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I'm Jamie and I'm John.
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This is true crime cast.
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This case continues to haunt me because Brooklyn was a
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beautiful girl. She had just graduated high school. But this
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case is very close to home. It happened in the
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town that you and I live in. It happened to
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a girl who graduated from a high school that our
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children attend. This one is so close to home, and
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I feel like justice is within reach. We just need
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to help bring aware to this case. Yeah.
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That's the thing for me is that justice seems it
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seems very very close, but in the last several years,
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we've seemed to get no closer to it. So hopefully
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other podcasters, ourselves, other storytellers getting this out there will
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help to get things moving back in the right direction.
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But why don't you get us rolling telling the story?
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Yeah? Man, this one is very near and dear to
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our heart. So let's dig into it, So we're going
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to be talking about Brooklyn Farthing. She was only eighteen
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years old. Her friends called her brook And although I
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did not have the chance to personally know brook I'm
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going to call her brook because I know a lot
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of people who knew Brooklyn, and she was just everybody
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that I spoke to said the same thing. She was beautiful,
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she was kind hearted. She was just a laid back
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country girl. So she was eighteen years old. She was
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from a small town in central Kentucky called Berea that's
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in Madison County. All of her friends that I have
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seen that have posted about her on Facebook or spoken
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about her, have said nothing but great things. She was
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very caring, she was always up for a good time.
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She was very close with her family. She loved hanging
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out with her friends. I mean, she was just a
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typical eighteen year old. One report that I read stated
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she was a bit of a tomboy. She was not
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afraid to be a girly girl on dress up. But
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she was also the kind of girl to go hunting
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and fishing. I mean, honestly, as I describe her, my
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daughter's younger than Brooklyn was, but that's that's my daughter.
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She would go hunting. She would set in a blind
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with me, but she would also dress up and do
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her nails. That's exactly who Brooke was. Brooke had spent
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June twenty first, twenty thirteen, attending a member a family
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member's birthday party, and after that party, she and her
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friends went to another party. And this was considered a
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field party. If you're not familiar with this, maybe you
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don't live in the South. This is basically a party
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that happens in a field. It's pretty original.
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Right, Yeah, it's not rocket science to figure that one out,
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but it is. I mean, there are a lot of
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open fields, there's usually a fire somewhere in the middle,
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a lot of people sitting in the back of trucks.
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Yeah, it's just a shindig outside. And this was in
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a field just outside of Borea. This was kind of
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located in the county area, kind of out in the
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middle of nowhere, but not too far from town, probably
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a ten or fifteen minute drive back in the town.
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And this would have been around eight or nine pm
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on the twenty first.
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Yeah, that was in June of twenty thirteen, so just
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a little bit over twelve years ago. And It's in
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the middle of the summer, so being out in a field,
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being outside till late late in the night, it's really
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not a big deal. It's pretty common, actually, So we
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know she went over to that field party and then
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brook went missing sometime after four am the next morning.
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Her family has not heard any anything from her since then,
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and they have no answers as to what happened to her.
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There are so many rumors in that community in Madison County,
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Kentucky about what happened, but to this day there have
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been no arrests and no answers for this grieving family.
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So we do know a lot about what happened that night,
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such as who she was with and the last people
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to see her, and kind of what happened before authorities arrived.
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So John, wy'n't you get us into some of that?
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Yeah, The Richmond Register laid out kind of a series
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of events that walk us through the whole day and
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night in question. And this was actually kind of put
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together by using an interview with her sister Page. So
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on the on June twenty first, twenty thirteen, that morning,
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Brooklyn and her sister Page had each went to take
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their driver's license test they went together. Brooklyn ended up
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passing that test. The page did not, and that became
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a running joke in the family that day, and honestly,
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if the night had not have went how it would
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have or how it ended up going, that could have
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continued to be a laugh. Now. That night, the girls,
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along with their family all went to the seventieth birthday
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party of their papa. He had been pretty sick and
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they were really excited to celebrate with him that he
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had another year with the family. So that's where Brooklyn went.
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So they all got together for that and afterwards they went,
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like we had mentioned, to a field party in an
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area called Red Lick and that was on red Lick Road.
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So that's a little confusing, but the whole area is
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called Red Lick and there's one road in and out
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and that's Red Lick Road. And they had went with
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one of their cousins and between seven and eight pm,
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Paige and the cousin decided to leave Brooklyn, and that
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was they had kind of spoken at the party and
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made a plan. So she was actually going to stay
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with a friend that night who was at the party
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as well, so she had to actually packed an overnight bag.
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Brook's friend Tasha is the one that told a lot
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of this to the Richmond Register. She said that Brooke
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was friends with most of the people at this party.
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They had grown up in that area throughout their high
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school years. But that night something went wrong with the
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plans that Brooke had. Like you said, she was supposed
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to spend the night with a friend. She had packed
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an overnight bag, but at some point during the evening
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they got in some kind of argument which shifted those plans.
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We don't really know what it was over.
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There's again speculation about everything here, but we don't need
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to dive into that. Whatever it was, Brooke wasn't comfortable
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with the situation, so she decided to stay at the
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party after her friends left. Now, as the party was ending,
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witnesses saw Brook catch up to two young men and
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ask them for a ride. And this is one of
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the bigger points I think that comes up for debate.
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The names haven't been publicly released, but everybody kind of
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knows who they are, the two guys that she left
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the party. With a quick Google search and you can
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find it for sure.
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Now.
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They drove out to an area Beria called Floyd's Branch,
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road a lot of branches and licks throughout this story
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because that's the area that the Maria is. But allegedly
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they drove over there and they were going to go
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out to a farm and try to look at some
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horses and kind of check those out. And then they
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had planned or at least promised to take her home
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or drop her off, but one of the drivers dropped
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her off in a house and left Brook alone with
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the other man. And it's reported that this happened on
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Dylan Court in Berea. Now that home at the time
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was under foreclosure. There were no utilities on, so essentially
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this was just a barn, no electricity, no no heat,
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no air. So if you think about it, there's no
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running water there and at four am it's going to
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be dark. So this is not a comfortable place for
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anybody to be. I think, even if you're used to
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field parties and being out till the middle of the night,
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being in a house with no electricity or water with
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somebody you don't know very well at four AM's probably
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not very comfortable.
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Yeah, like you said, she doesn't know this guy very well.
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And even if she knew this guy, there at an
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odd place It's a home in a small subdivision, but
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it's under foreclosure. There's no electricity, no running water. It's
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not a very comfortable place to be, especially at four am.
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And I just as a dad myself, and you're a dad, like,
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this is worst case scenario. Just please be anywhere else
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but right where you are at this point, so scary. Now,
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Once they were at this house, Brooklyn called page This
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is around four am on the morning of June twenty second,
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and Brooklyn asked if there was any way that she
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could come pick her up. Now it's reported though, that
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the cousin that was going to pick brook up, or
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that could have picked her up, had been drinking and
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just not able to drive at that point. So I
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guess in the moment, that seemed like the best decision,
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and that's a mature decision, honestly. But now it's reported
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that she didn't want her mother to be woken up.
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So and remember page At failed her driver's test that day,
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so she didn't have a license. You know, she could
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have drove illegally and under the influence, but that wasn't
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a good idea and I'm glad she didn't. Now it's
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reported that she did not want her mother to be
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woke up, so she started trying to call some other people,
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some other friends, and she was just not able to
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find a ride. She did end up texting her ex boyfriend,
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which was also her ex fiance. She was actually engaged
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at one point at an early age. She asked this
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guy to come pick her up. So he was working
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a third shift job and he wasn't going to be
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able to get off work until six thirty am. I
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will tell you, in this area there are a lot
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of factories. There's a lot of factory work, and if
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you've ever worked in a factory, you'll know you can't
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just take off. It's not a very flexible gig. So
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if you're there until six thirty when your shift ins,
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unless you're dying, that's when you're going to leave. They
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don't let you go for anything. But he agreed to
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come pick her up once his shift was over. So,
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according to her sister that let this report with the
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Rerichmond Register, Brooke sounded fine on the phone. There was
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really no evidence that she was drunk or most importantly,
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that she was scared. At this point. She just sounded
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tired and sounded like she was ready to come home,
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so that it's getting really late in the morning, and
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if you're young, even if you're really young, at some
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point you're just ready to be back home and want
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to sleep in for the day. Brooke had plans with
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her ex boyfriend, which I talked about, and this had
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been confirmed through his sister. And at four am, Brook
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started sending text to her boyfriend and they were saying
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stuff like can you hurry, and then another one, please hurry,
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I'm scared. So this is when things start to take
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a turn, right, because her sister said she sounded good,
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just tired, but now when she's texting her ex boyfriend
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ex fiance, things sound like a different tone.
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Right, Yeah, it seems like it's getting more and more
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urgent for her, which it's obviously in retrospect. It's been
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urgent for me since she left for this party. So
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she is starting to feel I think that things aren't
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right where she is and is in a hurry to leave.
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But these texts stopped coming in. She stopped replying to
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her ex boyfriend at that time, and he didn't get
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anything else back until five thirty am.
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So that's like an hour and a half that's gone
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by since she started trying to get in touch with
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him at four. Yeah, I think about that.
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Think about getting a text from somebody that says, please hurry,
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I need help, and then I'm.
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Scared not replying for an hour. That's horrifying. So he
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tried to ask where she was, who she was going
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to be with, but he never got a text back.
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So this has to be agonizing for him because he
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knows he can't get off, he can't leave to help her.
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And then all of a sudden, like you said, she stopped.
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So the last text that he got was her saying,
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never mind, I'm okay, I'm going to a party in
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rock Castle County. So after the last text, he then
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asked who she was going to be with, and that's
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when he didn't get a response again. And it's reported
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that he got off work at the normal time six
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point thirty and then he was able to just go home.
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Yeah, in rock Castle County. If you know anything about Kentucky,
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we go by counties for everything. Rock Castle's one of
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the closest other counties to us, And if there was
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anywhere else around that would have a field party, it
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would be rock Castle. But when we get down to it.
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People didn't know about this party. Nobody else talked about
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a party in rock Castle County. So looking back, its
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speculated that whatever happened to Brooks, somebody sent this text
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from her phone to get her ex boyfriend off the sentence.
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That's always how have you these texts? After she stopped responding.
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She actually had plans the next morning to go down
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to Somerset, Kentucky to a car show, but of course
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she never showed up and she couldn't be reached by phone.
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So that's when the people she was supposed to go
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with called Page. And it was around two in the afternoon.
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And after Page couldn't get a hold of Brooklyn, the
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family started calling trying to get a hold of her.
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They started searching for they started trying to figure out
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who she was with, what happened to her the night before.
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Page told the family that Brook's friend had said that
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she left with a man from the party that they
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were all at together. Now Page knew most of Brooklyn's
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friends again, they were similar age and kind of run
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the same circles. It's not a big town, but she
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didn't know this particular guy, and she said that brook
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would have never left with somebody she wasn't comfortable with,
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So why would did she leave with this guy? Or
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did she know him and she was comfortable with him?
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She added, The family believes that maybe she knew him
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through her ex, so maybe that was the connection that
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led to her having some kind of trust that she
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would be okay. And honestly, it depends on who you
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ask whether they believed that Brooke knew this guy or not.
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A lot of the family didn't think she did, but
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some of her friends said she did, so it's it's
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kind of up in the air. Paige ended up getting
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his phone number, though, and she and her sister Tasha
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called the guy, telling him that they couldn't get a
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hold of Brooklyn and that they were worried about her.
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And he said that, yes, he took her away from
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that party. She left the party with him, but then
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he took her back to his house, the one that
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was without electricity, but he said that he wasn't comfortable
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being there with her because he was friends with her ex.
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So once he found out that her ex was coming
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to pick her up, he said, he took her in
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the house and he went and put his horses up
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and kind of left her for the ex boy friend
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to come get her. Before he left, he said that
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nobody had come to get her and that he heard
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her talking to somebody about a party in Roecastle County.
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But if he wasn't comfortable with being in the house
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with her, why would he take her back to the
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house in the first place. So already his story is
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suspected best And I know you have to go take
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care of horses generally, not doing that at four am,
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maybe six or seven.
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Yeah, I mean, it sounds like this guy's trying to
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put distance between he and Brooklyn, stating, yeah, we were
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with each other, but we weren't really with each other.
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I mean, I was doing chores, she was talking to
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somebody else. That just you're trying to minimize the situation,
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is my interpretation of that. Completely agree. The right thing
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to do there is if you don't feel comfortable having
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her at your house, take her to her house, make
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sure she's safe, and make sure that you can distance
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yourself that way. But he didn't do that. About twenty
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minutes after that call with Brooklyn's sister, he actually called
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her her back, and this time it said that he
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sounded very nervous. So he told Brooklyn's sister that he
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was scared, and when the sister asked why he was scared,
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he said, well, my house is on fire and all
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of Brooklyn's belongings were still inside. He said that when
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they came back from putting the horses up, he saw
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flames and they ended up calling the fire department. So
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he had wondered if maybe she had lit a cigarette
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and was smoking it and then it dropped on the couch.
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He said that when he left, she was setting on
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the couch smoking a cigarette and he wondered if perhaps
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that's what caught the couch on fire. So again he
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sounded really nervous. He said that he was scared and
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noted that all of her belongings were still in the house.
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To be clear, the house fire and everything happened that
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morning around eight am. So at this phone call at
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after two o'clock, when he's talking to her sister, that's
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when he's telling her all the stuff to happened. He
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didn't tell her the first time. It was when he
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called back, So again, just a very odd series of events.
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So think about getting that phone call though, if you're
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her sister, why would all of her stuff be there
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if she wasn't, so you have to imagine that she
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is there, and if she is there and the house
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is on fire, you have to be afraid that she's
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in danger from that, right absolutely. And even if she
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did go to another party, then why wouldn't she just
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take her stuff to that party. I don't know that
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it would be logical to assume that she was going
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to go to that party and then come back to
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this house with no electricity, to a home that she
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didn't know, with a guy she didn't know. It doesn't
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make a lot of sense. I also want to be clear, like,
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the whole house wasn't on fire, the couch was, and
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it was actually drug outside and burning in the front yard,
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and that's where firefighters came and put out that fire.
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Of Course, I'll speculate at the end what I feel
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about that, but it's really odd.
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Yeah, not a house fire. Obviously not an electrical fire
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because there was no electricity. It did leave a hole
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in the floor where the couch had been sitting, but
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they were able to come in and get the fire
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out and get the couch out of there before it
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spread to anything else. Of Course, Tasha didn't know this
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when she got the phone call. But all we really
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know is that the house burned. When twenty four hours
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had passed and Brooklyn's family hadn't heard from her, they
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finally filed a police report. Now family and friends went
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out to dial In Court to search for themselves. They
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knew where the house was, and when they got there
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they saw her items saw on the front porch. Among
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them were her shoes, the overnight bag she had packed
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stayed with a friend, which included clothes and toilet, trees
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and other things. The only thing missing was Brooke herself,
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the clothes she had been wearing when she went to
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the party, and her cell phone. So when the missing
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person's reports filed, please start investigating this as a missing person.
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So they did a records request for phone records, and
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they saw that she had received more than one thousand
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phone calls in twenty four hours from people that loved her,
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cared about her, and were trying to find her. Starting
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that Sunday, after all this had taken place, the Kentucky
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State Police started interviewing people that they knew had seen
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Brooklyn the night before or that they knew may have
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information from this and They did some large scale searches
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that week across the Red Lick area that's pretty close
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to us John. It's not exactly easy terrain to search.
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That are big cliffs, lots of woods, lots of random ponds.
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It's just I mean, if you're looking for a place
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to search, this is almost the worst case scenario for
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a regular part of America. I would say this area
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as a whole is relatively flat and easy terrain, but
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that area of Red Lick that is the worst terrain
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I think in the county. I mean, there's mountains there,
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there's cliffs. It is it's really, in my opinion, the
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hardest place that you could try to search an area
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in this whole county. It ended up being a pretty
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massive operation. They had people on horses, they had search dogs,
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they had cadets that were going through training. There's a
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State Police training facility up in Richmond, and they continued
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to search over and over but didn't seem to find
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anything as far as that weekend. That's kind of all
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we know. We do have access to that in through
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interviews that her family has given. These days, they're not
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talking as much as they used to, so it's hard
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to get any new information at this point, but there
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have been a lot of people in Madison County scratching
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their heads about this, So let's dig into some of
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what may have actually happened.
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John, Yeah, man, this is one of those things. Is like,
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she took her bag with her to the party, but
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then her overnight bag is still on that porch there
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on Dylan Court. So if she went somewhere, if she
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went to another party, I really think that that bag
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and all of her stuff would have been with her
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as well. I don't think she because she didn't know
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this guy very well. I just can't imagine that she
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would leave with the intention of coming back there to
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pick up her stuff. I feel like she would have
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had her stuff with her.
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And none of the interviews ever revealed that there was
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actually a party in rock Castle that night, or at
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least not one that she would have known about and
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was invited to.
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So then there at this area of Floyd's Branch, they
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drop another guy off at his house and then the
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two of them go back to the house on Dylan Court,
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and that's when the story begins to just really unravel
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for me. She's texting her boyfriend saying that she's scared,
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and she texted him a couple of times with those
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same frantic messages, but then at some point those stop,
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and for over an hour and a half it's silence
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from her, and then she responds, finally saying, actually, I'm
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going to a party in Rockcastle County. I'm all good,
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I don't need to ride. The guy that we know
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she's with confirms that she's there, but again puts distance
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between the two. He's out doing something with the horses.
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Wait a second, I thought you were just with horses
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somewhere else, And I don't think this area on Dylan
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Court has a farm has horses there, and then there's
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a house fire later, Like, this is just a series
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of events that makes no sense. So the only logical
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solution in my mind, and I know this is possibly
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taking a leap, but okay, the only thing destroyed in
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this house is a couch. Is it possible that she
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was sexually assaulted on this couch burned as a way
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to hide evidence, and then she's disappeared because you know,
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you did something that you don't want to get arrested for.
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That's the only series of events that make sense in
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my mind. Yeah, I don't think that's a leaper a
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jump at all. I think that does make the most sense.
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There is no evidence at all that the fire was
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started by a cigarette or buy some type of accident.
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They don't know what started it as far as I know.
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There was no accelerant, but it was just the couch.
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And if it had been something that caught the rest
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of the house on fire, maybe you start to question that.
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And if the couch catches on fire and she takes off,
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is she.
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Gonna leave her shoes there? Like, it's no no chance,
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especially out in that area. It's everything else just does
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not add up.
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Let's talk a little bit about the investigation. A lot
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of people in Madison County are frustrated because they think
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that they know who is responsible for her disappearance. But
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at this time, police just don't have what they need
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to take this case trial and come out in a
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way that doesn't jeopardize the case. Like if you take
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it to court you don't have enough evidence and you
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get acquitted, you can't go back. You can't file the
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same charges. But in regards to the investigation, police have
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tried to find some type of party that happened in
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rock Castle County that night to see if she may
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have actually went to a party, and they've just been
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unable to find one. So as far as police are concerned,
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there was no other party that she had gone to
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that night. Jimmy, I mentioned field parties. It's no secret
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I've been to field parties. Usually by four or five
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o'clock they're kind of whinding down. So if there was
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another party, you would think this would have been something
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she would have went to. Wait earlier in the morning.
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I don't think many parties are just getting going five
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or six o'clock in the morning.
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You know, you're exactly right. I think that people at
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this point that want to go and be alone. You're
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going off with your significant other or whatever. Everybody else
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is arting to find a place to crash for the night,
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because I don't know, there's a chance if this is
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a Friday night, you're gonna party again the next night.
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So you got to get a little bit of rest.
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And she had plans the next day to go to
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Somerset with her family. Now, again that's later in the day,
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but I think most teenagers are gonna party until five,
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six o'clock in the morning, go home, get some sleep,
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be up and ready to go to Somerset. This was
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something she was tight knit with her family. I don't
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think she would have just blown them off.
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Yeah, I completely agree, And yeah, no, I don't think
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any of it adds up. I think the change of
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tone in the texts in itself is enough for me
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to see that something dramatically changed here and that it
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wasn't good for Brooklyn. Like we said, a thousand calls
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the next day going answered. I mean, we can say
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all day that she lit up a room and all
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the things you hear on these documentaries, But I do
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think that speaks for itself. People loved her, people cared
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for her, people wanted to take care of Brooklyn.
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John.
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We haven't mentioned the names of the suspects, and I
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will say some more things about the main guy here
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in a few minutes. But you and I have talked
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to law enforcement off and on about this for a decade,
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trying to get answers, and the feedback that we constantly
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get is, again off the record is oh he did it.
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We just couldn't convict him right now because they're and
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by did it, I mean there is essentially The common
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belief is that Brooklyn is no longer living, that something
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happened that night that ended her life, and that this
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guy had something to do with it, but they've not
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located a body. There was no evidence of violence that happened.
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Well, I think there was. I think there was, and
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I think that evidence was set on fire and then
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also sprayed with water by the local fire department, which
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is I'm not throwing shade at them. That's their job.
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They respond to a fire, They're going to spray water
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and put it out. I just think that they happened
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to be spraying down the piece of evidence that would
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have been what we have needed to convict somebody.
535
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Yeah, I think you're right, and I think that that
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did destroy whatever evidence was there or whatever could have
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been collected. And again this is just twelve years ago,
538
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so DNA was a thing, But I think now we'd
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be more prepared to close off the crime scene and
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maybe be able to collect some things that could be helpful.
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So it's not even at this point that we have
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DNA that's untested. That we have things that we do
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that we know when we're just waiting to test them.
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This isn't a situation where there were cameras everywhere. This
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is a situation that I think it's going to take
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somebody stepping forward to say I know that this happened,
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this person told me, this person showed me this is
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what I saw or heard, and then being able to
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corroborate it. Do you see any other means for this
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being solved besides somebody telling what they know.
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Yeah, I mean, I don't know if after the fact
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that couch was taken into any evidence. I've never heard
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of that, so I don't know for sure. I doubt
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it at this point, but I think you're right. I
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think there are people in this person's life who hurt Brooklyn,
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who know that they did it, and they are refusing
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to come forward and talk to police. I know that
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the guy that everybody assumes did it has spoken to
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police many many times, and he's not been quiet. I mean,
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he's been in trouble since then. Do you want to
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talk about any of that? Yeah, I think so.
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And again this is we're not saying his name because
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we don't like lawsuits. But you can find with a
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simple Google search, not only what happened to Brooklyn Farthing.
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I'm sure you'll find a lot of information about that.
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But in August of twenty twenty, this individual was arrested
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for child exploitation charges by the Internet Crimes Unit the
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Kentucky State Police. So essentially there were charges of obtaining
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possession portraying a minor in sexual performance. It was a
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Class D felony. And he's been in prison for this,
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and I mean, looking back at it now, I think
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he's probably if he didn't recently get out, possibly going
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to be getting out soon.
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I had really.
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Hoped that when this individual again, if he had anything
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to do with it, this is the last person to
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admit seeing Brooklyn alive. I had hoped that going behind
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bars would give somebody of the leverage to put some
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pressure on him, or to get a confession of some kind,
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or to tell us things that we don't know. At
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the very least, he's hiding something. He knows something else
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that happened there that night that he's not telling and
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we need to know.
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What was the TV series that you and I both
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really liked that was based on the true story where
586
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the FBI uses an inmate as like a blackbird. Blackbird, Yeah,
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that was a good one. Wish that police could have
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got another inmate to get to know him and find
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out if there was anything he shared. But again, this
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has been over ten years ago. Now, this happened in
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twenty thirteen. There are people who know what happened to Brooklyn.
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You've got to come forward. This family needs justice and
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they need closure.
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Yeah, there are other theories about there, that she ran
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away or I don't know. A few years ago, there's
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a bunch of talk about a serial killer among along
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I seventy five named Bill Warner that may have had
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something to do with it. I don't believe so far away,
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and there's just so many inconsistencies in this person's story
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that that's too far fetched for me. Yeah, if you're
601
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looking for some conspiracies, you will find them. But the
602
00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:55.599
reality seems pretty clear in this one that she was
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taken to the secluded area where there was no water electricity,
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there was a fire there that potentially destroyed some evidence,
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and she hasn't been seen since, and the person who
606
00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:11.799
last saw her is not telling the full truth. So
607
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with all that considered, I think the answer is very simple.
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We just have to find a way to get to it.
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Absolutely. There have been so many nights that I've just
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prayed for a break in this case, and I know
611
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there have been so many others praying the same thing.
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And I believe in my heart that this case will
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see the light. It's just a matter of when.
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Yeah, I really hope. So we covered this on our
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show on our one year anniversary. It was our one
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year anniversary show. I believe that we finally covered this
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because it was one of the cases that drove us
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into this in the first place, and it's been over
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seven years since that happened.
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I would have really thought that after a couple of
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years after that release, that somebody, not because of anything
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we've done, but I just hoped in my heart that
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something would have moved and triggered a response and justice
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could be served. But here we are, over ten years
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after her disappearance, eight years after we released that episode,
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and we're no closer today than we were back then.
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Yeah, and I think this case obviously haunts us, and
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I hope that it has grown to haunt those of
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you that have heard it so that we can continue
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to raise awareness. I know a lot of the other
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podcasts involved in this cases that Hano series have covered
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this and are passionate about this. We called dibbs about
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talking about it on this series, but we will never
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not talk about it, So please help.
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Us to spread the word. I'll tell you something else
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that I've done, and I hope that maybe others could
637
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do this as well. For years, we saw no movement
638
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in the disappearance and potential murder of Crystal Rogers right
639
00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:56.920
over in Bardstown, and the FBI got involved, And when
640
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they got involved, that's when the cards started falling. I
641
00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:05.440
have put out emails to the FBI and to the
642
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Kentucky State Police and the Madison County Sheriff's Department. There's
643
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a whole layer of stuff we could go into there,
644
00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:15.760
but basically this case is being handled now by Kentucky
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State Police and not the Sheriff's department because of some
646
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potential conflicts there. But I think the way that this
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case is going to move forward is with the FBI involvement.
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I think this is not something that's being actively worked
649
00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:34.280
every single day anymore. It needs fresh eyes and people
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who just don't give a crap to come in and
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stir some things up.
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Yeah, we didn't dive into the again, there's so many
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conspiracy theories that we try not to distract and we
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try to stick to the facts, but there are reasons
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we need outside help from this, so we really hope
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and pray that we get that, and we appreciate you
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This case continues to haunt me because Brooklyn was a
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beautiful girl. She had just graduated high school. But this
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case is very close to home. It happened in the
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town that you and I live in. It happened to
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a girl who graduated from a high school that our
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children attend. This one is so close to home, and
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I feel like justice is within reach. We just need
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to help bring aware to this case. Yeah.
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That's the thing for me is that justice seems it
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seems very very close, but in the last several years,
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we've seemed to get no closer to it. So hopefully
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other podcasters, ourselves, other storytellers getting this out there will
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help to get things moving back in the right direction.
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But why don't you get us rolling telling the story?
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Yeah? Man, this one is very near and dear to
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our heart. So let's dig into it, So we're going
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to be talking about Brooklyn Farthing. She was only eighteen
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years old. Her friends called her brook And although I
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did not have the chance to personally know brook I'm
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going to call her brook because I know a lot
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of people who knew Brooklyn, and she was just everybody
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that I spoke to said the same thing. She was beautiful,
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she was kind hearted. She was just a laid back
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country girl. So she was eighteen years old. She was
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from a small town in central Kentucky called Berea that's
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in Madison County. All of her friends that I have
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seen that have posted about her on Facebook or spoken
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about her, have said nothing but great things. She was
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very caring, she was always up for a good time.
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She was very close with her family. She loved hanging
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out with her friends. I mean, she was just a
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typical eighteen year old. One report that I read stated
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she was a bit of a tomboy. She was not
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afraid to be a girly girl on dress up. But
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she was also the kind of girl to go hunting
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and fishing. I mean, honestly, as I describe her, my
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daughter's younger than Brooklyn was, but that's that's my daughter.
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She would go hunting. She would set in a blind
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with me, but she would also dress up and do
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her nails. That's exactly who Brooke was. Brooke had spent
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June twenty first, twenty thirteen, attending a member a family
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member's birthday party, and after that party, she and her
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friends went to another party. And this was considered a
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field party. If you're not familiar with this, maybe you
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don't live in the South. This is basically a party
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that happens in a field. It's pretty original.
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Right, Yeah, it's not rocket science to figure that one out,
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but it is. I mean, there are a lot of
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open fields, there's usually a fire somewhere in the middle,
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a lot of people sitting in the back of trucks.
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Yeah, it's just a shindig outside. And this was in
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a field just outside of Borea. This was kind of
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located in the county area, kind of out in the
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middle of nowhere, but not too far from town, probably
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a ten or fifteen minute drive back in the town.
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And this would have been around eight or nine pm
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on the twenty first.
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Yeah, that was in June of twenty thirteen, so just
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a little bit over twelve years ago. And It's in
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the middle of the summer, so being out in a field,
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being outside till late late in the night, it's really
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not a big deal. It's pretty common, actually, So we
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know she went over to that field party and then
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brook went missing sometime after four am the next morning.
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Her family has not heard any anything from her since then,
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and they have no answers as to what happened to her.
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There are so many rumors in that community in Madison County,
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Kentucky about what happened, but to this day there have
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been no arrests and no answers for this grieving family.
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So we do know a lot about what happened that night,
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such as who she was with and the last people
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to see her, and kind of what happened before authorities arrived.
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So John, wy'n't you get us into some of that?
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Yeah, The Richmond Register laid out kind of a series
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of events that walk us through the whole day and
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night in question. And this was actually kind of put
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together by using an interview with her sister Page. So
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on the on June twenty first, twenty thirteen, that morning,
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Brooklyn and her sister Page had each went to take
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their driver's license test they went together. Brooklyn ended up
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passing that test. The page did not, and that became
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a running joke in the family that day, and honestly,
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if the night had not have went how it would
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have or how it ended up going, that could have
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continued to be a laugh. Now. That night, the girls,
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along with their family all went to the seventieth birthday
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party of their papa. He had been pretty sick and
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they were really excited to celebrate with him that he
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had another year with the family. So that's where Brooklyn went.
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So they all got together for that and afterwards they went,
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like we had mentioned, to a field party in an
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area called Red Lick and that was on red Lick Road.
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So that's a little confusing, but the whole area is
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called Red Lick and there's one road in and out
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and that's Red Lick Road. And they had went with
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one of their cousins and between seven and eight pm,
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Paige and the cousin decided to leave Brooklyn, and that
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was they had kind of spoken at the party and
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made a plan. So she was actually going to stay
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with a friend that night who was at the party
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as well, so she had to actually packed an overnight bag.
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Brook's friend Tasha is the one that told a lot
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of this to the Richmond Register. She said that Brooke
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was friends with most of the people at this party.
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They had grown up in that area throughout their high
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school years. But that night something went wrong with the
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plans that Brooke had. Like you said, she was supposed
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to spend the night with a friend. She had packed
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an overnight bag, but at some point during the evening
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they got in some kind of argument which shifted those plans.
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We don't really know what it was over.
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There's again speculation about everything here, but we don't need
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to dive into that. Whatever it was, Brooke wasn't comfortable
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with the situation, so she decided to stay at the
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party after her friends left. Now, as the party was ending,
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witnesses saw Brook catch up to two young men and
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ask them for a ride. And this is one of
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the bigger points I think that comes up for debate.
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The names haven't been publicly released, but everybody kind of
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knows who they are, the two guys that she left
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the party. With a quick Google search and you can
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find it for sure.
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They drove out to an area Beria called Floyd's Branch,
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road a lot of branches and licks throughout this story
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because that's the area that the Maria is. But allegedly
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they drove over there and they were going to go
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out to a farm and try to look at some
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horses and kind of check those out. And then they
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had planned or at least promised to take her home
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or drop her off, but one of the drivers dropped
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her off in a house and left Brook alone with
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the other man. And it's reported that this happened on
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Dylan Court in Berea. Now that home at the time
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was under foreclosure. There were no utilities on, so essentially
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this was just a barn, no electricity, no no heat,
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no air. So if you think about it, there's no
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running water there and at four am it's going to
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be dark. So this is not a comfortable place for
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anybody to be. I think, even if you're used to
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field parties and being out till the middle of the night,
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being in a house with no electricity or water with
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somebody you don't know very well at four AM's probably
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not very comfortable.
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Yeah, like you said, she doesn't know this guy very well.
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And even if she knew this guy, there at an
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odd place It's a home in a small subdivision, but
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it's under foreclosure. There's no electricity, no running water. It's
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not a very comfortable place to be, especially at four am.
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And I just as a dad myself, and you're a dad, like,
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this is worst case scenario. Just please be anywhere else
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but right where you are at this point, so scary. Now,
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Once they were at this house, Brooklyn called page This
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is around four am on the morning of June twenty second,
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and Brooklyn asked if there was any way that she
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could come pick her up. Now it's reported though, that
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the cousin that was going to pick brook up, or
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that could have picked her up, had been drinking and
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just not able to drive at that point. So I
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guess in the moment, that seemed like the best decision,
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and that's a mature decision, honestly. But now it's reported
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that she didn't want her mother to be woken up.
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So and remember page At failed her driver's test that day,
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so she didn't have a license. You know, she could
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have drove illegally and under the influence, but that wasn't
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a good idea and I'm glad she didn't. Now it's
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reported that she did not want her mother to be
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woke up, so she started trying to call some other people,
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some other friends, and she was just not able to
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find a ride. She did end up texting her ex boyfriend,
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which was also her ex fiance. She was actually engaged
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at one point at an early age. She asked this
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guy to come pick her up. So he was working
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a third shift job and he wasn't going to be
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able to get off work until six thirty am. I
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will tell you, in this area there are a lot
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of factories. There's a lot of factory work, and if
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you've ever worked in a factory, you'll know you can't
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just take off. It's not a very flexible gig. So
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if you're there until six thirty when your shift ins,
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unless you're dying, that's when you're going to leave. They
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don't let you go for anything. But he agreed to
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come pick her up once his shift was over. So,
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according to her sister that let this report with the
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Rerichmond Register, Brooke sounded fine on the phone. There was
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really no evidence that she was drunk or most importantly,
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that she was scared. At this point. She just sounded
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tired and sounded like she was ready to come home,
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so that it's getting really late in the morning, and
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if you're young, even if you're really young, at some
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point you're just ready to be back home and want
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to sleep in for the day. Brooke had plans with
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her ex boyfriend, which I talked about, and this had
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been confirmed through his sister. And at four am, Brook
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started sending text to her boyfriend and they were saying
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stuff like can you hurry, and then another one, please hurry,
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I'm scared. So this is when things start to take
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a turn, right, because her sister said she sounded good,
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just tired, but now when she's texting her ex boyfriend
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ex fiance, things sound like a different tone.
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Right, Yeah, it seems like it's getting more and more
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urgent for her, which it's obviously in retrospect. It's been
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urgent for me since she left for this party. So
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she is starting to feel I think that things aren't
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right where she is and is in a hurry to leave.
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But these texts stopped coming in. She stopped replying to
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her ex boyfriend at that time, and he didn't get
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anything else back until five thirty am.
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So that's like an hour and a half that's gone
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by since she started trying to get in touch with
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him at four. Yeah, I think about that.
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Think about getting a text from somebody that says, please hurry,
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I need help, and then I'm.
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Scared not replying for an hour. That's horrifying. So he
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tried to ask where she was, who she was going
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to be with, but he never got a text back.
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So this has to be agonizing for him because he
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knows he can't get off, he can't leave to help her.
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And then all of a sudden, like you said, she stopped.
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So the last text that he got was her saying,
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never mind, I'm okay, I'm going to a party in
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rock Castle County. So after the last text, he then
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asked who she was going to be with, and that's
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when he didn't get a response again. And it's reported
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that he got off work at the normal time six
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point thirty and then he was able to just go home.
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Yeah, in rock Castle County. If you know anything about Kentucky,
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we go by counties for everything. Rock Castle's one of
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the closest other counties to us, And if there was
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anywhere else around that would have a field party, it
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would be rock Castle. But when we get down to it.
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People didn't know about this party. Nobody else talked about
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a party in rock Castle County. So looking back, its
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speculated that whatever happened to Brooks, somebody sent this text
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from her phone to get her ex boyfriend off the sentence.
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That's always how have you these texts? After she stopped responding.
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She actually had plans the next morning to go down
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to Somerset, Kentucky to a car show, but of course
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she never showed up and she couldn't be reached by phone.
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So that's when the people she was supposed to go
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with called Page. And it was around two in the afternoon.
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And after Page couldn't get a hold of Brooklyn, the
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family started calling trying to get a hold of her.
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They started searching for they started trying to figure out
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who she was with, what happened to her the night before.
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Page told the family that Brook's friend had said that
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she left with a man from the party that they
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were all at together. Now Page knew most of Brooklyn's
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friends again, they were similar age and kind of run
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the same circles. It's not a big town, but she
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didn't know this particular guy, and she said that brook
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would have never left with somebody she wasn't comfortable with,
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So why would did she leave with this guy? Or
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did she know him and she was comfortable with him?
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She added, The family believes that maybe she knew him
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through her ex, so maybe that was the connection that
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led to her having some kind of trust that she
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would be okay. And honestly, it depends on who you
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ask whether they believed that Brooke knew this guy or not.
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A lot of the family didn't think she did, but
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some of her friends said she did, so it's it's
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kind of up in the air. Paige ended up getting
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his phone number, though, and she and her sister Tasha
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called the guy, telling him that they couldn't get a
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hold of Brooklyn and that they were worried about her.
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And he said that, yes, he took her away from
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that party. She left the party with him, but then
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he took her back to his house, the one that
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was without electricity, but he said that he wasn't comfortable
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being there with her because he was friends with her ex.
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So once he found out that her ex was coming
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to pick her up, he said, he took her in
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the house and he went and put his horses up
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and kind of left her for the ex boy friend
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to come get her. Before he left, he said that
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nobody had come to get her and that he heard
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her talking to somebody about a party in Roecastle County.
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But if he wasn't comfortable with being in the house
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with her, why would he take her back to the
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house in the first place. So already his story is
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suspected best And I know you have to go take
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care of horses generally, not doing that at four am,
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maybe six or seven.
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Yeah, I mean, it sounds like this guy's trying to
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put distance between he and Brooklyn, stating, yeah, we were
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with each other, but we weren't really with each other.
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I mean, I was doing chores, she was talking to
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somebody else. That just you're trying to minimize the situation,
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is my interpretation of that. Completely agree. The right thing
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to do there is if you don't feel comfortable having
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her at your house, take her to her house, make
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sure she's safe, and make sure that you can distance
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yourself that way. But he didn't do that. About twenty
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minutes after that call with Brooklyn's sister, he actually called
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her her back, and this time it said that he
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sounded very nervous. So he told Brooklyn's sister that he
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was scared, and when the sister asked why he was scared,
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he said, well, my house is on fire and all
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of Brooklyn's belongings were still inside. He said that when
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they came back from putting the horses up, he saw
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flames and they ended up calling the fire department. So
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he had wondered if maybe she had lit a cigarette
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and was smoking it and then it dropped on the couch.
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He said that when he left, she was setting on
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the couch smoking a cigarette and he wondered if perhaps
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that's what caught the couch on fire. So again he
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sounded really nervous. He said that he was scared and
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noted that all of her belongings were still in the house.
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To be clear, the house fire and everything happened that
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morning around eight am. So at this phone call at
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after two o'clock, when he's talking to her sister, that's
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when he's telling her all the stuff to happened. He
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didn't tell her the first time. It was when he
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called back, So again, just a very odd series of events.
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So think about getting that phone call though, if you're
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her sister, why would all of her stuff be there
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if she wasn't, so you have to imagine that she
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is there, and if she is there and the house
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is on fire, you have to be afraid that she's
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in danger from that, right absolutely. And even if she
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did go to another party, then why wouldn't she just
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take her stuff to that party. I don't know that
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it would be logical to assume that she was going
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to go to that party and then come back to
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this house with no electricity, to a home that she
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didn't know, with a guy she didn't know. It doesn't
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make a lot of sense. I also want to be clear, like,
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the whole house wasn't on fire, the couch was, and
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it was actually drug outside and burning in the front yard,
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and that's where firefighters came and put out that fire.
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Of Course, I'll speculate at the end what I feel
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about that, but it's really odd.
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Yeah, not a house fire. Obviously not an electrical fire
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because there was no electricity. It did leave a hole
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in the floor where the couch had been sitting, but
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they were able to come in and get the fire
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out and get the couch out of there before it
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spread to anything else. Of Course, Tasha didn't know this
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when she got the phone call. But all we really
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know is that the house burned. When twenty four hours
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had passed and Brooklyn's family hadn't heard from her, they
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finally filed a police report. Now family and friends went
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out to dial In Court to search for themselves. They
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knew where the house was, and when they got there
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they saw her items saw on the front porch. Among
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them were her shoes, the overnight bag she had packed
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stayed with a friend, which included clothes and toilet, trees
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and other things. The only thing missing was Brooke herself,
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the clothes she had been wearing when she went to
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the party, and her cell phone. So when the missing
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person's reports filed, please start investigating this as a missing person.
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So they did a records request for phone records, and
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they saw that she had received more than one thousand
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phone calls in twenty four hours from people that loved her,
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cared about her, and were trying to find her. Starting
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that Sunday, after all this had taken place, the Kentucky
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State Police started interviewing people that they knew had seen
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Brooklyn the night before or that they knew may have
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information from this and They did some large scale searches
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that week across the Red Lick area that's pretty close
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to us John. It's not exactly easy terrain to search.
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That are big cliffs, lots of woods, lots of random ponds.
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It's just I mean, if you're looking for a place
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to search, this is almost the worst case scenario for
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a regular part of America. I would say this area
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as a whole is relatively flat and easy terrain, but
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that area of Red Lick that is the worst terrain
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I think in the county. I mean, there's mountains there,
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there's cliffs. It is it's really, in my opinion, the
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hardest place that you could try to search an area
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in this whole county. It ended up being a pretty
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massive operation. They had people on horses, they had search dogs,
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they had cadets that were going through training. There's a
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State Police training facility up in Richmond, and they continued
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to search over and over but didn't seem to find
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anything as far as that weekend. That's kind of all
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we know. We do have access to that in through
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interviews that her family has given. These days, they're not
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talking as much as they used to, so it's hard
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to get any new information at this point, but there
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have been a lot of people in Madison County scratching
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their heads about this, So let's dig into some of
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what may have actually happened.
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John, Yeah, man, this is one of those things. Is like,
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she took her bag with her to the party, but
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then her overnight bag is still on that porch there
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on Dylan Court. So if she went somewhere, if she
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went to another party, I really think that that bag
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and all of her stuff would have been with her
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as well. I don't think she because she didn't know
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this guy very well. I just can't imagine that she
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would leave with the intention of coming back there to
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pick up her stuff. I feel like she would have
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had her stuff with her.
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And none of the interviews ever revealed that there was
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actually a party in rock Castle that night, or at
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least not one that she would have known about and
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was invited to.
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So then there at this area of Floyd's Branch, they
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drop another guy off at his house and then the
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two of them go back to the house on Dylan Court,
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and that's when the story begins to just really unravel
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for me. She's texting her boyfriend saying that she's scared,
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and she texted him a couple of times with those
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same frantic messages, but then at some point those stop,
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and for over an hour and a half it's silence
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from her, and then she responds, finally saying, actually, I'm
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going to a party in Rockcastle County. I'm all good,
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I don't need to ride. The guy that we know
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she's with confirms that she's there, but again puts distance
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between the two. He's out doing something with the horses.
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Wait a second, I thought you were just with horses
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somewhere else, And I don't think this area on Dylan
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Court has a farm has horses there, and then there's
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a house fire later, Like, this is just a series
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of events that makes no sense. So the only logical
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solution in my mind, and I know this is possibly
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taking a leap, but okay, the only thing destroyed in
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this house is a couch. Is it possible that she
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was sexually assaulted on this couch burned as a way
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to hide evidence, and then she's disappeared because you know,
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you did something that you don't want to get arrested for.
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That's the only series of events that make sense in
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my mind. Yeah, I don't think that's a leaper a
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jump at all. I think that does make the most sense.
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There is no evidence at all that the fire was
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started by a cigarette or buy some type of accident.
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They don't know what started it as far as I know.
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There was no accelerant, but it was just the couch.
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And if it had been something that caught the rest
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of the house on fire, maybe you start to question that.
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And if the couch catches on fire and she takes off,
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is she.
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Gonna leave her shoes there? Like, it's no no chance,
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especially out in that area. It's everything else just does
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not add up.
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Let's talk a little bit about the investigation. A lot
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of people in Madison County are frustrated because they think
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that they know who is responsible for her disappearance. But
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at this time, police just don't have what they need
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to take this case trial and come out in a
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way that doesn't jeopardize the case. Like if you take
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it to court you don't have enough evidence and you
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get acquitted, you can't go back. You can't file the
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same charges. But in regards to the investigation, police have
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tried to find some type of party that happened in
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rock Castle County that night to see if she may
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have actually went to a party, and they've just been
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unable to find one. So as far as police are concerned,
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there was no other party that she had gone to
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that night. Jimmy, I mentioned field parties. It's no secret
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I've been to field parties. Usually by four or five
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o'clock they're kind of whinding down. So if there was
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another party, you would think this would have been something
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she would have went to. Wait earlier in the morning.
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I don't think many parties are just getting going five
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or six o'clock in the morning.
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You know, you're exactly right. I think that people at
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this point that want to go and be alone. You're
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going off with your significant other or whatever. Everybody else
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is arting to find a place to crash for the night,
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because I don't know, there's a chance if this is
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a Friday night, you're gonna party again the next night.
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So you got to get a little bit of rest.
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And she had plans the next day to go to
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Somerset with her family. Now, again that's later in the day,
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but I think most teenagers are gonna party until five,
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six o'clock in the morning, go home, get some sleep,
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be up and ready to go to Somerset. This was
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something she was tight knit with her family. I don't
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think she would have just blown them off.
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Yeah, I completely agree, And yeah, no, I don't think
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any of it adds up. I think the change of
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tone in the texts in itself is enough for me
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to see that something dramatically changed here and that it
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wasn't good for Brooklyn. Like we said, a thousand calls
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the next day going answered. I mean, we can say
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all day that she lit up a room and all
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the things you hear on these documentaries, But I do
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think that speaks for itself. People loved her, people cared
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for her, people wanted to take care of Brooklyn.
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John.
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We haven't mentioned the names of the suspects, and I
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will say some more things about the main guy here
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in a few minutes. But you and I have talked
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to law enforcement off and on about this for a decade,
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trying to get answers, and the feedback that we constantly
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get is, again off the record is oh he did it.
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We just couldn't convict him right now because they're and
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by did it, I mean there is essentially The common
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belief is that Brooklyn is no longer living, that something
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happened that night that ended her life, and that this
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guy had something to do with it, but they've not
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located a body. There was no evidence of violence that happened.
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Well, I think there was. I think there was, and
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I think that evidence was set on fire and then
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also sprayed with water by the local fire department, which
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is I'm not throwing shade at them. That's their job.
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They respond to a fire, They're going to spray water
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and put it out. I just think that they happened
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to be spraying down the piece of evidence that would
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have been what we have needed to convict somebody.
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Yeah, I think you're right, and I think that that
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did destroy whatever evidence was there or whatever could have
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been collected. And again this is just twelve years ago,
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so DNA was a thing, But I think now we'd
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be more prepared to close off the crime scene and
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maybe be able to collect some things that could be helpful.
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So it's not even at this point that we have
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DNA that's untested. That we have things that we do
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that we know when we're just waiting to test them.
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This isn't a situation where there were cameras everywhere. This
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is a situation that I think it's going to take
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somebody stepping forward to say I know that this happened,
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this person told me, this person showed me this is
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what I saw or heard, and then being able to
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corroborate it. Do you see any other means for this
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being solved besides somebody telling what they know.
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Yeah, I mean, I don't know if after the fact
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that couch was taken into any evidence. I've never heard
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of that, so I don't know for sure. I doubt
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it at this point, but I think you're right. I
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think there are people in this person's life who hurt Brooklyn,
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who know that they did it, and they are refusing
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to come forward and talk to police. I know that
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the guy that everybody assumes did it has spoken to
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police many many times, and he's not been quiet. I mean,
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he's been in trouble since then. Do you want to
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talk about any of that? Yeah, I think so.
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And again this is we're not saying his name because
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we don't like lawsuits. But you can find with a
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simple Google search, not only what happened to Brooklyn Farthing.
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I'm sure you'll find a lot of information about that.
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But in August of twenty twenty, this individual was arrested
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for child exploitation charges by the Internet Crimes Unit the
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Kentucky State Police. So essentially there were charges of obtaining
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possession portraying a minor in sexual performance. It was a
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Class D felony. And he's been in prison for this,
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and I mean, looking back at it now, I think
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he's probably if he didn't recently get out, possibly going
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to be getting out soon.
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I had really.
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Hoped that when this individual again, if he had anything
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to do with it, this is the last person to
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admit seeing Brooklyn alive. I had hoped that going behind
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bars would give somebody of the leverage to put some
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pressure on him, or to get a confession of some kind,
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or to tell us things that we don't know. At
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the very least, he's hiding something. He knows something else
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that happened there that night that he's not telling and
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we need to know.
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What was the TV series that you and I both
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really liked that was based on the true story where
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the FBI uses an inmate as like a blackbird. Blackbird, Yeah,
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that was a good one. Wish that police could have
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got another inmate to get to know him and find
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out if there was anything he shared. But again, this
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has been over ten years ago. Now, this happened in
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twenty thirteen. There are people who know what happened to Brooklyn.
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You've got to come forward. This family needs justice and
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they need closure.
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Yeah, there are other theories about there, that she ran
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away or I don't know. A few years ago, there's
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a bunch of talk about a serial killer among along
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I seventy five named Bill Warner that may have had
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something to do with it. I don't believe so far away,
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and there's just so many inconsistencies in this person's story
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that that's too far fetched for me. Yeah, if you're
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looking for some conspiracies, you will find them. But the
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reality seems pretty clear in this one that she was
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taken to the secluded area where there was no water electricity,
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there was a fire there that potentially destroyed some evidence,
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and she hasn't been seen since, and the person who
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last saw her is not telling the full truth. So
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with all that considered, I think the answer is very simple.
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We just have to find a way to get to it.
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Absolutely. There have been so many nights that I've just
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prayed for a break in this case, and I know
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there have been so many others praying the same thing.
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And I believe in my heart that this case will
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see the light. It's just a matter of when.
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Yeah, I really hope. So we covered this on our
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show on our one year anniversary. It was our one
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year anniversary show. I believe that we finally covered this
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because it was one of the cases that drove us
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into this in the first place, and it's been over
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seven years since that happened.
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I would have really thought that after a couple of
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years after that release, that somebody, not because of anything
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we've done, but I just hoped in my heart that
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something would have moved and triggered a response and justice
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could be served. But here we are, over ten years
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after her disappearance, eight years after we released that episode,
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and we're no closer today than we were back then.
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Yeah, and I think this case obviously haunts us, and
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I hope that it has grown to haunt those of
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you that have heard it so that we can continue
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to raise awareness. I know a lot of the other
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podcasts involved in this cases that Hano series have covered
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this and are passionate about this. We called dibbs about
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talking about it on this series, but we will never
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not talk about it, So please help.
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Us to spread the word. I'll tell you something else
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that I've done, and I hope that maybe others could
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do this as well. For years, we saw no movement
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in the disappearance and potential murder of Crystal Rogers right
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over in Bardstown, and the FBI got involved, And when
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they got involved, that's when the cards started falling. I
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have put out emails to the FBI and to the
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Kentucky State Police and the Madison County Sheriff's Department. There's
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a whole layer of stuff we could go into there,
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but basically this case is being handled now by Kentucky
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State Police and not the Sheriff's department because of some
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potential conflicts there. But I think the way that this
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case is going to move forward is with the FBI involvement.
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I think this is not something that's being actively worked
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every single day anymore. It needs fresh eyes and people
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who just don't give a crap to come in and
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stir some things up.
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Yeah, we didn't dive into the again, there's so many
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conspiracy theories that we try not to distract and we
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try to stick to the facts, but there are reasons
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we need outside help from this, so we really hope
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and pray that we get that, and we appreciate you
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being here and being a part of you should be
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