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Midday Missing - Elizabeth Acton & Jamal Farug · True Crime and Wine Time

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  Speaker 2: Hi Lama, Hi Angie, Hi everybody. So today we're going
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  Speaker 2: to first talk about Elizabeth Acton, who went by Betsy,
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  Speaker 2: which I think Elizabeth is the name that has so
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  Speaker 2: many different nicknames, whether it be Lizzie, Eliza, Beth, Betsy.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's got a lot, So it's one of
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  Speaker 2: those names. It's good because then the kid can pick
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  Speaker 2: what they want to be called, right. So, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: she was known as Betsy to her friends and family,
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  Speaker 2: and she disappeared on August twenty fourth, nineteen ninety four,
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  Speaker 2: from Colonial Beach, Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: Now Guys.
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  Speaker 2: Her case, as most missing person cases do, remains a mystery,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a tragic one in this area because it's
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  Speaker 2: unsolved and there's some disturbing circummands, circumstances, and some lingering
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  Speaker 2: questions to those that who've known hard have been looking
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  Speaker 2: for her for a decade. So, guys, Betsy was a
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  Speaker 2: nurse from Lexington in Kentucky who had dedicated her career
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  Speaker 2: to caring for others, and at the time of her disappearance,
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  Speaker 2: she was working as a nurse educator at Central Baptist Hospital.
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  Speaker 2: But like I said, she was known for her compassion
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  Speaker 2: and her professionalism, and she was well regarded by her colleagues.
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  Speaker 2: But like I said, she just decided to take a sabbatical. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: she needed some time to refill all that you know
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  Speaker 2: is taken out of you by being a nurse, so
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  Speaker 2: she needed it after years of being in the medical field. Now,
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  Speaker 2: she decided to spend her vacation in Colonial Beach, which
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  Speaker 2: is a small, lesser known beach town located in the
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  Speaker 2: northwestern part of Virginia's Northern Neck. I'm going to say,
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  Speaker 2: I bet our fabulous JT knows where that is. Where
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  Speaker 2: somebody like me from Texas is like, have no idea
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  Speaker 2: where that is, But I bet GT does. Now, Unlike
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  Speaker 2: other beach towns, they were known for its historical charm
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  Speaker 2: in tranquil atmosphere. Now, guys, my first thought when I
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  Speaker 2: hear historical charm is. I bet they have some great
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  Speaker 2: amazing a not agriculture architect. See, guys, I'm on labor
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  Speaker 2: day brain so, but it sounds like it's very quaint. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Her plan was to enjoy some much needed relaxation by
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  Speaker 2: the seaside with her boyfriend name Willow Bruce Cherry.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, guys, I just have to tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Willow Cherry Bruce Cherry. What a name his parents gave him.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, just Sam.
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  Speaker 2: But beneath the surface of what appeared to be a
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  Speaker 2: pleasant getaway, there were signs of trouble. Betsy's co workers,
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  Speaker 2: because she was kind of doing that side gig there
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  Speaker 2: as an educator, reported that she had confided in them
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  Speaker 2: about her fears regarding Cherry. She described her relationship with
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  Speaker 2: with as abusive and told her coworkers if anything happened
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  Speaker 2: to her, they should direct the police to Cherry. But
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  Speaker 2: despite her fears, she still went on this vacation with
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  Speaker 2: Cherry and guys, it was a decision that when mark
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  Speaker 2: the last time she was seen alive. Betsy was last
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  Speaker 2: seen on August twenty fourth, nineteen ninety four, at the
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  Speaker 2: Day's Inn on Colonial Avenue in Colonial Beach. The hotel,
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  Speaker 2: which has since changed ownership and is now known as
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  Speaker 2: the River's Edge in became a focal point of the
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  Speaker 2: police investigation after Betsy was report get missing Now. A
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  Speaker 2: search of the hotel room revealed blood stains, but Cherry
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  Speaker 2: claimed the blood was minstrel Okay, guys, really, why do
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  Speaker 2: men instantly go to menstrual blood when there's blood? Somebody
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  Speaker 2: tell me this. Somebody tell me this. I don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: But it added a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of growing suspicion, and let's be honest, that explanation
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  Speaker 2: made Cherry look really suspicious. In addition to the blood
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  Speaker 2: found in the hotel room, Betsy's car was discovered at
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  Speaker 2: a separate location, but the details about where it was
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  Speaker 2: found is very suspicious itself. They're not releasing a lot
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  Speaker 2: of information. But a combination of that and her statement
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  Speaker 2: that if something happens to me, Cherry did it that
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  Speaker 2: blood her car, I mean it led police to say
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  Speaker 2: that her disappearance was suspicious. Okay, guys, really, it took
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  Speaker 2: all of that for the police to say this was suspicious.
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  Speaker 2: Can't we just say the blood in the hotel room,
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  Speaker 2: because there was a lot of it's enough to be suspicious.
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  Speaker 2: Do we really need the car just my two cents.
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  Speaker 2: But despite this, no suspects were officially named in the case,
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  Speaker 2: and her body has never been found. Now, this case
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  Speaker 2: took a darker turn more than two decades later, when
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  Speaker 2: Cherry was arrested for an unrelated homicide in September twenty eighteen. Yes, guys,
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  Speaker 2: you heard me, an unrelated homicide. So Cherry was charged
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  Speaker 2: with first degree murder in the presumed death of his
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  Speaker 2: brother in law, Peter, who disappeared in February twenty eighteen. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Lian's body has never been recover but the circumstances around
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  Speaker 2: it or irarly similar to Betsy's. So according to reports,
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  Speaker 2: Lean was last seen being assaulted by Cherry after an argument,
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  Speaker 2: and he attempted to cover up the crime, but significant
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  Speaker 2: evidence found in Lion's apartment as well as his vehicle,
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  Speaker 2: led investigators to conclude that he had been murdered. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Cherry was convicted of this murder, even though Lion's body
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  Speaker 2: was never found. Okay, guys, please, somebody tell me. If
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  Speaker 2: they could do that for Lian's body, they can get
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  Speaker 2: a murder conviction. Why can't they? When she disappeared, there
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  Speaker 2: was a monstrual blood, so he said blood her car,
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  Speaker 2: come on. Now. Cherry has not been officially linked to
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  Speaker 2: Betsy's disappearance, but the fact that he was involved in
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  Speaker 2: another case of a missing person where significant blood evidence
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  Speaker 2: was found and the body was never recovered raises questions
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  Speaker 2: for me and for everybody else. Betsy's co workers had
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  Speaker 2: warned that Cherry could be dangerous and guys. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know about you, guys, but the similarities between these twocases
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  Speaker 2: makes me say, hello, sus I mean, really no. Betsy's
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  Speaker 2: disappearance remains unsolved, and her case is a tragic reminder
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  Speaker 2: of the many missing person cases who've yet to receive justice.
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  Speaker 2: Betsy was a forty one year old Caucasian woman with
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  Speaker 2: strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes. She stood five feet tall.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's say that five feet tall exactly. She weighed
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty five pounds at the time of
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  Speaker 2: her disappearance. If alive today, she would be seventy years old,
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  Speaker 2: so she was noted to have a scar on her abdomen.
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  Speaker 2: Now they do presume she is deceased, based off the
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  Speaker 2: fact the blood evidence and the fact that Cherry was
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  Speaker 2: involved with his brother in law's case. If you have
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  Speaker 2: any information regarding the disappearance of Elizabeth Betsy gene Acton,
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  Speaker 2: please contact the Colonial Police Colonial Beach Police Department at
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  Speaker 2: eight oh four four nine three eight zero sixty six.
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  Speaker 2: Your information could help solve this case, because guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Cherry's talking. So if you've got a family member that's
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  Speaker 2: in prison with him, he's talking, So we need to
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  Speaker 2: get the family And like I said, the police department, guys,
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  Speaker 2: it would assume in my case that it would be
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  Speaker 2: easier to get a conviction on him since he's already
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  Speaker 2: been convicted of doing almost the same thing. Right, So
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  Speaker 2: reopen that case Colonial Beach and take it to your
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  Speaker 2: DA and say, hey, they got him here with nobody,
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  Speaker 2: why can't we right adds to history whatever it's called.
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  Speaker 2: So that's my two cents. Now, guys, we are going
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  Speaker 2: to stay in Virginia for this next case. Did not
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  Speaker 2: plan this. Are the cases are out there, they're research
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  Speaker 2: They're put on a spreadsheet and I just randomly go
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  Speaker 2: in and pick the dates. So I often find it
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  Speaker 2: funny that just by the names, because I picked names,
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  Speaker 2: that this case is in Virginia. So but this case
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  Speaker 2: is in Richmond, Virginia. So April sixteenth, nineteen ninety in Richmond, Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: it became the backdrop for a tragic and unsettling mystery
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  Speaker 2: that still haunts the community over three decades later. That day,
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  Speaker 2: Jamal abdiu Farique, a seven year old boy, in his
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  Speaker 2: eight year old brother, Basil, which was dropped off at
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  Speaker 2: their mother's apartment on Clarkson Road by their stepmother. Sorry, guys,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get some water. I have a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of cotton mouth from all the cocktails at a pool
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  Speaker 2: party yesterday. So they were dropped off at the apartment
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  Speaker 2: by their stepmother. Now what began as an ordinary afternoon
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  Speaker 2: when soon unravel into a heartbreaking tale of murder and
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  Speaker 2: a missing child. Okay, Jamal and Basil were left in
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  Speaker 2: the care of their mother, Tambre Ellis, who had worked
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  Speaker 2: the night shift and was in need of a nap.
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  Speaker 2: So at two thirty pm, the two boys went outside
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  Speaker 2: to play in the front yard while tamber took a nap.
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  Speaker 2: But when she awoke, I mean, she says, her world
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  Speaker 2: was turned upside down. Her sons were nowhere to be found.
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  Speaker 2: Tambre began a frantic search, scouring the local convenience store,
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  Speaker 2: the playground, and the surrounding areas. But she says with
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  Speaker 2: each passing minute her anxiety grew, and after forty five
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  Speaker 2: minutes of searching, she contacted the police, marking I mean
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  Speaker 2: this marked the beginning of an investigation that shook the
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  Speaker 2: Richmond community. Richmond's a pretty safe place was back then,
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  Speaker 2: now guys. Three days later, on April nineteenth, nineteen ninety,
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  Speaker 2: the search for the boys took a dark turn. Authorities
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  Speaker 2: discovered Basil's fully clothed body and air Chesterfield County landfill,
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  Speaker 2: approximately about ten miles from his home.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The grisly details of his murder paint a picture of
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  Speaker 2: unimaginable horra. Basil had been bound, gagged, and stabbed twice
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  Speaker 2: in the neck, His skull had been fractured posts mortem,
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  Speaker 2: and his small body had been stuffed into a plastic
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  Speaker 2: garbage bag and discarded in a dumpter, which ultimately led
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  Speaker 2: to the landfilled. Now. I could not find why they
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  Speaker 2: decided to go look in the landfilled I'm assuming they
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  Speaker 2: had a tip, but the discovery of Basil's body raised
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  Speaker 2: fear for Jamal's safety. Had he met with the same
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  Speaker 2: Vegas's brother or did they kill Jamal or kill Basil
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  Speaker 2: and want to keep Jamal. The police reclassified the case
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  Speaker 2: as a homicide investigation and they launch an exhaustive search,
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  Speaker 2: focusing first on the landfilled where Basil's body was found.
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  Speaker 2: But guys, they searched through the city dumpsters and the
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  Speaker 2: remainder of the landfill that they could get to. No
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  Speaker 2: trace of Jamal has ever been found. Now, the hope
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  Speaker 2: that Jamal might still be alive begin to wane with this,
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  Speaker 2: but authorities refused to give up now. In the days
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  Speaker 2: following the discovery of Basil's body, suspicion naturally fell on
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  Speaker 2: those closest.
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  Speaker 1: To the boys.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators initially detained the father, Everett abdul Fery, for questioning.
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  Speaker 2: Court documents later revealed that authority suspected Basil had been
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  Speaker 2: injured or killed inside the everdence their Everett's residents, although
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  Speaker 2: no evidence has found to support this theory. Everett refused
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  Speaker 2: to take a polygraph test, citing his Muslim faith. Guys,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure why Muslim faith has anything to do
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  Speaker 2: with a polygraph test. I will tell you most attorneys
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  Speaker 2: would tell you do not take a polygraph test. They
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  Speaker 2: are not admissible in court, and time and time again
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  Speaker 2: it has showed people to not be lying. Who was lying,
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  Speaker 2: people who said lying were not lying. So me personally,
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  Speaker 2: I will never talk to the police and I will
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  Speaker 2: not take a polygraph test. And I'm not citing my
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  Speaker 2: Muslim faith. I am citing my belief that it's junk
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  Speaker 2: science to some degree because you can learn how.
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  Speaker 1: To fake it.
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  Speaker 2: Just my two cents. So police said this, of course
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  Speaker 2: added to their suspicion. Of course it does, because you
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  Speaker 2: didn't do what they asked. But ultimately both Everett and
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  Speaker 2: Tambra were ruled out as suspects. Now, the investigation stalled
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  Speaker 2: in the case of Jamal's disappearance grew extremely cold. Despite
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  Speaker 2: extensive searches and interviews, no credible leads emerged. Okay, he
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  Speaker 2: still remains missing and it is still a perplexing and
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  Speaker 2: unsolved mystery. Over the years, the community has rallied around
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  Speaker 2: Tambra and the Effett in their time of grief, and
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  Speaker 2: they continue to hold out hope. They hope even as
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  Speaker 2: that is it horrific as it is that Jamal is
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  Speaker 2: still alive and that someone took him because they wanted
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  Speaker 2: a kid, or if he was sold into the sex
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  Speaker 2: trafficking industry. They still hope he can be found now.
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  Speaker 2: Basil's funeral service was guys, it was a moment, to
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  Speaker 2: say the least. It had mourners from all across the city,
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  Speaker 2: including clergy from both Christian and Islamic faith, reflecting on
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  Speaker 2: the interfaith nature of the boys' families. So, guys, this
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  Speaker 2: was a loss that didn't just hit the family, it
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  Speaker 2: hit the entire community. You had Christians and Muslims come together,
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  Speaker 2: and that in itself says a lot. Now, Jamal has
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  Speaker 2: been said it was a bright and energetic second grader
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  Speaker 2: at esh Screen Elementary School. He loved pizza who doesn't basketball,
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  Speaker 2: and he liked the teenage mutant Ninja Turtle videos. And guys,
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  Speaker 2: everybody said he was just a peach. The possibility that
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  Speaker 2: he might be alive has kept the hope alive in
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  Speaker 2: the hearts of his family and those remember him.
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  Speaker 1: Guys.
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  Speaker 2: For Tamber, the pain of losing her sons has been
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  Speaker 2: an enduring struggle. She has never remarried or had additional children,
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  Speaker 2: and for years she has carried a deep sense of
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  Speaker 2: guilt over what happened. Because, guys, she went to take
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  Speaker 2: a nap and they played in the front yard.
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  Speaker 1: I mean. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Yet, through the support of our friends, counseling, and her
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  Speaker 2: religious faith, Tamber has found a way to cope, although
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  Speaker 2: she says the scars remain now. The murder of Basil
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  Speaker 2: and the disappearance of Jamal is a mystery. They have
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  Speaker 2: never found who murdered Basil or who took Jamal. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of speculation and sorrow and a reminder
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  Speaker 2: of the fragility of life, and that his family knows
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  Speaker 2: one of their children is deceased, that they do not
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  Speaker 2: know what happened to the other, and they don't know
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  Speaker 2: who did it. Guys, that is a double traumatic trauma.
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine to have your child go missing as
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  Speaker 2: one thing, then to have your child go missing and
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  Speaker 2: killed as another. But to have one in both category.
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  Speaker 1: I can't.
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  Speaker 2: My heart goes out to those parents and that family
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  Speaker 2: and the community. Now. The Richmond community has not forgotten
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  Speaker 2: and they are still hoping that someone will call in
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  Speaker 2: and give a tip. And sorry, I notice I mistyped
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  Speaker 2: the phone number again. I'm going to just say, guys,
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  Speaker 2: I am not great with typing in phone numbers. But
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  Speaker 2: if you have any information, you can call Major Crimes
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  Speaker 2: Detective Cartagena at eight oh four six four six three
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  Speaker 2: eight six seven. Guys, if you know something, please this
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  Speaker 2: family has the double trauma that I I can't even imagine.
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  Speaker 2: I would not wish on my worst enemies that a
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  Speaker 2: child would go missing, or that a child go missing
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  Speaker 2: and then be found murdered. That, like I said, even
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  Speaker 2: my worst enemies. So please Also, the missing posters are
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Now I did go with the cute story for today's
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  Speaker 2: palate cleanser because it is Labor Day. We need to
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  Speaker 2: honor Labor Day, and guys, I need to get these
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  Speaker 2: two cases out of my brain for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the day so I can enjoy my Labor Day with
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  Speaker 2: double ah. So I hope you like this one because
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of cute. So once upon a time, in
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  Speaker 2: a small town known as Peak Bay, there was a
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  Speaker 2: flagged named Freddy. Freddy wasn't just any flag. He was
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  Speaker 2: proud star spangled banner with red and white stripes and
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  Speaker 2: as crisp as a summer's day and stars that twinkled
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  Speaker 2: like the Milky Way on a clear night. Freddy had
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  Speaker 2: one job to wave proudly every Labor Day from the
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  Speaker 2: porch of the big White House on Maple Street. It
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  Speaker 2: was his favorite day of the year, and he took
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  Speaker 2: his job very seriously.
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  Speaker 1: But guys, this.
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  Speaker 2: Year, something went wrong. On a gusty, windy day of
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  Speaker 2: which no one in Peak Bay had ever seen, whipped
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  Speaker 2: through the town just days before Labor Day, Freddie, who
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  Speaker 2: was happily basking in the summer sun, was caught off guard.
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  Speaker 2: The wind grabbed him by his top corner, lifted him
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  Speaker 2: high into the air, and sent him flying away from
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  Speaker 2: the porch. He called home. Help, Freddy yelled, help, Freddy flapped,
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  Speaker 2: but the wind only laughed at him and carried him higher.
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  Speaker 2: Before long, Freddie found himself tangled in the branches of
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  Speaker 2: a very tall tree in the town park. Oh no,
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  Speaker 2: Freddy groaned, How will I ever find my way back
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  Speaker 2: in time for Labor Day. Determined to not miss his
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  Speaker 2: big day, Freddie decided to find his way home. He
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  Speaker 2: wiggled and wiggled and wiggled until he was free from
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  Speaker 2: the tree. Then he just floated lightly down to the ground.
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  Speaker 2: But Freddy had a problem. Everything looked so different from
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  Speaker 2: down here. Where were the red shutters and the white
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  Speaker 2: picket fence of his beloved porch. As Freddie wandered and
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  Speaker 2: flittered through town, he met all sorts of characters. There
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  Speaker 2: was Sandy the sun Hat, who had lost her owner
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  Speaker 2: at the beach and was now living a life of
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  Speaker 2: leisure on a park bench. You could stay with me,
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  Speaker 2: she offered, but Freddy knew he had to keep moving. Next,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Freddy bumped into Bury the Balloon, who was still half
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  Speaker 2: inflated after the fourth of July, parayed, Stick with me, kid,
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  Speaker 2: and we will float all the way to the moon,
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  Speaker 2: Barry said, But of course Freddy had to decline. He
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: still had a mission to complete. Just when Freddy was
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: beginning to lose hope, he spotted a familiar face. It
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: was Allie, the Old Glory, a flag just like Freddy,
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  Speaker 2: but a little older and a bit more worn. Ollie
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  Speaker 2: had seen it all sun, rain, and even a snowstorm
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  Speaker 2: one freak winter. Ollie had some wise words for Freddy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, young flag, Allie said, with the flap of
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  Speaker 2: his tattered egg edge. Sometimes the best way to find
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  Speaker 2: your way home is to let the wind guide you.
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  Speaker 2: Freddy thought about this minute. He had always been at
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: the mercy of the wind, but maybe Allie was right. Maybe,
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  Speaker 2: just maybe he needed to trust the wind to take
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  Speaker 2: him where he needed to go. So Freddy spread out
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  Speaker 2: his stripes and waited.
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  Speaker 1: For the next gust of wind.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: When it came, he relaxed and let it carry him up, up, up,
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  Speaker 2: and away higher and hire Freddy's sword until.
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  Speaker 1: Could it be there?
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  Speaker 2: It was, the big white house on Maple Street, with
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: its red shutters and white picket fence. Freddy floated down gracefully,
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  Speaker 2: landing perfectly on the porch just as the sun began
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  Speaker 2: to set. Exhausted but happy, he hooked himself onto the flagpole,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: ready for Labor Day. As the first rays of dawn
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: lit up Peak Bay. The next morning, Freddy was there,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: waving proudly for all to see. And so every Labor
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Day Freddy the Flag proudly tells his story to all
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  Speaker 2: other flags in town, reminding them that sometimes when you're lost,
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  Speaker 2: all you need is to let go and trust the
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  Speaker 2: wind to take you home. Freddy found his way back
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  Speaker 2: in time for Labor Day, and from that day forward
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  Speaker 2: he never feared the wind again. Instead, he welcomed it
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: as an old friend, knowing that no matter where it
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: took him, he would always find his way home.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: So I hope you liked that. Like I said, I
• 27:23
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• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Jamal and Betsy because those were crazy. So thank you
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• 27:41
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• 28:42
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• 28:47
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