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Mom and 3 Tots Vanish, Dad "Not Concerned" · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Greece.
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  Speaker 2: How does a mom and all of her children just
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  Speaker 2: disappear vanish drive off in the mini van and they're
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  Speaker 2: just never seen again? And why is the husband slash
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  Speaker 2: father saying he's quote not concerned about his missing wife
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  Speaker 2: and children.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation
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  Speaker 2: in series six, sem one eleven. Where is she? Where
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  Speaker 2: is Lauren Cook? Where is seven year old Benjamin? Where
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  Speaker 2: his five year old Hannah?
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  Speaker 1: Where's two year old Elijah?
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  Speaker 2: How and why do they just drop off the grid,
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  Speaker 2: off the map, seemingly poof.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friends at w d B Jay.
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  Speaker 3: We are starting tonight with breaking news. The Franklin County
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  Speaker 3: Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help and locating
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  Speaker 3: a missing woman as well as her children. Lauren Cook
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  Speaker 3: and her children were last seen on September fifth in
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  Speaker 3: Franklin County. Since then, communication efforts with Lauren have been unsuccessful.
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  Speaker 4: According to officials, Communication efforts since then have been unsuccessful.
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  Speaker 4: Officials ask if you know the whereabouts of Lauren Cook
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  Speaker 4: and her children seven year old Benjamin, five year old
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  Speaker 4: Hannah and two.
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  Speaker 1: Year old Elijah.
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  Speaker 4: You're asked to contact the Franklin County Sheriff's.
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  Speaker 2: Office and guys, that tip line is five four zero
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  Speaker 2: four eight three three thousand. Repeat five four zero four
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  Speaker 2: eight three three thousand.
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  Speaker 1: It's very unusual.
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  Speaker 2: We hear about missing children or a missing mom or
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  Speaker 2: a missing person, and every day I hear that ten
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  Speaker 2: times a day. But a whole family, and apparently the
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  Speaker 2: sheriff agrees.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friends at w SET.
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  Speaker 5: The Sheriff's office tells me that this case is unusual.
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  Speaker 5: They say that families don't often go missing when both
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  Speaker 5: parents have custody of the children. Take a look at
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  Speaker 5: your screens. This is thirty year old Lauren Cook and
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  Speaker 5: her children, seven year old Benjamin, five year old Hannah,
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  Speaker 5: and two year old Elijah. The Sheriff's office started this
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  Speaker 5: investigation this week after family expressed concern. They said Cook
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  Speaker 5: missed a meeting with a family member. No one has
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  Speaker 5: been able to contact Cook since September fourth.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, right, that just told me a lot.
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  Speaker 2: A family member expressing concern, not the husband, but a
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  Speaker 2: family member that tells me the husband knows something that
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  Speaker 2: makes him quote not concerned, but the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: family doesn't know what that is. Nobody is named a suspect.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody body is named a person of interest. We don't
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  Speaker 2: know where they are. We don't know if they're dead
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  Speaker 2: or alive.
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  Speaker 1: There hasn't been a body found, nothing like that.
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  Speaker 2: But it's extremely bizarre that a whole family just disappears.
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  Speaker 1: What more do we know? Take a listen again to
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  Speaker 1: w set.
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  Speaker 6: Lauren Cook and her three children have been missing since
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  Speaker 6: September fourth. Well tonight, Lauren's husband, Jordan Cook, is releasing
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  Speaker 6: a statement on the whereabouts of his family. It reads,
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  Speaker 6: in part, contrary to what has been reported, my wife
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  Speaker 6: and children are not missing. I have no reason to
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  Speaker 6: be concerned about their safety or well being. I have
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  Speaker 6: heard from my wife and I'm sure she and my
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  Speaker 6: children are doing well. We asked that our famili's privacy
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  Speaker 6: be respected at this time.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, wait, why does the privacy need to be respected?
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  Speaker 1: Yet?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing is wrong? Joining me in all star panel to
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  Speaker 2: makes sense of what we know right now. Listen to me,
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  Speaker 2: Alexis us Chuck, longtime colleague and friend. Crimeonline dot Com
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  Speaker 2: investigative reporter Alexis, I'm not saying that the husband, dad
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  Speaker 2: had anything to do with this.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to be clear on that.
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  Speaker 2: But when somebody goes missing, a wife, a lover, a girlfriend, children,
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  Speaker 2: the first place you look, statistically is at the male figure.
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  Speaker 2: It could be the husband, it could be the lover,
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  Speaker 2: it could be the ex.
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  Speaker 1: It could be the handyman. That's who you look at first.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I've gotten a lot of grief in
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  Speaker 2: the past on this very thing. But the fact is,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, hold on, fran Longwell first to you,
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  Speaker 2: former Deputy State's Attorney out of Calvert County, former Assistant
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  Speaker 2: States Attorney and Prince George's County specializing in crimes.
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  Speaker 1: Just like this.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, right disappearance is just like this and more Frank. Statistically,
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  Speaker 2: that's where you look first.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to find the people and you want.
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  Speaker 2: To find out if they're safe, you look to the
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  Speaker 2: male figure first, and then once he's cleared, move on
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  Speaker 2: and move on quickly. Don't dwell on him. Move, move, move,
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  Speaker 2: move and find the people.
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  Speaker 7: That's true and we saw that in the Chris Watch
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  Speaker 7: case in twenty eighteen when the wife, Shannon, and the
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  Speaker 7: two little girls were missing and they kept watching the
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  Speaker 7: husband and he actually is the one who killed them.
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  Speaker 7: But in this case, the thing that bob was my
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  Speaker 7: mind is she was supposed to go to the juvenile court,
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  Speaker 7: not her and the husband, just her. He missed the
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  Speaker 7: court date, then she had the second one. Is it
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  Speaker 7: possible that someone reported her as being an abuser of
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  Speaker 7: one of the children and the husband and her maybe
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  Speaker 7: that's their way of parenting. They decided they'd leave, she'd
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  Speaker 7: leave and take the kids somewhere. I mean, they could
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  Speaker 7: do using burner phones and being in contact with each
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  Speaker 7: other every day. Nobody's going to know. And that's and
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  Speaker 7: the comments that I saw, I think it was on
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  Speaker 7: the Facebook from people saying that the child protective services
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  Speaker 7: in that county was not very good, that they would
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  Speaker 7: leave people leave kids with the abuser, and that kind
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  Speaker 7: of sets off some bills for me.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you know what, though, fran Longwell, I like your thinking.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know enough to know if any of your
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  Speaker 2: thinking is right or wrong, but your investigative mind is
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  Speaker 2: right on truck. And when you say defects apartment Family
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  Speaker 2: Children's Services also known as CPS Child Protective Services in
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  Speaker 2: different places, that get me set across the country. Let
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  Speaker 2: me use a legal phrase you may or may not
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  Speaker 2: be familiar with fran Longwell. I don't know if they
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  Speaker 2: taught you this in your law school, but they suck
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  Speaker 2: defacts and cps are the worst, the worst.
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  Speaker 1: Children die under their watch all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, you just heard fran long Oil, who is an
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  Speaker 2: incredible prosecutor former prosecutor, describing what she thinks may be happening.
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  Speaker 2: But I want you to take a listen. You just
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  Speaker 2: heard fran Longwell mention Shanan and her two little children,
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  Speaker 2: Celestin Bella. Take a listen to our friends.
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  Speaker 8: Head Nicole Atkinson knew something was wrong when her best friend,
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  Speaker 8: Shanan Wants didn't turn up for a doctor's appointment.
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  Speaker 1: She immediately called police.
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  Speaker 9: Because I can't get a hold of her.
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  Speaker 10: I called, I texted her cars in the garage, her
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  Speaker 10: shoes she wears.
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  Speaker 1: Every single day around the front door.
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  Speaker 8: The police bodycam video shows Chris Wants arriving home. Imagine
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  Speaker 8: his surprise at finding comps already at his house. He
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  Speaker 8: had just disposed of the bodies of his wife and
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  Speaker 8: children in an oil storage facility where he worked.
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  Speaker 11: I just want them to come back and if if
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  Speaker 11: they're not safe right now, that's what's That's what's tearing
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  Speaker 11: me apart. Because if they are safe, they're coming back.
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  Speaker 11: But if they're not, this this this has got to stop.
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  Speaker 11: Like somebody has to come forward, just come back. Like
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  Speaker 11: if somebody has her, just please bring her back. I
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  Speaker 11: need to see everybody. I need to see everybody again.
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  Speaker 11: This house is not complete without anybody here.
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  Speaker 12: Please bring it back.
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  Speaker 2: If somebody has her, please bring her back. If they're
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  Speaker 2: if you're out there, just come back. That's why we're worried.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody is claiming this father, husband, dad, has anything to
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  Speaker 2: do with the family just vanishing. But that's what is
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  Speaker 2: always set uh. There you hear Chris Watts, who has
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  Speaker 2: been found guilty and his wife and children's murder, is saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: come back home when he knows full well he just
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  Speaker 2: disposed to their bodies. So again, husband, not a personal advent,
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  Speaker 2: just not a suspect. I can't stress that enough. And
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  Speaker 2: there's many reasons I say that, But all avenues must
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  Speaker 2: be investigated. Back to Alexis Tereschuk joining us I Investigative
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  Speaker 2: report Crime online dot com. Tell me what you know
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  Speaker 2: about this family. I've learned a lot about them. They
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  Speaker 2: seemingly live off the grid to a certain extent.
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  Speaker 1: What do you know.
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  Speaker 9: Well, they live in Franklin County, Virginia, which is kind
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  Speaker 9: of southwest Virginia. It's far from the capital, it's far
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  Speaker 9: from any of the big cities in North Carolina. It's
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  Speaker 9: kind of in the lower middle of the state, a
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  Speaker 9: fairly rural area. Only you know, about fifty thousand people
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  Speaker 9: live in this county, and so there are three of them.
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  Speaker 9: She is thirty years old and has these three children,
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  Speaker 9: you know, seven, five, and two, and they have been
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  Speaker 9: under her care this whole time. Now here's the thing.
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  Speaker 9: She was required to appear in court on September fifth.
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  Speaker 9: She had a court date and actually a juvenile court
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  Speaker 9: and she was supposed to appear and she did not,
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  Speaker 9: so it was rescheduled. It's called juvenile and domestic relations court.
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  Speaker 9: So they trans to continued it to September thirteenth, just
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  Speaker 9: a week later, to give her another week. Maybe, you know,
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  Speaker 9: one of the kids was sick or she couldn't make
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  Speaker 9: it that day. She did not appear that day. Again,
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  Speaker 9: this is juvenile court. This isn't for her, This isn't
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  Speaker 9: We don't know what it is. Because the juvenile court
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  Speaker 9: records are sealed. But this is something to do with
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  Speaker 9: a juvenile and she has these three very young children,
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  Speaker 9: and so they started an investigation and they tried to
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  Speaker 9: find her. She's missing. They want her to be in court.
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  Speaker 9: The judge wants her to be there. She needs to
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  Speaker 9: be there, and the police have gotten involved. They say
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  Speaker 9: she is not here.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting. Interesting, We don't know what it is because it's.
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  Speaker 2: Juvenile crime stories with Nancy Grace. What more do we know?
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen to our friend Dave Matt.
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  Speaker 13: Lauren Cook was born in Texas, moved to North Carolina
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  Speaker 13: at age five, and was there until she moved to
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  Speaker 13: Utah to attend college. She married Jordan Cook and they
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  Speaker 13: moved to Oregon for a few years before moving back
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  Speaker 13: to Utah, where Lauren Cook began offering doula services in provo.
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  Speaker 13: A doula is a person who provides emotional and physical
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  Speaker 13: support to a woman before, during, and after pregnancy. Lauren
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  Speaker 13: and Jordan Cook run a nonprofit that is dedicated to
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  Speaker 13: helping people get medicine and food. The Cooks believe good
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  Speaker 13: food is medicine and in using herbs to heal everything else.
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  Speaker 2: They believe good food is medicine and using herbs to
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  Speaker 2: heal everything else. Hey, you know what holistic healing? Not
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  Speaker 2: throwing a stone at that, but listen to more.
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  Speaker 13: Lauren and Jordan Cook have three children, seven year old Benjamin,
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  Speaker 13: five year old Hannah, and two year old Elijah, and
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  Speaker 13: they all live together in Franklin County, Virginia. A couple
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  Speaker 13: of years ago, Lauren Cook posted on her Lavender Doula
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  Speaker 13: blog that they don't own a TV and don't watch television.
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  Speaker 13: At that time, Cook said she and her husband loved
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  Speaker 13: homesteading and thought they might do that again on property
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  Speaker 13: they own in Oregon. Lauren Cook said her favorite hobby
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  Speaker 13: at the time was cooking, saying quote, I love making
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  Speaker 13: healthy and delicious food. I love anything that has to
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  Speaker 13: do with being in nature.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, joining me.
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  Speaker 2: Karen Stark, renowned psychologist, TV radio trauma expert consultant at
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  Speaker 2: Karenstark dot com.
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  Speaker 1: That's Karen with a C. Karen. They seem like they're
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  Speaker 1: off the grid. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care who's on or off the grid. I
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  Speaker 2: guess you could have said that about my parents because
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  Speaker 2: we lived in rural Bibb County. We picked our food
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday out of neighboring fields. But this is a
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  Speaker 2: little more off the grid. That is neither here nor
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  Speaker 2: there for me, except that people can be isolated. Women
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  Speaker 2: and children can be isolated if they're living off the grid.
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  Speaker 14: Not only that, Nancy, but remember when we just went
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  Speaker 14: over what the husband said.
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  Speaker 7: I found that part we asked that our.
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  Speaker 14: Families privacy be respected at this time. It's so strange
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  Speaker 14: because that's usually something that people say when there's a tragedy,
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  Speaker 14: when there's something terrible going on, respect our privacy, like
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  Speaker 14: they're grieving. And I thought that him making that statement
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  Speaker 14: was very, very odd. So also the fact that he
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  Speaker 14: knows that the police are looking for his family and
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  Speaker 14: he's kind of saying, well, I know that they're okay
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  Speaker 14: and this isn't really a problem, so leave us alone.
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  Speaker 14: That Why would he do that. There's something very suspicious
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  Speaker 14: to me anyway about the husband, even though he's not
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  Speaker 14: a suspect.
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  Speaker 2: Another issue she liked home steadying a according to Dave
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  Speaker 2: Matt at crimeonline dot Com.
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  Speaker 1: Which is, how should I put this?
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  Speaker 2: A lifestyle of sorts, it's self sufficiency, living off the land,
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  Speaker 2: herbal medicine, not relying on society or societal conveniences to live. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what does that mean? What does that mean for the
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  Speaker 2: three children who are very very young? Now again, Alexis
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  Speaker 2: Terreschuk has just told us she had a juvenile court date.
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  Speaker 1: Alexis, let me ask you a lightning series of questions.
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  Speaker 1: You do understand that it's so called.
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  Speaker 2: Lightning around means yes, no, yeah, okay, don't shrill off, okay,
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  Speaker 2: Alexis Terestchuk.
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  Speaker 1: We know there was a juvenile court hearing? Yes, no, yeah?
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  Speaker 1: When was the court hearing?
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  Speaker 9: September fifth?
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  Speaker 1: And she last seen.
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  Speaker 2: September fourth with the children, correct, the day before the
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  Speaker 2: court hearing.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a coincidence. That is not a coincidence.
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  Speaker 2: Right there, she's got a court hearing, it's been reset,
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  Speaker 2: and now she doesn't show she takes the children with her.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Fran longwell, jump.
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  Speaker 14: In Nancy, she who is this?
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  Speaker 9: It's Alexis still Alexis?
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  Speaker 1: Did we not say? Yes?
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  Speaker 15: No?
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  Speaker 9: But I want to tell you where she said she was,
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  Speaker 9: because so she lives in Virginia. She said, so I'm
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  Speaker 9: a four scene with the children. On the fifth she
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  Speaker 9: said she was in New York visiting family. So she
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  Speaker 9: high killed it. According to her high kailed it out
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  Speaker 9: of count the day of the court case.
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  Speaker 2: Now, thank you for violating the lightning around Sanctisy fran
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  Speaker 2: longwell a juvenile court hearing. And I'm sure this has
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  Speaker 2: really driven you crazy, because it did me. As a
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  Speaker 2: felony prosecutor in superior court, everything is kept secret to
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  Speaker 2: quote protect the child, including if that child is now,
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  Speaker 2: let's say seventeen years old, charged with murder, and guess
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  Speaker 2: what when he is a juvenile at age fourteen, he
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  Speaker 2: had a voluntary man slaughter, he had a rape, he
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  Speaker 2: had a side of me, he had an armed robbery. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we never know anything about it because the child is
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  Speaker 2: quote protected. Right, You can't get those sometimes. I've actually
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  Speaker 2: gotten the files during the trial. And of course when
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  Speaker 2: you get something during the trial, you can't use it
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  Speaker 2: because you haven't given it to the other side as
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  Speaker 2: part of discovery.
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  Speaker 1: So you're sitting there.
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  Speaker 2: With all this knowledge about what a pos a defendant is,
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  Speaker 2: but you can't do anything with it.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't suspect that.
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  Speaker 2: Here, Frand let me be clear, that was just an
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  Speaker 2: example of how secretive juvenile proceedings are. Alexis is the father.
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  Speaker 2: Was he part of the juvenile proceeding. Was he supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be there?
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  Speaker 9: It does not appear, so it just appears that it
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  Speaker 9: was her.
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  Speaker 1: Yes no, no girl, yes no, no. Okay, fran Longwell, listen, Alexis.
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  Speaker 2: I have X amount of minutes to get all of
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  Speaker 2: this information out to everybody. Fran Longwell, if the father
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  Speaker 2: was not supposed to be there, that tells me a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It tells me a lot. What does it tell you?
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  Speaker 7: And it tells me that she's probably the person that
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  Speaker 7: they're looking at. And I truly believe it has something
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  Speaker 7: to do with some type of abuse to those children
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  Speaker 7: and he's protecting.
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  Speaker 1: Can now wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: If it was something she was doing, that would have
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  Speaker 2: been as superior court.
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  Speaker 1: If the child abuse.
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  Speaker 7: What well, no, not necessarily. If it's a child Protective
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  Speaker 7: Service case, it would go to the juvenile court first.
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  Speaker 1: And not in my world.
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  Speaker 7: If it's abuse, well, no, no, is it charge or
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  Speaker 7: just criminal abuse. If it's charged criminally, yes, she goes
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  Speaker 7: to the superior court or you know, the circuit court.
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  Speaker 7: But if it's the child Protective Services reviewing this, like
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  Speaker 7: maybe they reviewed her before or maybe they had other
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  Speaker 7: reports about her, it would go to the juvenile court
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  Speaker 7: at that point because she's not charged criminally, but they're
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  Speaker 7: investigating the and it.
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  Speaker 1: Could be anything. It could be nothing, or it could be.
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  Speaker 2: Something as simple as a teacher thinks a child is
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  Speaker 2: malnursed because they're only feeding it holistic food that they grow.
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  Speaker 1: In their backyard. It could be anything. We don't what.
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  Speaker 14: Yes, it could be medical. It could be that, Yes,
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  Speaker 14: they're not getting proper medicine for something.
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  Speaker 2: According to the authorities, but according to mom and dad,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they are. Maybe they're trying to heal them for
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  Speaker 2: whatever imaginary element. Really, yes, with the green stuff they're
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  Speaker 2: growing in the backyard.
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  Speaker 1: So we're not casting guilt.
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  Speaker 2: On anyone right now, we're trying to figure out where
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  Speaker 2: these people are.
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  Speaker 1: Why am I so agitated? In my world, when a
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  Speaker 1: mom and children go missing, it never turns out in
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  Speaker 1: a good way. That's why I'm so agitated. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: come on, Michael G.
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  Speaker 2: Harris, own your senior investigator, Black Feather Investigations, former Virginia
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: State Police special Agent. Find them at Blackfeather Investigations dot com.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Do you agree with me? Are you with me on this?
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: When a mom and children disappear into the air, that's
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: a problem.
• 19:19
  Speaker 15: It's very concerning, and especially since the husband has made
• 19:23
  Speaker 15: the statements that he has. I'm also concerned about the
• 19:26
  Speaker 15: last statement that he made regarding needing privacy for his
• 19:31
  Speaker 15: family during this time. That generally something someone.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Said, Yeah, you picked up that with Karen Starr. Yeah,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: go ahead.
• 19:38
  Speaker 15: The fact that they live off the grid. I'm wondering
• 19:40
  Speaker 15: if there's any anti authoritarianism.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Oh no, I han't even thought of that. Now, thank
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: you for adding to my nightmare.
• 19:48
  Speaker 13: Go ahead, okay.
• 19:51
  Speaker 15: You know, in Virginia, juvenal courts deal with custody support, visitation, abuse, neglect,
• 19:57
  Speaker 15: or criminal cases involving a family member that is accused
• 20:01
  Speaker 15: of a crime against a child. So it could be
• 20:04
  Speaker 15: a variety of things.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Are you worried?
• 20:06
  Speaker 15: But what I'm most concerned about, one of the most
• 20:09
  Speaker 15: concerned about is that there's so many people out here
• 20:11
  Speaker 15: who are missing that these resources could be directed to.
• 20:16
  Speaker 15: And if we're wasting our time, then you know, I'd
• 20:20
  Speaker 15: like to know, you know, if the father is saying
• 20:25
  Speaker 15: that it's nothing to be concerned about, give us some verification,
• 20:28
  Speaker 15: give us, give the police a phone exactly, put him
• 20:31
  Speaker 15: in contact.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Exactly, Michael G. Harris. He's saying, Hey, I'm not worried.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, share with me why you're not worried, Share forget
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: about me and us, share with authorities so they're not worried. Guys,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: take a listen now to our coach. Twelve ws LS.
• 20:48
  Speaker 16: The search for Lauren Cook, two year old Elijah, five
• 20:51
  Speaker 16: year old Hannah, and seven year old Benjamin Cook continues,
• 20:55
  Speaker 16: their last known location uncertain.
• 20:58
  Speaker 10: It was presumed that she may have been in New
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: York at some point, but then she may have still
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: been back in Franklin County, and then she may have
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: been in another area of the state. But we don't
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: have any for sure information about where she was last.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: That makes no sense last in New York, but hey,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: maybe she's in Franklin County. Maybe she's in another area
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: of the state. All right, that's a problem. Mike hat Sell, President, founder,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Peace River Canine Search and Rescue is p r s
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: a R dot org. Peace River Search and Rescue dot org. Mike,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: you have launched searches with less concerning facts than this before.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: What do you make of this?
• 21:43
  Speaker 12: Well, it's a bit confusing. There's some very concerning facts
• 21:47
  Speaker 12: here that cause urgency for us. One, she supposedly was
• 21:50
  Speaker 12: in New York. The next known sighting supposedly was in
• 21:55
  Speaker 12: Illinois on the fourteenth, so she's heading westbound. We haven't
• 21:59
  Speaker 12: had a phone ping since the seventh. She's had no
• 22:02
  Speaker 12: activity on her bank accounts. She's a mother with three
• 22:05
  Speaker 12: kids and a blue van, which is basically a parade.
• 22:10
  Speaker 12: It should be very easy to see that rest areas, hotels,
• 22:15
  Speaker 12: and the fact that nobody has seen her or spotted
• 22:18
  Speaker 12: her or put eyes on her is really concerning and
• 22:21
  Speaker 12: really raises the level of urgency on this because we
• 22:24
  Speaker 12: really need to find out where she is.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: And speaking of that ping, my thinking exactly. Take listen
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: to our friend Amy Cockrum.
• 22:34
  Speaker 17: Maybe one of the biggest pieces of evidence in this
• 22:36
  Speaker 17: case is Lauren Cooke's cell phone. Authority say it last
• 22:39
  Speaker 17: pinged around September seventh in Lexington, Virginia. Deputy say There's
• 22:44
  Speaker 17: been no activity on her bank account either. The kids
• 22:46
  Speaker 17: are now listed on the National Center for Missing an
• 22:49
  Speaker 17: Exploited Children's website.
• 22:50
  Speaker 16: It says they were last seen with their mother and
• 22:52
  Speaker 16: maybe traveling in a blue twenty thirteen Chrysler van with
• 22:55
  Speaker 16: Virginia Tax Deputy Say. Cook is married and lives with
• 22:58
  Speaker 16: her husband, who shares Cusin of the kids.
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: He's upset, as any parent would be of where my
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: children at.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, Yet he also says, quote, I'm not concerned according
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: to reports, So is he upset? Why does any privacy
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: or is he quote not concerned? And has he heard
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: from them? He seems to suggest he has heard from them.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: But if he has heard from them, why are we
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: not getting that information? Why do we think she went
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: to New York? Was there a sighting in New York?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: You just heard an expert say indications where she was
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: in Illinois. She's driving a blue van and according to
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: an expert specifically, Mike had sail from Peace River keen
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I Search and Rescue. That's like a parade, should be
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: easy to spot. Also, as Jackie Hearing the studio pointed out,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: very practically correct, how she pay for gas? No bank activity,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: no cell phone activity.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: So to you, Alexis Terrestrick, I'm very curious, why do
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: we think that she may be in New York and
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: why would she be in New York.
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: Well, the police have said that she missed her court
• 24:15
  Speaker 9: date on September fifth because she said she was in
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: New York visiting family. She did not say she had
• 24:22
  Speaker 9: a job or it was an emergency, was just visiting family,
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: and they spoke with her on either the fifth or
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: the sixth. They spoke with family members, and then so
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: they moved to court date and September thirteenth.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Well, who spoke with what family members?
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: Law enforcements spoke with family members, and that's when the
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: missing report was made because they were saying there were
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: no contact with her since the fifth or the sixth
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: when she said she said she was in New York
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: visiting family. Now there is no They have not said
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: there's any proof that she was in New York visiting family.
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: That's just what the police have said. She has said,
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: and this may have come from family members that have
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: spoken with her, but people are very concerned. She has
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: disappeared with the children. She was supposed to be up
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: here at court.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: She did not do that.
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: But didn't just say, oh, I'm visiting family, I'm out
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: of town. It's supposed to be the following week and
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: then she's completely off the grids, literally.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: But why no pinging? Is that correct? Alexiswim was the
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: last ping on her phone?
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: The police have said the last ping on her phone
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: was on the seventh in Litchfield. I'm sorry, in.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Lexington, Lexington, Kentucky, Lexington, Virginia.
• 25:31
  Speaker 9: Lexington, what I believe it was Lexington, Virginia. And then
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: they said that was lasting to her phone. And then
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: unfourteen she was confirmed to be in Illinois. So that's
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: in Lichfield, Illinois. So I looked this up. That is
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: an eleven hour drive. Eleven and a half hour drive.
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: It is almost eight hundred miles away from Virginia to ill.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: I'm very curious how in the world they have spotted
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: her pinpointed her being in Illinois.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: That's eleven hours dry from the ping and like seeing
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: to Virginia. Guys. Take a listen to Hour cut twenty
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: two from The Independent.
• 26:04
  Speaker 18: A Virginia mother and her three children, who have not
• 26:06
  Speaker 18: been seen for more than two weeks, were believed to
• 26:08
  Speaker 18: have been in Illinois not long after she missed a
• 26:11
  Speaker 18: court date, but authorities say they have been unable to
• 26:13
  Speaker 18: pin her down. Lauren Cook, thirty, and her children, Benjamin seven,
• 26:17
  Speaker 18: hand of five, and Elijah two, have been missing since
• 26:20
  Speaker 18: September fifth, according to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, who
• 26:23
  Speaker 18: asked the public for help in locating the family on
• 26:25
  Speaker 18: September thirteenth, authority said investigators were able to track the
• 26:28
  Speaker 18: mother and children down in Lichfield, Illinois, but were unable
• 26:31
  Speaker 18: to make contact to check on their well being. To
• 26:33
  Speaker 18: clear Lauren and her children from being missing persons, a
• 26:35
  Speaker 18: law enforcement agency must make in person contact with them
• 26:38
  Speaker 18: in order to confirm that they are okay and not
• 26:40
  Speaker 18: under duress. Until then, they will remain in local and
• 26:43
  Speaker 18: national databases as missing. The Sheriff's office set in.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: A statement, Okay, what does that mean? Let me go
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to Michael G.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Harris, owner of Black Feather Investigations. What does that mean?
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Did they speak to her? Was there a siding? Because
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: the phone hasn't pained again at all.
• 27:05
  Speaker 15: I'm wondering if they got a hit off of the
• 27:09
  Speaker 15: license plate reader or whether or not they're using some
• 27:13
  Speaker 15: sort of telematics from the vehicle. If she has a
• 27:16
  Speaker 15: navigation system, they could possibly backdoor into the vehicle that way.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Interesting, Auntie you Mike Hatzhill Peace River Canine Search and Rescue.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Why are they saying they believe she's in it was
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: in Illinois.
• 27:29
  Speaker 12: Well, that information came from the sheriff of Franklin County, Virginia,
• 27:34
  Speaker 12: so apparently at some point the law enforcement received this information.
• 27:39
  Speaker 12: She was confirmed to be in Illinois on the fourteenth,
• 27:43
  Speaker 12: so that's all they said. We don't know who, or
• 27:46
  Speaker 12: what or where or how That confirmation came.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Prime Stories with Nancy, Grace, Lauren and Elizabeth Cook, aged thirty,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: last seen with their three children in the family's Fereom home,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: southwest Virginia, and of August.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: She spoke apparently with her mother September five. We also
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: know that she has been placed on the missing.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Roster. So why is she on the missing roster if
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: she's not missing? That tells me a lot. Fran Longwell,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: what's your interpretation.
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: I truly believe that she's basically because of this, you know,
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: herbal stuff and living off the grid. I really think
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: they're trying to protect that life style and the government
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: was looking into that lifestyle, whether the one and children
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: were malnourished, or the children had been abused, whatever, And
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: I think that's where the whole thing started, and that's
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: why she didn't go to court.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Guys, we're just trying to cobble together the pieces of
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: the puzzle that we have to make sense of.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Where is this woman and her three children?
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Police say a Virginia mom and her three children are missing.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: That's what police say, but her husband says he's not concerned. Okay,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: take a listen to our seven wsls.
• 29:25
  Speaker 19: The Franklin County Sheriff's Office has released new information about
• 29:29
  Speaker 19: a missing mother and her three children. We're told the
• 29:32
  Speaker 19: sheriff's office started a missing person's investigation because the mother,
• 29:36
  Speaker 19: Lauren Cook, did not show up for scheduled appearance in
• 29:39
  Speaker 19: the Franklin County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court on September thirteenth.
• 29:45
  Speaker 19: Deputy say, this court date had been originally scheduled for
• 29:48
  Speaker 19: September fifth.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: It's very interesting to me that they are not authorities,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: are not canceling the missing person's alert.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, take a listen now, our cut eight WSLS.
• 30:03
  Speaker 19: Investigators talked with family members who have not been in
• 30:06
  Speaker 19: contact with Cook and the kids since September sixth, when
• 30:10
  Speaker 19: Cook told them that she would be visiting family in
• 30:13
  Speaker 19: New York. Deputy say. On September fourteenth, five days ago,
• 30:17
  Speaker 19: investigators confirmed that Cook and her children were in Lichfield, Illinois.
• 30:22
  Speaker 19: They say, in order for them to cancel a missing
• 30:25
  Speaker 19: person's alert, a law enforcement agency must make in person
• 30:29
  Speaker 19: contact with them in order to confirm that they're okay.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, right there.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Alexis trusshat crime online dot Com investigative reporter that just
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: answered a lot. They haven't spoken to her. They are
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: placing her in Illinois in some other way, but not
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: by speaking to her. And from what we've been told,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: it's not a ping on her phone.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: So what is it? Was her car spot?
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Is she caught on surveillance cam, because typically if that
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: were true, that would be released, like if she's going
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: into seven eleven. Remember Brian Coburger when the search was
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: on for what happened to the.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Four University Idaho students. A clerk and I'm calling.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Them generically seven to eleven. It could have been a
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: quick trip, it could have been anything right there at
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: the corner, and it's very quiet and isolated that that's there,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: especially with all the snow. A clerk goes through days
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: and days of surveillance vill video on her own and
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: spots the white Elantra belonging to Brian Coburger zipping by
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: a like three three point thirty in the morning at
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: the time of the murders. Generally, I haven't seen the
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: video yet to timestamp on it. But generally speaking, so
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: is that what they saw. Has somebody seen the van
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: or as I think Michael G. Harris said earlier, did
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: a tag grab her, grab her license?
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Someone? But boto line, They did not speak to her exactly.
• 32:10
  Speaker 9: They have not. They have confirmed that they were in Illinois,
• 32:13
  Speaker 9: but they have not spoken her. And in fact, they
• 32:16
  Speaker 9: need to see her in the person. It's not enough
• 32:18
  Speaker 9: to just talk to her on a phone maybe use
• 32:20
  Speaker 9: you know, her family member's hellphone. They have to see
• 32:23
  Speaker 9: her in person, and they have been unable to do that.
• 32:25
  Speaker 9: All it would take would be just you know, they
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: come to the house, they see you can have the
• 32:29
  Speaker 9: kids out in the yard, and they can see that
• 32:32
  Speaker 9: everybody's okay. But this is they are unable to do so,
• 32:36
  Speaker 9: meaning that Lauren has obviously not come forward and said
• 32:40
  Speaker 9: I am here, I am totally fine. We're on a
• 32:42
  Speaker 9: vacation because it's you know, the best fall foliage that
• 32:45
  Speaker 9: we can see in Illinois right now, and this is
• 32:46
  Speaker 9: what's important for my kids. She has not done that.
• 32:49
  Speaker 9: They want to see her in person.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: What about school? What about school? Friend? Longwell joining us
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Forming Deputy State's Attorney Karen Start Michael Harris, Mike hatsell
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: jump in when you have an idea, and I know you.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Are having ideas. Fran longwell, what about them missing school?
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Nobody's even commented on that. Maybe that's why. Maybe it's
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: something as simple as hey, they've had too many absences
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: on what's going on, why aren't you going up to school?
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah, they talked about homeschool and the kids.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: You know what, let's clarify, Alexis terrestut crime online dot Com.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: We have found out nothing about homeschooling. Although I understand
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: the line of reasoning that if they're into holistic living
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: and they want to live out in the country and
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: they want to homestead, that would logically suggest their homeschool.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: But we don't have any indication they are, which makes
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: me think they're not. And fran longwell, if they're missing
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: school consistently, that would be a reason for them to
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: be dragged into juvenile court, as it should be.
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: That's true, that that would be a.
• 34:00
  Speaker 15: Bring them in.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: It could be something that simple. Okay, I want to
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: circle back with what we know. Mike Hatzeill joining US
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: president founder Peace River Caenine Search and rescue authorities, for
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: whatever reason, are not taking them off the missing person roster.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: They're still there, they're still asking for the public's help.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Piece is together for me. You have searched.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: And rescued hundreds and hundreds of people children. What do
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: you make of this?
• 34:34
  Speaker 12: Well, it's obvious that no one from law enforcement has
• 34:37
  Speaker 12: made contact with her yet, and that's why she's still
• 34:40
  Speaker 12: on the list. Either in Illinois or New York. We
• 34:43
  Speaker 12: have not had a law enforcement officer interviewer, so she's
• 34:48
  Speaker 12: going to stay on the list until somebody in authority
• 34:51
  Speaker 12: can have a chance to talk to her. She's appears
• 34:54
  Speaker 12: to be experienced living off grid. The fact that we
• 34:57
  Speaker 12: have not seen her or those kids anywhere tells me
• 35:00
  Speaker 12: that she's something either has happened to her or she's
• 35:03
  Speaker 12: purposely living off grid somewhere. And at this point, the
• 35:07
  Speaker 12: best we can do is just keep her facing this
• 35:09
  Speaker 12: story out there and hope somebody will see here walking
• 35:11
  Speaker 12: out of the store or do something. When when you're
• 35:14
  Speaker 12: packing three kids around, it's not easy to hide things
• 35:17
  Speaker 12: because kids have needs and you've got to take care
• 35:20
  Speaker 12: of them. So it would seem to me that she's
• 35:22
  Speaker 12: going to be seen fairly soon. I would hope.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Anyway, the husband again, Jordan Cook says, contrary to what's
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: been reported, my wife and children are not quote missing.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: I have no reason to be concerned about their safety
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: or well being. I've heard from my wife. I'm sure
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: she and my children are doing well. When we ask
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: our final families, privacy be respected at this time.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: If you want privacy, and you want authorities and media,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: including me to leave you alone, then show us where
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: she is. Let law enforcement make contact with her. It's
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: very very just terming to me, Michael Harris. No pings
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: on her cell phone, no bank activity. How's that van running?
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Are they pushing it? I mean, none of this is
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: fitting together.
• 36:12
  Speaker 15: I'd be curious as well. What's the father do for
• 36:15
  Speaker 15: a living? How much money was in their bank account?
• 36:17
  Speaker 15: How much money did she pull on?
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: What was it?
• 36:21
  Speaker 15: The fifth it's the last time that there was any
• 36:24
  Speaker 15: activity on the I'm sorry, the seventh and last time
• 36:27
  Speaker 15: there was any activity in the banking account. I'm looking
• 36:29
  Speaker 15: at the picture of Benjamin and I don't know whose
• 36:32
  Speaker 15: house he's in, but that looks like a fairly high
• 36:35
  Speaker 15: end kitchen. The picture of Lauren, the background in the van,
• 36:40
  Speaker 15: the van, it's not much there but the van seems clean.
• 36:45
  Speaker 15: It just it doesn't look like the kids are unhealthy
• 36:50
  Speaker 15: in these photographs. But you know that's not telling the
• 36:55
  Speaker 15: long term.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Karen started joining us a psychologist joining us out of
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: manhatt Today. Listen to this, Karen, the husband is saying
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: everything's okay. However, her other family, her other loved ones,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: have unsuccessfully tried to contact her and have finally turned
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: to police for help.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: That's inconsistent.
• 37:18
  Speaker 14: It's inconsistent, and it's concerned to me, and I think
• 37:21
  Speaker 14: it is to you as well, Nancy, because why is
• 37:24
  Speaker 14: he making that statement, And it's pretty simple. It's just
• 37:29
  Speaker 14: to show that she's alive. And the police are saying
• 37:33
  Speaker 14: that they are not taking her off that list until
• 37:37
  Speaker 14: they get to see her, not if they hear from
• 37:39
  Speaker 14: her on the phone. That's suspicious to me. It's like
• 37:44
  Speaker 14: someone will have her, will force her to make a
• 37:46
  Speaker 14: phone call. They're not going to believe that they actually
• 37:49
  Speaker 14: need to have eyes on her. So something is wrong.
• 37:53
  Speaker 14: She's missing the fact that he's like being so blase
• 37:56
  Speaker 14: about like, you know, leave us alone, we're okay. I
• 38:00
  Speaker 14: know they're okay, but the police don't agree. And that's
• 38:04
  Speaker 14: the concern.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Guys. You may think, well, they're fine.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: The husband says they're fine, he's heard from them.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Maybe you're right, and I hope you're right.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: But I have visions of other families just disappearing and
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: it never turned out well.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Take listen our cut twenty one NBC.
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  Speaker 20: Friends and family of nineteen year old Suzanne Streeter and
• 38:26
  Speaker 20: eighteen year old Stacy McCall say it's not like them
• 38:29
  Speaker 20: to just leave and not tell anyone where they're going.
• 38:33
  Speaker 11: She calls and lets me know where she's going to be.
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  Speaker 16: She's never missed work.
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  Speaker 20: She's a very conscient, she's young. We're questioning everybody at
• 38:42
  Speaker 20: this time, friends, relatives, anyone that has information, anyone that
• 38:46
  Speaker 20: may have seen them, last neighbors, We've done neighborhood canvas.
• 38:50
  Speaker 20: How We're just checking every lead we can at this time.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: And more from NBC.
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  Speaker 20: Thist is Suzanne Streeter's mom, Cheryl love It. She's also
• 38:59
  Speaker 20: a last scene at her daughter's graduation ceremony at Hammond
• 39:03
  Speaker 20: Student Center on Saturday. She lived in this house on
• 39:06
  Speaker 20: East Delmar in Springfield. That's where police found the three
• 39:10
  Speaker 20: missing women's cars. Authority say there was no sign of
• 39:13
  Speaker 20: a struggle in fact, the front door was unlocked, the
• 39:16
  Speaker 20: TV was on, Their clothes were still there, their purses
• 39:20
  Speaker 20: and personal items untouched.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Still unsolved.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: A mom and the two girls gone. I don't want
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: this mom and these three children to disappear into thin
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: air and we never know what happened. Are they dead?
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Are they alive? Are they missing? Are they off the grid?
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Why isn't the one childhos school age seven years old
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: in school?
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Why does the dad say they're fine? I heard from them.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Leave us alone, but the rest of the family or
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: other family members called. Please if you know or think
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: you know anything about Lauren Cook, Benjamin, Hannah live Elijah,
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: please call five four zero four eight three three thousand.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Goodbye friend,