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Lost & Found: Maricela Garcia & Laura Stacy Missing Person Cases · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Stacy's parents flew from Denver to l A to search
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  Speaker 1: for her after a roommate recorded her missing Sunday. I
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  Speaker 1: just feel like it's been a nightmare and I just
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  Speaker 1: want to be woken up from a bad dam. This
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  Speaker 1: is carme Stories with Nancy Grace. Her cell phone was
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  Speaker 1: found about twenty five miles from her home at Golden
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  Speaker 1: Valley Park in Santa Clarita in a puddle of water.
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  Speaker 1: That car is sitting on Avenue E. I said it's
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  Speaker 1: a black actor with Colorado plate. Multiple agency search for
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  Speaker 1: the missing woman using volunteers, off road vehicles, a helicopter,
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  Speaker 1: and K nine teams. It was detectives who ended up
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  Speaker 1: spotting her on the fourteen Freeway Wednesday morning. Authority said
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  Speaker 1: she was disoriented and confused. At this point, I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea what happened over the last couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: That will take We'll interview her and see if she'll
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  Speaker 1: give us information to make some determinations. She goes missing
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  Speaker 1: about up a block away from the famed Forest Lawn
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood Cemetery to the Stars, with tourist vans and busses
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  Speaker 1: going by about every five minute. Speaking through a loudspeaker,
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  Speaker 1: How did a gorgeous twenty eight year old girl just
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  Speaker 1: vanish into thin air? Then her vehicle is located miles
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  Speaker 1: and miles away, thirty miles north. Her phone is found
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  Speaker 1: in a puddle and apart thirty miles north. What happened?
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  Speaker 1: Laura Lynn Stacy, just twenty eight years old, goes missing
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  Speaker 1: and in the last hours after we brought this to
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  Speaker 1: light yesterday, Laura has been found quote confused and wandering
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  Speaker 1: along the highway sixty miles from her home, her car
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  Speaker 1: and phone abandoned. She has been missing for three days,
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  Speaker 1: her vehicle found. As I was saying in Lancaster, California,
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  Speaker 1: what happened? How, if at all, does Laurelen Stacy's disappearance
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  Speaker 1: and miracle discovery relate to the disappearance of another woman
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  Speaker 1: that seems to be getting very different treatment in her search.
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  Speaker 1: This missing young girl, Marciella that we told you about,
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  Speaker 1: still missing as her family is going door to door
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  Speaker 1: to try to find pertinent video surveillance. Why aren't the
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  Speaker 1: cops doing that? And now they're even having to raise
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  Speaker 1: money on a go fund Me site to try and
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  Speaker 1: hire a private investigator. And to me, the disappearance of
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  Speaker 1: Marciela is so obviously a kidnapping. Her favorite choker that
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  Speaker 1: she wore at all times was found snatched from her
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  Speaker 1: neck and broken beside a dumpster. The family brought in
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  Speaker 1: canines and they followed her sent to the dumpster off
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  Speaker 1: in the corner of the parking lot at a good
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  Speaker 1: Will where she was shopping with her sister. She goes
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  Speaker 1: outside for a smoke and she's never seen again. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why is that not getting the same treatment as Laura Lynn. Now,
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  Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, I'm happy for any resources finding
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  Speaker 1: missing people, but I'm disturbed if I think there is
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  Speaker 1: unequal treatment between people. Joining me right now is investigative
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  Speaker 1: reporter Alan Duke. You are listening to crime stories with
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, and we are on to missing Marcia Ella,
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  Speaker 1: and I want answers. Alan. First of all, let's start
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  Speaker 1: with the miracle discovery of Laura Lynn Stacy. What happened?
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  Speaker 1: She was walking in essentially the desert north about sixty
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  Speaker 1: miles from where she was last seen in the San
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  Speaker 1: Fernando Alley area of Los Angeles. She was disoriented. She
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  Speaker 1: was found by an l A p D detective who
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  Speaker 1: was driving in the area taking part in the search.
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  Speaker 1: Let me describe this area. This is Lancaster. You've heard
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  Speaker 1: of Edwards Air Force Base. This is where they land
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  Speaker 1: the Space Shuttle. They used to when they couldn't in Florida,
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  Speaker 1: because they've got this long, flat desert bed they could
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  Speaker 1: do it. And that's how desolate it is. And she
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  Speaker 1: was just wondering, disoriented three days after she was missing.
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  Speaker 1: They're not telling us much about what happened to her.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the family is asking for privacy. The Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: department up there is not saying much. The l a
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  Speaker 1: p d. Is being quiet. They're just telling us they
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  Speaker 1: took her to a hospital to be checked out. And
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  Speaker 1: we don't know really what her ordeal was, other than
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  Speaker 1: it appears that she had been in her car for
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  Speaker 1: a while, she suffered from exposure to the cold, dehydration.
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  Speaker 1: The area was hit by a storm over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Temperatures dropped into the twenties overnight, and she had just
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  Speaker 1: moved to Hollywood trying to seek fame. What can you
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  Speaker 1: tell me about the apartment complex where she was living?
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  Speaker 1: She was living in where she is living in this
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  Speaker 1: apartment complex that I've been through to several times covering stories.
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  Speaker 1: It is where a lot of the down and out
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  Speaker 1: stars seemed to go when they need a place to live.
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  Speaker 1: For example, it's where Rick James died, the eighties musician.
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  Speaker 1: It is where Corey Hayne died. You remember that we
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  Speaker 1: covered that extensively together. This was the same apartment complex.
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  Speaker 1: It is also when you've seen on television on reality
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  Speaker 1: shows where these moms come in the in the springtime
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  Speaker 1: to bring their little girls or boys to audition, and
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  Speaker 1: they're staying for a month or two months, and they
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  Speaker 1: don't have much money, and so they are on a
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  Speaker 1: budget and they all congregate. Therefore, the pilot season auditions
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  Speaker 1: where they hope their little kid will become a big star.
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  Speaker 1: That is the apartment complex so so notorious. They recently
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  Speaker 1: changed the name to try to throw people off. That's
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  Speaker 1: where it is. It's right near Warner Brothers studio. It's
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  Speaker 1: right near Universal Studios. You know. That reminds me of
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  Speaker 1: It reminds me of where when I went out for
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  Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars to l A, everybody stayed in.
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, what was the name of that? What was
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  Speaker 1: the name of that apartment complex where I stayed with
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  Speaker 1: the children? Plazzo that's it. It was very awkward because
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  Speaker 1: I would be coming out with the twins and I
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  Speaker 1: would run into like the judges. Who was the judge
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  Speaker 1: that I loved so much. He was so flamboyant. Bruno
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  Speaker 1: was there. That's where I befriended Carson Cressley, who was
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  Speaker 1: also in my season. All the contestants were staying there.
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  Speaker 1: It was just, you know, anyway, it's like the hub
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  Speaker 1: of Dancing with the Stars. So you're telling me where
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  Speaker 1: this woman lived. Laurelen Stacy was where everybody comes to
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  Speaker 1: seek their fame, and they can't really afford a great apartment,
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  Speaker 1: so they stayed there. Got it. Now, let's get back
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  Speaker 1: to what you told me. You said that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at this photo of her being carried off
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  Speaker 1: in a stretcher and she looks horrible. So what can
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  Speaker 1: and she's a gorgeous young girl. What can you tell
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  Speaker 1: me about the condition in which she was found? Well,
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  Speaker 1: she was wondering, disoriented on this road near the freeway.
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  Speaker 1: Now where we heard that before, Peppini, Yes, exactly, but
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  Speaker 1: she was not bound. All indications are now that there
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  Speaker 1: is no search for a kidnapper. I think that is
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  Speaker 1: actually good news. You know what, I don't have any
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  Speaker 1: confidence in that. And I'll tell you why. Because of
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  Speaker 1: this string of missing women that the police keep saying
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  Speaker 1: are voluntarily missing. How can that be voluntarily missing? I
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  Speaker 1: want to go now to Marisila Garcia. We know a
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  Speaker 1: lot now that we didn't know before. UM, let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about what you learned from the family. What I learned
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  Speaker 1: last night. I went to the crime scene where she
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  Speaker 1: was last scene, and I walked the area, talking to
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  Speaker 1: the homeless people around there and the store clerks and managers.
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  Speaker 1: And I went into the church where she supposedly walked into.
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  Speaker 1: I went at the exact same time that she would
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  Speaker 1: have been there, went into the good Will store, and
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  Speaker 1: I walked out. And what I noticed when you walk
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  Speaker 1: out to where she would have gone to have her
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  Speaker 1: cigarette break, it is very dark. While the front part
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  Speaker 1: of the parking lot has plenty of lighting, if you
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  Speaker 1: go to the side there are light poles, but the
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  Speaker 1: lights are off. And you walk over towards the dumpster
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  Speaker 1: where they found her choker ripped off of her neck.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently it is dark there. If you're going to be
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  Speaker 1: grabbed by somebody, I don't know how you would see it.
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  Speaker 1: If somebody else would see it there. I also walked
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  Speaker 1: over to where the church is, which is about three
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  Speaker 1: yards from the good Will store, and where her sister
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  Speaker 1: talked to some ladies who said, yes, we saw the
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  Speaker 1: We saw her when she described her at seven fifteen
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  Speaker 1: or thereabouts. When she would have been in there. It
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  Speaker 1: would have been when confessional was started. That doesn't make sense. Sorry, sorry, Alan,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make sense because the sister is still shopping in
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  Speaker 1: good Ill, she walks out for a cigarette. It's very
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  Speaker 1: difficult to meet for me to believe she just left
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  Speaker 1: and walked the link of three football fields into a
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  Speaker 1: confession while her sisters, still shopping wait for her to
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  Speaker 1: come back, leaves her BMW parked and lot in the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot with her pocket book in it. That doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make sense to me. I don't think that was her
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  Speaker 1: in the church. I I kind of tend to agree
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  Speaker 1: with that. I talked to people in the church. None
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  Speaker 1: of them were there that night. Apparently that was exactly
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  Speaker 1: two weeks ago tonight. It doesn't make a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 1: But we've got these tracking dogs who followed the track
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  Speaker 1: over there. Well, I'm not saying that she wasn't transported
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  Speaker 1: there in a vehicle. I mean, if you'll remember, Lacy
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  Speaker 1: Peterson was put in a vehicle, her body put in
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  Speaker 1: a vehicle, and tracker dogs followed the trail of that
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  Speaker 1: vehicle all the way to San Francisco Bay, where Scott
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  Speaker 1: Peterson dupped her or waited down by cement blocks into
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  Speaker 1: the water out on a fishing boat. So she can
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  Speaker 1: easily have gone that way in a vehicle. But there's
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  Speaker 1: no way at night that this girl leaves her sister
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  Speaker 1: shopping and walks three football fields you did, say, three
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  Speaker 1: hundred yards to a church and goes in to confess. No,
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  Speaker 1: that did not happen, Okay, so just stop talking about that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: a car may have gone that way with her in it.
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  Speaker 1: They may. I'm sure they saw somebody coming in, but
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  Speaker 1: it is not this girl, Okay, somebody else, And that
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  Speaker 1: is throwing me off her real trail, because that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make sense, and when it doesn't make sense, it's probably
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  Speaker 1: not true. So what happened to her? Let's go back
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  Speaker 1: to the parking lot. What what did you see? The
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  Speaker 1: main thing the impression I got was that it was
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  Speaker 1: very dark outside over where she would have been, where
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  Speaker 1: her car was parked, and also where her choker was found.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you think about it, it was the place
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  Speaker 1: she shouldn't have gone, and that's apparently where she went. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: so it's her fault because she goes outside her saying
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  Speaker 1: it's dark, it's dark. Don't start with me, Alan, she
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  Speaker 1: should have gone outside for a cigarette break because it's dark.
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  Speaker 1: She shouldn't have gone jogging. It's her fault. She was
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  Speaker 1: wearing a midgor of shirt. Where's her skirt too short?
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  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. I've heard for twenty years it's her
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  Speaker 1: fault because blah blah blah. This is not her fault
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  Speaker 1: that I hope that's not where. That is not where
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  Speaker 1: I'm headed. Talked a lot with people in the area
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  Speaker 1: and business managers and that sort of thing. Names, topics, divert, divert,
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  Speaker 1: I remember, Alan, Go ahead, I'm gonna pivot. So, okay, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: can you answer this, Mr Pivott? How come police took
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  Speaker 1: searchers off Marisila's case to send guys ninety miles away
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  Speaker 1: to find Laura len Stacy and thank god that they
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  Speaker 1: did find her. Of course, she was out walking along
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  Speaker 1: the street. But what's happening with Mirisila. Yeah, this is
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  Speaker 1: this is it, and this is my frustration. I hope
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  Speaker 1: it's not because uh one is the pretty blond white
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  Speaker 1: girl and one is Latina. Is that is you know?
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  Speaker 1: I just just putting it out there. That is a
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  Speaker 1: factual situation in that Maricela Garcia is Hispanic and Laura
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  Speaker 1: Lynn Stacy of Denver, Colorado is not. I'm not passing
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  Speaker 1: judgment on the l a p D. But you can
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  Speaker 1: simply look that the l a p D is not
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  Speaker 1: going around collecting the surveillance of Adio. Then there's a
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  Speaker 1: there are where I found a lot of security. Let's
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  Speaker 1: give them the benefit for the doubt. After I just
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  Speaker 1: through that accusation out there, what do they know something
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  Speaker 1: about Maricella's disappearance that I don't know? I mean, her
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  Speaker 1: car was left in the parking lot of good Will.
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  Speaker 1: She's for those of you that aren't familiar with her story,
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  Speaker 1: she and her sister went to a good Will store
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  Speaker 1: where a lot of people go shopping. And because she had,
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  Speaker 1: as they call it, a decade's party, that means she
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  Speaker 1: was going to dress up I believe, like an eighties outfit. Well,
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  Speaker 1: she is a young girl that probably has no recollection
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  Speaker 1: whatsoever of the eighties, and she goes to good Will
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  Speaker 1: to try to find old clothes for her costume. In
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  Speaker 1: the middle of shopping with her younger sister, she has
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  Speaker 1: I want to have a cigarette, will be right back,
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  Speaker 1: goes outside for smoke, never seen again in her I
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  Speaker 1: believe it was a BMW. She leaves her lot to
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  Speaker 1: BMW and the good Will parking lot with her purse.
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  Speaker 1: So there is no way that this girl just up
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  Speaker 1: and left her sister in the middle of a shopping spree. No,
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  Speaker 1: that's what happened. Now. Why what do police know that
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  Speaker 1: we don't know, Well, they're not telling us. They just
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  Speaker 1: recently transferred it over from the local police precinct to
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  Speaker 1: Missing Persons. It is a missing person's case, but last
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  Speaker 1: we heard it was voluntary missing. The family still says
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  Speaker 1: that they're not getting the police enthusiasm for this case.
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  Speaker 1: If you will, So, the dad has spent the last
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  Speaker 1: several days doing what I did today, yesterday last night
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  Speaker 1: walking the neighborhood. He's looking at who's got security cameras
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  Speaker 1: and he's getting their security video. But you know you've
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  Speaker 1: been involved in instigations with security camera video. It takes
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  Speaker 1: people experts to review that video. A family can't just
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  Speaker 1: look at and interpret it. I've tried this as a
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  Speaker 1: as a reporter. It's not easy, so you do have
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  Speaker 1: to have some expertise. So they're trying to hire private
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  Speaker 1: investigators right now to fill in for where the police
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  Speaker 1: are not taking part. Now, you do know that she
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  Speaker 1: actually told her sister Sarah, she's going out for a
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  Speaker 1: cigarette and would be right back. She said that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: she left the store in exactly seven twenty two pm
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  Speaker 1: California time. At this time of the year, isn't dark
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  Speaker 1: there at That's what That's what I went to experience.
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  Speaker 1: It is dark and there are no lights where she
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  Speaker 1: apparently was having her cigarette. You know, her vehicle, it's
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  Speaker 1: a Tan BMW was found at the n store next
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  Speaker 1: door with her pocketbook inside. I'm curious. Is that where
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  Speaker 1: she parked the car with the sister era. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: car was still where they had left it. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure she didn't move the car because the car
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  Speaker 1: was part at a store, not good which right next
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  Speaker 1: door to the Goodwill. It's they're they're adjacent to each
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  Speaker 1: other and that part is lighted. But this is the
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  Speaker 1: problem when you go out for a cigarette, you can't
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  Speaker 1: do a cigarette in California where people are around. You
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  Speaker 1: can't smoke your cigarette out on the lighted sidewalk area.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently based on where her choker was found, she just
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  Speaker 1: walked over to the right, just to the west of
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  Speaker 1: the of the good Will store. That's where the dumpster is.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the choker was found. Another bad coincidence is
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  Speaker 1: that while that while they were shopping at Goodwill, the sister,
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  Speaker 1: Sarah says that Marcella turned off her cell phone because
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  Speaker 1: she couldn't get the music that was playing on the
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  Speaker 1: cell phone to stop, so she turned it off, which
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  Speaker 1: means it's not going to ping. We can't get a
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  Speaker 1: ping off of a cell phone that's turned off. Now,
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  Speaker 1: who would leave without credit cards, their purse, their their car.
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  Speaker 1: Who would leave with all that behind? And in an
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  Speaker 1: area that they've never been in before. They hadn't shopped
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  Speaker 1: at this store, that hadn't been to that shopping center before.
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  Speaker 1: This was about five to six miles from where they lived,
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  Speaker 1: but it not It was not a usual place and
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  Speaker 1: they only found the place on Google Maps because they
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  Speaker 1: were looking for a good will store. Now, what about
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  Speaker 1: this around Sarah, the sister, says two men that she
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  Speaker 1: describes as being quote sketchy, were outside the good Will
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  Speaker 1: store and the other stores, and one asked her what
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  Speaker 1: time it is, which was an age old trick to
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  Speaker 1: get somebody to stop and look down at their phone
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  Speaker 1: and then you grab them or their purse. She said
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  Speaker 1: she didn't know, and he asked her, was her phone dead?
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  Speaker 1: That's weird. That is weird. That's what it is. An
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  Speaker 1: area where you would see quote unquote sketchy people, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to call the homeless people, etcetera sketchy, they're
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  Speaker 1: around there. Is it a high crime Is it a
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  Speaker 1: high crime area? I asked the people who are there
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  Speaker 1: every day, for example, the people at the taco truck
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  Speaker 1: that's parked there every day every night, and they said no,
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  Speaker 1: They said they feel safe there, that it's not high crime.
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  Speaker 1: There was no security on guard on duty at the
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  Speaker 1: time of the Instactually, I found I found a security guard.
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  Speaker 1: Good I found a security guard. Maybe that's a new edition.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they just added the security guard since this happened
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  Speaker 1: to this, because according to reports, there was no security
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  Speaker 1: guard on duty at the store at the time she went.
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  Speaker 1: Miss not at the good will store. But right next
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  Speaker 1: door at the store standing in the door is a
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  Speaker 1: uniform security guard. Again, maybe that was a new addition.
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  Speaker 1: Now I know that Marisila had a job. She worked
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  Speaker 1: for an on demand delivery service called Postmates, and I wondered,
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  Speaker 1: did she make a delivery somebody that followed her. I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at all the possibilities. Do I think that's what happened,
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily at this was more a crime of convenience
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  Speaker 1: if it is a crime, but I'm trying to turn
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  Speaker 1: through the facts that I know now. The sister, who
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  Speaker 1: is Edgar Garcia, says it's highly unlikely his sister would
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  Speaker 1: do anything risky. That's just not her, Emma, She's not
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  Speaker 1: like that. She also told her brother, Edgar, that she
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  Speaker 1: thought she was being followed. Yeah, m hm. Edgar Garcia
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  Speaker 1: is thirty years old of Westlake Village, said for her
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  Speaker 1: to just leave, as unlike her, she never does anything risky.
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  Speaker 1: And in September she told her brother she thought she
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  Speaker 1: was being followed, and he told her in September to
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  Speaker 1: avoid go into any area alone. He thinks her disappearance
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: was organized, that this was not just a crime of opportunity,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: that's what the brother Edgar Garcia says, yeah, being followed
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: in September, this is January. But hey, a stalker is
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: a stalker, he lowe. Stalkers follow you forever. They never
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: let go. They completely ignore temporary restraining orders, orders, the protection.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: That's why they're called stalkers. You can't get rid of them.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: So are the police insisting this is a voluntary disappearance, Yes,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: especially based on the the investigative resources. Nothing. When I
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: talked with the family spokeswoman last night, nothing has changed. Well,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: they're a logger heads. The family and the police don't
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: see eye to eye on this, not at all. This
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: incredible open letter to the l a p D that
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: the mom posted on Facebook that we linked to yesterday, Yeah,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: it's just a very sad plea for help from the
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: l a p D. Well, you know what, let's help.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Here's the chip line as we know it now to
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: one three nine nine six eighteen hundred two one three
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: nine nine six eighteen hundred A spate of women missing
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: and it's come to lights as the Sherry Peppini disappearance.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: You know. Uh, speaking of women going missing, there is
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: this crazy story out of the Carolina's I believe regarding
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: a fake child, a dummy placed in the middle of
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the road. What do you know about that, Alan, Yes,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: this happened in eastern North Carolina where a woman near
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: more Head City in that county. A woman was at
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: one thirty am Sunday, that's Sunday morning. She was driving
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: down this this country road and she saw what she
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: thought was a child sitting in the middle of the road.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: What would you do, Nancy, if you were driving on
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: a country road and you saw a child sitting in
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: the middle of the road. Would you just keep going
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: or you a veer out of the way or are
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: you kidding? Nine on one practically knows my They know
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: my name because every time I say anything, I call
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: nine one one. Of course I do. So you were
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: called nine your first reaction would be would you you?
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Would you pull over? Of course I would. I would
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: try to get the child out of the road. A
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: North Carolina woman nearly carjacked after stopping for what she
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: thought was a child in the road. And it's dressed
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: in like a red jersey, and she and pants, and
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: it's sitting up in the middle of the road. For
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Pete's sake, So she stopped and what happened. These two
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: men wearing hoodies grabbed the handles of her door. Fortunately
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: her doors were locked and she was able to get away.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: So when she stops to try to save the child,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: go ahead. Yeah, they tried to carjack her the and
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: it turned out it was a dummy. So then she
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: called nine one one and they came out and found
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: the dummy. It was wearing a red shirt the sheriff's
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: deputies to dressed in children's clothing. She float her car too,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: men wearing dark hoodies race up and try to open
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: her door. Ah, well, the good news is the dummy
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: was apprehended. What am I supposed to laugh at that?
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: The dummy is apprehended? How many women do you think
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: this has worked? On? Excuse me on? How many women
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: do you think this will worked? Let get that straight.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Another thing? Did did you? Did you tell me earlier
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: that they destroyed the dummy? So back to Maricella. Today
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: we are talking about a twenty six year old Tarsana woman,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Maricella Garcia. Please, if you know anything about her disappearance,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: her mom is asking for her for your help. To
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: one three Nancy Grace Crime Stories, signing off, goodbye, friend,