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Hunter’s Haven: Music Mayhem - Session 2 (A Monster of the Week One-Shot) · Session Zero Heroes | TTRPG Actual Play Adventures & Improv Storytelling

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  You.
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  Hello, listeners. I am
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  the narrator.
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  Today's story takes place in the town of Devil's
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  Lake, North Dakota, a small, remote
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  town in the middle of nowhere. The year
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  is 1985. The date
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  August 19. This tale will bring with
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  it mysteries in intrigue
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  lies, hidden realities, and
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  the blending of fact from mythos.
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  Join our hunters as they seek out the truth and
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  find those who are missing in today's
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  story of music mayhem.
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  Welcome back to episode
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  two of Hunter's Haven
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  musical mayhem.
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  We're just going to jump right back into it. Same
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  cast of wacky characters. Just, um, to
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  recap.
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  Ah.
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  Denny Rogers.
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  Kenny Whitlock.
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  Bob E. There you go.
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  And they went bowling and then went to a house, broke into a
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  house. And that was all we really established in the first
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  episode. Now we are on the episode two where they're going
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  outside of the house to look for more
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  clues.
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  Is it breaking and entering if it's
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  unlocked?
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  Um, that door was wide open too.
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  It's just entering.
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  It was for the good of the kids.
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  Mhm HM.
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  All right, let's have some reservations.
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  Let's canvas
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  the yard, kids.
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  All right. Kenny's, uh, going to
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  just start scoping around the yard looking for any clues on the
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  ground. Following the trail of
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  red so well, I don't know if there's any.
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  There's not red silver.
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  Man, these kids are going to be so much trouble.
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  Their parents are going to be so mad at them.
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  Did we go out the back door or the front?
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  I kind of imagine the front because I thought just be
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  somewhere we all kind of gathered up after the kitchen. It might have been
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  adjacent to the front door, but that's just my personal.
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  It is more near the back.
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  Oh, okay.
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  Well, let's go through the back.
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  It's near the foyer.
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  That makes sense.
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  Yeah. Okay.
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  Go out the back door.
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  So we're in the backyard.
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  Is there a garage?
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  A garage?
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  Yeah, there's a big garage over to the west side of the
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  house.
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  We have a shed.
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  Sure. Yeah, in the back. Big backyard, actually.
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  Huh.
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  Uh, there's a fence down in the back of the yard. They got a chain
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  link fence around. Actually, not chain link. They're richer.
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  Wooden.
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  A big nice tall wood fence. And the back gate is
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  open. Uh oh. Well, that's
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  something.
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  I'll gravitate towards 100%.
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  Kenny immediately, uh, as he sees.
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  And they have a shed in the backyard.
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  Open back gate. He goes, oh my gosh. That's
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  it. They must have come out through the back and they
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  got dragged. Oh, no. They got dragged into the
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  forest or something.
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  Do we see any drag?
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  Oh, that's a good point. Let's look at the ground and see if there's
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  any drag marks.
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  You guys all want to go investigate a mystery there?
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  Or you roll investigate mystery, which is.
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  Plus that's double fours right there.
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  Plus what was mine.
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  That, uh oh.
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  Did we roll the same thing.
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  I got an eight.
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  I got a nine.
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  I got an eight as well.
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  Then you all get one question from the investigative
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  mystery section.
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  I'm going to ask one that I think is on all of our
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  minds, uh, and it might be an obvious
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  one, but I'm going to ask, where did it go?
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  Okay, so you guys are all
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  walking around and you're following
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  the footsteps, and it's a little muddy back they are
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  footsteps. Yeah, there's footsteps a little muddy. There's actually a good
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  amount of them. You, uh, can't really make out how many
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  there are. There's just a good mount. And there's a little muddy back here.
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  Right.
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  The footprints are a little fading because it was a couple of days ago, but
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  you can make out some rough footsteps. And, uh, you
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  notice that all of them are gathered at
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  this gate. And then they all leave the gate together
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  as a group. But as they're out of the
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  gate, then all the footsteps
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  merge to like they're following a single
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  file line to the point where they're
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  now just a single set of footsteps walking.
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  It feels like a cult walking down.
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  The and then you guys really follow those
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  footsteps, but not too far down this path
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  into the woods before the footsteps disappear
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  from lack of trail because they kind of, like, wander
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  off wicked.
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  These guys. Like, we're all headed out of the house in a
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  hurry, but then they all filed into a line as they
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  went into the woods. How strange is that?
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  So Denny's going to be like.
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  How.
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  Big are the tracks there? See any bigfoot
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  tracks there?
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  So what sort of creature is
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  does he see anything that would indicate
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  no.
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  Other footsteps except for the
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  footprints of the presumably
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  kids? No other stray footsteps. No
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  big feet. No big feet. No.
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  Something must have coaxed them into the woods.
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  No hair on the fence back there. Uh, no
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  hair on the bark of this
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  tree. Uh,
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  no oversized bare
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  footprints.
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  But on the gate of the fence you do spot
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  something. A rip, part of a ripped
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  shirt.
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  Oh, wait a minute.
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  What do you see, Dennis?
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  I think it's, uh, part of a shirt or a
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  jacket or something.
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  It's plaid.
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  Could be a shirt or a jacket or something.
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  Look at that. Who do you think it belonged to? Let's
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  see. I don't know any of the guys. Could
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  have been plaid kind of guys.
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  I compare it to the plaid shirt that I'm
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  wearing.
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  It's, uh, North Dakota. Any of the
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  girls could have been wearing plaid, too.
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  That's a fair point.
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  Bob, you look through Tony's closet filled to the brim
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  with plaid shirts.
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  I think that it's Tony.
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  What makes you think it was Tony?
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  I was looking in his room. I was looking
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  for clues, see if he was maybe going to run away or know,
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  maybe he had a little girl thing.
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  Well, can't see you weren't being thorough.
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  That's true, I guess.
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  And I saw up there a bunch of plaid shirts.
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  Okay, so we can probably safely
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  assume that this is Tony's shirt.
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  Man, I'm looking at these footprints. I'm looking at this
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  shirt. Uh, obviously the police,
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  uh, I've said it before, I'll say it again.
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  Devil's Lake's finest are really slacking off
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  right now. Look at this. Look at all these clues that
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  they just didn't even hey, you know what, though? All things
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  considered, this is really putting us on a good line to make
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  this $25,000 we can find these kids.
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  Oh, wait, hang on. I forgot something.
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  I put the piece of shirt back on the thing.
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  So I take a picture.
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  Uh, which.
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  Is equipped with a flash bar that plugs in the
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  top.
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  Wow. Fancy.
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  Yeah, that's a good idea. Get the photos of the evidence. That way we
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  can really show our.
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  Let me, uh, take a picture of these prints here on the
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  ground.
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  Oh, yeah. Great idea.
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  Okay.
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  It's kind of like a math equation. When you go to the police,
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  they want you to show your work.
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  That's what I've learned as a kid.
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  Detective, can't help but notice here, but
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  there's no, uh, drag
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  marks. Yeah, I mean, the
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  steps are evenly spaced. Not like
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  they're tied up with any rope or anything. Or at least
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  not by the ankles.
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  Now we're going to go to bobby, you had a
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  question. What was your one question you had?
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  I don't even know what I can ask at this point. I feel like everything has
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  been answered.
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  You can kind of alter the questions a little.
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  It's true. You can. As long as it's nothing, like,
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  super specific. What's the monster
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  today? Who specifically is
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  behind?
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  I'll do. Just like what is being concealed here. Are
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  there any more clues to be.
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  Found from the shirt to the,
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  I guess, big? Those
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  are kind of obvious clues. With the gate was open and the back
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  door was wide open.
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  Are there any smells?
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  You don't really smell anything besides, I don't know
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  how specific of smells you're talking about.
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  Um, besides the odor of
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  sulfur. No
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  sulfur. Um, not really much being
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  concealed here. Just the fact that there's
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  the footprints, the oddness to them,
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  the plaid shirt on the fence gate, but there's
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  no drag marks. It looks like
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  whoever these kids, uh,
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  went willingly. I guess the best way. So
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  it's not like something's being concealed here. Other than the fact
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  that the
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  way they left is being
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  concealed, if that makes sense.
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  Right. It's not that
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  they're missing, but they're missing for
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  a know all
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  things.
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  You know, I still kind of question Bobby's detective
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  skills. Maybe, but you mentioned something earlier about some this
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  feels like some cult business, and this kind of
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  feels like some cult business.
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  I feel like you're judging me, but also, like, stealing
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  my ideas.
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  Breath.
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  Uh, no, it was a compassult
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  where I insult your intelligence, but also compliment
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  you on an idea that you had earlier.
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  It's a good I gave you Tony's shirt,
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  okay. Gave you the
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  job so far. Uh, I drove you here.
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  That's also true. That's also true. I mean, there's
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  definitely some things about your truck that you need to get fixed.
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  She also gave you a pretty good
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  scare today was a good
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  one there, Bobby.
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  Well, we're about
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  to go into the woods here, and I'd prefer if that didn't
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  happen again. Let's
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  not do any more spooky stuff, because if I'm being honest,
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  these footprints and everything, that's weird,
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  right?
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  Maybe it's, uh maybe it's Bigfoot.
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  Yeah, maybe it's mean, if I saw
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  Bigfoot while I was hanging out at a party, I'd go running into the woods,
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  too, right, Dennis?
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  You would go running into the back of an unmarked
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  van, wouldn't you?
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  I don't think I would go that far.
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  I think I've got a bit more sense than that.
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  Well, there's no doubt that, uh, Bigfoot could
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  carry them all if he wanted
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  to. But the question is, why would he wear
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  children's shoes? Why he does it.
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  Uh, you ever go to get the
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  groceries out of your mom's car and you just slip
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  on whatever shoes are by the door? That's
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  what Bigfoot did.
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  I don't like what you're implying. That, uh,
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  Bigfoot is grocery shopping by grabing
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  children.
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  Did he have a coupon?
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  Buy one, get five more free.
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  He's bigfoot coming in. He paid
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  with the kids wallet that he
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  left the one, and they're all broke. Uh, no.
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  Also, just quick side note for Emily. Uh,
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  I did just double check on $30 in
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  1980. Would have been, like, 80
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  something dollars, like, worth 80.
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  I'm making out.
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  Yeah.
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  Rich kid.
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  I feel like even, uh, if we don't find
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  them, it's been worth my.
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  Time, worth her time.
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  Uh, with that, I'm like, all right,
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  guys, we got to follow these prints. Let's
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  follow these prints.
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  Like I said before, you can't really.
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  Fall because they disappeared.
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  They disappeared pretty quickly.
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  Let's see.
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  Which direction are they going in?
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  Yeah, I mean, they were walking in a pretty straight line.
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  Were they?
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  It was more like they were heading down a path. There was,
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  like, a path back in the woods. You don't really
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  know where it leads. You could presume because they're heading
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  north, that they're heading to Devil's Lake, which is in the
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  center of these woods. Uh, but then they start
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  turning east, and that's when you kind of lose them, is
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  after they start turning east, more off the beaten
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  path. And you kind of look around for
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  trails, but it's dark, and you have the flashlights. You're looking, but
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  now it's getting a little more like brush and stuff,
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  which is another thing to note. Whoever
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  went very much veered from the beaten path and took
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  a hard right into straight
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  overgrowth and brush.
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  Do we see kind of messed
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  up overgrowth and brush where they would have plowed
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  through.
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  You can see parts of
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  where some brush was stepped on and
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  trampled. But then also, there'll just be
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  giant open areas. And also,
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  none of you guys are unless you can correct me if
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  you are, but are any of you, like, trackers by
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  nature?
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  I once found this dog.
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  Okay, well, I mean, if, uh, you guys were
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  like, I'm a hunter, but if none of you are trackers by
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  nature, I'm going to tell you, not only would it be hard to track just by
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  itself, but it's also dark, the sun's gone,
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  so that would make it just even harder to track
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  just this. And it's not
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  fresh either. It's two days old.
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  Well, I think we might have to come back
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  here in the morning. We'll have a little bit better
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  visibility. But, um, we
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  could also stop by the police station, maybe ask them if there
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  was anything that they found that,
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  uh, they didn't make it into
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  the paper. And maybe that'll kind of help us out a little
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  bit. I mean, they put up a reward. They know that people are
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  looking, or they're hoping people are looking.
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  It's not like we don't have to tell them we went into the
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  house. In fact, I think we should all agree right here now
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  that we don't tell them that we went into the house. I know it's
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  normally a bad thing to lie to a police officer,
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  uh, but I think in this case, it's probably for the best.
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  Yeah, it's not a bad idea there, Kenny. It's a pretty
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  good one, actually.
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  Uh.
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  Yeah. What kind of dog did the mare
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  have?
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  Oh, yeah, it was one of those fancy golden doodles,
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  but it was a little bit more doodle than golden.
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  M.
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  A Doug like that might have a decent sniffer on
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  him.
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  Dog's long dead.
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  That dog's long dead. I mean, unless
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  you got your aunt around that can talk to it.
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  So are we going to go to the police station?
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  Yeah.
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  Are you cool driving us to the police station?
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  I don't want to interact
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  with the police, though.
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  Yeah, that's okay.
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  Uh, so you guys I'll take you and you
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  just let me know.
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  You're going to circle the block or something.
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  Yeah, I don't know. I'm kind of hungry. Uh, it's going to
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  go scrounge something up.
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  Some Mickey D's with your newfound
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  cash. Newfound cash and
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  car.
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  All right, let's go.
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  You guys all head back to the car. Hop
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  in, head down to the old police
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  station where it is
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  late at night. Um,
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  Bobby drops you two off and you two head on inside
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  where you are greeted by Susie
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  Owens.
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  Susie Owens.
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  I do want to say I probably will go and, uh, get some
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  food, but I've also got, like, a lockbox in my
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  truck, so I just kind of unload my
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  load into my lockbox.
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  Got it.
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  Okay, I just have to ask from Scottish
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  perspective, how long have you had this stolen truck?
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  It's my.
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  Uh huh, okay.
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  That I bring with me from stolen car to stolen
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  car.
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  Oh, okay.
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  And you just shifted it over to this?
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  Yeah, it's like one of those hotel.
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  Lockbox steal a new car when the.
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  Other one runs out of gas
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  and.
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  Then everybody in town is just like, man, no, our car
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  ended up at the bowling.
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  Was the car that you stole at the
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  bowling alley a car you already had stole? Or
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  is it just you stole a car right in front of them
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  without them?
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  It was a car I stole from my last job out of
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  town.
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  Oh, so it's from a town over.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't want local car these townies to
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  recognize their own vehicle.
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  Isn't that Stuart's.
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  Car?
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  Concerning start gaslighting Stuart.
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  It gets close to empty. She just like, drives it into
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  Devil's.
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  Lake.
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  He's just.
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  Grandfather.
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  Um, but I can afford gas this time.
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  Yeah, it's true.
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  I got $80.
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  There you go.
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  All right, so what are we doing?
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  Yeah.
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  Where is Susan Susie Owens?
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  She goes, oh, what can I do it
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  for?
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  Felix?
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  Yeah, Susie, we were hoping we could talk to whoever's
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  in charge. Uh, what's the sheriff's
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  name that you actually had? We are going
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  with Steve. Okay.
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  Yeah, well, it's the sheriff.
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  There's also a chief did you say Steve?
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  Barbie barter.
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  Steve Barter.
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  Yeah.
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  We were just hoping that I could talk to,
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  uh, uh, uh,
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  I flashed my badge.
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  M. What was that there, dear?
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  I didn't get quite a good look at
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  that. I hold up the badge in front of her, knowing that she has
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  bad eyesight.
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  She pulls out my deputy badge and looks
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  closer at and goes, oh, don't
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  we normally give, uh, these out to, uh, the, uh, young
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  ones?
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  Well, yeah, I mean, I earned it. I earned it when I was
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  a kid and I've been able to
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  maintain my relationship with the police department at
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  Devil's here. Susie, you know all this
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  stuff.
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  Susie, we've done this.
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  I've come in on a lot of.
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  Different no, you, uh, just I
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  still can't believe you're using that badge.
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  What, uh, do you need to talk.
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  What do you need to talk to Sheriff Steve about?
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  Uh, well, we're, uh, investigating I'm using my
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  detective skills.
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  Uh, you come in here a lot, talk to old Sheriff Steve. I'm just going
• 18:15
  to bypass this and just get him
• 18:18
  I appreciate that, Susie.
• 18:20
  I don't know why we have to.
• 18:21
  Go through and you hear in the background, she goes,
• 18:24
  Steve. Yeah, he's
• 18:27
  back.
• 18:30
  Yeah, I think Kenny like, leans over.
• 18:32
  His uncle's here with him tonight.
• 18:35
  Oh, yeah.
• 18:36
  Oh, don't you know it. Okay, well, he's heading right on
• 18:39
  over.
• 18:40
  Fantastic.
• 18:41
  Thanks, Susie. And I just start making my way
• 18:44
  over around the corner to greet him.
• 18:46
  As he comes by.
• 18:47
  It's like the sheriff is, like, here, working, burning
• 18:50
  the midnight oil, trying to crack this case.
• 18:52
  Yes, this is a very pressing case because, mind
• 18:55
  you, nine kids gone missing.
• 18:57
  The mayor's kids know that.
• 18:59
  The mayor's kids. That only increased
• 19:02
  the case. Like, three kids and going missing in a
• 19:05
  week is, like, something out of the
• 19:08
  ordinary. But then six kids going missing in one night, two of
• 19:11
  them being the mayor's kids. That gets the people
• 19:13
  talking. Okay, so Steve comes around the
• 19:16
  corner, and he sees you and he goes, hey
• 19:19
  there, cher.
• 19:21
  Steve.
• 19:26
  Yeah. I'm assuming
• 19:29
  you're here, uh, about the missing kids.
• 19:32
  That's right.
• 19:33
  New case you want to crack.
• 19:35
  Oh, and you know, I'm gonna so.
• 19:37
  What are you here for? Do you
• 19:40
  have information, or
• 19:42
  you miraculously solved it this time?
• 19:45
  Well, hey, you know me, Sheriff Steve. I'm pretty good,
• 19:48
  but I'm not quite that good, unfortunately. But we're definitely working
• 19:51
  on it. My uncle is helping us. Got, uh,
• 19:54
  another associate. She's helping us out with it.
• 19:57
  Um, we're working hard to crack this case. Uh, but we're
• 20:00
  just hoping, actually, that you might have had some information
• 20:03
  that you could share with us to kind.
• 20:04
  Of help us along. I
• 20:07
  mean, everything that, uh, we've
• 20:10
  publicly shared here at the, uh, police department
• 20:12
  is, uh, in the local
• 20:15
  papers that we reported. We've
• 20:17
  been keeping up to date accounts of what's been
• 20:20
  going on and all information that's
• 20:23
  publicly given out. We told the
• 20:26
  local journalists this morning, especially since everyone's hard
• 20:29
  pressed with the mayor's kids being, uh,
• 20:32
  missing and all.
• 20:33
  I would like to use a special ability that
• 20:36
  I have as the meddling.
• 20:37
  Kid, which is tell me the truth. Okay, go for it.
• 20:40
  Tell me the truth. Basically, uh, it's just an investigative
• 20:43
  mystery, but I have some bonus questions I.
• 20:45
  Can ask if I succeed. Okay, um,
• 20:47
  so that's actually pretty solid ten.
• 20:50
  Uh, it is a ten, yeah.
• 20:53
  Look at that, too. He gets two questions.
• 20:54
  I get from it two questions. So the first one is, are
• 20:57
  you lying to me? Which is one of the questions
• 21:00
  I.
• 21:00
  Get with the ability.
• 21:05
  No, here's how he would ask it. He would say, Are you telling me
• 21:08
  everything, Sheriff? Be honest with me right now.
• 21:10
  No, I'm not telling you everything,
• 21:14
  um, because, like I said, it's
• 21:16
  private police matter, and everything that we can
• 21:19
  publicly say is, uh, for
• 21:22
  that we've given already.
• 21:25
  Okay, well, then my follow up question.
• 21:26
  Will be one of the original ones.
• 21:27
  Which is what is being concealed
• 21:30
  here? I say, Look, Sheriff, here's the
• 21:34
  thing. You're going to put out an ad in the paper for all of
• 21:37
  us private investigators, kid investigator
• 21:40
  detectives like myself, and you're going to say that you're going to offer award
• 21:43
  if we can find these kids, but you're not giving us
• 21:46
  the resources to help you find these kids. And at the end of
• 21:48
  the day, isn't their safety. The
• 21:51
  primary, uh, situation here. We got to find these kids.
• 21:54
  The sooner the better, and it's not
• 21:57
  helping anybody.
• 21:58
  I'm just going to quickly get you off my
• 22:01
  back.
• 22:02
  I'm not on your back. Like yoga of Luke
• 22:05
  Skywalker.
• 22:06
  No, I don't understand that reference. What's, uh,
• 22:09
  a yogurt?
• 22:11
  Uh, I'll tell you next Thursday when I come in at my regular
• 22:14
  time.
• 22:15
  Okay, I'll just run you through the whole so. Look forward to
• 22:18
  those meetings.
• 22:20
  Yeah.
• 22:20
  Sheriff, I didn't know you were lactose.
• 22:24
  Intolerant, but what I can do for you guys is I
• 22:26
  could and I don't normally do this,
• 22:30
  but desperate times call for
• 22:33
  desperate actions, and.
• 22:37
  Uh, these are desperate times.
• 22:38
  The more people looking, the better. And what I can provide for you guys
• 22:41
  is copies of,
• 22:44
  uh, the crime scenes, uh, all
• 22:47
  information acquired at the crime scenes of all four
• 22:50
  missing cases.
• 22:51
  Yeah, that'd be fantastic.
• 22:53
  Just, uh, a brief description of each crime
• 22:56
  scene and anything found there.
• 22:58
  Sure.
• 22:58
  Give us CMO.
• 23:00
  Well, I'll have to go on back and get some copies and bring them out to
• 23:03
  you, but I think that would get you guys
• 23:06
  started. Because for the most part, with these missing
• 23:08
  kids cases, it's more
• 23:11
  the not really. You have a person to look for, but
• 23:14
  rather, uh, you have people to look for, but you don't have any place
• 23:17
  to really start besides this
• 23:20
  last scene location.
• 23:21
  Right.
• 23:21
  Yeah. And that's what we're trying to get moving on.
• 23:24
  So I'll go back and get those for you guys, and then hopefully that keeps
• 23:27
  you out of my hair until next Thursday,
• 23:30
  whenever you usually come in.
• 23:32
  Oh, Sheriff Steve, I love our little back and forth that
• 23:34
  we have.
• 23:35
  Uh, I
• 23:38
  don't he turns and he walks all to the
• 23:41
  back, and you guys kind of have to wait around
• 23:44
  twiddle your thumbs. But after, like, ten minutes oh, wait.
• 23:47
  Real quick, I say to Uncle Dennis, senior Uncle Dennis, this
• 23:50
  is the kind of stuff that having a deputy
• 23:53
  badge really gets you. You get a lot of the inside
• 23:56
  information with the police department
• 23:59
  here with none of the red tape, either.
• 24:02
  I tell you, Ken, I've never been prouder to be
• 24:04
  an honorary junior
• 24:07
  deputy.
• 24:08
  Hey, you know it. We're going to solve this case.
• 24:10
  Yeah, Uncle Danny.
• 24:13
  Um, so after about 15 minutes, he comes
• 24:16
  around back
• 24:19
  with, like, four sheets of paper,
• 24:22
  and he hands them to you guys. They're all double
• 24:25
  sided, and he hands them to you guys. Um, that's all
• 24:28
  I can really tell you for now. That's all we've
• 24:30
  got. Um, so I guess
• 24:32
  good luck.
• 24:34
  All right.
• 24:35
  Thanks, sir.
• 24:37
  Thank you, Sheriff.
• 24:38
  Hey, Susie. Ah, maybe a late night for
• 24:41
  us, working on this case.
• 24:42
  You think you could brew some joe for
• 24:45
  us?
• 24:46
  Oh, sure, sure.
• 24:47
  There.
• 24:48
  Uh, Danny.
• 24:49
  I get you some brew.
• 24:51
  He's real good stuff, too. You want decaf
• 24:55
  or you want the good stuff?
• 24:57
  We're going to need to go full throttle
• 25:00
  tonight.
• 25:01
  Okay?
• 25:02
  Full caffeine.
• 25:04
  Oh, speaking of night, look at the time.
• 25:06
  I better call Meg. Better
• 25:09
  call Meg.
• 25:10
  She doesn't know you're out here.
• 25:11
  Am I just going to go home if they're going to be
• 25:14
  here all night?
• 25:15
  We're not going to be here all night. We're finishing
• 25:18
  up a cup of joe. Is
• 25:21
  that two cups or, uh, just the one.
• 25:24
  Yeah, I'll have a cup there.
• 25:26
  Okay.
• 25:26
  I, uh, make it three, actually.
• 25:28
  Oh, yeah, we got a friend that's helping us out.
• 25:30
  Okay.
• 25:30
  So she goes on back, grabs three words, pours
• 25:33
  three cups of joe, the good stuff. The
• 25:36
  caffeine black. And she hands it to you
• 25:40
  guys. She, uh, said, oh, you have a good night, and you better be calling
• 25:43
  old Meg.
• 25:44
  You don't want her wearing um, yeah. So I
• 25:47
  go, and before we leave, I
• 25:50
  set the coffees down. Or my coffee
• 25:53
  down because, uh, I'm juggling my camera and all the other crap
• 25:56
  I'm carrying, actually. Probably be in the
• 25:59
  truck. Uh, no, actually, he probably would have
• 26:02
  brought.
• 26:05
  It.
• 26:05
  Uncle Denny's seen way too many red flags
• 26:09
  tonight.
• 26:09
  He doesn't dress old. Sticky.
• 26:13
  Fingers.
• 26:14
  He did leave his bowling ball in the back, though.
• 26:17
  Oh, no.
• 26:20
  Uh, guess what's in the lockbox.
• 26:22
  He's going to call his wife
• 26:25
  Maggie, um, and let him know that he is not
• 26:28
  still
• 26:31
  bowling. Him and Kenny
• 26:34
  are enjoying, uh, some bonding time
• 26:37
  together. Possibly trying to
• 26:40
  set Kenny up with a.
• 26:45
  Girl. I'm just going to instead of.
• 26:50
  Kenny.
• 26:50
  He's looking through his notes. I'm already reading through
• 26:53
  the police report.
• 26:54
  That's.
• 26:57
  Fair. Checking, um, in on the.
• 27:00
  Kids.
• 27:01
  Uh, she holds the phone, I guess, as far
• 27:04
  as the court
• 27:07
  extends upstairs.
• 27:09
  And he's leaning over the
• 27:12
  desk. Good night.
• 27:16
  Kids.
• 27:16
  Oh, sorry.
• 27:19
  Sue.
• 27:20
  Don't mention it. Have a good night.
• 27:22
  All right. And with that, we step outside of the
• 27:25
  police.
• 27:25
  You guys all sealed the truck out front with
• 27:28
  a bobby, like, tapping her wrist, like,
• 27:31
  what took you so long? As you guys hop back into the
• 27:34
  truck.
• 27:35
  Well, uh, it was worth the stop because we got the full
• 27:38
  police reports from the cases. From all
• 27:41
  four cases.
• 27:43
  Got you some coffee. No cream.
• 27:45
  Oh, I'll take it. I'm not happy about it, and I won't
• 27:48
  say thank you.
• 27:49
  All right, then. Is that what
• 27:52
  you say? Not happy
• 27:55
  about it? And then you start
• 27:58
  chugging it. Just big chug.
• 28:00
  She is driving the car. I guess it's probably best that she,
• 28:03
  uh, ensures that she's well, uh,
• 28:06
  awake.
• 28:07
  So I'm driving the car.
• 28:10
  Where?
• 28:10
  Uh, I'm going to look over. Is there any locations
• 28:13
  that do you.
• 28:14
  Want me to just start describing stuff
• 28:17
  on here? The cases and stuff?
• 28:20
  Sure.
• 28:20
  Okay. Buckle in, kids. This is
• 28:23
  full set. First missing
• 28:26
  victim, sally Reed.
• 28:29
  Uh, she was, quote,
• 28:32
  unquote, studying for a midterm
• 28:35
  final. Uh, and then, uh, her parents
• 28:38
  awoke to wake her up in the morning having think she fell asleep through
• 28:41
  her alarm due to such late night studying to
• 28:44
  find, uh, her books and everything
• 28:47
  laying down, out, laying out,
• 28:50
  uh, all over the room. Uh, just like she
• 28:53
  was doing one of those circle formations where
• 28:56
  she was looking at multiple books at once and kind of like circling through the
• 28:59
  different subjects. The, uh, window
• 29:01
  cracked open, not cracked wide open with the curtains
• 29:04
  blowing through it. Her parents nowhere to be.
• 29:09
  Seen.
• 29:09
  Uh, she had some music on playing, uh, when they
• 29:11
  came in. Uh, and other
• 29:14
  than that, she, uh, had a drawer
• 29:17
  wide open. Uh, and in it was like,
• 29:20
  clothes that were pulled out,
• 29:24
  but that was the end you saw some sweaters
• 29:26
  and stuff were, like, pulled out and dangling over the edge of the
• 29:30
  drawer. But the police don't know if anything
• 29:32
  was removed.
• 29:33
  We have other missing kids outside of our
• 29:36
  missing kids, and we've only just now seen this
• 29:39
  article.
• 29:40
  No. So what happened was there was
• 29:43
  three kids that had gone missing at, ah, three previous dates
• 29:46
  throughout this week. But these three cases
• 29:49
  were just like random cases.
• 29:52
  They're one offs, their parents don't care enough.
• 29:54
  No, their parents reward well, they're not rich
• 29:57
  enough. That's the
• 30:00
  thing. These parents were just hoping the police could find their
• 30:03
  kids. But then after one, after two, after three, the police then started
• 30:06
  putting them together. It was the six kid
• 30:08
  mass disappearance that has now caused the article in
• 30:11
  the newspaper. The mayor sending out the roar because it's his kids.
• 30:14
  So we don't care about poor kids.
• 30:17
  I didn't say these were poor. They're
• 30:19
  not necessarily poor. More just like,
• 30:22
  small town folks are trying to solve this in a small town
• 30:25
  way. And the big money pockets, people like
• 30:27
  the McCooks and mayor.
• 30:29
  Did these kids make the news at all?
• 30:31
  Make the newspaper, like, a small article on
• 30:34
  the fifth? Yeah, um, all three of
• 30:37
  them, same thing, just under, like, a crime index, but nothing
• 30:40
  huge. The main way you would have heard about these kids is through
• 30:43
  local gossip. But if you guys three aren't
• 30:45
  that familiar with local gossip, you wouldn't be really
• 30:48
  hearing much. You might have been hearing through, like, underground
• 30:51
  talk, just about some persons going
• 30:54
  around kidnapping kids. You probably heard the same thing through,
• 30:56
  like, neighborhood talk. Uh, Denny, as for
• 30:59
  the detective, I honestly don't think you would have heard of anything unless
• 31:02
  if you're scoured the newspaper every day.
• 31:04
  Of course I scour the.
• 31:07
  Newspaper.
• 31:07
  And you've probably been starting your pegboard.
• 31:10
  With, uh, would these parents have had enough money for, like,
• 31:13
  a ransom drop?
• 31:15
  If ransom were demanded, yes, and also
• 31:18
  no, depending on the families. But that isn't a
• 31:21
  newspaper article.
• 31:22
  Sorry.
• 31:22
  That is in the police report. There has not been any ransoms. No
• 31:25
  ransom demands. These kids have gone missing
• 31:28
  with nothing else to note of them. Like they haven't heard from
• 31:31
  anyone, claiming they've stolen the kids. They've just
• 31:34
  gone, disappearing into the night. And then in the morning, they're
• 31:37
  not there. That's the first kid, Sally Reed. Second
• 31:40
  kid, lou Downing is his name.
• 31:43
  He was reported that night in his bed. And what
• 31:46
  he does is in the morning, uh, he goes
• 31:49
  down to the gym, down at the school,
• 31:52
  and there's an early morning workout around like four in the morning.
• 31:55
  This guy's crazy. Thing is though, uh,
• 31:58
  when they went in to check him in the morning, usually, uh, around 05:00 p.m., his
• 32:00
  budy Darryl comes in to see him. He was
• 32:03
  gone. But the back door was wide open.
• 32:06
  His weights that he always
• 32:09
  lou always puts his weights back.
• 32:12
  They're all out. They're all out on the floor, completely
• 32:15
  a mess.
• 32:16
  Disarray.
• 32:17
  Uh, Daryl's, like Lou would never do this.
• 32:20
  Uh, and yeah, uh, it was like he
• 32:23
  was in the middle of a workout because the music was blasting
• 32:25
  full volume. The lights were all on, the
• 32:28
  weights were all outside. Up to do some squats, it looked like.
• 32:31
  And he's just gone. Third and
• 32:34
  final kid from this first trio, carl
• 32:37
  Lewis, son of Hugh Lewis, aka.
• 32:40
  Huey. Um, he was doing some late
• 32:42
  night photo making, uh, in a dark room in his
• 32:45
  house. He's the school photographer for this local
• 32:47
  school newspaper. Uh, he was just doing some late night,
• 32:50
  probably past like midnight. His parents knew what he was
• 32:53
  doing, staying up because he had a big paper. Due to midterms, the end
• 32:56
  of the semester, he wanted one big final autocall. Had some
• 32:59
  nice pictures for homecoming. He was going to post. Uh,
• 33:02
  and while doing his, uh, dark light stuff,
• 33:05
  he disappeared.
• 33:08
  Um, it's not like there's an exit point for him because he was in
• 33:11
  his dark room. It's, uh, more that he just kind of left the
• 33:14
  room. And his photos, his OD thing was his
• 33:17
  photos were all still developing. And by that I mean
• 33:20
  they were still all in the baths when they found him and
• 33:23
  he didn't pull them out. So he had some of them up on
• 33:25
  strings, right. But others, he had a lot just in
• 33:28
  the developing pools. What were the photos
• 33:31
  ruined? Well, the thing is, if you have them in development held
• 33:34
  up oh, classic pictures of the homecoming game,
• 33:37
  homecoming dance, nothing too inconspicuous. The fact is just
• 33:40
  he left a bunch of photos in the development booth.
• 33:43
  A lot of pictures of the homecoming queen.
• 33:46
  Yeah, maybe there's a couple, but maybe there was a lot more in
• 33:49
  the developing pools. I don't know. But
• 33:52
  other than that, not much else to really toe.
• 33:55
  His area is kind of clean. He kept good control. It's just the
• 33:58
  developing pools. And, uh, he, uh,
• 34:00
  was having listened to some music while he was working too. And that
• 34:03
  his boombox was also on while he was working. But for the most
• 34:06
  part, he kept to himself. Uh,
• 34:09
  quiet kid.
• 34:10
  So just like super was it cassette tapes or was it
• 34:12
  the radio? Radio, just like our
• 34:15
  kids.
• 34:15
  Yeah, the ones at the party. Yeah, same as
• 34:18
  the radio. But the police don't make a note
• 34:21
  of what was playing on. They just said
• 34:24
  the article just says so it could be cassettes,
• 34:27
  honestly, because it just says in the police, uh,
• 34:30
  report, uh, radio or not radio, but speaker,
• 34:34
  uh, system found on at crime scene. That's all
• 34:37
  it says. What's the name of the DJ
• 34:40
  again? Going, uh, back to your memory is DJ
• 34:43
  repip. And those are it for the most part. So at the end of
• 34:46
  the day, all three kids seem to be in the middle
• 34:49
  of something, and then that's
• 34:52
  just covering they're all in the middle of something and then
• 34:55
  just disappeared.
• 34:56
  So one of them disappeared from no, two of them disappeared
• 34:59
  from their home, and one of them disappeared from
• 35:02
  the school, which is strange. It wasn't
• 35:05
  like I mean, the home thing is scary,
• 35:08
  right? Whoever is taking these kids or luring these
• 35:11
  kids or whatever the case, it's while they're doing something that
• 35:14
  they enjoy doing, and it's in their own place
• 35:17
  of residence. Now, the school kind of almost makes more sense,
• 35:20
  right? Like, if you're some kidnapper guy or whatever the case,
• 35:23
  you'd think you'd want to go to, like, a public place
• 35:26
  at a good time, obviously, late at night, early in the
• 35:29
  morning when nobody's around. That's when you'd take a kid.
• 35:31
  Right.
• 35:32
  But it just seems weird that they're getting
• 35:35
  napped from their very own homes, some of them, while
• 35:37
  their parents are around. It just
• 35:40
  seems odd.
• 35:42
  Well, it was only one kid that was
• 35:45
  napped from their home.
• 35:47
  Their parents?
• 35:48
  No.
• 35:49
  Oh, well, okay, one had their parents around. One
• 35:51
  was hanging out at home by themselves. But that
• 35:54
  would suggest that whoever's taking these kids or
• 35:57
  whatever's going on, which.
• 35:58
  One was hanging out at home by themselves.
• 36:01
  Sally was at home studying. Lou was at
• 36:04
  the school workout thing.
• 36:06
  Right.
• 36:06
  And then Carl was in the dark room. Does he have a dark room at
• 36:09
  his yes.
• 36:10
  Oh, uh, this is on private,
• 36:13
  homemade, dark super into. Yeah, it's a homemade one. It's really just
• 36:15
  his nerd what are those called? It's
• 36:18
  his walk in closet. He put a heavy curtain
• 36:21
  on it, and it's his walking closet. His parents really don't
• 36:24
  ask about they don't care because he made it himself.
• 36:27
  So storing poisonous chemicals inside
• 36:30
  this closet?
• 36:31
  Non ventilated closet?
• 36:32
  No, he ventilated it. His
• 36:35
  dad is, uh, a
• 36:38
  contractor. He asked his dad to help him out. He's like,
• 36:41
  as long as you work with me, Sean, I'll teach you
• 36:44
  the.
• 36:45
  Business mutilate my.
• 36:49
  House. He's a passionate kid. He's a passionate
• 36:52
  kid.
• 36:53
  Man, when they go to sell that house, that's going to be some
• 36:56
  questions.
• 36:56
  You know, someone loves
• 37:00
  photography. He comes with a homemade dark.
• 37:04
  Room. And these were all throughout the week.
• 37:07
  Leading up to the yeah. Sally's was on the
• 37:10
  previous Sunday. Lou's was on a Tuesday, and
• 37:12
  then Carl Lewis's was actually on a Thursday the day before
• 37:15
  the Friday.
• 37:16
  Uh, did the police report say anything.
• 37:19
  About what wait, what days did you say? Sunday
• 37:22
  for Sally, tuesday for Lou,
• 37:25
  and then Thursday for Carl. What day is
• 37:27
  it today?
• 37:29
  Sunday. Sunday. Yeah.
• 37:30
  So a week out from Sally's.
• 37:33
  Right.
• 37:34
  But that's what today is. The situation with
• 37:37
  the six kids happened.
• 37:38
  On a Friday, correct?
• 37:40
  Yes.
• 37:40
  And was there anything on the police reports about footprints
• 37:43
  similar to what we.
• 37:44
  Found at the party house? No,
• 37:47
  because all three kids were they just left their
• 37:50
  house, and there's no footprints.
• 37:53
  Right. One interesting one, though, is,
• 37:56
  uh, uh, Sally's. So they did
• 37:59
  some investigating at the window because her window was
• 38:02
  open, and they found that there was
• 38:04
  a pathway that looked like to be
• 38:07
  traveled on, uh, on the outside of her
• 38:10
  window, down the roof and then down a side like a little
• 38:13
  area and looked like it was a pathway Sally normally took
• 38:15
  to sneak away from the house.
• 38:18
  So they were assuming maybe that's how the person came in
• 38:21
  to get her, was through that window or lured her out
• 38:24
  through that.
• 38:24
  Are they automatically assuming a kidnapping and not that she just
• 38:27
  ran away?
• 38:29
  Well, they were just assuming running away because it looked
• 38:32
  like a common path of leaving with Sally. But then
• 38:35
  when another random kid
• 38:38
  disappears at the school gym, then that just seems odd because he
• 38:41
  was in the middle of something. And then after the third
• 38:44
  kid, they're like, okay, this seems way too weird to be just a bunch
• 38:47
  of kids mass running away. It seems like there's repeated
• 38:50
  crimes.
• 38:53
  Here. Yeah. These first three here,
• 38:56
  uh, you could say maybe they just had some,
• 38:59
  uh, pretest anxiety and just, uh, decided
• 39:02
  to play a hooky for a whole
• 39:06
  week.
• 39:07
  Yeah.
• 39:07
  But now there's a little bit too many.
• 39:10
  Now with those kids that went
• 39:12
  missing.
• 39:15
  Yesterday, I'm thinking that man
• 39:18
  the only thing that comes to mind at the moment. We could
• 39:21
  go investigate each one of these places,
• 39:23
  but I'm still thinking back to the party
• 39:26
  house and how those footprints just kind of let
• 39:29
  off into the woods. And if these are
• 39:32
  all related, I feel like
• 39:34
  whatever's doing whatever's going on here has something to
• 39:37
  do with what's going on out.
• 39:41
  There.
• 39:42
  But it's kind of dark, and I don't want to, uh
• 39:44
  blair Witch Project hasn't come out yet. I don't want to
• 39:47
  go running out into the spooky woods, especially,
• 39:50
  uh, when kids are going missing out
• 39:53
  there.
• 39:54
  Uh, well, then you would have nothing to worry
• 39:57
  about.
• 39:57
  Yeah, that's true. I mean, if that's all they're after, is just,
• 40:00
  like, some
• 40:03
  teenagers.
• 40:06
  Yeah.
• 40:07
  How old were these kids here?
• 40:09
  Sally was 17. Lou was 18, and Carl
• 40:12
  was also 18. They were both seniors. Lou
• 40:15
  Downing you'd recognize his name if you're familiar with
• 40:17
  the local school is the starting
• 40:20
  quarterback for the
• 40:23
  Devil Lake Demons.
• 40:25
  Oh, the QB.
• 40:27
  Starting QB. Star player.
• 40:28
  Tony was also into sports.
• 40:31
  Yeah, uh, he was.
• 40:32
  Well, Lou wouldn't have to worry about any tests.
• 40:35
  You kind of know they give the quarterback a bit of a break,
• 40:38
  those teachers. True that. At least in a
• 40:41
  town like Devil.
• 40:42
  Lake, all we've got is our sports. That's what they always told us in
• 40:45
  high school.
• 40:46
  Do I need a role to
• 40:49
  investigate this or what?
• 40:50
  Uh, sure.
• 40:51
  Yes.
• 40:51
  You could, if you guys all wanted to roll. Investigate mystery. To ask
• 40:54
  more in depth questions about this
• 40:57
  case, these case files.
• 41:01
  Sure.
• 41:01
  You're too distracted with your coffee and.
• 41:03
  Driving, it looks like. Yeah. I cannot
• 41:05
  ask anything.
• 41:07
  I got a pretty bad one as well.
• 41:09
  Okay.
• 41:09
  Would you roll?
• 41:10
  Really important to keep your eyes on the
• 41:12
  road.
• 41:13
  Oh.
• 41:14
  Nine nine no, a ten.
• 41:17
  Whoa.
• 41:18
  Two questions coming in.
• 41:20
  Clutch. Investigate a mystery.
• 41:23
  Uh, what's being concealed
• 41:26
  here?
• 41:27
  Oh, jeez. Okay, um, what is being concealed
• 41:30
  here? That's kind of a hard one to answer due to the fact that
• 41:33
  what's being concealed here is one
• 41:36
  really not much information. Like, they have zero leads where
• 41:39
  these kids have gone.
• 41:40
  Right.
• 41:40
  They all know they disappeared, but they can't
• 41:44
  find any signs of struggle at any of the locations. It looks
• 41:46
  like the kids all went willingly wherever they went.
• 41:49
  Right.
• 41:49
  They all look like they were in the middle of something, then they
• 41:52
  left. Right. What be really concealed here
• 41:55
  is maybe names of, uh,
• 41:57
  possible suspects. Uh, because you don't have
• 42:00
  names of suspects, you just have straight up crime scene
• 42:03
  stuff. The cops didn't give you anything like leads or
• 42:06
  any people, like whereabouts or where they think the kids are, stuff
• 42:09
  like that. Simply straight up gave
• 42:12
  you the information of the crime scenes. They didn't give you
• 42:15
  any other leads. So that would be big. Concealed
• 42:18
  stuff is like who or when or where. All right, you got
• 42:21
  when and where, but you're looking for who or
• 42:24
  why are kind of really hidden from you, and you can't really
• 42:27
  find those through what you have right
• 42:30
  now. You would have to do digging yourself to find those.
• 42:32
  What sort of creature
• 42:36
  is it Bigfoot?
• 42:38
  Dave's really asking this.
• 42:39
  He really wants to know.
• 42:40
  Bigfoot.
• 42:40
  Is it bigfoot? No, it's
• 42:43
  not bigfoot. Um, what creature it
• 42:46
  is is gotta be
• 42:49
  something
• 42:52
  that does not give away its presence, if that
• 42:55
  makes sense. All these situations
• 42:58
  all have the same things in common, which
• 43:01
  is quiet, calm, and
• 43:04
  collected. So whatever creature is causing
• 43:06
  this is doing in a cool, calm, and collected
• 43:09
  manner.
• 43:10
  So you're saying it is bigfoot?
• 43:12
  Just Bigfoot. And he's really
• 43:15
  nice.
• 43:16
  He's a smooth operator.
• 43:17
  He's a smooth operator. Up next
• 43:20
  on the radio, it's
• 43:23
  Smooth Operator.
• 43:24
  We have the radio on?
• 43:26
  Do you have the radio on in the
• 43:29
  truck?
• 43:29
  I mean, we were just playing cassette
• 43:32
  tapes, but I guess I was waiting for so long
• 43:35
  that my single share.
• 43:36
  Cassette tape listened through the whole track.
• 43:39
  I had listened to both
• 43:42
  sides.
• 43:42
  Man, we took a lot. So you're on the radio. Is there a
• 43:45
  particular station you want to find?
• 43:47
  Coffee makers back in the day?
• 43:48
  Classic late night radio talk. You got some
• 43:51
  late night radio blues.
• 43:54
  Um, you got the local shock DJ.
• 43:57
  Can I have the greatest hits from
• 43:59
  yesterday, tomorrow, and today?
• 44:01
  Oh, from the local shock DJ.
• 44:04
  DJ Repip.
• 44:06
  Yeah.
• 44:06
  So while you're on the flashes in the background and
• 44:09
  you guys are all talking and stuff, and you hear old
• 44:12
  DJ Repip come over the waves
• 44:15
  again, he goes, oh, that was another classic, uh, for
• 44:18
  our folks staying up late.
• 44:20
  I appreciate each and every one of
• 44:23
  you.
• 44:23
  This.
• 44:29
  Is that song we just listened to was a classic.
• 44:32
  Free Way of Love by Aretha Franklin
• 44:35
  topping the Charts Next up,
• 44:38
  we got a classic.
• 44:41
  Oh, it's late night, we're in the
• 44:44
  mood for some Sting. If you love
• 44:46
  Somebody, Set Them Free playing right now. And then
• 44:49
  you guys start to hear the sweet vocal harmonies of
• 44:52
  Sting start taking away on the.
• 45:00
  Radio.
• 45:00
  I was hoping you would sing for.
• 45:01
  Us, but that's.
• 45:05
  Fine.
• 45:06
  So you guys are still cruising
• 45:09
  around.
• 45:09
  So are we just going to waste my gas all
• 45:12
  night?
• 45:13
  Well, I don't know. Are we going to head home to, uh,
• 45:16
  our respective homes, mind you, and maybe regroup in
• 45:19
  the morning?
• 45:20
  I don't know. Are we?
• 45:21
  Well, I suppose so. I did just drink that cup
• 45:24
  of coffee.
• 45:25
  Oh, shoot, that's true. I did too. Uh, oh,
• 45:28
  crap.
• 45:28
  You guys don't know how to take your uppers and your
• 45:32
  downers?
• 45:34
  Uh, I don't have any downers on me, but, uh, I also don't
• 45:37
  use downers. So that's why I don't have any on me. All I've
• 45:40
  got is my cool
• 45:43
  crackers. Uh, those don't exactly work. M
• 45:45
  as downers. If anything, those are almost uppers in and
• 45:48
  of themselves. But, um, I
• 45:51
  digress. Shoot. Uh, I didn't think about that when I
• 45:53
  drink caffeine. Is there anything you guys think
• 45:56
  is worth kind of looking into tonight? I mean, I guess
• 45:59
  I could just go home and wear off caffeine by
• 46:02
  typing this Macintosh.
• 46:03
  Uh, I pull into my pockets and I just kind of hand
• 46:06
  them some packets of chamomile.
• 46:11
  Tea.
• 46:12
  Okay.
• 46:12
  All right.
• 46:15
  Downers.
• 46:15
  Yeah, that makes.
• 46:19
  Sense.
• 46:20
  So are you guys all going to go.
• 46:23
  Home, drink our tea?
• 46:25
  I'm going to unload.
• 46:28
  Back
• 46:35
  off.
• 46:35
  It's like two in the morning. No, it's
• 46:38
  like 10:00 at, uh, this point. You guys
• 46:41
  all get home. Do, um, you guys make plans,
• 46:44
  though, before leaving, about meeting up? Obviously we're going
• 46:46
  to meet back up.
• 46:47
  At the bowling alley. It's just it won't be open.
• 46:50
  We'll just meet in the parking lot, start a timeline. We're talking to
• 46:53
  you.
• 46:53
  Let's get after it early. I mean, what time is it right
• 46:56
  now?
• 46:56
  Like ten.
• 46:59
  Yeah.
• 46:59
  Uh, let me get a full 9 hours.
• 47:01
  Well, Dennis isn't going to be able to sleep till at
• 47:03
  least midnight, even with the
• 47:06
  camera meal.
• 47:07
  I saw this meet up back at, uh, what says
• 47:10
  09:00 a.m. Does that work?
• 47:12
  I could do 900
• 47:15
  hours.
• 47:16
  900?
• 47:16
  Yeah, that's right. All right.
• 47:19
  That'll give me time to eat some
• 47:21
  breakfast.
• 47:22
  Yeah.
• 47:22
  There you go. Stop at the Mickey D's.
• 47:24
  All right.
• 47:25
  So, yeah. Ah, we'll go home. Dennis M will talk
• 47:27
  to his wife.
• 47:30
  Well, she'll mostly just he'll kind of nudge her
• 47:33
  and she'll
• 47:36
  because she's asleep.
• 47:38
  And, um, then check on the kiddos, too, right?
• 47:42
  Yeah.
• 47:42
  Make, uh, sure the kids are in bed
• 47:45
  and nobody's got their.
• 47:49
  Radio fast asleep.
• 47:51
  Just because you got to save electricity. That's right.
• 47:54
  Yeah.
• 47:54
  It's a school night, too.
• 47:56
  But Dennis did notice
• 47:59
  at that first house they went well, the only
• 48:02
  house they went to that they left that, uh,
• 48:05
  TV on. Well, the music was
• 48:08
  coming from the TV, right?
• 48:10
  No, there's a radio.
• 48:11
  It's a local radio.
• 48:12
  Is there a TV or just a radio?
• 48:13
  TV wasn't on.
• 48:14
  Okay.
• 48:15
  TV wasn't on, old
• 48:18
  man. He's like, what's all this new fangled.
• 48:24
  Technology?
• 48:24
  Very wasteful to leave that on.
• 48:29
  M may wear the thing out with that.
• 48:31
  All of you guys go off to your respective homes. You all
• 48:34
  lay down for a night's sleep. Maybe not getting the
• 48:37
  sleep right away due to caffeine, but
• 48:40
  also because you're hot in a trail of
• 48:43
  some missing kids. And I kind of like, tossing through
• 48:45
  this information is kind of keeping you up. Uh, so
• 48:48
  you guys might not go to sleep for a little bit, but you eventually make it
• 48:51
  to sleep. And with that, we're going to end
• 48:53
  today's episode.
• 48:56
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