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MYSTERY SURROUNDING 2 MISSING WOMEN: CARS FOUND, BUT NO BROOKE OR CIEHA · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Tonight, a missing teen girl, Brook Farthing, seemingly vanishes into
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Speaker 1: thin air after a high school grad party. Where is Brooke?
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Speaker 1: Good evening, I Mancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. I
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Speaker 1: want to thank you for being with us.
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Speaker 2: Eighteen year old Brook Farthing goes missing from Beria, Kentucky,
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Speaker 2: after a series of suspicious events out of friend's residence
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Speaker 2: and the hours before her disappearance, Brooke tax and calls
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Speaker 2: an ex boyfriend, repeatedly saying she feels unsafe and asking
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Speaker 2: for a ride. Before she has never heard from again.
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Speaker 3: She went to a birthday party she left from family.
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Speaker 3: Everything was golden, one hundred percent perfect, smiling face, giggling, laughing,
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Speaker 3: full of life, and in less than twenty four hours
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Speaker 3: we have nothing.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't get all the answers, and I may
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Speaker 1: have to live my whole life when never seeing this
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Speaker 1: child again. So I pray for an end for it.
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Speaker 4: Please have mercy on us.
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Speaker 1: I'll let us know where she's at, Dear Lord in Heaven.
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Speaker 1: That is Brook's mom. She'll be Tillery speaking to our
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Speaker 1: friends at ID. She let me understand this straight out
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Speaker 1: to Alexis Eschuk, joining us Crime Stories investigative reporter Alexis
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Speaker 1: Brook is a teen girl. She's celebrating graduation. She goes
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Speaker 1: to her grandpa's birthday party as mom she'll be with
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Speaker 1: telling us, then heads out to a grad party. There
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Speaker 1: she is. Then after that she's never seen alive again.
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Speaker 1: She seemingly just vanishes into thin air. What do we
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Speaker 1: know about what happened that evenings?
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Speaker 5: So after their grandfather's birthday, Brooke, her sister, Paige, one
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Speaker 5: of their cousins, went to a party. Brooke had just
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Speaker 5: graduated from high school. It's a house party, all her together.
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Speaker 5: They're celebrating. They're celebrating finishing school, starting summer. They're having
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Speaker 5: a great time. They all are partying together. Then Brooke
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Speaker 5: goes with her really good friend. She's at her house.
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Speaker 5: There's a party there. The friend decides that she wants
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Speaker 5: to leave with someone else, So Brooke is there without
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Speaker 5: her sister and without her cousin. They have left, They've
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Speaker 5: gone to go to another party, and Brooke is sort
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Speaker 5: of stuck at this house without her sister, without her cousin,
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Speaker 5: and then without her friends.
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Speaker 1: Okay, hold on just a second, lexus est check, let
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Speaker 1: me understand the timeline. So she goes to the grandpa's
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Speaker 1: birthday party. That's what Misch Shelby was talking about. She
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Speaker 1: went to the grandpa's birthday party. Then there are, which
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Speaker 1: I've learned, with children just graduating, there are multiple grad
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Speaker 1: parties going on. This one and her friends are having
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Speaker 1: a grad party, and that one and her friends are
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Speaker 1: having a grad party. There get togethers at people's homes.
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Speaker 1: So she has some one of those grand grad parties.
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Speaker 1: Do I have it right so far?
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Speaker 5: Yes, she does. And she's with her sister, she's with
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Speaker 5: her cousin. In fact, she and her sister had just
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Speaker 5: spent the day getting their driver's licenses. They finally took
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Speaker 5: the test. However, in sort of a cute story, Brooke passed,
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Speaker 5: but her sister, Paige did not pass. She did not
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Speaker 5: get her license I day, so Brooke was sort of
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Speaker 5: floading over her sister.
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Speaker 1: What I don't understand is how her cell phone is
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Speaker 1: missing but her shoes are found.
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Speaker 6: Her at her phone is what is missing? It wasn't there,
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Speaker 6: and that she lasts to go anywhere She went without
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Speaker 6: her shoes because her shoes were still on the front porch.
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Speaker 6: Her phone rang for two two to three days. I
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Speaker 6: don't want to say sure, they try to pinpoint the
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Speaker 6: location of it, and you get like a three mile
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Speaker 6: radius around the Blue Licks cell tower. Is what they
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Speaker 6: keep telling us to if we wanted to search, that
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Speaker 6: we could search in that radius.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's a fine kettle fish when the family's told Hey,
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Speaker 1: if you want to go search, there's a vast area,
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Speaker 1: go have at it. That is from our friends at
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Speaker 1: the Vanished Podcast. Brian Fitzgibbons joining us Director Operations USPA
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Speaker 1: nation Wide Security. He leads a team of investigators that
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Speaker 1: go literally around the world finding and extracting missing people. Brian,
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Speaker 1: how does the phone go missing but the shoes are
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Speaker 1: left behind? I find the fact that her shoes are
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Speaker 1: left behind. Who goes outdoors unless you're a little kid
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Speaker 1: and you're playing outside and you disappear without your shoes.
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Speaker 1: It's not like you're running to the mailboxer back, or
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Speaker 1: you're dipping your toes into the pool behind the house
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Speaker 1: or the lake. She left her shoes behind her. That
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Speaker 1: doesn't bode well, Brian.
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Speaker 7: No, not at all.
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Speaker 8: This and it flies in the face of logic of
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Speaker 8: what we knew shoes up to earlier that night, that
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Speaker 8: these were the only shoes she had that these shoes
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Speaker 8: were left behind at this acquaintance's house who gave.
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Speaker 1: Her a ride.
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Speaker 8: And now what we learn is that that cell phone
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Speaker 8: moved approximately thirty miles from that last known location. You know,
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Speaker 8: police were able to pinpoint that based on the phone
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Speaker 8: hitting one of the towers in Blue Lick, Kentucky, to
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Speaker 8: give them that three mile radius around the tower, which is,
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Speaker 8: you know, a good thirty to forty minute drive from
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Speaker 8: where she was where her shoes were found.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzgibbons, that's not good tonight the search for brook Farthing.
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Speaker 1: She's a little girl. She went to grandpa's birthday party,
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Speaker 1: then went to a grad party, a high school grad party.
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Speaker 1: Now we find out she left her shoes behind and
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Speaker 1: her phone is pinging up to forty miles away near
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Speaker 1: Blue Lick, Kentucky. What more do we know about the
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Speaker 1: area where her phone pinged.
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Speaker 9: It's a vast open wooded area. I mean, you've got
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Speaker 9: thousands of bakers of wooded forests and there's not good
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Speaker 9: cell phone coverage, and the area itself is just really steep,
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Speaker 9: wooded and heavily dance in some parts. And then on
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Speaker 9: top of that, we have multiple bodies of water that
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Speaker 9: are spread throughout and the thing of it with this area,
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Speaker 9: I mean you could you can drive twenty foot down
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Speaker 9: the road and there'll be a drop off over the hill.
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Speaker 9: So if I placed her through something that without you know,
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Speaker 9: without a hunter or someone walking up on it or discovered,
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Speaker 9: I mean, it's a difficult area to search if you
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Speaker 9: drop the house right in the center. I mean there's
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Speaker 9: there's just a vast wooded area and people live out there,
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Speaker 9: and there's a little pockets of communities spread out within
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Speaker 9: the roadways down the roadways. But as far as it'd
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Speaker 9: being a long driving distance, that's just not the case.
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Speaker 9: It's very close by and accessible to that residence.
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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. That is from our friends at the Vanished podcast. So, Brian,
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Speaker 1: it's gibbons to make matters worse. Now you have an
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Speaker 1: idea about the terrain, what do you do?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so that that terrain, extensive searches have been done.
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Speaker 10: But as as that podcast.
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Speaker 8: Highlighted, this terrain is virtually impassable in parts and made
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Speaker 8: that matters very difficult when you're dealing with such a
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Speaker 8: large swath of land.
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Speaker 11: Uh.
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Speaker 8: But there have been thousands and thousands of acres searched
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Speaker 8: by foot, by drone, with dogs. You know, extensive searching
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Speaker 8: has taken place in and around that area where the
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Speaker 8: phone lasts pinked.
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Speaker 1: You don't doubt the ping location, do you. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's hard science. The phone was there.
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Speaker 10: No, I don't doubt it.
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Speaker 8: And I think another interesting thing to point out is
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Speaker 8: that the phone was connecting to that tower for two
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Speaker 8: to three days after Brooklyn went missing.
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Speaker 10: So it's very possible that that phone.
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Speaker 8: Was just left on, dumped out the window, you know,
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Speaker 8: from a moving vehicle. And you know that the phone
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Speaker 8: just the battery died after forty eight hours, but that
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Speaker 8: phone was on for a little bit of time there.
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Speaker 1: Well, when you say a little bit of time, I
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Speaker 1: find that significant. Brian his gibbons, it was two to
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Speaker 1: three days the phone was still emitting pings.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, very significant, and it speaks to what may have
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Speaker 8: happened in the final hours there before her disappearance. Was
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Speaker 8: this done in some kind of capacity to mimic or
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Speaker 8: faint movement that Brooke had left the area on her
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Speaker 8: own volition, to leave the phone on, to drive it
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Speaker 8: thirty miles away from the last known location. And I
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Speaker 8: think that that's one of the things that investigators have
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Speaker 8: been looking at.
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Speaker 1: Listen to what we have obtained regarding the night she
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Speaker 1: goes missing.
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Speaker 11: I think it was.
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Speaker 3: Very odd that Brook was scared today and then all
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Speaker 3: of a sudden she was fine.
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Speaker 6: How do you just go to a party in Rockcastle
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Speaker 6: County if you don't have a vehicle and nobody's coming
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Speaker 6: to pick you up and nobody else.
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Speaker 12: Knows you're there.
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Speaker 1: It was very suspicious. From our friends at Investigation Discovery
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Speaker 1: back to you, Alexis Teroschuk says, she's at this grad
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Speaker 1: party and her friend, her friend girl wants to leave
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Speaker 1: and does leave, and now she's there without a friend.
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Speaker 1: It reminds me so much of the case you and
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Speaker 1: I investigated together, the Natalie Holloway case, when she goes
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Speaker 1: out to Carloston Charlie's on the high school senior trip.
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Speaker 1: She leaves the friends, they get separated, and she's never
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Speaker 1: seen alive again. It's very disturbing, Alexis, I want you
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Speaker 1: to hear what the sister Tasha has to say.
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Speaker 6: Brook sent many text messages to other friends of hers
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Speaker 6: and her ex boyfriend saying that she was scared, she
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Speaker 6: was uncomfortable, she didn't really want to be there, hurry
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Speaker 6: up and come get her things to that nature. So
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Speaker 6: her ex boyfriend says, you know, I'll be there as
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Speaker 6: soon as I get off. So about five forty five
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Speaker 6: ish he gets a text message from saying that she's
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Speaker 6: going to a party in Rockcastle County and that he
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Speaker 6: didn't need to come getter. He answered that text, I
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Speaker 6: sing who with? And she never responded back.
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Speaker 1: Mm hmmmmm, that's where my friend's at the Vanished podcast
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Speaker 1: you're hearing Tasha Thomas, that is Brook's sister to Sidney
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Speaker 1: Silvanni joining us Crime Stori's investigative reporter who's been working
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Speaker 1: this case Sydney. It reminds me so much of Gabby Patito.
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Speaker 1: Remember after Brian Laundry had killed her and left her
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Speaker 1: body to be destroyed by animals out in dispersed camping,
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Speaker 1: he came across the country back to his home in
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Speaker 1: her for transit that she had renovated using her credit cards.
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Speaker 1: He had her phone and he was sending texts as
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Speaker 1: if he were Gabby to throw off her family and
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Speaker 1: I guess his family too, But the text didn't ring true.
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Speaker 1: It would be, for instance, like me texting your new
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Speaker 1: husband saying, how's miss Sidney Silvanni doing today, as opposed to, hey,
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Speaker 1: how's sid He Brian Laundry trying to pretend that he
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Speaker 1: was Gabby Patito still alive and well wrote her family
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Speaker 1: and referred to her grandpa as, for instance, mister mister
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Speaker 1: Walter Malcolm Grace, and they went, why did she do that?
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Speaker 1: Instead of saying how's grandpa? So it was a dead giveaway.
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Speaker 1: So here, Sidney, the point I'm trying to make is
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Speaker 1: Brooks sending all these messages going I don't like it here.
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Speaker 1: I got to get out of here. Somebody please come
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Speaker 1: get me. I'm in the middle of nowhere. Then when
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Speaker 1: the boyfriend gets off work, she suddenly says, I'm on
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Speaker 1: my way. She says, forget it, I'm going to another
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Speaker 1: party in Rockcastle County, he says with who she never
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Speaker 1: texted back, sid.
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Speaker 13: Right, it's definitely fishy. Something stinks here, because if I'm
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Speaker 13: someone's friend, if I'm someone's boyfriend in this situation, and
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Speaker 13: I get multiple texts saying I'm scared, I feel uncomfortable.
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Speaker 13: Can you please come get me as soon as you
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Speaker 13: get off of work, It's gonna take more than never mind,
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Speaker 13: I'm okay. I'm going to a different party to convince
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Speaker 13: me that you really are okay? So did someone else
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Speaker 13: send this text? Was Brooke forced to send this text
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Speaker 13: under duress?
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Speaker 14: It takes more than never.
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Speaker 13: Mind, I'm good to convince me that something isn't going on.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Sherry Schwartz is joining us out of the Florida jurisdiction.
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Speaker 1: She's a forensic psychologist specializing in capital mitigation and victim
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Speaker 1: advocacy at panther mitigation dot com. She is the author
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Speaker 1: of Where Law and Psychology Intersect and Criminal Behavior. She's
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Speaker 1: the co author of that, Doctor Sherry, thank you for
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Speaker 1: being with us, Doctor Sherry. Look at the text. What
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Speaker 1: teen girl writes out never mind instead of nv MD.
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Speaker 1: Nobody writes out never mind. Even I don't write out
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Speaker 1: never mind. I'm going to a party in Rockcastle County.
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Speaker 1: It sounds like Oliver the Butler is writing over in
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Speaker 1: mary Old, England. A teen doesn't write like that.
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Speaker 15: That's absolutely right. And as you pointed out, even those
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Speaker 15: of us who are past being our team in our
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Speaker 15: teenage years, we don't write like that either. Text messages
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Speaker 15: are sent very much in shorthand Also, what party is
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Speaker 15: at five o'clock in the morning or six o'clock in
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Speaker 15: the morning is what I read around the time that
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Speaker 15: this text was sent. There are a lot of problems
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Speaker 15: with this whole scenario this she gets separated from her friend,
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Speaker 15: she goes to this location with this guy that is remote.
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Speaker 15: She's very, very scared, and suddenly she's going to a
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Speaker 15: party in the wee hours of the morning.
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Speaker 1: Well, here's another problem. At the location where Brooke was,
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Speaker 1: a fire coincidentally breaks out.
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Speaker 6: The main thing that really got destroyed was that couch.
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Speaker 6: We as her family has always stressed, well, something must
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Speaker 6: have been on that couch, something of importance that we needed,
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Speaker 6: probably to solve this case is on that couch that
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Speaker 6: has been destroyed. I mean there was really nothing left
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Speaker 6: but the frame. All the Brooks stuff is still here.
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Speaker 6: So I'm like, we managed stuff still there and if
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Speaker 6: anybody can tell you about let's sure. She's very protective
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Speaker 6: of her stuff. She kind of won't leave it set around.
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Speaker 6: She doesn't want you going through it. She I mean,
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Speaker 6: she's been that way since she was a little kid.
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Speaker 6: But her stuff was her stuff.
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Speaker 1: That's Brook's sister Tasha with our friends at the Vanish
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Speaker 1: podcast Alexis Tereschuk, crime Stori's investigative reporter. So there's the sofa.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about, the sofa where she had been sitting,
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Speaker 1: where she was last seen, and it, of all the
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Speaker 1: things in the home, burns to the frame.
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Speaker 5: Not only did it burn to the frame of the sofa,
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Speaker 5: it burns so hot it burned through the floor in
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Speaker 5: the house that was the absolute center of the fire.
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Speaker 5: And in fact, this house it looks very nice from
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Speaker 5: the outside. This house was in foreclosure at the time,
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Speaker 5: and when Brooke was taken there there was no electricity
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Speaker 5: and there was no running water. So she must have
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Speaker 5: been so scared as soon as she walked into the
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Speaker 5: very creepy home with this man.
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Speaker 1: That is very disturbing to Brian Fitzgibbons. The last place, Oh,
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Speaker 1: by the way, this is my friends at Le's eighteen,
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Speaker 1: The last place where she is observed sitting that we
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Speaker 1: know of, gets burned to a crisp Did you see
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Speaker 1: that frame of the sofa.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, So she separated from her friends at this party,
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Speaker 8: she winds up getting a ride with this individual who
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Speaker 8: owns the home. That's the last known place that we
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Speaker 8: know that Brooke was. She's sending texts to multiple of
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Speaker 8: her friends saying she's scared.
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Speaker 10: Come get me. I need a ride. This place is creepy.
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Speaker 8: Hurry up, okay, And now we have the sofa burning,
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Speaker 8: and I want to add one thing. Brook's family called
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Speaker 8: this individual the morning of her disappearance to find out
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Speaker 8: where she was, and he said, hey, I don't know.
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Speaker 8: I was out feeding the horses. The last I saw her,
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Speaker 8: she was sitting on the couch smoking a cigarette.
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Speaker 11: If Brook will there, and he knew that when he left.
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Speaker 11: That should have been the first thing he said, is
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Speaker 11: there's a fire at my house, but there's someone in there.
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Speaker 11: And he did not do that. And when he came
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Speaker 11: back and said there was a fire, why wasn't he
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Speaker 11: urgently worried about where she was at that time? Because
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Speaker 11: when he left, he says, she was there.
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Speaker 16: You don't have an ending, so you don't know if
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Speaker 16: she's still alive. You don't know if there's been foul play.
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Speaker 16: You just know that she's missing, and you have no
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Speaker 16: idea she could be right next to you.
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Speaker 11: I want my child back, you know, no matter what.
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Speaker 11: I just want her back. And that's all I'm worried about,
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Speaker 11: is getting her back.
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Speaker 1: That from our friends at w L e X. If
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Speaker 1: you know or think you know anything about this missing
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Speaker 1: teen girl, Brooke Farthing, please die of Kentucky State Police
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Speaker 1: eight five nine six' two three two four zero four
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Speaker 1: eight five nine six' two three two four. Zero four
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Speaker 1: there is a fourteen thousand dollars reward for Information. ABOUT
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Speaker 1: brook a gorgeous twenty eight year old woman, Goes Missing, Plant, City.
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Speaker 1: Florida tonight Where? Is kaya twenty eight.
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Speaker 7: Year Old, kaya taylor out going and full, of life
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Speaker 7: builds her world around friends, and family but behind, the
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Speaker 7: smiles her on and off relationship and search for stability
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Speaker 7: hint at a life far.
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Speaker 1: More complicated Where? Is kaya nobody just drops off the
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Speaker 1: face of. The earth nobody, mysteriously disappears straight Out To,
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Speaker 1: brian FITZGIBBONS Joining Us, DIRECTOR operations Uspa Nation, wide security
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Speaker 1: leading an entire team of experts finding, missing people extracting
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Speaker 1: them from A marine iraqi. War vet nobody. Just vanishes
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Speaker 1: this Is Not. Harry potter in the, real world no one.
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Speaker 1: JUST disappears i hate it when people say they. Just,
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Speaker 1: disappeared no they didn't.
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Speaker 17: Just.
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Speaker 10: Disappear no and in, This case nancy we have.
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Speaker 8: More Information miss taylor's vehicle was found just shortly down
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Speaker 8: the road from where she was last, seen alive and
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Speaker 8: that vehicle was. Left running so this is not the
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Speaker 8: behavior of somebody who's. Willingly disappearing this is a, huge.
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Speaker 14: Outlier outgoing with a large circle. Of Friends kaya taylor
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Speaker 14: is very close to. Her mother her friends say she
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Speaker 14: is very social and. Very talkative at, Twenty eight kaya
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Speaker 14: puts her love of talking on full display as she
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Speaker 14: takes a job near her Home In, Plant, city florida
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Speaker 14: working in a call center at a. Telemarketing Job on,
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Speaker 14: february sixth the round, Four pm kya is seen dropping
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Speaker 14: off Her Boyfriend jason roberts at his House On cowart
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Speaker 14: Road In. Plant city three, hours later and about a,
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Speaker 14: Mile away, kaya's car A Black, toyota clara is discovered
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Speaker 14: sitting on. RAILROAD tracks a concerned Citizen Calls plant city
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Speaker 14: police about the. ABANDONED vehicle a responding Officer In Hillsborough
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Speaker 14: county sheriff's Deputy discover kaya's car is still running in
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Speaker 14: her purse with, her wallet, debit CARD and id are inside.
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Speaker 14: The vehicle her phone. Found nearby treating the car. As
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Speaker 14: abandoned the officer and Deputy move kaya's car off the
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Speaker 14: tracks and leave it on the side of.
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Speaker 1: THE road i almost want, to ask did my ears?
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Speaker 1: Stop Working, brianus gibbons this is your specialty finding. Missing
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Speaker 1: people it seems as if someone parked, her Vehicle A,
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Speaker 1: toyota celara on, railroad tracks with the hope a train
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Speaker 1: would run, it over.
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Speaker 8: Parked on rail road, road tracks left, running okay and
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Speaker 8: then the massive head scratcher here is That The Hillsboro
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Speaker 8: county sheriff then moved that vehicle off of, the tracks
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Speaker 8: parked it and left. It there, you know at, a minimum,
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Speaker 8: you know you would think that two or three things
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Speaker 8: would happen, right away running, that tag finding out who this.
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Speaker 8: Person is could there be in a severe state of mental,
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Speaker 8: health distress could there have been a? Medical emergency, you
22:35
Speaker 8: know a huge miss opportunity here from an evidentiary standpoint
22:41
Speaker 8: as well as immediately opening, this case is?
22:45
Speaker 1: This correct Dave Matt crime stori's, investigative reporter that they
22:49
Speaker 1: find her vehicle parked on the. Railroad, tracks now what
22:54
Speaker 1: we're showing you is. A recreate we wanted you to see.
22:57
Speaker 1: The car they find it on the real road tracks
23:01
Speaker 1: and inside they find, her stuff, her wallet, debit CAR
23:06
Speaker 1: and id in, the vehicle her. PHONE nearby i don't
23:09
Speaker 1: know what. That means was it thrown out of the
23:11
Speaker 1: vehicle and they simply move it off the tracks and
23:15
Speaker 1: leave it and file an abandoned? Car report really? Is
23:21
Speaker 1: that did? That happen that is exactly, What.
23:24
Speaker 2: Happened nancy and you know it wasn't Just A hillsboro.
23:28
Speaker 2: County deputy it was Also A plant city. Police officer
23:31
Speaker 2: they were on the scene. As well so you've got
23:33
Speaker 2: two law enforcement guys who come up with the best
23:36
Speaker 2: plan when they find a vehicle sitting on the, railroad
23:39
Speaker 2: tracks a, door open, engine running a person other personal
23:43
Speaker 2: effects in. The car their idea is to drive it off.
23:47
Speaker 2: The tracks so you've got another person getting behind the
23:50
Speaker 2: wheel and moving the car and, parking it locking it
23:53
Speaker 2: up and calling it In. As nancy it sat there for,
23:58
Speaker 2: three days three days from the time it was Found
24:02
Speaker 2: on february sixth to seven pm until the time it
24:05
Speaker 2: was actually, somebody, said hey is It that? Kaya's car
24:09
Speaker 2: and it happened to be her, on again off again
24:11
Speaker 2: boyfriend's mother that spotted the Car on february ninth and
24:15
Speaker 2: called him, And, Said hey kaya's cars. Over here what's?
24:18
Speaker 14: Going On jason robert's Mother sees Kaya's black toyota on
24:23
Speaker 14: the side of the road and tells him. About It on,
24:25
Speaker 14: february ninth A friend kya was planning to Meet on
24:28
Speaker 14: february Sixth drives kaya's car to her mother's Home In.
24:32
Speaker 14: Dade City seeing kaya's purse and keys in, the car, Her,
24:36
Speaker 14: mother kanitha knows something is very wrong and files a
24:40
Speaker 14: missing person report With The Hillsborough county. Sheriff's office by
24:44
Speaker 14: The time kaya is, reported missing her vehicle has been
24:47
Speaker 14: moved and touched, multiple times first by the police officer
24:51
Speaker 14: and deputy who decided to move the car off the,
24:53
Speaker 14: railroad tracks Then by kaya's friend who drives It to Kaya's.
24:57
Speaker 14: Mother kanetha beyond the physical evidence that has, potentially lost
25:02
Speaker 14: three days have gone by since the Last time kya,
25:05
Speaker 14: Was seen brian.
25:06
Speaker 1: Has gibbons. Three days. That's brutal explain why three we've
25:13
Speaker 1: lost three days trying to? Find, her.
25:17
Speaker 10: Yeah so again a huge.
25:19
Speaker 8: Missed opportunity no chain of custody of, this evidence this
25:24
Speaker 8: evidence not, being PROTECTED and i want to add. One
25:28
Speaker 8: thing this vehicle was found just a short distance down
25:34
Speaker 8: the road From where kaya dropped off.
25:37
Speaker 10: Her boyfriend at his.
25:39
Speaker 8: Friend's, House okay so for his mother to be the
25:43
Speaker 8: one to come forward to tell to alert him to
25:47
Speaker 8: contact authorities raises a major.
25:50
Speaker 10: Red flag these are the last two people To see.
25:53
Speaker 8: Kyle live her vehicle, was found, you Know within i've
25:58
Speaker 8: looked at, the MAP but i think it's within half
26:00
Speaker 8: a mile to a mile of the residence that she
26:03
Speaker 8: dropped him.
26:04
Speaker 10: Off at and that's a major red flag to me.
26:08
Speaker 13: As.
26:08
Speaker 1: Well guys another bizarre fact in the Search for kaya
26:14
Speaker 1: her shoes found neatly placed almost directly under a missing
26:21
Speaker 1: person poster.
26:22
Speaker 14: For her multiple searches are conducted By The Hillsboro County
26:27
Speaker 14: sheriff's office on the ground with bloodhounds and in the sky.
26:30
Speaker 14: With helicopters nothing. Is found three Weeks after, kaya vanishes
26:35
Speaker 14: a pair of her shoes are found after a search of,
26:38
Speaker 14: the area at the bottom of a telephone pole that
26:41
Speaker 14: has her missing poster stapled. To it the shoes are
26:44
Speaker 14: neatly placed side by side on. The ground, Kaya's Sister,
26:48
Speaker 14: katrina overstreet says the area where the shoes, were found
26:51
Speaker 14: had been searched extensively days earlier To. No avail Family
26:56
Speaker 14: believes kaya's shoes were placed where they were found after
26:59
Speaker 14: her dis appearance.
27:00
Speaker 1: Became Public, dave matt that. Is bizarre clearly someone placed
27:05
Speaker 1: the shoes there after that missing poster was. Put up you,
27:08
Speaker 1: Know what it kind of reminds. Me of do you
27:10
Speaker 1: Remember when Abby and libby go Missing in delphi and
27:15
Speaker 1: we have a photo where The Purp, richard allen is
27:20
Speaker 1: sitting at a restaurant and right behind him is the
27:23
Speaker 1: missing person's poster and they. Look identical nobody notices somebody
27:30
Speaker 1: put those. Shoes there there's no other reason you would
27:34
Speaker 1: put the, shoes there right under the missing. Person POSTER
27:37
Speaker 1: and i wonder if the shoes were processed.
27:40
Speaker 2: For fingerprints at, This, point nancy you have to wonder
27:44
Speaker 2: what was done with, the shoes because it was the
27:46
Speaker 2: family that. Found them, and again it's really important to
27:49
Speaker 2: note that the family had been searching. This area law
27:52
Speaker 2: enforcement searched the area and these shoes were. Not there
27:56
Speaker 2: the shoes only showed up and they pointed out that
27:58
Speaker 2: they were placed right there on the drain at the
28:01
Speaker 2: bottom of a telephone pole with the, missing poster. They
28:05
Speaker 2: weren't the shoes were not there when the missing poster
28:08
Speaker 2: was stapled to. The pole the shoes showed. UP after
28:12
Speaker 2: i think it was the suspect terrorizing the family, and friends,
28:17
Speaker 2: You Know.
28:18
Speaker 1: Rayphus gibbons that. Is cold kind of reminds Me Of,
28:23
Speaker 1: rex hueman where he would call his victim's family and
28:28
Speaker 1: taunt them about murdering, the victim just to. Torture them
28:34
Speaker 1: why would somebody? Do that that's you know what as,
28:37
Speaker 1: A prosecutor i learned the. Hard way don't try to
28:41
Speaker 1: figure out what's going on inside the, purpose mind just prove.
28:45
Speaker 1: The case so these shoes being, placed there WHAT can
28:50
Speaker 1: i learn from Them? About kaya and?
28:52
Speaker 11: Are?
28:52
Speaker 8: Whereabouts yeah was this particularly sinister move by?
28:59
Speaker 10: The perpetrate who's Responsible for?
29:02
Speaker 8: Kaya's Disappearance or i'll offer this all too often in
29:06
Speaker 8: cases is particularly missing, young women there's someone involved in
29:11
Speaker 8: the periphery who's afraid of. The perpetrator this might be
29:14
Speaker 8: another woman that had access to those shoes and placed
29:20
Speaker 8: them there in a hope to tip off law enforcement
29:24
Speaker 8: to who perpetrated this crime that they themselves are afraid
29:28
Speaker 8: of coming forward for fear. Of death or physical harm,
29:32
Speaker 8: to themselves but they do want to try to help in.
29:35
Speaker 8: Some WAY so i think those are the two possible avenues.
29:39
Speaker 11: Of there.
29:43
Speaker 1: She just lit up a room when she walked.
29:45
Speaker 6: In it she.
29:48
Speaker 1: Was spiritual and.
29:50
Speaker 18: Was always given really good advite if it comes. In ways,
29:53
Speaker 18: you KNOW sometimes i move along with my life and
29:57
Speaker 18: then you feel guilty because you are trying to move forward,
30:01
Speaker 18: without her but trying to keep her. Memory alive my
30:04
Speaker 18: hope is just to find closure.
30:06
Speaker 5: And answer it's.
30:07
Speaker 19: Been overwhelming we really didn't think we would be here at.
30:10
Speaker 19: This mark there's, no trace there's, no evidence. There's nothing
30:15
Speaker 19: so it's like we're sitting from the very day.
30:17
Speaker 10: That we found her car till now there's like.
30:19
Speaker 19: There's nothing it's kind of like a. Twilight zone somewhere someone.
30:23
Speaker 19: Knows something so maybe if they're, seeing that the family
30:27
Speaker 19: is just not going away quietly in, the night and,
30:29
Speaker 19: you know we really are going to continue to look
30:32
Speaker 19: for until we. Find closure she lights the whole room
30:35
Speaker 19: up when she.
30:35
Speaker 17: Walks in she has a smile that's bright as. The sun,
30:39
Speaker 17: she's bubbly, you know she's kind of bouncing in. Her
30:42
Speaker 17: walk if you, know anything Tell The sheriff's, department please
30:46
Speaker 17: and If, it's kaya just, come home no matter where,
30:51
Speaker 17: you are, What's happened just.
30:52
Speaker 1: Come home from OUR friends Wfts and, Fox thirteen kaya's
30:57
Speaker 1: mother still Looking, for kaya not giving up and leaving
31:02
Speaker 1: the door opened to just the thought that she could still.
31:06
Speaker 1: Be alive let's hear What The Hillsboro County sheriff's office has.
31:13
Speaker 1: To say we know she left.
31:15
Speaker 20: That residence around. Four o'clock then her car was found
31:18
Speaker 20: on the railroad tracks. Around seven so we're really asking
31:21
Speaker 20: for people who are in that area between, that timeframe
31:23
Speaker 20: if they saw, the car if they, saw her if
31:25
Speaker 20: they saw really anyone mulling about in, the area to
31:28
Speaker 20: give us a call because you never know what tip
31:30
Speaker 20: could be the one that really helps us.
31:31
Speaker 1: Find HER From, wt so in a case, Like This,
31:36
Speaker 1: BRIAN Fitzgibbons Uspa, nationwide security where do? You start BECAUSE
31:42
Speaker 1: l e law enforcement let the case go cold, three days,
31:47
Speaker 1: three days. That's crushing but where do you? Start, now yeah.
31:52
Speaker 8: So, you, know hey obviously we're going back a number of,
31:56
Speaker 8: years now but there is one point to bring up
32:00
Speaker 8: two subjects who were closely associated to, this case who
32:03
Speaker 8: were the last two To see.
32:05
Speaker 10: Kaya live have had.
32:08
Speaker 8: Legal troubles of their, own RIGHT so i would want
32:11
Speaker 8: to pull every record of their communications from while they.
32:17
Speaker 10: Were incarcerated what did they, talk about what did they?
32:21
Speaker 10: Write about who, were.
32:22
Speaker 8: There who, was cellmates who were floor mats, with them
32:27
Speaker 8: what conversations. Were had that could be, one simple straightforward
32:32
Speaker 8: task that law enforcement conducts on a regular basis to
32:36
Speaker 8: see if that generates.
32:38
Speaker 10: Any leads she.
32:39
Speaker 1: Was dropping the.
32:40
Speaker 21: Boyfriend off the boyfriend and his friend was the last
32:44
Speaker 21: person that, seen her as far as, we know, her keys,
32:46
Speaker 21: her phone, her license her, debit card everything was in
32:50
Speaker 21: her vehicle and if Anybody, Knows kaya kaya never leaves her.
32:54
Speaker 21: Cell phone the friend found the vehicle reached out to
32:57
Speaker 21: my mother, In, law hey.
33:01
Speaker 1: You know anything Weird? With kaya have you talked to her?
33:04
Speaker 21: Or whatnot her car was just abandoned on the side of,
33:06
Speaker 21: the road or just hoping and praying that she is
33:09
Speaker 21: still alive and that she's out there and. She's safe
33:12
Speaker 21: she's not, in pain she's, Not hurt no one's holding
33:16
Speaker 21: her against her.
33:16
Speaker 1: Own will from HER friend's wfla totally Uncharacteristic for kya to.
33:22
Speaker 1: Just disappear was dropping the. Boyfriend Off That's. Porsha tailor
33:26
Speaker 1: That is kaya's sister in law dropping. Boyfriend off boyfriend and,
33:31
Speaker 1: his friend last people to see, her car, key's phone licensed,
33:35
Speaker 1: debit card all in. The car so back, To You,
33:40
Speaker 1: BRIAN fitzgibbons Uspa. Nationwide security what do you make? OF
33:46
Speaker 1: that i agree with you start. With, them yeah.
33:52
Speaker 8: It's the simplest and most reasonable place. To start the
33:57
Speaker 8: last people To see.
33:59
Speaker 10: Kaya alone i'd like, to know, You know and we
34:03
Speaker 10: have to look at the.
34:04
Speaker 8: Timeline here, four pm she drops a boyfriend off at his.
34:08
Speaker 8: Friend's residence by three pm that vehicle is still. Found
34:12
Speaker 8: running how much gas was left in? The vehicle how
34:15
Speaker 8: long had it?
34:16
Speaker 10: Been?
34:16
Speaker 8: There right are there is there security footage which we probably.
34:19
Speaker 10: Can't access at, This POINT but i want to start
34:23
Speaker 10: with them and.
34:23
Speaker 8: Their circle who are the people that they've, Been around
34:27
Speaker 8: who have they talked to about? This case that should
34:31
Speaker 8: be the focus. Right now is anyone who is at that.
34:34
Speaker 10: Residence on that day around.
34:36
Speaker 1: That time then to throw a monkey wrench into the Search,
34:40
Speaker 1: for kaya another young woman, goes missing.
34:44
Speaker 4: Same area another missing woman three weeks earlier and seven
34:48
Speaker 4: miles Away, In, dover florida is also. Still unsolved Veronica,
34:53
Speaker 4: raised ds, twenty three mother, of three went Missing on,
34:56
Speaker 4: january eighteen. Twenty twenty she went out with friends On a,
34:59
Speaker 4: friday night, came home tucked her children, into bed walked outside.
35:03
Speaker 4: And vanished did one per take?
35:07
Speaker 1: BOTH women, i mean this is Not, Downtown manhattan It's
35:12
Speaker 1: not La, or Atlanta not Cleveland, Or Philly. Brian fitzgibbons
35:17
Speaker 1: so it's quite the coincidence that two, young women kind
35:23
Speaker 1: of same, age range they both go missing within days. Same, area.
35:31
Speaker 8: Yeah so you know each case has to be, handled individually,
35:35
Speaker 8: of course but with, this information it would be very
35:40
Speaker 8: basic and very simple to do an open source search
35:44
Speaker 8: to make some initial interviews to find out if there's
35:48
Speaker 8: any connection between these two, young women and if, there
35:52
Speaker 8: is that is certainly an indicator that there could be a.
35:56
Speaker 10: Common.
35:57
Speaker 1: Perpetrator, here tonight we have a mom suffering and begging.
36:03
Speaker 12: For answers he, was, fun loving her smile. Was contagious
36:10
Speaker 12: it feels like you separate yourself. From reality what's? Going
36:14
Speaker 12: on everything goes in like slow motion and fast forwarding
36:18
Speaker 12: at the. Same time it's. A nightmare we'll retell the
36:22
Speaker 12: story of, what happened and just keep people and keep
36:26
Speaker 12: her name out there so it stays in. People's minds
36:30
Speaker 12: it's the worst for parents and grandparents to go through.
36:33
Speaker 1: To not know the, mom begging begging for answers and
36:38
Speaker 1: harboring hope that, Her daughter kaya will be. Found alive
36:43
Speaker 1: that's from our Friends At bay, news NINE who i
36:47
Speaker 1: thank For covering. Kaya's case if you know or think
36:52
Speaker 1: you know Anything about, kaya's disappearance there is a fifteen thousand,
36:58
Speaker 1: dollar reward ten thousand put up by, the family five
37:03
Speaker 1: thousand put up by, crime stoppers fifteen thousand dollars reward
37:09
Speaker 1: in the Search. For kaya look at her say, Her Name,
37:15
Speaker 1: kaya taylor twenty eight at time, of disappearance her family
37:22
Speaker 1: begging you for answers again the tip line, eight, one
37:27
Speaker 1: three two four seven, eighty two, one hundred fifteen thousand.
37:32
Speaker 1: Dollars reward tonight we Remember an, American Hero Trooper, Sergio
37:37
Speaker 1: Romero Texas Department, public safety just, twenty seven killed in
37:43
Speaker 1: the line, of duty leaving behind, His, wife francisca and two.
37:48
Speaker 1: Little boys American Hero Sergeant Trooper. Sergio romero thank you
37:55
Speaker 1: to our guests joining, us tonight but especially to you
37:59
Speaker 1: for being with us in our search for missing people across.
38:03
Speaker 1: Our Country nancy grace signing off, for Tonight but i'll
38:07
Speaker 1: see you, Tomorrow night, God willing and, until then good,
38:11
Speaker 1: night friend