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254. “A Safe Place” - The Case of Morgan Bauer - Newton County, Georgia - [Part 1] · Least of These

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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to least of these where I cover cases that need it most because every life matters and everyone deserves justice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm your host Leah D in today I'll be bringing you part one of the case of Morgan Bowler and Newton County, Georgia.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just a warning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The details in this case are graphic and extremely disturbing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And y'all know I don't always give a warning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I figured this is a true crime podcast and you know what you're getting into, but this case is extremely graphic and violent in nature.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not so much in this episode, but it'll get there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And with that said, let's get right to it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 19-year-old Morgan Bauer grew up in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those at New and Love Morgan admired her adventurous soul, her resilience, and her infectious laughter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Morgan was famous among her family and friends for offering free hugs to anyone who needed them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In 2014, she graduated from Aberdeen Central High School.
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[SPEAKER_00]: By 2016, Morgan was working at a restaurant alongside her best friend, Terran.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Aberdeen was a relatively small town, and while Morgan had friends and family there, she had big dreams of a big city life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And in early 2016, an opportunity presented itself, and Morgan couldn't resist.
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[SPEAKER_00]: According to later court testimony, the co-workers and friends she'd been living with an Aberdeen decided to move back to Michigan, and Morgan, while Morgan decided it was finally time to put those big city dreams in action.
2:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Morgan put out not on Craigslist, and a few of the major cities looking for a roommate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Places like Miami, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Atlanta.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And she found a roommate in Atlanta and made arrangements to clean the home and exchange for
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[SPEAKER_00]: To Morgan, it sounded like the perfect opportunity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Atlanta was the kind of place she had been dreaming about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A big city, a fresh start, and a chance to build a new life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So on February 12, 2016, Morgan set out for her new life in Atlanta.
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[SPEAKER_00]: According to her mother's share, she spoke to Channel 2 Action News, Morgan left Aberdeen with $20 to her name, and the expectation that her tax return would soon be deposited in her account.
2:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Now Sherry didn't want her daughter setting off to the state of Georgia.
2:53
[SPEAKER_00]: She revealed to 11 alive that before Morgan left Aberdeen, she handed her a penny and told her to put the penny in her pocket and to keep it with her to keep her safe.
3:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Morgan caught a ride with a friend to Minnesota and from Minnesota she hopped on a flight to Atlanta.
3:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Morgan made it to Georgia and to the people she connected with through Craigslist, but for whatever reason she only ended up staying one night at the house and the arrangements they had made fell through pretty much immediately after Morgan arrived.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 19-year-old Morgan had been in the state of Georgia where she knew nobody for all of 24 hours.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She had no money, no job, and nowhere to stay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With her options limited, Morgan wound up in sheet motels.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To make enough money to survive, she began working as an exotic dancer at the top of Gainesville Club in Gainesville, Georgia, and eventually clubties in Atlanta.
3:44
[SPEAKER_00]: Atlanta wasn't turning out to be everything Morgan had hoped for, but she tried to make the best of the situation, and there was one person back home Morgan never stopped checking in with her best friend Terran.
3:55
[SPEAKER_00]: Throughout it all, she stayed in daily contact with Terran through text messages, Snapchat, and a handful of phone calls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On the morning of February 25, 2016, the two friends chatted on a rare Skype call while Terran got ready to go to work.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing seemed out of the ordinary and when they hung up that video call, Morgan and Terran made plans to talk when Morgan got back from work at the club.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Terran never heard from Morgan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At first, Terran tried not to panic.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe Morgan had gotten busy or decided to catch up on some sleep.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe there was a perfectly innocent explanation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the next day, so that brings us to February 26.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Terran sent a few messages asking Morgan if she was okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Morgan never responded.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that wasn't like her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Morgan knew that Terran worried about her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She worried about her job and her being out there in Georgia by herself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Morgan wouldn't just let her worry like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Terran knew that Morgan had a way to stay in contact.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, she made sure of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The day before Morgan had left for Georgia, Terran had paid for minutes for Morgan's phone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And those minutes would last Morgan
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[SPEAKER_00]: As the hours passed and turned into days, Terran became more and more concerned.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She continued to try and reach Morgan but got no response.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On March 2nd, Terran reached out to Morgan's sister and that concern turned into panic when Terran was informed that nobody in the family had heard from Morgan either.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Terran immediately began making calls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She called the Atlanta Police Department, club teas, and everyone she could think of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But nobody knew where Morgan Bauer was.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On March 12, 2016, Morgan was officially reported missing to the Atlanta Police by her mother, Sherry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sherry went down to Atlanta to look for her daughter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She was connected with a woman named Casey McClure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Casey was the founder of Forsara.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Forsara is an amazing faith-based organization that supports women and girls impacted by human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and the adult entertainment industry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Casey founded the organization in 2005 after she exited the sex industry herself, and they have been rescuing women and girls ever since.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So in Casey received an email asking her
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[SPEAKER_00]: According to later court testimony, Sherry told Casey that she had spoken to the owner of Club T's, a man by the name of Jay Brown.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When Sherry got into Atlanta, she and Casey went to the club to speak with another dancer named Caitlyn.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A dancer Jay Brown had told Sherry and the Atlanta police.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He had seen with Morgan when she left his club on February 25.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 19-year-old Caitlyn Goble and her boyfriend at the time Alex Warren were in the office at Tease waiting to speak with Sherrien Casey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was March 15, 2016 when Morgan's mother Sherry, Casey McClure, founder of Forcera, Caitlin Goble and her boyfriend Alex Warren all sat down to talk in the office at Club Teas in Atlanta.
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[SPEAKER_00]: According to later court testimony, Sherry handed Caitlin her daughter's missing person's flyer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Caitlin began to explain that she and Alex had met Morgan at the club and gave her a ride.
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[SPEAKER_00]: According to Caitlyn, when they got out of the truck, Morgan passed out when she woke up, Caitlyn claimed Morgan had gotten on the dating app tender and was excited because a guy had responded to a message.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Alex Warren briefly chimed in and said that he and Caitlyn had taken Morgan to a sicko gas station in Covington, Georgia, and that Morgan had gotten to a green Mitsubishi eclipse with a black male, and that was the last time either Caitlyn or Alex had seen her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and that she herself had almost filed a missing person's report because she was so concerned, and that she'd been looking for Morgan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She had called a man named Plug and asked him if he had heard from Morgan, but he had been told Caitlin that he thought Morgan was with her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But she didn't know where Morgan was, and her and Alex Warren didn't have any more time to waste.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He had to be home at a certain time because he was on probation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So Caitlyn and Alex headed out of the club, but before they could leave, Sherry asked if she could take a photo of Alex in the truck he and Caitlyn were in, and the couple allowed it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sherry snapped the photo and now she had the tag number to the Dodge Ram truck, Caitlyn and Alex were driving, and with a little digging, Sherry and Casey were able to track down Caitlyn gobbles Facebook page.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Only Caitlyn Gobal, then go buy Caitlyn Gobal, she went by the name Lilith Chaos, and while her Facebook in and of itself was pretty disturbing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, on any other day, it'd probably be dismissed as an idiot trying too hard to be edgy, but in light of the reason anyone was looking at her page in the first place, it kind of shut a different light.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There were all kinds of horror
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[SPEAKER_00]: Caitlyn proclaimed her lover serial killers like Domar and Bundy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She shared posts about death, the occult, witches, and Satanism, and posted the definition of hybrastophilia, or a sexual attraction to someone who has committed a heinous crime.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, try and wait too hard to be edgy and spooky, you know the type.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, there were a few posts right around the last time anyone heard from Morgan that Cod Casey and Sherry's attention.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One on February 25th were Caitlyn shared a photo of a cartoon ghost, and the posts she tagged Alex Warren.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The ghost photo said,
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[SPEAKER_00]: The next day, so that would be February 27, Caitlyn aka Lilith Chaos wrote a post of her own.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's said, I hate how some people don't understand that they can't be hitting up someone else's boyfriend for emotional support.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Leave us the fuck alone and understand that just because I've been nice so far doesn't mean I won't get scary if you cross me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and then came perhaps the most disturbing, another post which read.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Death is really where the party begins.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Alex Warren was tagged in that post as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sharing KC passed along all this information to law enforcement, and law enforcement was already on it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: According to later court testimony, Caitlyn Goble was already a person of interest in Morgan's missing persons case.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She was a person of interest after J.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Brown, the owner of T's Club, had told police he had seen Caitlyn who apparently sometimes went by the name of K. She had a lot of nicknames, but anyway.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Police were looking at Caitlyn after J told them that Morgan had auditioned for a position at his club and had left with Caitlyn Goble.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when Atlanta police detective Joel Gulf and called to talk to Caitlyn Goble, well the story she told him was completely
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not only that, but Caitlyn didn't seem to know anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She didn't know where address her boyfriend's phone number.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hell, she barely knew his name.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Take a listen for yourself.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that was the 25th February.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You guys were auditioning and club teas.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Did she leave with you?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, she left with me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, where did you guys go?
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[SPEAKER_03]: We went to my house this summer at Nathan.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You don't know your dress?
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[SPEAKER_03]: No.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What's about?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not...
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[SPEAKER_02]: The guy that calls that you name is Kay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Is that Kay Y or Kay Y?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kay Y. Kay Y.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What's your last name?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kay Y. Kay Y. Kay Y.
12:05
[SPEAKER_02]: What's your last name?
12:06
[SPEAKER_02]: Kay Y. Kay Y. Kay Y.
12:09
[SPEAKER_02]: What's your last name?
12:10
[SPEAKER_02]: Kay Y. Kay Y. Kay Y.
12:11
[SPEAKER_02]: What's your last name?
12:13
[SPEAKER_03]: Kay Y. Kay Y.
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[SPEAKER_03]: 7.4.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
12:20
[SPEAKER_03]: 6.6.8.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, three of mine.
12:23
[SPEAKER_02]: What are you doing, sir?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sending it with me, Harry Co.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I've only been here for about three months.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How are you, Kate?
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[UNKNOWN]: I'm 19.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You sound very young.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What's your birthday?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I haven't, like I said, I haven't been there that long.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Is anybody else looking?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, my boyfriend does?
13:00
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, what's your boyfriend's name?
13:03
[SPEAKER_03]: His name is Alex, one ALX, the new ALR again.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do you know his birthday?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't, unfortunately.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's her, that's her, how old is he?
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's my son.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Can I say how you follow or anything?
13:25
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You don't keep your boy hands on it, where are you from?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, we see each other every day, so we don't always take so much.
13:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
13:35
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
13:36
[SPEAKER_02]: And then, uh, so, how does it take to get some proteins to cover time?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Um, it takes about an hour, close about four and a half minutes.
13:48
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
13:48
[SPEAKER_02]: Who was driving?
13:55
[SPEAKER_03]: It is a busy dog, I try out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a dog truck.
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[UNKNOWN]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then, so who else in the truck will use this, is you wouldn't warn him or what?
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was me more than an hour.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know where it is, okay?
14:11
[SPEAKER_02]: And then, so you guys, you're back to cover it, and what happened when you were back to cover it?
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[SPEAKER_03]: We don't home, and I've got to show her everything.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She was texting on her phone and talking to someone,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do you know who you're starting to?
14:27
[SPEAKER_03]: I have no idea.
14:28
[SPEAKER_03]: It was the guy who was talking to you.
14:30
[SPEAKER_03]: She was on Snapchat or Tinder or some social media site talking to them and send me some videos.
14:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
14:39
[SPEAKER_02]: So, Helen, we don't worry.
14:42
[SPEAKER_03]: We do more than I met her earlier as one of us working at Main Stage.
14:49
[SPEAKER_02]: What was it?
14:50
[SPEAKER_03]: And that was...
14:53
[SPEAKER_03]: Like maybe a month after I got here, so about a month ago.
14:56
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
14:59
[SPEAKER_02]: So he bent her helmet two months?
15:02
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
15:03
[SPEAKER_02]: Two months or three months, I'm sorry.
15:06
[SPEAKER_03]: I've been in Georgia for about a month.
15:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so you got here right around the first of the year?
15:11
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm around the first of the year.
15:15
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so she's tasting the snack chatting and all that junk with me.
15:19
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what to, and then she said she was going to go on a date, but we'll stay tonight.
15:25
[SPEAKER_02]: Where was Alex?
15:26
[SPEAKER_02]: Where was Alex?
15:27
[SPEAKER_02]: All this time.
15:29
[SPEAKER_03]: He was around the house, probably watching TV and board the ground.
15:35
[SPEAKER_03]: What time did she leave?
15:38
[SPEAKER_03]: We got home around midnight, so she left me at 1am to the morning, and she took her by the clothes and her bathroom stuff with her.
15:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Friday morning.
15:54
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think so.
15:56
[SPEAKER_03]: It was early early on the time.
15:57
[SPEAKER_03]: That's not funny.
15:59
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, she used that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She took a bag of clothes with it.
16:04
[SPEAKER_03]: She took a bag of clothes with her and the her back then.
16:09
[SPEAKER_02]: Did she live anything in your house?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know she did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So she took everything she all went to a day.
16:17
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I wasn't really, I was tired, but at point, I wasn't really thinking much of it, and she says she's day to night, so I just assumed she's one of the options on what she's going to wear or something.
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[SPEAKER_02]: How many clothes will we talk about?
16:36
[SPEAKER_02]: How many bags does she have?
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[SPEAKER_03]: She has a small suitcase and a small bag of, I guess, they were very close.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She said she would stay in the night, and I didn't know she knew that I had already.
16:58
[SPEAKER_03]: She can't but our washers broken, so she is a child of all.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What's her phone number?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Her phone number?
17:12
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What are your colors, six length?
17:19
[SPEAKER_02]: How does she get to do it?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, she says she can complain.
17:29
[SPEAKER_02]: How do you get to do it?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think about it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Did I have something with you?
17:51
[SPEAKER_02]: How would you meet Alice?
17:54
[SPEAKER_03]: We met online and met through, yeah, we met the Facebook.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We were talking about it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You met Alice and I'm Facebook and then you put them on?
18:06
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then we ordered one of her date of our clothes.
18:10
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She even said, I hope she didn't.
18:20
[SPEAKER_03]: At that time, me and her really hung out, she was always on her phone texting guy, and it was always...
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[SPEAKER_03]: Some guys, she always wanted to have a party or something.
18:35
[SPEAKER_02]: She wanted to have a party, was it me?
18:38
[SPEAKER_03]: She wanted to have a party, she wanted to know basically what it was like to do with them.
18:48
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm glad soon she was doing that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My is going to be a little bit worse.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, what is she saying to you?
18:55
[SPEAKER_03]: She said, she meant you guys is going to come pick her up, but she would probably stay tonight on the morning because we have to go get her license.
19:03
[SPEAKER_03]: That morning.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She meant to keep that.
19:06
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
19:07
[SPEAKER_02]: What does she mean?
19:09
[SPEAKER_03]: She was talking to him over the phone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it was probably over Snapchat or Tinder.
19:13
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
19:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he told, so, she met him on my, and told him to pick her up at your house.
19:26
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
19:28
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't know your address?
19:31
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
19:33
[SPEAKER_03]: I've lived there for about a week now.
19:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, okay, you just told me to get there.
19:38
[SPEAKER_02]: You just told me to get there a month.
19:40
[SPEAKER_03]: That was, yeah.
19:41
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so, what's the address?
19:43
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
19:49
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just going to be calling Alex, he's going to be out of his room.
19:56
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't go in there.
19:57
[SPEAKER_02]: How long is Alex looking Georgia?
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's on the door to the toilet.
20:01
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's his number.
20:03
[SPEAKER_02]: What's his number?
20:05
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't have his number with me.
20:06
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
20:07
[SPEAKER_02]: You got to help me, aye.
20:13
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm trying, too.
20:14
[SPEAKER_02]: Because Morgan is missing, right?
20:16
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, I know.
20:22
[SPEAKER_02]: numbers and addresses, you got to help me, okay?
20:29
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna try too.
20:33
[SPEAKER_02]: You say the Alice's 26?
20:35
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, you are.
20:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Is that in Coventon?
20:40
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
20:42
[SPEAKER_02]: You say it doesn't work anywhere, right?
20:44
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't understand it, it doesn't.
20:48
[SPEAKER_03]: We're staying at the apartment that is apparently paying the bill for him.
20:54
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a band?
20:58
[UNKNOWN]: Um.
20:59
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a desk band.
21:01
[SPEAKER_02]: Is there any other one or one outside of it?
21:03
[SPEAKER_03]: I was there in a one.
21:05
[SPEAKER_00]: I moved by 80, but John was doing something like that.
21:08
[UNKNOWN]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do you say 26?
21:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's see it.
21:16
[SPEAKER_02]: Claremont driving content?
21:20
[SPEAKER_03]: Your phone keeps vaping.
21:22
[SPEAKER_02]: I said, Claremont driving.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Come into it.
21:24
[SPEAKER_02]: It's all right.
21:29
[SPEAKER_03]: What?
21:30
[SPEAKER_02]: There's Claremont drives out there, can you?
21:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
21:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Toon, Claremont drive?
21:41
[SPEAKER_03]: I think so, but I know I don't Claremont drive.
21:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Does the Zell tell a middle man?
21:49
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh... How old are you?
21:57
[SPEAKER_03]: He does, but how old are you?
21:58
[SPEAKER_03]: Since how old are you?
22:00
[SPEAKER_03]: He does, but how old are you?
22:04
[SPEAKER_03]: He does, but how old are you?
22:05
[SPEAKER_03]: How old are you?
22:13
[SPEAKER_00]: Not only did she not know any basic details about her own life or that of her boyfriend, whose legal name was actually Jonathan Alexander Warren, not Alexander Joseph or whatever she said.
22:25
[SPEAKER_00]: Not only did she not know any of that, now she and Alex hadn't taken Morgan to a sick going coming to him.
22:31
[SPEAKER_00]: Some random guy had came and picked Morgan up from what she described as an apartment she and Alex were living in, all paid for by his parents of course.
22:40
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyhow, the random guy had come and picked Morgan up and she had taken all of her belongings to include her dirty clothes.
22:47
[SPEAKER_00]: That story didn't make a lick of sense, but it was Caitlyn story and detective golf and letter tell it.
22:55
[SPEAKER_00]: Caitlin's story definitely raised suspicions, but it wasn't the only trail police were following.
23:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Investigators would learn that just before she vanished, Morgan had placed a call to 911 from the Georgian motel she was staying at, about a man pounding on the door of her room.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The call was placed at 252am on February 25, 2016.
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[SPEAKER_03]: because it's the orchard also.
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[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
23:26
[SPEAKER_00]: So, do you want to make some of them?
23:29
[SPEAKER_03]: I just saw that in the room.
23:31
[SPEAKER_03]: But somewhere in the prison she's not in the middle of my drawer, like they've been knocking for life.
23:36
[SPEAKER_03]: I will also be explaining on my drawer.
23:39
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
23:39
[SPEAKER_03]: What's your rent number?
23:40
[SPEAKER_03]: 1, 2, 1.
23:42
[SPEAKER_03]: 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1.
23:45
[SPEAKER_03]: And you have the initial single is, or may they need to be?
23:48
[SPEAKER_03]: So I thought in the early year, I was going out to have told you that I'm going to try to talk to me and I'm just going to go back inside.
23:56
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you want?
23:56
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you want?
23:58
[SPEAKER_03]: What do you want to do?
24:00
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
24:00
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to go home.
24:03
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to go home.
24:06
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to go home.
24:09
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
24:10
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
24:11
[UNKNOWN]: I'm going to go home.
24:13
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to go home.
24:14
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm going to go home.
24:20
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24:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Morgan reported that a Hispanic male in his 20s had been outside banging on her door for 20 minutes.
24:59
[SPEAKER_00]: After that incident, Morgan no longer felt safe staying at the Georgiana Motel.
25:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Investigators began looking into the 911 call and the unidentified man Morgan had reported at the Motel.
25:11
[SPEAKER_00]: But the deeper they dug, the more that lead seemed to point them right back towards someone
25:17
[SPEAKER_00]: Caitlyn Gobo
25:39
[SPEAKER_00]: As investigators continued to track down Leeds and Morgan's disappearance, they wound up right back where they started with Caitlyn Goble.
25:47
[SPEAKER_00]: Police would learn that the incident the motel was exactly what had led Morgan to Caitlyn.
25:53
[SPEAKER_00]: According to Cortesomoni on February 25, Morgan had been at the T's club to audition for a new position, of course, Caitlyn was also there.
26:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Caitlyn befriended Morgan and then when Morgan mentioned the incident at the motel, Caitlyn offered Morgan a safe place to stay, with her in Alex and her room at his parents home in Portodale, Georgia.
26:14
[SPEAKER_00]: So now it really was a making sense that Morgan would have been dropped off at a sickle, or picked up by a random man on the very night she had supposedly been taken to the safe place.
26:25
[SPEAKER_00]: When Morgan's mom Sherry and her advocate became aware that Morgan was possibly lasting in Porterdale, they contacted Porterdale police.
26:33
[SPEAKER_00]: Porterdale police officer Ashley Kelly spoke to Caitlin Goble on March 23, 2016, and this time, a third story emerged.
26:42
[SPEAKER_00]: This one almost a hybrid of the two previous.
26:46
[SPEAKER_00]: According to later court testimony, Katelyn told Officer Kelly that Morgan had left the club with her in Alex, and they had plans to take her to Covington, but on the way, they stopped at Alex's house.
26:57
[SPEAKER_00]: But Morgan never went inside, instead she stayed in the truck and played on her phone.
27:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Katelyn and her boyfriend went inside and took showers and then drove Morgan to that sicko in Covington.
27:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Morgan got out of the truck and went and hug the driver of the green car
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[SPEAKER_00]: Caitlin told Officer Kelly that that was the last time she had seen Morgan and she hadn't talked to her since.
27:21
[SPEAKER_00]: So just so we're keeping things straight.
27:23
[SPEAKER_00]: First story Morgan fell asleep in the truck, they don't go to the house in Porterdale and they drive Morgan straight to Covington.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She leaves with a mystery blackmail and a green car.
27:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Second story, Katelyn drove herself Morgan and Alex to the house in Portodale, where a mystery man came and picked Morgan up, Morgan left with all of her belongings, including her dirty clothes.
27:46
[SPEAKER_00]: And third story, they stopped by the house in Portodale, Katelyn and Alex takes showers, Morgan plays on her phone in the truck, and then they take her to Covington.
27:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Y'all got it?
27:55
[SPEAKER_00]: The three different stories and somehow none of them made sense.
27:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Morgan Bauer was missing and it seemed the last person she was known to have been with couldn't keep her story straight to save her life.
28:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Investigators tried to track Morgan's further movements through her cell phone, but all of Morgan's communication ended with an outgoing text message at 222am on February 26, 2016.
28:20
[SPEAKER_00]: After that, Morgan's phone was either shut off or dead.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that last text message traced back to Porterdale.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That, of course, being where Caitlyn and Alex were living.
28:31
[SPEAKER_00]: Try as they might, investigators couldn't place Morgan anywhere beyond Caitlyn,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Every lead they followed led them right back to the couple.
28:42
[SPEAKER_00]: But there was no hard evidence that they had done anything wrong.
28:45
[SPEAKER_00]: Morgan was missing, but there was no concrete proof of foul play.
28:50
[SPEAKER_00]: Months after Morgan's disappearance, Caitlin Goble and Alex Warren left the state of Georgia.
28:56
[SPEAKER_00]: According to later court testimony, the two set out on some grand hitchhiking adventure, traveling around the country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A photo of Rooster Falls in Porterdale was posted on the Lille of Chaos Facebook page on May 14, 2016.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The caption read, Rooster Falls in Porterdale, last day here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Further post showed that the couple was on their way to Hot Springs, Arkansas, where Caitlin had family, and from there, who knows where they were headed.
29:25
[SPEAKER_00]: But that little adventure must not have turned out so well for the two, because a little less than a month after they left Georgia, Caitlyn posted.
29:34
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm hoping everything is going to be okay for denial, which is yet another nickname for Alex Warren.
29:39
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll learn pretty quickly that there are a lot of nicknames in this case.
29:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Apparently Warren also went by the nickname Ballsack.
29:47
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I said Ballsack.
29:49
[SPEAKER_00]: but that's a different story for another time.
29:51
[SPEAKER_00]: At this point, he was going by denial, the post-ret.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm hoping everything is going to be okay for denial.
29:58
[SPEAKER_00]: He is backpacking to Colorado with Kane.
30:01
[SPEAKER_00]: We broke up.
30:02
[SPEAKER_00]: If anyone sees him, help him out, please.
30:05
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not with him to
30:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Investigators continued to search in Morgan's family-turned-to-social media.
30:13
[SPEAKER_00]: A Facebook page was created, flyers were circulated, and a reward of $10,000 was offered.
30:20
[SPEAKER_00]: Morgan's missing person's case began to gain attention, which was a double-edged sword.
30:26
[SPEAKER_00]: On one hand, Morgan's information was getting out there, and that was great.
30:30
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you want people looking for Morgan.
30:33
[SPEAKER_00]: But on the other hand, that attention opened up a platform for everyone to voice their opinions.
30:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of them pretty shitty.
30:41
[SPEAKER_00]: Morgan's mom Sherry spoke to Fox 5 about it.
30:44
[SPEAKER_00]: She told the outlet that though many had been supportive in the search for Morgan, there were others.
30:50
[SPEAKER_00]: Others who thought because of some of Morgan's choices and away, either was her fault she was missing or she deserved whatever happened to her.
30:58
[SPEAKER_00]: Sherry stayed it.
31:00
[SPEAKER_00]: This is in a story about a girl who was asking for it or who should have known better.
31:04
[SPEAKER_00]: This is about a girl who is missing and needs to come home safely.
31:09
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She's worth everything and is so loved.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We want the focus to just be about Morgan and finding her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that distinction matters, Sherry was right, because whatever choice is Morgan made, none of them made her less worthy of being searched for, and none of them made what happened to her, her fault.
31:30
[SPEAKER_00]: Weeks turned the months and months into years, but it seemed police were no closer to locating Morgan than when they began.
31:37
[SPEAKER_00]: And then over seven years after Morgan disappeared, the case was back in the news again.
31:43
[SPEAKER_00]: In July of 2023 investigators were searching a home on South Broad Street in Portodale, Georgia.
31:49
[SPEAKER_00]: A second search was conducted of the home and property in early August.
31:54
[SPEAKER_00]: At a press conference, Portodale Police Sergeant Michael Walden told the press that the search was for the remains of Morgan Bower, and that that search was being executed based on new information received by police.
32:06
[SPEAKER_00]: Sargent Walden confirmed that items of evidentiary interest had been recovered, and at the current owners of the home were cooperating with the investigation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The owners of that home on two South Broad Street were Dr. Robert Warren and his wife Judith.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They were Alex Warren's adoptive parents, and that home on south broad, it wasn't your typical suburban three-bed to bat.
32:32
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a beautiful historic mansion known by locals as the Porterhouse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That apartment Alex's parents were paying for the Caitlyn had referenced, was a bedroom with a separate entrance inside Alex's parents home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That beautiful sprawling property was now crawling with law enforcement officers from the FBI, GBI, Porterdale Police, among others.
32:56
[SPEAKER_00]: Ultimately, Morgan Bowers' remains would be located on that property, although it would take time for the remains to be officially identified.
33:05
[SPEAKER_00]: Two months after the searches began and a rest would be made in Morgan's case, but that's a story for next week because unfortunately we're running out of time, and there is so much more to this story.
33:16
[SPEAKER_00]: But before we go, I'd like to leave you with this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As Morgan's mother Sherry waited for news regarding the search, family advocate and founder of Forsara, Casey McClure spoke to Fox 5.
33:28
[SPEAKER_00]: She told the outlet that with the break in the case, Morgan's mother Sherry
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[SPEAKER_00]: As for Casey, the break-in Morgan's case reminded her of her life's mission to rescue women in his sex industry before it's too late.
33:41
[SPEAKER_00]: She explained that she herself was a survivor of the sex industry walking away 20 years earlier, but that there are so many women in girls still at risk.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Casey stated,
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[SPEAKER_00]: There are thousands of girls in Georgia that are in the sex industry.
33:55
[SPEAKER_00]: That might mean they're just a dancer, or they might be an escort, but every day, their life is at risk.
34:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Those statistics are a little difficult to come by since crimes against those in the sex industry are often not reported.
34:09
[SPEAKER_00]: What we do know is that research has found a 45 to 75% lifetime prevalence of violence among women working in the sex industry.
34:18
[SPEAKER_00]: The Office of Justice reports that female sex workers, especially those working out in the street, have the highest homicide victimization rate of any set of women ever studied.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That rate is 17 times higher than age-matched women in the general population.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And those are just the homicides that we know about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're undoubtedly other victims who stories have never been fully uncovered.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The sex industry puts so many women and girls at risk.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But with organizations like Forsara, it doesn't have to be that way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is help and a way out, and there are people waiting to help you make that journey.
34:56
[SPEAKER_00]: If you suspect that someone you know or even someone you don't is the victim of human trafficking and the U.S. you can find resources at the National Human Travelling Hotline at 1-888-373-7888 or by visiting humantravellinghotline.org.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that, my friends, is all I've got for this week.
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35:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening.
35:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for caring.
35:52
[SPEAKER_00]: If you know something, say something.
35:54
[SPEAKER_00]: And until next time, be good to each other.
36:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Organizations like Forest Sarah rescue so many women and girls, and even sometimes men, and I know they do because I've worked for one just like it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They usually fly under the radar, because well, it's just safer for everybody involved.
36:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Many people don't even know they exist, so that's my PSA for today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're looking for a great organization that actually does the groundwork rescuing women and girls off the street, there is likely one near you.
37:07
[SPEAKER_00]: It's frustrating because in so many cases the police aren't always helpful when a woman living any shall we say less than perfect lifestyle goes missing.
37:17
[SPEAKER_00]: We've talked about it before but I'll never miss a chance to bring awareness to it.
37:21
[SPEAKER_00]: At just 19 Morgan may have made choices that you were I wouldn't make today, but none of those choices make her life any less valuable, and we can't forget she was 19, still a baby.
37:34
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know about you, but I did some stuff in my teens, even those late ones, and I'm not exactly proud of.
37:40
[SPEAKER_00]: I made some absolutely ass-in-ine decisions.
37:44
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was married at 18, 11 in my own house.
37:47
[SPEAKER_00]: You'd think with the whole husband I would have been smarter, but no, I just had someone to make stupid decisions with me.
37:55
[SPEAKER_00]: You live and you learn and you make better choices.
37:57
[SPEAKER_00]: We have no idea who Morgan would have become.
38:00
[SPEAKER_00]: She was young and had her whole life ahead of her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, it was cut short before she ever had the chance.
38:07
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's the tragedy in this case.
38:09
[SPEAKER_00]: She wasn't Atlanta for all of about two weeks when her life was taken from her.
38:15
[SPEAKER_00]: People don't like to talk about the dangers of this sex industry these days, but it's dangerous and scary.
38:20
[SPEAKER_00]: and sometimes that danger comes from a place you'd never suspect.
38:25
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's about all I got to say about that.
38:27
[SPEAKER_00]: You all know I love you more in my luggage and I can't wait to talk to you next week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But until then, bye-bye, bye-bye!