 --> 02:42:30.909
removed her shoes, and was equipped with nothing but a
2678
02:42:30.950 --> 02:42:33.049
fanny pack that is believed to have held a pocket knife,
2679
02:42:33.250 --> 02:42:37.049
a compass, and a few matches. After declaring that she
2680
02:42:37.069 --> 02:42:40.350
was going on a spiritual adventure, Maureen headed out into
2681
02:42:40.389 --> 02:42:44.590
the woods, never to be seen again. Maureen didn't tell
2682
02:42:44.629 --> 02:42:46.770
her friends how long she was going to be or
2683
02:42:46.950 --> 02:42:49.549
even where she was headed, but they figured she would
2684
02:42:49.590 --> 02:42:52.110
be back at least within a few hours to tell
2685
02:42:52.129 --> 02:42:55.930
them all about her spiritual journey. As darkness rolled in
2686
02:42:56.090 --> 02:42:59.379
and Maureen still hadn't returned, A group of friends alerted
2687
02:42:59.420 --> 02:43:03.479
the Skamania County Sheriff's Office, and she was officially reported missing.
2688
02:43:04.420 --> 02:43:07.219
There were added concerns about her welfare, due to the
2689
02:43:07.260 --> 02:43:10.100
fact that she'd left without clothes, shoes, food and water,
2690
02:43:10.600 --> 02:43:15.930
and within hours, a huge search and rescue mission began. Volunteers,
2691
02:43:16.049 --> 02:43:18.909
park rangers, and search and rescue coordinators combed through the park,
2692
02:43:19.149 --> 02:43:22.729
looking for any sign of her. But, despite their best efforts,
2693
02:43:23.129 --> 02:43:25.629
it was as if she had vanished into thin air.
2694
02:43:26.950 --> 02:43:30.149
One clue did surface, however, and as search teams were
2695
02:43:30.190 --> 02:43:33.809
looking on the ground, they came across footprints, bare footprints,
2696
02:43:34.450 --> 02:43:37.829
that were the same size as Marine's feet. Working on
2697
02:43:37.889 --> 02:43:40.860
this singular clue, sniffer dogs were brought in in an
2698
02:43:40.920 --> 02:43:43.760
attempt to trace her scent, but due to the rainfall,
2699
02:43:43.840 --> 02:43:45.280
they were unable to pick up anything.
2700
02:43:46.420 --> 02:43:48.180
The footprints showed that Marine.
2701
02:43:47.940 --> 02:43:52.040
Had perhaps headed north towards Forest Service 54 Road, but
2702
02:43:52.120 --> 02:43:55.360
as previously mentioned, the trail ended where the road began.
2703
02:43:56.600 --> 02:43:59.059
Helicopters were brought in, but they were unable to search
2704
02:43:59.100 --> 02:44:01.500
for Maureen in the initial hours and days following her
2705
02:44:01.520 --> 02:44:07.780
disappearance due to severe weather conditions. 19-year-old Maureen Kelly remains missing,
2706
02:44:08.219 --> 02:44:11.479
and the Skamania County Sheriff's Office is still no closer
2707
02:44:11.520 --> 02:44:14.829
to finding out what happened to her. Many believe that
2708
02:44:14.860 --> 02:44:17.729
she succumbed to the ailments that very night, but as
2709
02:44:17.770 --> 02:44:20.709
her body has never been found, nobody knows for sure.
2710
02:44:21.690 --> 02:44:24.909
Maureen is described as an Asian Pacific Islander with black hair,
2711
02:44:25.129 --> 02:44:28.989
brown eyes, She stands 5'7 inches tall and weighs about
2712
02:44:28.989 --> 02:44:33.389
150 pounds. Anyone with any information is asked to please
2713
02:44:33.450 --> 02:44:37.010
contact the Skamania County Sheriff's Office at 509-427-9490 and reference
2714
02:44:37.049 --> 02:44:40.409
case number 13-04081. Number 1. Kat Hamantre On April 11, 2019,
2715
02:44:40.379 --> 02:44:58.260
68-year-old Kat Hamantre Her dog Tootsie, her husband, her daughter,
2716
02:44:58.600 --> 02:45:00.569
and a group of other hikers set off into the
2717
02:45:00.620 --> 02:45:04.829
San Felipe Desert in Baja, California, Mexico. The group were
2718
02:45:04.870 --> 02:45:08.930
either headed for or near the Diablo Canyon, uh-oh, when
2719
02:45:08.989 --> 02:45:12.719
tragedy struck. In this community, we know all about places
2720
02:45:12.750 --> 02:45:16.819
with devil in the name. According to the Seattle Times,
2721
02:45:17.040 --> 02:45:19.219
Kate had lived in Mexico for the past 20 years
2722
02:45:19.239 --> 02:45:21.799
and would often make the trip to Seattle, Washington to
2723
02:45:21.840 --> 02:45:25.860
visit her friends and family. The details surrounding Kat's disappearance
2724
02:45:25.909 --> 02:45:29.590
are sparse, but here is what we do know. According
2725
02:45:29.629 --> 02:45:33.530
to Kat's daughter, Desiree Blair, about 10 minutes into the hike,
2726
02:45:33.809 --> 02:45:35.790
Kat complained that she had hurt her foot or ankle
2727
02:45:36.110 --> 02:45:37.879
and told the group that she would take a quick
2728
02:45:37.930 --> 02:45:41.639
break while they continued on. Her husband later commented that
2729
02:45:41.680 --> 02:45:44.139
the injury seemed severe and he believed that Kat may
2730
02:45:44.180 --> 02:45:47.719
have actually broken her foot or ankle. The group left
2731
02:45:47.780 --> 02:45:50.389
Kat and her dog Tootsie behind as they made their.
2732
02:45:50.329 --> 02:45:51.290
Way to the waterfall.
2733
02:45:52.209 --> 02:45:55.030
And as they circled back around, Kat was nowhere to
2734
02:45:55.069 --> 02:45:59.329
be found. Her husband, Warren Sundquist, went and waited at
2735
02:45:59.350 --> 02:46:02.309
their car, thinking that perhaps she had headed there, but
2736
02:46:02.489 --> 02:46:05.610
she never showed up. Hours passed and there was no
2737
02:46:05.649 --> 02:46:08.930
sign of Kat. The group and her family reported her missing.
2738
02:46:10.049 --> 02:46:12.229
Kat was very familiar with the area and showed no
2739
02:46:12.270 --> 02:46:15.110
concerns about being left alone while the others finished their hike.
2740
02:46:16.350 --> 02:46:19.530
She also apparently showed no signs of distress, making her
2741
02:46:19.590 --> 02:46:24.170
disappearance all the more mystifying. After Kat was reported missing,
2742
02:46:24.530 --> 02:46:28.079
search and rescue crews, volunteers, and even the Mexican armed
2743
02:46:28.159 --> 02:46:31.100
forces all pitched in to help find her. But as
2744
02:46:31.139 --> 02:46:35.760
of 2022, no trace has ever been found. The authorities
2745
02:46:35.819 --> 02:46:38.620
in San Felipe did believe at one point that someone
2746
02:46:38.659 --> 02:46:42.590
in the hiking group may have been responsible, however. Although
2747
02:46:42.770 --> 02:46:45.790
everyone present was questioned and no charges have ever been
2748
02:46:45.809 --> 02:46:49.950
brought about. One theory suggests that Kat perhaps stumbled across
2749
02:46:50.069 --> 02:46:53.159
cartel activity. and that she was taken out for what
2750
02:46:53.200 --> 02:46:56.819
she saw. Another theory is that Kat was attacked by
2751
02:46:56.840 --> 02:46:59.940
a wild animal, but the first attending officers noted that
2752
02:46:59.979 --> 02:47:02.520
the scene was devoid of any signs of a struggle,
2753
02:47:02.540 --> 02:47:06.530
and there was no blood. As of this recording, in
2754
02:47:06.629 --> 02:47:11.409
March of 2022, Kat Hamantre and her dog, Tootsie, remain missing,
2755
02:47:11.909 --> 02:47:15.629
and her family are desperate for answers. Anyone with any
2756
02:47:15.690 --> 02:47:19.389
information is asked to contact the San Felipe Police Department
2757
02:47:19.909 --> 02:47:29.659
at 686-577-1134. Well folks, there you have it. What do
2758
02:47:29.690 --> 02:47:32.260
you think of these strange cases? Had you heard of
2759
02:47:32.299 --> 02:47:36.840
these before? I look forward to your comments, but please
2760
02:47:36.959 --> 02:47:41.409
keep it friendly and respectful. In the meanwhile, be good
2761
02:47:41.420 --> 02:47:44.090
to yourselves and each other, and I'll see you just
2762
02:47:44.149 --> 02:47:47.829
a little farther on down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton,
2763
02:47:48.530 --> 02:47:49.809
and I'll talk to you next time.
2764
02:48:06.399 --> 02:48:07.319
Well, there you have it.
2765
02:48:08.489 --> 02:48:14.780
Hope you've enjoyed this creepy case marathon. Until we meet again,
2766
02:48:15.159 --> 02:48:17.940
be good to yourselves and each other. As for me,
2767
02:48:18.559 --> 02:48:20.379
I'll see you a little further on down the trail.
2768
02:48:21.360 --> 02:48:24.030
I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to you next time.
2769
02:48:24.049 --> 02:48:27.110
Until you're animals, Steve says hi.
