Missing Son, Missing Answers: A Family’s Fight for Truth and Reform

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Hi everyone, it's Kyle Xander Morgan, host of
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the Original Sin Podcast. We are brought to you
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today by True Crime Story 911. Today we're speaking
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to David Robertson II, father of Daniel Robertson.
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In June 2021, Daniel Robertson went missing in
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the Arizona desert and hasn't been seen since.
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Hello Mr. David Robertson, thank you for joining
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us. Thank you for having me on. No problem. I
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wanted to talk to you about your son, about when
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he was last seen and the circumstances of his
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disappearance. So I understand that he went missing
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on the 23rd of June 2021. Is that correct? That
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is correct. Okay. And he was last seen leaving
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his work in Arizona with Matrix New World. That's
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right. That's an engineering company. Okay. He
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was a geologist. That's right. Hydrogeologist.
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Also called a field geologist. Okay. Okay. Great.
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All right. From what I understand is that he
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was last seen around 915. He was driving a bluish.
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grade 2017 jeep and it was going west towards
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the desert uh according to a co -worker now it
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says that he was reported missing the next day
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did you report him missing or how did that occur
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well actually on june the 23rd 2021 uh it was
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the same as that day i reported my son missing
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uh you know i was in south carolina so it's no
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three hour difference this time of the year uh
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and um you know yeah i did report him missing
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after i realized daniel was missing for over
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six hours. Right. Okay. And what happened later
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on that day? Can you tell us, you had a lapse
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of communication with him and was that unusual
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for him? Did he, you know, constantly keep in
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contact with you or throughout the day or maybe
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you followed a missing person's report or was
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it his coworkers? I'm just wondering. Well, you
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know, to back it up a little bit, that morning,
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you know, from my understanding, Daniel had two
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well sites to go to. One early part of that morning,
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in a second to meet a person off of Sun Valley
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Parkway that's in Buckeye, Arizona. I meet a
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person that works for a different company called
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Weber Waterworks. Of course, that worker reported
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that Daniel, to his job, that Daniel just drove
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away from the work site is what I was told. What
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brought me into the conversation of that is when
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one of Daniel's co -workers, a friend of his,
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an off -the -job friend of his, came to my daughter's
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apartment. She was living in Phoenix, Arizona
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at the time and inquired if Daniel was there
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she was really puzzled about it you know wondering
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how does god know where she lived first of all
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second part is why he's asking for daniel uh
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and so of course my daughter is going to call
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me to let me know what's going on in arizona
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I'm in Columbia, South Carolina at the time.
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But like I said, just the fact that once we realized
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something was going horribly wrong and the way
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we found that out is I sent my daughter to his
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apartment to see if he was there. In the meantime,
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I was calling his mother and some other family
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members and friends to see if they even heard
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from Daniel that day. Nobody have. I looked at
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the time difference. Like I said, it's a three
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-hour difference from South Carolina to Arizona.
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So I look at the time difference from the time
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they say, you know, the workers are just job
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said they last heard from him was in that morning
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hours and it was over six hours so that's when
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i decided to uh have a welfare check first done
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uh and then after that uh report him missing
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okay so they did go to his apartment and they
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didn't find anything well they didn't directly
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go to his apartment daniel lived in tempe arizona
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at the time um this is like outside of venice
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i did reach out to law enforcement of tempe they
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did not want to go do a welfare check I had to
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later was pushed over to the Buckeye Police Department
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because that was the last place he was seen and
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convinced them to have Timothy go out and do
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a welfare check, which they only drove by his
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apartment in his patio window. And that's the
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extent of that welfare check. OK. And tell me
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what happened after you reported him missing.
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Well, police immediately started searching for
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him or. What happened there? No, we couldn't
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get any search done. You know, once I got more,
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gathered more information, I was talking to an
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officer. I think his name was Cruz, Officer Cruz
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at the time. The only thing they were doing at
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the time, in terms of searching, is to ride up
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and down Sun Valley Parkway in the area where
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Daniel was missing, outside of the snow in that
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desert, but out in that area. They rode up and
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down that road. It's a very long road. I'd say
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that road pretty much is a good 50 miles long,
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but they wanted to make sure he wasn't stuck
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on the side of the road. So, you know, of course,
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once I found out, Danny actually went missing
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in the desert. I requested them to send a helicopter
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out to search for him. That was turned down,
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denied. A day later, they said he was going to
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do it the next day. That was denied as well.
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So that prompted me to leave my home in South
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Carolina to drive up to Arizona to look for Danny
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and myself. So did you organize a search party
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or what happened? You went there. by yourself
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looking for Daniel? Yes, I did. I have my daughter
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in Phoenix. So once I got Arizona and Phoenix,
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my daughter and I did our due diligence. We searched
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the airports and just to make sure we know Daniel
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wouldn't do it, but just in case something that
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we just didn't know, we searched the, I mean,
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every, literally every parking space in the airports,
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the private spots, reached out to Red Cross,
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NAACP and some other organizations for help.
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We also work with law enforcement at time, getting
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all the information that we can give them. But
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yes, I started, ended up starting of my own search
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for daniel when law enforcement would not because
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i went out there every day on sun valley parkway
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almost to the only thing that separated me from
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my son was the desert itself i decided to organize
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a search and i did that okay and unfortunately
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you didn't find daniel at that time no no after
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a total of 49 weeks uh covered over 35 000 acres
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of land No, we cover other human remains, bring
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clothes for other families, but no, have not
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found my son. So I have here that a rancher found
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Daniel's Jeep in a ravine with his airbags deployed
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on his property on July 23rd, which is roughly
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a month later, and that that same rancher had
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been in the ravine on the 17th, and his car wasn't
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there the 17th of July, and his car wasn't turned
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over in the ravine. Is that correct? Well, on
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the 19th of July. 19th of July? Yes, sir. Yeah,
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the rancher found my son's vehicle. But yes,
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like you said, he testified for my investigator
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that he was there two days prior looking for
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his cattle that comes through that ravine to
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get to a corral. The vehicle wasn't there, but
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on the 19th it was. Okay, so in the vehicle,
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they found Daniel's personal belongings. They
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found the clothes outside the vehicle, his keys,
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wallet, cell phone. Is that correct? That is
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correct. OK, so those that they found, I was
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I was kind of confused. The clothes were found
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outside of the car. Right. Were those the clothes
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that he was wearing that day? You know, we didn't
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have nobody can verify this. What Daniel was
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wearing to date. My daughter, who sees Daniel
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almost every day, don't recognize the clothing.
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But nevertheless, that's something that law enforcement
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telling us as family. The clothes were found
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three feet away from the vehicle in the pile,
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and they sent us Daniel's clothing, but we have
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no evidence of that. Okay, and they never tested
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the clothing, anything? No, they have not. Are
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they still holding on to the clothing, or have
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they returned his belongings to you? Well, I
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can tell you once that vehicle showed up on July
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the 19th, on the 20th, the vehicle was turned
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over to me. And on the 23rd, everything from
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that scene, this clothing, everything was returned
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to me. All was for safekeeping, returned to me
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as safekeeping. There was no forensics done.
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On the 23rd, I requested law enforcement to do
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some type of forensic work, which they ended
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up doing, swabbing of the steering wheel, the
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shifter, and also the door panel. Of course,
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I'm currently trying to make sure they do all
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the forensic work because all the air deployed,
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suggesting someone else was in the vehicle. We
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need to verify that, who those persons were,
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personal persons were inside the vehicle. Okay.
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In September 2021, I have here that the Buckeye
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Police Department, they went out with helicopters,
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drones, cadaver dogs, and is that correct? I
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wanted to verify that with you. Oh, that was
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a day out. That was on the 19th of July. July,
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okay. Yeah, I know when the vehicle was found,
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I was told that they utilized cadaver ever dolls
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and search dogs, which they came up with nothing
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from that. But yes, that's what I was told. Okay.
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And from there, where did you go? Is that when
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you hired the private investigator to look at
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the scene of the accident? Yes, I did. And the
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reason why I hired a private investigator at
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the time, the assessment from law enforcement,
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what they saw at the scene, they didn't do any
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forensic work at the scene, but told me that
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the vehicle flipped and rolled and landed in
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a 20 -foot ravine, lied on the side. They felt
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that Daniel did not sustain any injuries, but
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At the same time, because he had the seatbelt
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on, but at the same time, they said they believe
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he had a severe head injury, kicked his way out
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of the sunroof. And because of that head injury,
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you know, which they told me would cause a person
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to feel like they are hot. He shredded his clothes
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off. That's why the clothing was three feet away
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from the vehicle. He may have wandered off under
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a bush or something to cool off in the wild animal.
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got to him. Then they also told me later that
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maybe he just decided to get away from his family,
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join a monastery, become a monk. So those two
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sentiments from law enforcement made me want
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a second opinion. And so I hired my... Private
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investigator who's also a accident reconstructionist,
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and he found a lot of the evidence and things
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that we know about that vehicle to this date.
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Okay, and you're referring to the car ignition
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was switched on and off over 45 times? Yes, my
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investigator found 11 additional miles on that
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vehicle after the initial crash. He believed
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that from the damage, the vehicle staged there
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because there's no damage on the vehicle that
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matches the terrain. Found red transfer paint
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on the side of the vehicle. That's nothing red
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in the desert, so it had to come in contact.
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with something also there was 46 initial cycles
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after the first air uh when airbag deployed the
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first crash there's also vehicle the first accident
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happened around one o 'clock near close to one
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o 'clock that day so we have a lot of information
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that came from my private investigator he found
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you know with the vehicle okay after that was
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it after that happened that you uh discovered
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that someone had entered daniel's apartment and
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had his personal uh laptop and ransacked his
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home well you You know, early on, my private
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investigator came on board. We had law enforcement.
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Before my investigator came on, I had law enforcement
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to, you know, we had agreement with the landlords
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to go into Danny's apartment to be able to take
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some pictures. They weren't able to touch anything,
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but they can take pictures with the escort of
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the landlords. So we didn't get anything from
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that information -wise. And once I got my private
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investigator, he went and was able to get access
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to the apartment to do forensic work. Once he
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got the forensic work done, he came back with
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evidence that somebody was in his apartment looking
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for something. But we didn't have a timeline
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to that. We didn't know if it was something Daniel
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did before he went to work or, you know, something
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happened afterwards. We didn't have a time frame.
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But once my private investigator would no longer
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work for me, I was able to get the Tempe Police
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Department to do forensics for me. You know,
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I talked to the mayor of Tempe and also the chiefs
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and I was able to have them do forensics of all
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of Daniel's electronics in his apartments, the
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cell phone, everything that was found. And once
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that report came back, we found evidence of someone
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inside Danny's apartment after he went missing,
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looking for some things on his computer, going
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through his computer, doing searches and things
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like that. So now we have a timeline. We put
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those two things together, what we saw in the
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apartment physically and also what we saw on
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the computer. We know someone was in there after
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that. Do you know what date that was? Did the
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forensics pull up what date the person was in
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the apartment doing the searches on his computer?
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Yes, we do. However, unfortunately, I won't be
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able to give that date. because it's still an
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investigation under my investigation i'm still
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working on that put things together but yes we
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do have a date okay to uh jump a little bit forward
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to october 21st i understand that law enforcement
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announced that daniel had been talking to a woman
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via text messages that he had met her and they
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exchanged phone numbers and that she had claimed
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that daniel showed up at her home a number of
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times and made her very uncomfortable they asked
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the uh Daniel's coworkers, his friends, about
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Daniel wanting to commit suicide because of that
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situation. Is that how the investigation went?
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Did it go downhill from there? Or how did the
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investigation continue on? Well, you know, a
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lot of that stuff happened before the vehicle
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showed up. When it comes in terms of the young
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lady, the question they had with employees, the
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Buckeye Police Department utilized plurals when
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they only talked to one employee that was one
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of Daniel's off -the -job friends. You know,
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Daniel's a field geologist. Geologists, field
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geologists for Mature's New World, Mature's New
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World told me they rarely see their geologists
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come into the office. You know, that's where
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they field geologists. And so so nobody can assess
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what Daniel's mood was, you know, off that job
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because he don't actually work at the office.
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And his other part is with the young lady, my
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son. He mentioned the young lady two days before
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he went missing. You know, he and I often have
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our conversations. Conversations are always two
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hours long, at least. That's the minimum. Within
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that conversation, he spoke about. the young
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lady but he never used the word love he described
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to me uh spending night with a young lady problem
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that we have as a family is that everything the
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lady said on this report and it's based on what
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law enforcement put in that report based on evidence
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of them allowing this young lady to upload her
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own text messages into their database and we
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see that their text message that she sent up
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do not match his phone records in other words
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there's some things missing some things added
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so we definitely have a problem with that because
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it's this is bad representation of daniel there's
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no evidence when law enforcement says she said
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he showed up at her house she saw him through
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a camera law enforcement failed to even pull
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video of that camera to verify but put in their
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report so you know those things did not exist
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in real time but those are things are in the
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police report. Okay. So I was reading that Fox
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10 had published an article saying that law enforcement
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claimed that Daniel was acting strangely a couple
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days prior to the incident, to his disappearance,
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and that he loved this woman who he barely knew.
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But you're saying that's false, correct? That
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is false. My son had never used the word love.
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Like I said, everything they heard about the
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young lady was brought up. They believe it was
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my daughter at the time. But saying that she
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gave him a podcast, that's what it pretty much
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started off from. And also I can elaborate on
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that with law enforcement. We're trying to get
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them all the information we can that I did speak
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to my son two days prior. And we had a conversation
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about the young lady. Matter of fact, it's not
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just one young lady that my son spent the night
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that night with, it's two. there. For whatever
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reason, law enforcement is hiding the second
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person. But yes, it was definitely two ladies
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there with him, but never did Daniel express
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any love. He never was depressed and things like
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that. So when I hear that in law enforcement
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assessment, it's problematic for a father. I'm
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a single parent of my son, and I know him a lot.
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I know his mood. For those two days prior to
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that, he was never in a mood of depression or
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anything like that. Okay. David, what is the
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Buckeye Police Department doing now? I heard
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that they partnered with America County Sheriff's
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Office, the Tempe Police Department, are they
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still offering you assistance or what's happening
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today on the case? Well, you know, I hate to
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sound like I'm very critical, but that's been
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happening for over two years now. There's no
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communication with Maricopa, Tempe, and Buckeye.
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The only communication they have is the two,
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Maricopa and Tempe, siding with Buckeye. As in,
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it's a Buckeye case. Maricopa County is resisting
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to help in Daniel's case. And when I say resisting,
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existing, being that they are Maricopa County.
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My son was missing in Maricopa County. The county
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supersedes any city department, but yet they
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did not want to take on to the case, as well
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as Tempe. My son was a resident of Tempe at the
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time. Tempe, like I said, offered assistance
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to me directly. They said, hey, Mr. Russell,
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we're doing this as a favor to you to do those
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forensics on that electronics. But outside of
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that, of course, they shared it with the Buckeye
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Police Department because they're saying, again,
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it's a Buckeye Police Department case. And with
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that, not much has been done in my son's case.
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I'm still fighting for the proper forensics on
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that vehicle. I'm holding that vehicle. I'm paying
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thousands of dollars on that vehicle to hold
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house forensics. I have the airbags that have
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never been processed. I have the clothing that
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never been processed. You know, you name it.
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I have all the things inside of Daniel's apartment
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that haven't been processed. The information
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about the computer that I was in. All the evidence
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that we know about Daniel's case came from my
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own investigation and my efforts outside of law
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enforcement. OK, so when it seems like they refuse
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to help, what is their narrative now? Since they
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believe that you said that he had Daniel had
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a head injury when he had an accident in the
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car and went to the sunroof that he just disappeared
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in the desert. Is that what they're saying? Yes,
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that's the gist of it. You know, he's pretty
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much the way I would take it as a family is that,
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you know, they feel that he staged the whole
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thing. Well, you know, he did the whole thing
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himself. You know, he masterminded it. He decided
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to leave or he ended up deceased out there in
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the desert, which I told you we covered over
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35 ,000 acres of land out there line searching.
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Area search, everything you can name. I even
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used cadaver dogs myself, you know, that I hired
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myself. We found other human remains, but never
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found Daniel. But what they have a stand for
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right now from day one before the vehicle showed
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up, you know, law enforcement. Well, once the
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vehicle showed up, I want to backtrack on that.
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Once the vehicle showed up, law enforcement has
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always have the reservation that the vehicle
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was there in that ravine for 30 days, despite
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the rancher who's an eyewitness saying it wasn't
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there two days prior. And in spite of the evidence,
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my investigator gave law enforcement there. pushing
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this 30 -day narrative that the vehicle's out
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there for 30 days for whatever reason they want
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it there. So now they're basing their beliefs
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on what is called a mild IQ app that I gave to
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law enforcement that I found on my son's phone.
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And one of the owners of the app would tell law
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enforcement not to utilize that app for that
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purpose because it's inaccurate, it's not always
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reliable, but yet because it helped them put
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that vehicle there for 30 days there. They're
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basing their whole investigation on that. So
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they're saying that the app tracked the vehicle
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and the vehicle had been sitting there for 30
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days in the ravine? Well, yes. They say they
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tracked the vehicle to be in that ravine at,
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I believe it was a little after 10 o 'clock that
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morning that Daniel went missing. But mind you,
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like I said, there was one search that... law
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enforcement did themselves with Silver Air Patrol.
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That's what they called these guys was on the
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ground. And they went over the area. The vehicle
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wasn't there. They later said, well, maybe they
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missed it because the heavy brush, but there's
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no brush out there. Also, I've been before the
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vehicle showed up out there. I had people on
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the ground doing my searches, hundreds of people
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at a time doing searches out there in that area
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as well. What we call is a hasty search. People
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going out hiking, just looking for things. for
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hours and the vehicle wasn't there. So you put
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all those things there together, plus the evidence
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my investigator found. that a vehicle was staged
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in that spot. You know, the vehicle wasn't there.
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Okay, so basically their timeline is that he
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was last seen around 9 .15 on June 23rd, and
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then they believe that the car ended up in the
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ravine 45 minutes later, around 10 o 'clock,
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and stayed there for 30 days. That's correct.
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And the problematic with that is that I also
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gave this to law enforcement. Everything I have,
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I gave it to law enforcement. On my son's phone,
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once law enforcement gave me his phone back on
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the 23rd of July, what I found was that the memory
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card was missing. His location was wiped from
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the phone. The information about the young lady
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was wiped from the phone. There's certain things,
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everything else was intact, but certain areas
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was missing. The only thing that's very much
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contradicts the last person that's seen my son.
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He said, hey, my son met him out of Sun Valley
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Parkway. He and my son talked for a brief moment.
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They rolled into the desert one mile west, two
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miles north to make it to this well site. They
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made it there at 9 o 'clock. At 9 .15, my son
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was gone. He waved off to him and just disappeared
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forever. The problem with that is that on my
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son's phone, you know, the phone record shows
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that my son made a phone call at 928 to him that
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he did not answer. My son was asking for directions
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and a text message. But those things that law
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enforcement know, but still hanging a hat on
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the story of the person who let's say he let's
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see my son. So it's all those kind of evidence
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that's there. Law enforcement have their reason
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for keeping their narrative strong to the public.
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But it defies anything else, defies the logic.
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files the evidence and everything that was found
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from my my personal investigation to my son's
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disappearance okay so let me ask you you have
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the uh please help find daniel .com daniel robertson
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foundation when did you launch that when did
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you uh when did you launch that for daniel to
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getting his information out there? Yeah, first
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of all, I'm a military guy. I'm retired military.
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One thing for sure, when we're in the military,
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communication is key for anything. Once I got
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to Arizona, I talked to law enforcement, see
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what they will and would not do. I knew it was
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crucial to get information out quickly about
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my son. One of those things was open up social
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media pages, Instagram, Facebook, you name it.
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And the second thing was to open up a bill website.
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So to start a website, a family website for people.
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to get information about my son's case. They
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have a base to go to so I can throw pictures.
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A lot of times being a person of color, you know,
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I realized quickly without knowing statistics
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at the time, I didn't know anything about the
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disparities. But I do know being a black man
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that we have to sometimes humanize our person.
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And so to do that, I had to build a website.
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Please help find Dan dot com. That was to put
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all his pictures up to humanize my son. And he's
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very loved those type things. Also, I opened
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up another second website is search for Dan dot
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org. Once I started my searches, that was strictly
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for the search. But now they both are grafted
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into one. And that's PleaseHelpFindDaniel .com.
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Okay. What do you think happened to your son?
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Well, you know, without evidence, I can't say.
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No foul play happened. I can put it straightforward
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as that based on what my investigator gave me
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and the information that we have. But we just
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don't know what that exactly means. Foul play
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can mean a lot of things, but we know that's
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not natural. The vehicle wasn't there. It was
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a stage event. We know that something happened
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with that vehicle. It's been another location.
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It came in contact with some things. We know
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about. the apartment. We know about the eyewitness
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account that I have myself that I gave law enforcement
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also a vehicle that looked just like his. We
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also know the vehicle that disappeared off the
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roadway that looked like Daniel's and ended up
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two days later. Law enforcement say the vehicle
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was found in the desert with the rancher. But
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what I saw is a lot of the evidence that says
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foul play. But like I said, I don't know what
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foul play happened, what it means. It could mean
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that he could be because, you know, that is a
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high human trafficking area. Everybody know Phoenix,
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Arizona, especially as a high human trafficking
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area. And so, you know, God forbid Daniel got
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tied up into that. You also have the mules that
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come through that part of the desert, according
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to Chief Hall at the time. But, you know, we
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don't hope he didn't get in contact with. those
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type deals. And also the fact that because we
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don't know what happened, maybe as we do know,
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that's going to happen somewhere else. Somebody
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took that vehicle and joyride it. I don't know.
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And, you know, Dan's out there somewhere. Don't
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know who he is or something, you know? So I look
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at all those possibilities and just know that
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some type of foul play happened, but just don't
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know exactly, you know. the status of my son.
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Okay. So do you believe that your son is still
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alive? Yes, I do. And I have to, I have to believe
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that that's what keep me going. I'm a man of
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faith. So of course, for me, he used to think
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negative about my son. You know, I really feel
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that it's only a matter of time and place that
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I will find out what happened. I can rescue my
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son and bring him back home to his mother, his
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siblings, his grandparents. his friends, to myself.
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Okay. All right. And I understand at one point
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you might still have a GoFundMe page that you
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had to pay for private investigator services.
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Do you still have that up and running? Yes, my
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GoFundMe page is still up. However, I focus more
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on the aspects of people asking for flyers. Flyers
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is free to the public. People can always go out
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and request that on pleasehelpfinddane .com.
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They also can print. I look at that as a form.
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a donation because there's a print button there
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as well. If you want to print the flyers out
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yourself, that helps. Also, I have a mail -in
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protest to keep my son, Case, from cold case
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status. As long as the public is involved in
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Dan's case, as long as the interest is there.
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It'd be hard for law enforcement to call it a
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cold case when people are constantly asking about
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Daniel. So they can go join the protesting, the
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mail -in protest, that call. So as you know,
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you have to put stamps and you have to print.
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So that's a form of donation. That's what I'm
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asking the public to do. Also support me and
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my congressional run because that's going to
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help families that I'm trying to get legislations
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changed. You know, get information in real time
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for families who need that information quickly.
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Utilizing the technologies that we have today
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that we get. answers really fast so if people
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go to please help find daniel .com they'll be
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able to uh donate if they want to be able to
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print out flyers for your son all that information
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is available on on that website in order for
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them to do that yes sir it is okay and you talked
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about your you just talked about your run for
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congress and i understand that you you said you're
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a veteran and you served in the gandhisan war
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after 9 -11 uh i saw in your platform or you
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Your campaign focuses on defending our democracy,
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championing civil rights, empowering voters,
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promoting reproductive rights, combating climate
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change, supporting the middle class, ensuring
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workplace equality, advancing education, building
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safe communities, addressing health care costs,
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and reforming missing persons policies. Did I
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get all that correct? Yes, you did. I really
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appreciate that. Okay. What would you change
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in the reforming of missing person policies if
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you were elected into Congress for South Carolina?
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Yes. One thing, I am running out of South Carolina
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Congressional District 2. But, you know, being
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in Congress affects all of America. And, you
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know, my son went missing. Of course, that's
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passionate for a parent. I'm out there in the
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desert working tirelessly with hundreds of volunteers
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every week out there working with me in that
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desert heat. I grew a passion and part of my
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family. I call them my extended family to help.
00:26:06.410 --> 00:26:08.549
them find their loved one as well. I've been
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a very advocate for missing Americans in general
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and making sure that I did everything I can from
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having a day of remembrance to kind of like visuals.
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Anything I can do to help families get awareness
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and people get awareness about their missing
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cases. One thing that I had learned while I was
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searching for my son is the fact that I'm still
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looking for cell phone pings that were really
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better than that MileIQ app that law enforcement
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is relying on. It's something that we, it's a
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tool that we use using 224, but I'm being hindered
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because law enforcement refusing to call Dane's
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case what it is, a criminal case. And without
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it being status of a criminal case, a judge would
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not give a warrant to get those cell phone ping
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data. But now, it has been so long, the company
00:26:51.970 --> 00:26:55.630
is saying there's no retention, data's gone forever.
00:26:55.890 --> 00:26:58.430
That is a problem. Yes, we know that nothing
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ever disappears once it's digital, but companies
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hide behind their policies. that says they would
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not give families that data. Their loved one
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could miss without a warrant. And also their
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retention is not there. So I told the telecommunication
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companies, when I had meetings with them, AT
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&T, T -Mobile, you name all of them, with the
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senators in Arizona, told them that we'll be
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back. We'll be back because what's happening
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is we have those policies in place when those
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data belong to the person who paid that bill
00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:29.160
every month. You got a cell phone, you utilize
00:27:29.160 --> 00:27:31.519
your phone, it do not belong to the company.
00:27:31.619 --> 00:27:33.279
You pay the service for that. that phone, the
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service for that use of your data to make a phone
00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:38.640
call, to text message, you name it. All that
00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:40.500
belongs to you. And so I want to make sure we
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free up that for the families through law enforcement
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where there's no warrant needed to get that data.
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And also the fact that we know that things don't
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disappear digitally. Telecommunications are required
00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:54.880
to keep a retention not for 30 days. What we've
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seen in this case here, but to make sure that
00:27:57.359 --> 00:27:59.480
families are getting the data and the information
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they need in real time and also help law enforcement.
00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:04.920
Okay. You briefly touched on you branching out
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and you helping other people with missing family
00:28:07.380 --> 00:28:11.980
members. And I think that's a very positive and
00:28:11.980 --> 00:28:15.220
outstanding thing to do. Is that something that
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you think that... Daniel would have wanted for
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you to do? Yes, I know that. My son, he's an
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advocate for what's right. Of course, for my
00:28:23.980 --> 00:28:26.519
family, who we all are, we believe in people.
00:28:26.619 --> 00:28:28.960
He's a person that do everything he can to do
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what's right. I remember before he went missing,
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the last thing he done actively was the George
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Floyd protest. He was there. He called me. Like
00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:38.880
I said, we have our conversation. I was on the
00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:40.779
phone with him while he was out there protesting.
00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:43.740
He actually even did a news interview. I told
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him I wish I was there with him. I know what
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Daniel stands for, what's right and what's just.
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And, you know, the fact that even though he's
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missing, you know, I tell people all the time,
00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:55.579
if I found Daniel, that work was not in, you
00:28:55.579 --> 00:28:57.779
know, I found my son and somehow I decided to
00:28:57.779 --> 00:28:59.980
just disappear and don't help other families
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if I can. And Daniel would be by my side. That's
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the person he is. That's the way our family is.
00:29:05.019 --> 00:29:07.380
And I know that that's exactly what Daniel would
00:29:07.380 --> 00:29:09.259
want. Okay. I should have asked you this earlier,
00:29:09.380 --> 00:29:13.579
but can you tell me, I know that you just told
00:29:13.579 --> 00:29:15.900
me what Daniel. stands for. Can you just tell
00:29:15.900 --> 00:29:18.640
me a little bit about Daniel, the person he was,
00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:21.940
about just in general, what you think the public
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needs to know about Daniel, who he is? Yeah,
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Daniel, he's the youngest of his siblings from
00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:31.940
my marriage. He's a person that I tell often
00:29:31.940 --> 00:29:35.200
that he challenges himself as much as he challenges
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others. Everything he decided to do, he accomplished
00:29:37.980 --> 00:29:40.480
that. We all know that Daniel was born without
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a right hand, but that never stopped him from
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anything he wanted to do. his young life after
00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:47.140
he asked his mother once about what happened
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to his hand she told him guy having to return
00:29:49.259 --> 00:29:51.220
it to him one day he just needed it he never
00:29:51.220 --> 00:29:53.160
asked that again he taught himself how to play
00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:56.039
the french horn on his own he did so well that
00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:58.559
he even made the local news here in south carolina
00:29:58.559 --> 00:30:00.819
about how great he is playing the french horn
00:30:00.819 --> 00:30:03.200
he started off with playing next went to the
00:30:03.200 --> 00:30:06.380
trumpet and played other instruments and also
00:30:06.380 --> 00:30:08.460
tried to dabble in a little bit of sport so anything
00:30:08.460 --> 00:30:10.940
he wanted to do he'd go after it he had the siblings
00:30:10.940 --> 00:30:13.470
his older brother to look up all the My children
00:30:13.470 --> 00:30:16.470
are scientists. And he looked up to his older
00:30:16.470 --> 00:30:18.630
brother and challenged that and did it to be
00:30:18.630 --> 00:30:20.369
better. So once he got to college, of course,
00:30:20.430 --> 00:30:23.450
joined, decided to do geology. He fell in love
00:30:23.450 --> 00:30:25.730
with it in his freshman year and went ahead with
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it. Graduated with honors. Very friendly person
00:30:28.970 --> 00:30:31.829
because when he was in college, he, I mean, you
00:30:31.829 --> 00:30:34.109
know, he pretty much come from a home where the
00:30:34.109 --> 00:30:36.789
parents, where I kind of pretty much kept him
00:30:36.789 --> 00:30:38.589
from certain things. I made sure he was in the
00:30:38.589 --> 00:30:41.089
right schools, him and his siblings. But when
00:30:41.089 --> 00:30:43.349
he got to college and he got on it, He had tons
00:30:43.349 --> 00:30:46.430
of friends. He's a very friendly person. So he
00:30:46.430 --> 00:30:48.210
brings people together. I'm in the family life,
00:30:48.269 --> 00:30:50.289
the same thing. We have any kind of strife in
00:30:50.289 --> 00:30:52.670
our family, Daniel's always in the gap. He's
00:30:52.670 --> 00:30:55.890
the one which will bend and bring people together.
00:30:56.269 --> 00:30:58.190
He has an entrepreneurial spirit. Once he graduated
00:30:58.190 --> 00:31:01.349
from college, he wanted to go out and venture
00:31:01.349 --> 00:31:04.170
to learn about other cultures and things like
00:31:04.170 --> 00:31:06.630
that. So he had the entrepreneurial spirit to
00:31:06.630 --> 00:31:08.609
start his own business, does his plans, going
00:31:08.609 --> 00:31:11.170
forward once he left Matrix New World to live
00:31:11.170 --> 00:31:13.839
in California. for him to live abroad. He wanted
00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:15.779
to be a millionaire before he's 30 years old.
00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:18.440
So Daniel has a person, he's a person that are
00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:21.279
always positive. He talks about positive things.
00:31:21.380 --> 00:31:23.460
So is it really, he's a family oriented person.
00:31:23.779 --> 00:31:25.700
I'll give you an example real quick. During the
00:31:25.700 --> 00:31:27.240
COVID time, you know, we didn't, we was unsure
00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:30.380
about what COVID really is at the time. Daniel
00:31:30.380 --> 00:31:32.680
traveled just to see his grandparents here in
00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:34.619
South Carolina. He's staying outside the window.
00:31:35.319 --> 00:31:37.240
because we didn't know about exposure. He'd stand
00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:38.700
outside the window just to see his grandparents
00:31:38.700 --> 00:31:40.359
through the window. That's the kind of person
00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:42.700
that's going to come to family. So he would never
00:31:42.700 --> 00:31:45.319
desire to be away from his family. But, you know,
00:31:45.339 --> 00:31:47.960
that's the character of Daniel. Like I say, he's
00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:50.519
a very brilliant scientist and he's very loved.
00:31:50.640 --> 00:31:53.420
OK, David, is there anything else that we need
00:31:53.420 --> 00:31:56.819
to know about his disappearance or that you want
00:31:56.819 --> 00:32:00.240
to share about your run for Congress that we
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.619
didn't cover? We need to keep attention on my
00:32:02.619 --> 00:32:05.460
son's case, not just my case, Daniel's case,
00:32:05.500 --> 00:32:08.150
but. Also, other families, I tell people all
00:32:08.150 --> 00:32:10.630
the time, just pick a family a day or a week
00:32:10.630 --> 00:32:13.109
or whatever it may take to post on your social
00:32:13.109 --> 00:32:15.970
media. That's a lifeline for any family who have
00:32:15.970 --> 00:32:18.529
a missing loved one is to have someone to share,
00:32:18.529 --> 00:32:20.410
just to share the story. Not all of us is fortunate
00:32:20.410 --> 00:32:23.170
to get any kind of coverage of a missing loved
00:32:23.170 --> 00:32:25.890
one. It's over 500, 600 ,000 Americans go missing
00:32:25.890 --> 00:32:29.690
every year, over 3 ,500 a day, 2 ,000 of which
00:32:29.690 --> 00:32:32.359
are children. And we need to share a case. You
00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:33.880
know, that could be the lifeline, like I said,
00:32:33.900 --> 00:32:35.720
the difference between finding the person or
00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:37.940
not. And so we need to make sure we're doing
00:32:37.940 --> 00:32:41.079
that. My run for Congress is because of that.
00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:44.140
One of the biggest things about missing Americans,
00:32:44.299 --> 00:32:47.119
the 600 ,000, 40 percent of which are people
00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:49.640
of color, though black people, we make up only
00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:51.880
13 percent of population. We have 40 percent
00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:54.019
of all missing cases. So we need to make sure
00:32:54.019 --> 00:32:57.660
that this missing American crisis is put in the
00:32:57.660 --> 00:33:00.039
forefront. You know, it's something that's bigger
00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:02.740
than the opioids crisis. that we've been having
00:33:02.740 --> 00:33:04.759
for a few years. The missing American crisis
00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:07.380
has been going on for decades, and we definitely
00:33:07.380 --> 00:33:10.519
need to bring attention and awareness to it as
00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:13.039
it should be. And so that's what my job is, running
00:33:13.039 --> 00:33:14.859
for Congress to make sure that happens. I make
00:33:14.859 --> 00:33:16.900
sure I'm doing everything I can to bring America's
00:33:16.900 --> 00:33:19.440
home. Also, being a military guy, I definitely
00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:21.960
have to look out for our Constitution, our freedom.
00:33:21.980 --> 00:33:24.599
I raised my right hand at MEPS in Fort Jess in
00:33:24.599 --> 00:33:26.819
South Carolina. Something that you do when you
00:33:26.819 --> 00:33:29.480
say you deserve in this country, defend the democracy,
00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:32.980
our way of life. Constitution, and it's something
00:33:32.980 --> 00:33:35.240
that don't end just because I retired. It's something
00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:37.819
I have to continue to do to the rest of my days.
00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:40.400
And I tend to do that. So thank you so much for
00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:42.240
helping me here to share. That's no problem.
00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:44.599
I just wanted to share some information about
00:33:44.599 --> 00:33:48.740
Daniel. He's African -American, 5 '8", 165 pounds.
00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:50.819
Is that correct? Yes, that's correct. Okay. And
00:33:50.819 --> 00:33:55.039
he was last seen on June 23rd, 2021. Where can
00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:57.359
they contact? Would they contact the Buckeye
00:33:57.359 --> 00:34:00.180
Police Department or would they go to your website
00:34:00.180 --> 00:34:02.579
if anybody has any information about Daniel?
00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:05.980
Yes, you can go to the website to utilize the
00:34:05.980 --> 00:34:08.519
tip line. I do pay for a tip line there. I wish
00:34:08.519 --> 00:34:10.300
I had a number on me right now, but to have the
00:34:10.300 --> 00:34:13.000
tip line you can find on the website, also on
00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:15.239
the flyers. I pay for that service 24 hours,
00:34:15.260 --> 00:34:17.340
seven days a week. Live operators take your call.
00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:19.179
You can remain anonymous. If you don't even want
00:34:19.179 --> 00:34:21.420
to talk to anybody, you still can remain anonymous.
00:34:21.500 --> 00:34:23.579
If you just text the word TILT to that number,
00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:25.739
a form will come up. Like I said, you can remain
00:34:25.739 --> 00:34:28.000
anonymous. Also, you can call the Buckeye Police
00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:31.039
Department if you cannot get in contact or be
00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:33.760
not able to get to that website to leave a TILT.
00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:35.559
Okay, I have the Buckeye Police Department number
00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:38.699
at 633. three, four, nine, six, four, one, one.
00:34:38.739 --> 00:34:42.219
And your website is please help find daniel .com.
00:34:42.380 --> 00:34:44.079
That's correct. Well, thank you very much for
00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:46.880
joining us today. Mr. Robertson, David Robertson,
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:49.260
wish you well on your campaign board. Appreciate
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you being here. Yes. Thank you so much for all
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helping me. Have a good day. You too, sir. Thank
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you.