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Teen girl volleyball star Sydney West vanished into 'thick fog.' Where is Sydney? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: A nineteen year old girl, the star of her high
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Speaker 1: school volleyball team. She's the captain. She gets her dream,
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Speaker 1: she gets into Berkeley and then vanishes into thin air.
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Speaker 1: Where is this girl? Where is Sydney West? In weeks
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Speaker 1: since anyone has seen or heard from Sydney West. She's
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Speaker 1: a nineteen year old star volleyball player and you see
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Speaker 1: Berkeley students. Who was last seen near Chrissy Field. Her
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Speaker 1: friend's family and former teammates are extremely worried and they
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Speaker 1: hope that she's safe. Two weeks in Communicado. She's not safe.
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Speaker 1: Something is horribly wrong. Let me give you a tip
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Speaker 1: four four four. This team girl has seemingly vanished into
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Speaker 1: thin air. Just then you were hearing our friends at
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Speaker 1: karo in four News. Let me introduce to you our
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Speaker 1: panel today to break it down and put it back together,
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Speaker 1: hopefully coming up with some answers. Judge, trial, lawyer, anchor
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Speaker 1: Court TV Ashley Willcott. You can find her at Ashley
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Speaker 1: Wilcott dot com. Renowned psychiatrists joining us out of the
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Speaker 1: Atlanta jurisdiction. Doctor Angela Arnold at Angela Arnold MD dot com.
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Speaker 1: Scott Dudek PI with Dudek and associates on the case
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Speaker 1: from the beginning, trying to find Sydney West just nineteen
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Speaker 1: years old. Special guests joining us an Jeanette Levy Levy,
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Speaker 1: Emmy nominated reporter and anchor and Jeannette first you can
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Speaker 1: report to me. Is it Levy or Levy? It's Levy, Nancy,
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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having me. You know, I don't
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Speaker 1: understand how somebody can just disappear in a very, very
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Speaker 1: crowded area like that. First of all, what is Chrissie Field.
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Speaker 1: That's where some people say they last saw her. Her
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Speaker 1: teammates say she was near Chrissy Field. Is that something
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Speaker 1: to do with Berkeley? Is that where they play volleyball?
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Speaker 1: Chrissy Fields just basically a running area. It's it's kind
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Speaker 1: of an open park in the San Francisco area. A
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Speaker 1: lot of people run around it. They have yoga classes
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Speaker 1: down there, birdwatchers. It's a right near the area where
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Speaker 1: Sydney was last seen. You know what's interesting about that area,
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Speaker 1: you know, and Jeannette Levy I heard sky dude, just
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Speaker 1: jump in on your answer right there, Scott, I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to hold to the Christie, but you know that
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Speaker 1: chrissy Field area as you drive along, there are all
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Speaker 1: those tall, beautiful eucalyptus trees. And my point is when
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Speaker 1: you're driving through that area where chrissy Field is, you're
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Speaker 1: leaving the San Francisco Bridge area and heading back on
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Speaker 1: the other side of the bridge, it is beautiful. It's
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Speaker 1: amazing that a forest. It looks like a deep primeval
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Speaker 1: forest there. There are a lot of birdwatchers, there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of hikers, and it makes me wonder who else
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Speaker 1: would be there. My sister Anjeanette Levy, and Scott Dudek
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Speaker 1: lives very near there. So I've been out there with
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Speaker 1: my now husband and the twins, oh my goodness many
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Speaker 1: many times, have walked back and forth and back and
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Speaker 1: forth across the Golden Gate Bridge, have gone into those
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Speaker 1: foests we're talking about where chrissy Field is, and that
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Speaker 1: really opens up a cornucopia of possibilities about what may
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Speaker 1: have happened to Sydney West guys. For those of you
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Speaker 1: just joining US freshman at Berkeley. Back to you, Scott
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Speaker 1: Dudet PI on the case from the beginning. Now, the parents,
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Speaker 1: her parents, did they live in that area? So Sydney
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Speaker 1: had grown up in Pleasanton, California, which is approximately twenty
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Speaker 1: miles from the Golden Gate Bridge. So Cindy grew up
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Speaker 1: in Pleasanton, and then when she was sixteen, the family
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Speaker 1: got a transfer to Chapel Hill in North Carolina. So
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Speaker 1: what do you mean they got a transfer? How they moved?
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Speaker 1: So the mom and dad moved for business reasons is
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Speaker 1: to Chapel Hill. What do they do? They're in the
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Speaker 1: medical field, biotech field. You know, Angeinette Levy, Emmy nominated
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Speaker 1: reporter and anchor. Know that seems like a small detail,
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Speaker 1: but you know, in all the years that I prosecuted
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Speaker 1: and covered cases, when you sit down and talk to witnesses,
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Speaker 1: what seems like a small detail at the beginning can
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Speaker 1: suddenly blow up in your face and turn into a
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Speaker 1: big detail that could turn the course of the investigation.
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Speaker 1: So Antonette Levy, the day she goes missing, what do
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Speaker 1: we know about that day? She went missing? In the
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Speaker 1: early morning hours? Correct? Yeah, that's correct, Nancy, And I
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Speaker 1: mean it could be just the smallest detail covering these
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Speaker 1: cases for many years. You know, something that may seem insignificant,
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Speaker 1: maybe that lead that breaks the case wide open, as
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Speaker 1: you mentioned, So we know she is down in that area.
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Speaker 1: It's a beautiful area, as you mentioned, but it's also
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Speaker 1: an area where there may have been a lot of
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Speaker 1: people around. So I think that there needs to be
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Speaker 1: special attention paid to that area. Even though it is beautiful,
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Speaker 1: there can still be people up to no good lurking
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Speaker 1: around in this Please, I want to follow upon what
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Speaker 1: Angeinette Levy is telling us along with us PI on
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Speaker 1: the case, Scott Dudek, doctor Angela Arnold, and Ashley Wilcott,
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Speaker 1: did you hear what Angeanette just said? Ashley Wilcott, That
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Speaker 1: is certainly a double edged sword. A lot of people around.
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Speaker 1: It's very difficult for me to imagine that this girl,
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Speaker 1: just nineteen years old, the high school volleyball captain who
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Speaker 1: gets into Berkeley. That's a lot of people's dream with
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Speaker 1: all the people around walking, jogging, birdwatching, doing their exercisings
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Speaker 1: on their morning stretches, that she just disappears. So you've
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Speaker 1: got the potential for a lot of witnesses. But also
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Speaker 1: the potential for na'er do wells that are lurking in
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Speaker 1: public areas like parks. Yeah, you know, remember two things.
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Speaker 1: Number one, so many people now are so busy in
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Speaker 1: their lives they don't pay attention to what's going on
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Speaker 1: around them, and so regrettably, individuals could be good witnesses
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Speaker 1: haven't paid a wit of attention to be a witness
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Speaker 1: at all. Number two, the thing about criminals are most
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Speaker 1: of them, in my opinion, do things that are premeditated.
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Speaker 1: What if that means they watch, they find vulnerable situations
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Speaker 1: or people, and they do things in a way to
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Speaker 1: commit the crime, sometimes with little observation by others because
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Speaker 1: of the way they pick a victim. So those two
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Speaker 1: things contribute to the fact that right now we don't
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Speaker 1: know what's happened, just thinking of all the people just
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Speaker 1: recently as you know, Ashley. But let me alert the
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Speaker 1: rest of you to the breaking news. We took an
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Speaker 1: RV trip all the way across the country. It's our
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Speaker 1: third RV trip on one of our archery RV trips.
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Speaker 1: We went from the East coast all the way to
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Speaker 1: California to visit my sister through the redwood trees, across
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Speaker 1: Death Valley. The whole thing. We ended up at Golden
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Speaker 1: Gate Bridge, which is the area we're talking about. And
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Speaker 1: I want to understand something, Scott Dudek, PI, and let
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Speaker 1: me tell you about Dudek twenty eight years with the
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Speaker 1: Alameda County Sheriff's Office in criminal investigation, homicide, coal case
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Speaker 1: and missing people, so he knows what he's talking about.
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Speaker 1: On the one side of the bridge, Scott Dudek, you
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Speaker 1: have the statute of the Navy person, the sailor, and
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Speaker 1: I think it's got a Duffel bag. He's leaving, as
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Speaker 1: my father did, went all the way from Oglethorpe, Georgia
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Speaker 1: to San Francisco to ship out in the World War.
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Speaker 1: And there's the statute on one side, and then on
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Speaker 1: the other side there's really, you know, I think a
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Speaker 1: visitors center and the highway that takes you through all
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Speaker 1: this forest. I'm telling you about which side do we
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Speaker 1: think she was seen on? She was seen on the
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Speaker 1: San Francisco site, as you're well aware. When you go
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Speaker 1: the statute is right correct. And if you go across
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Speaker 1: and you're into the Marin County, which is you know
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Speaker 1: over there, everybody tiberon in that area, so she was
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Speaker 1: actually seen on the San Francisco site climb Stories with
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. Guys were talking about, I mean, she's beautiful.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at her picture right now. Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 1: Have you seen her? Look at her? Something about her
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Speaker 1: I think it's her hair and her expression reminds me
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Speaker 1: so much of my daughter Lucy. This nineteen year old
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Speaker 1: girl seemingly has vanished into thin air, and I don't
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Speaker 1: buy that. I just don't believe it. Guys, take a
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Speaker 1: listen to our friends, Kimberly and Jay West. Sydney's family.
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Speaker 1: Sydney or a Sid as she likes to be called,
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Speaker 1: as a kind, caring young woman who has a way
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Speaker 1: with younger children, especially her ten year old sister, who
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Speaker 1: she's adored since the day she was born and who
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Speaker 1: misses her desperately. Is incredibly talented musician, an athlete, an artist,
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Speaker 1: and is hiring intelligence that he's five ten, one hundred
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Speaker 1: and thirty pounds and was last seen wearing long, dark leggings,
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Speaker 1: a teal sweatshirt with her hair and bonn on top
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Speaker 1: of her head. This is every parents nightmare, and all
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Speaker 1: we want is our daughters see me be Fouancafe and
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Speaker 1: brought home to our family. Thank you, thank you. I
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Speaker 1: don't know how they held it together during that with
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Speaker 1: me the PI work in the case, former cop for
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Speaker 1: nearly thirty years, Scott Dudek. How the parents managed to
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Speaker 1: hold it together for that press conference is amazing to me.
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Speaker 1: How did they do that. It's like everybody that's in
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Speaker 1: this situation, they have they take a minute by minute
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Speaker 1: and they know they've got to be strong to get
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Speaker 1: the word out. It's just very, very difficult for them.
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Speaker 1: You know, if you talk to them when they're behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes type of thing, it's it's just been horrible
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Speaker 1: for all of a mom, dad, the little sister, m
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Speaker 1: But they know that they've got to stay strong and
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Speaker 1: just you know, have the people out there that may
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Speaker 1: have seen her that, like somebody said earlier, that may
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Speaker 1: not have realized what they saw to give us a call.
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Speaker 1: And that's that's all we're praying for on this case. Here,
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Speaker 1: I've got a picture of her right here at the
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Speaker 1: entrance one of the entrances to they shot the San
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Speaker 1: Francisco side to the Golden Gate Bridge, And it was
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Speaker 1: a big thrill when I walked across the bridge with
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Speaker 1: my children for the first time, and I got to
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Speaker 1: tell you that bridge is pat with people. She had
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Speaker 1: been on that bridge or near that bridge, I know
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Speaker 1: someone would have seen her, And I'm confused about something.
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Speaker 1: Actually I'm not confused. I've identified an inconsistency in the
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Speaker 1: statements to you, mister Judek. Was she seen on the
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Speaker 1: bridge last or was she seen near chrissy Field, which
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Speaker 1: I think would be on the other side of the bridge.
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Speaker 1: She was seen on the bridge the last time she
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Speaker 1: was seen on the bridge before. Why does this flier
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Speaker 1: saying say last seen near chrissy Field because she was
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Speaker 1: dropped off in that area and then the person that
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Speaker 1: dropped her offshold saw her in that area, and then
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Speaker 1: we have evidence that she did start to walk across
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Speaker 1: the bridge, or at least move down the bridge a
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Speaker 1: little bit. Okay. So is chrissy Field on the San
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Speaker 1: Francisco side or the forest side San Francisco side? Okay,
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Speaker 1: So that's not that inconsistent. Okay, Sydney West last Senior
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Speaker 1: chrissy Field moving toward the bridge where there are literally
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Speaker 1: that bridge is packed. How could no one have seen her?
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Speaker 1: I want to go straight out to Ashley Willcott, judge
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Speaker 1: and trial lawyer anchor at Court DV. You were mentioning
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Speaker 1: earlier how someone may have seen something but not realize
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Speaker 1: they saw something. Absolutely that happens a lot, very frequently,
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Speaker 1: So I think that you know, a lot of times
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Speaker 1: all of us see things that may not register, and
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Speaker 1: so it may not seem like a big deal to us.
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Speaker 1: If we're, for instance, in a park walking our dog
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Speaker 1: and we notice another dog run by in and of
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Speaker 1: itself whatever, don't really process. But then if we're asked later,
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Speaker 1: and I have witnesses and court testified before me all
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Speaker 1: the time that do this, if they're asked later by someone,
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Speaker 1: whether it's an investigator or law enforcement about, hey, we
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Speaker 1: understand you might have been in the park at this time. Yes,
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Speaker 1: you're walking your dog. Yes, did you see anything that
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Speaker 1: was unusual? Did you see any dog? Well, they can
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Speaker 1: continue that line of non leading questions and find out
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Speaker 1: that perhaps somebody had been attacked their dog dot loose.
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Speaker 1: They're trying to find out what happened, and the witness recalls,
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Speaker 1: I did see a dog, this was the type of dog,
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Speaker 1: and I noticed actually when I saw that dog, there
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Speaker 1: was a dark blue van parked in a spot that
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Speaker 1: wasn't really a parking spot, and I go every day
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Speaker 1: and that's unusual. So I'm giving that as an example. Nancy.
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Speaker 1: At once someone starts asking you about things, you can
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Speaker 1: remember more than you realize. You noticed, guys, the family
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Speaker 1: now offering a ten thousand dollar reward in their play
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Speaker 1: for the safe return of their Berkeley student daughter, Sydney West.
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Speaker 1: You know earlier a Scott dude you mentioned you now
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Speaker 1: have information that she was closer to the bridge. Is
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Speaker 1: that an eyewitness or is that video surveillance because hold on,
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Speaker 1: Anginette Levy, shouldn't that bridge be covered in video cameras? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: most definitely, Nancy. And I actually read a quote from
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Speaker 1: her father and he said that she was last on
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Speaker 1: the bridge, because he said that he has actually reviewed
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Speaker 1: the video. So what does that video show? What else
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Speaker 1: does it show? Does it show her walking across that's
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Speaker 1: a bridge. It would be you know, a high profile
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Speaker 1: location that would be covered in security cameras. You know,
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Speaker 1: it could be you know, attacked by teris, you know,
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Speaker 1: so there's going to be a lot of security there.
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Speaker 1: So I think they need to go over that security footage.
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Speaker 1: The surveillance video with a fine tooth comb and see
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Speaker 1: if they recognize anybody in that area. And another question
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Speaker 1: I have is how much does the person who dropped
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Speaker 1: her off know about what was going on or what
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Speaker 1: happened that day. Yeah, that's a great question, do you
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Speaker 1: Scott dude, he dropped her off. It was an uber
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Speaker 1: driver and he's been extremely cooperative in regards to everything.
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Speaker 1: At this point here, we don't suspect him in anything.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, he feels terrible that he didn't watch,
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Speaker 1: you know, once she got out of the car, watched
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Speaker 1: what she was doing further or anything like that. So
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Speaker 1: he's not a suspect in this at all. Or why
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Speaker 1: was she? Why was she there? Because I'll answer that
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Speaker 1: and then I'd like to go back to another statement.
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Speaker 1: But she was there just because, Um, she was a
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Speaker 1: kid that loved to be outside. You know. When she
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Speaker 1: was in high school, she she formed a group called
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Speaker 1: Save the Bees. Um that was just her her me place,
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Speaker 1: her time to just kind of chill and just enjoy everything.
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Speaker 1: Look out and look at the bay and look at
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Speaker 1: the you know, the people that were running. She was
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Speaker 1: very athletic and stuff, and that was well, was she walking, jogging?
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Speaker 1: Was that her normal route. Um, it was. It was
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Speaker 1: not not unnormal for her to be in that or
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Speaker 1: area that early. She had been in the city the
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Speaker 1: night before, and UM, a lot of people they get
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Speaker 1: up just to visit and and kind of hang out
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Speaker 1: in the city. Him nobody in particular. She just went
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Speaker 1: there by herself, which again wasn't uncomed. White went to
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Speaker 1: the city to visit nobody. So then she's not visiting, Okay,
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Speaker 1: She's just there to to kind of just relax and
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Speaker 1: and uh at this point here, none of her none
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Speaker 1: of her California friends, have come forward in regards to
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Speaker 1: giving us another reason why she was there. I talked
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Speaker 1: to several of her her friends. UM, well, I really
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Speaker 1: believe she had to see somebody while she was there.
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Speaker 1: Did she have a boyfriend? No, she did not, so
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Speaker 1: um at this point here, Um, we have talked to
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Speaker 1: some other people. But she just went there to visit.
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Speaker 1: She spent the night um in a hotel there, which
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Speaker 1: again was not uncommon for her, just because you know,
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Speaker 1: she just was just trying to, like everybody else, kind
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Speaker 1: of sucking the time that you could actually get out
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Speaker 1: during COVID and stuff like that. And that was one
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Speaker 1: of I'm periods there. Let me ask you this that
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Speaker 1: she already started classes. She had started classes and then
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Speaker 1: COVID hit, and then she was having a hard time
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Speaker 1: going doing the distance learning online things, so she decided
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Speaker 1: to withdraw until the COVID ended. Where was she living
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Speaker 1: at the time she disappeared. She was in the area
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Speaker 1: of pleasant And where she was staying with some relatives
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Speaker 1: and stuff over that, so living with relatives and pleasant
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Speaker 1: And where her she used to live growing up. Correct, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's correct. Climb Stories with Nancy Grace to doctor Angela
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Speaker 1: Arnold Psychiatrists joining us out of Atlanta at Angela Arnold
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Speaker 1: MD dot com. I think we need to talk to
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Speaker 1: who she saw the night before. As of right now,
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Speaker 1: the Uber driver and the Golden gate Bridge video does
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Speaker 1: not show her with anyone that we know, But I
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Speaker 1: still want to know who she contacted the night before.
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Speaker 1: That could be very telling who even if it's just
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Speaker 1: a girlfriend, could tell us who was she meeting the
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Speaker 1: next day at San Francisco Bridge. And because it does,
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Speaker 1: we need to know if she was meeting someone there
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Speaker 1: and how often did she do this. I know that
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Speaker 1: I know that it keeps being said that this was
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Speaker 1: normal behavior. This was something that she did, but also
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Speaker 1: she had withdrawn from school and stayed out there in California.
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Speaker 1: I think that there are some missing pieces that haven't done,
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Speaker 1: that haven't been addressed yet. Agree, guys, we are talking
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Speaker 1: about the disappearance of a beautiful young girl, just nineteen
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Speaker 1: years old, beautiful and outgoing, beautiful on the inside and
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Speaker 1: the outside. The captain Number high school volleyball team. She
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Speaker 1: enrolls at Berkeley and heads all the way from Chapel
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Speaker 1: Hill out to California to live the dream of attending Berkeley.
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Speaker 1: Then COVID hits, everybody goes to remote, she didn't like it,
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Speaker 1: She withdrew, waiting to re enter, goes early early morning
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Speaker 1: out to the Golden Gate Bridge in her workout clothes,
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Speaker 1: and then she has never seen again. To Anjeanette Levy
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Speaker 1: joining US Emmy nominated reporter and anchor, an Jeanette, with
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Speaker 1: all the video of where she was last seen, I
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Speaker 1: find it very difficult to believe you can't spot a
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Speaker 1: guy walking up to her. Yeah, I would agree with you, Nancy.
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Speaker 1: I would like to get a look at that video myself.
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Speaker 1: I'd also like to know what was on her cell phone.
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Speaker 1: There have been quotes from the parents saying that there's
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Speaker 1: been no activity on her cell phone, But what were
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Speaker 1: those last interactions using her cell phone? Like was she
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Speaker 1: texting somebody? Was she calling somebody? Has that phone been
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Speaker 1: dumped by law enforcement? You know, based on what they
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Speaker 1: can do with the carrier, So there's a lot, there's
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Speaker 1: a lot. You would think that they would note the
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Speaker 1: forensic evidence Anjeanette Levy So to you, Scott Judek, has
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Speaker 1: the phone been recovered not at this point here it
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Speaker 1: has not been. And Nancy, if I could just briefly
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Speaker 1: touch on the video on the bridge to the video.
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Speaker 1: The video has been looked at. The unfortunate thing that
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Speaker 1: it does show her walking, but as everybody's aware in
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Speaker 1: that area, if you've ever been there, the fog was
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Speaker 1: very very heavy and at that day and time, so
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Speaker 1: it just kind of it's a it's kind of a
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Speaker 1: spooky thing where she just kind of disappears into the
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Speaker 1: fog and the fog extended all the way across. So
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Speaker 1: we don't know once she went in a short distance
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Speaker 1: into the bridge, we don't know. Somebody could have picked
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Speaker 1: her up on the bridge. We don't know if she
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Speaker 1: made it to the other side of the bridge because
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Speaker 1: the fog was so thick, which you would think, like
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Speaker 1: somebody mentioned that they would have a better system, knowing
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Speaker 1: that the FOG's there all the time. But that's what
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Speaker 1: we're dealing with. So you know, I want to talk
22:24
Speaker 1: about that. There is a hotel, Scott Dudek in San Francisco,
22:31
Speaker 1: and I think it's called The Mark, And before I
22:35
Speaker 1: had the twins, my husband and I were out and
22:39
Speaker 1: I forgot why we were there. I think a trial
22:41
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. And we went to the top of
22:44
Speaker 1: the Mark and you could see the whole city and
22:48
Speaker 1: out onto the bay and I was looking out, Oh
22:53
Speaker 1: my stars, David, look at this. Look, I've never seen
22:56
Speaker 1: anything like it. Fog was coming in over San Francisco,
23:01
Speaker 1: and what Dudek is telling you is correct. It was
23:06
Speaker 1: so thick it looked like it was covering the whole city.
23:10
Speaker 1: It was just rolling in I guess, off the San
23:13
Speaker 1: Francisco Bay and it was opaque. You could see nothing.
23:20
Speaker 1: And now that he said that, I get it, because
23:23
Speaker 1: I until you told me that, Dudek, I couldn't understand.
23:26
Speaker 1: How does she just disappear? Last set on the bridge
23:28
Speaker 1: with all that video surveillance, and like Antoinette Levey told us,
23:33
Speaker 1: that is a high profile spot in our country, like
23:38
Speaker 1: the Statute of Liberty or the Washington Monument. I mean,
23:42
Speaker 1: it's guarded heavily from terrorists, so there's a lot of video,
23:48
Speaker 1: there's a lot of surveillance, there are cops stationed there
23:52
Speaker 1: to protect it. But now I get it that you
23:54
Speaker 1: told me that, dude, eck, because that that bog is
23:58
Speaker 1: like unlike anything I've ever seen before. I mean, if
24:01
Speaker 1: you take that area that you're talking about at the
24:04
Speaker 1: top there, I've been there. I know exactly where you're
24:06
Speaker 1: talking about. When you go there, it's almost like when
24:09
Speaker 1: the fog starts to roll in, it's almost like you're
24:12
Speaker 1: sitting on the clouds in that area. It's it's it's
24:15
Speaker 1: kind of an eerie sight to watch your roll really is.
24:19
Speaker 1: But what about the other side of the bridge. They
24:21
Speaker 1: didn't see her coming off? Do they look the entire
24:25
Speaker 1: day and they never see her coming off one way
24:27
Speaker 1: or the other? That's correct. I never saw her because
24:30
Speaker 1: of the fog was so thick. And as you're well aware,
24:32
Speaker 1: Nancy too, both San Francisco County and Alameda County which
24:37
Speaker 1: are the two areas around where she disappeared. There's a
24:42
Speaker 1: lot of heavy it's known for human trafficking, and that's
24:45
Speaker 1: a concern of ours two that somebody could have picked
24:48
Speaker 1: her up for that just based on you know, all
24:51
Speaker 1: the factors. And like you've said several times, choose five
24:55
Speaker 1: ten light hair, blue eyes, one hundred and thirty pounds.
24:58
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it's a As a parent of
25:01
Speaker 1: a child, that's a nightmare. So, um, I want to
25:04
Speaker 1: follow up on that cell phone evidence. The phone has
25:07
Speaker 1: not been recovered and I assume it's been triangulated. Did
25:12
Speaker 1: she have it with her that morning? Scott dudegg do
25:16
Speaker 1: we know? Yeah, we believe she did have it because
25:18
Speaker 1: that's still yeah correct, So you know we're we're fairly
25:25
Speaker 1: confident she did have it at one point. Well, has
25:29
Speaker 1: it been tracked? Where is it now? They also had
25:33
Speaker 1: a I'm not sure what the apps called pile, which
25:37
Speaker 1: I guess a lot of people have on their um.
25:39
Speaker 1: You know, you can put stick her under your key
25:42
Speaker 1: to find it. Correct, And that shows no activity too,
25:46
Speaker 1: So that's a little sup So where was that last
25:48
Speaker 1: scene show up? And well, the actual iPhone information showed
25:55
Speaker 1: up on the on the where she got dropped off
25:59
Speaker 1: by the uber drop where she got dropped off, not
26:02
Speaker 1: in the middle of the bridge. No, she got dropped
26:05
Speaker 1: off on one end and it only shows her activity there. Hum, guys,
26:10
Speaker 1: we were talking about a missing girl. Nineteen years old.
26:13
Speaker 1: Sydney West travels all the way from where she lives
26:16
Speaker 1: with her parents in Chapel Hill to Berkeley to go
26:20
Speaker 1: to school there at UC Berkeley, and then vanishes. Take
26:24
Speaker 1: a listen to our friend Amy Larson, a k r
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Speaker 1: O N four. The San Francisco Police Department still has
26:31
Speaker 1: an active missing persons investigation open for Sydney West. Today,
26:37
Speaker 1: her family and friends held a visual for her to
26:40
Speaker 1: bring more awareness to let people know that Sydney is
26:43
Speaker 1: still missing in San Francisco. Sydney grew up here where
26:47
Speaker 1: I am right now in Pleasanton. I'm staying outside Foothill
26:50
Speaker 1: High School. She was a volleyball stars with the varsity
26:53
Speaker 1: team as a software I talked to her coach earlier
26:56
Speaker 1: this week. He said, there are so many people here
26:59
Speaker 1: at foot High School who are so concerned about Sydney West.
27:02
Speaker 1: They want to get that message out to her. That
27:04
Speaker 1: was the same message that Sydney's friends and families were
27:07
Speaker 1: trying to get out today out in North Carolina. Her
27:10
Speaker 1: family moved out to North Carolina three years ago, so
27:13
Speaker 1: it's become a challenge for her family to coordinate a
27:17
Speaker 1: missing person search effort while part of her family is
27:21
Speaker 1: on the East Coast and part of it is here
27:23
Speaker 1: on the West Coast. And here's Maureen Kelly k r
27:26
Speaker 1: o in four She's been living with friends in San Francisco,
27:30
Speaker 1: according to her family. A SFPD says West was last
27:33
Speaker 1: seen in the area of quissy Field on the morning
27:35
Speaker 1: of Tuesday, September thirtieth. She goes by sid and is
27:39
Speaker 1: described as five feet ten inches tall, wayne one hundred
27:42
Speaker 1: and thirty five pounds. She has hair that's been described
27:44
Speaker 1: as either blonde or light brown, and blue eyes. She
27:47
Speaker 1: was last seen wearing a sweatshirt, athletic shorts, and blue
27:51
Speaker 1: slip on Van's tennis shoes. She may also have been
27:54
Speaker 1: carrying a black backpack. What about the backpack, Antonette Levy
27:59
Speaker 1: any signs the black black backpack And also I'm still
28:04
Speaker 1: not getting the answer I'm looking for as it relates
28:08
Speaker 1: to that cell phone, Antanette. Yeah, and we don't really
28:12
Speaker 1: know much about the cell phone. If the police, when
28:14
Speaker 1: there's an investigation like this, if her phone was linked
28:17
Speaker 1: to a cloud, we can call the carrier, they can
28:20
Speaker 1: get a subpoena and get the records. So we need
28:23
Speaker 1: to know more about that. The backpack, I'm not clear
28:27
Speaker 1: on that, but I do know that they are saying
28:29
Speaker 1: that her bows headphones are also missing, and she may
28:32
Speaker 1: have had those with her that day. So maybe if
28:34
Speaker 1: she's going to this spot to hang out or you know,
28:38
Speaker 1: take a jog or something, she would have those with
28:40
Speaker 1: her to listen to some music or a podcast or something.
28:43
Speaker 1: So I think there are a lot of questions that
28:45
Speaker 1: we need answered, especially about that cell phone and who
28:48
Speaker 1: she might have been communicating with. Crime stories with Nancy
29:01
Speaker 1: Grace Guys. Nineteen year old Sydney West travels from Carolina
29:07
Speaker 1: all the way across the country to attend UC Berkeley
29:11
Speaker 1: and somehow literally disappears into the fog. I don't believe
29:18
Speaker 1: that for one minute. The tip line nine seven o
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Speaker 1: five eight three two eight or four one five five
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Speaker 1: seven five four four four four What happened to Sydney West?
29:35
Speaker 1: When I hear headphones, that is a nightmare for women
29:41
Speaker 1: that are exercising, especially women, and use headphones. Let me
29:46
Speaker 1: refer to Molly Tibbots who was jogging and was approached
29:50
Speaker 1: her killer pastor several times before she realized what was happening.
29:56
Speaker 1: She had in headphones. We think long ange our Carena
30:00
Speaker 1: A Toronto had in earbuds and did not realize someone
30:06
Speaker 1: was creeping up on her as she went jogging near
30:09
Speaker 1: her family home. The list goes on and on and on.
30:12
Speaker 1: A when I hear a headphones that just puts a
30:15
Speaker 1: chill down my spine. Where is Sydney? Take a listen
30:19
Speaker 1: to her volleyball coach Dustin Collins speaking k r N. Obviously,
30:24
Speaker 1: right now we're all, you know, very worried and concerned
30:27
Speaker 1: about Sydney West. The fact that she's been missing now
30:30
Speaker 1: for almost two weeks. As far as I'm concerned and
30:33
Speaker 1: what we know of right now, she played here her sophomore,
30:38
Speaker 1: freshman and sophomore year. Sydney was an athlete here at
30:41
Speaker 1: Foot High School, and she moved after her sophomore year
30:45
Speaker 1: to go to North Carolina. She did come back and
30:48
Speaker 1: visit with us a couple of times, but it's been
30:51
Speaker 1: you know, when somebody's played for us and been a
30:54
Speaker 1: part of our program. They're a part of our extended family,
30:56
Speaker 1: and now we're all just incredibly worried knowing that she
31:00
Speaker 1: is missing and we don't know where she's at. So
31:02
Speaker 1: we've got girls from our team, from past players. They're
31:07
Speaker 1: all keeping her in her thoughts and prayers, and they
31:09
Speaker 1: have posting information about her. We just want to have
31:13
Speaker 1: the word out there and make sure that everybody knows
31:15
Speaker 1: that she is still missing, and we want that if
31:17
Speaker 1: anybody knows where she's at, we would love for them
31:20
Speaker 1: to contact the proper people. We just we hope everything's
31:24
Speaker 1: okay and we definitely are missing her right now. As
31:27
Speaker 1: we heard earlier, the human trafficking statistics out of the
31:32
Speaker 1: San Francisco area are off the chart. Why it's a
31:36
Speaker 1: jumping off spot from our country to take victims abroad
31:42
Speaker 1: to somehow lose them and the shuffle of travel there
31:47
Speaker 1: on the coast. I want to circle back again to
31:50
Speaker 1: Scott Dudek, private investigator working on the case at Dudek
31:54
Speaker 1: and Associates PI dot com. I'm still anxious to it
32:00
Speaker 1: and what you have to say about the cell phone triangulation.
32:04
Speaker 1: I just her or from another source that she was
32:07
Speaker 1: living with friends in San Francisco, not with relatives and
32:12
Speaker 1: pleasanton which one is correct. She has relatives and friends both.
32:20
Speaker 1: For lack of a better word, I want to say
32:21
Speaker 1: she was kind of just visiting everybody in couch flopping around,
32:26
Speaker 1: but she does. She has an aunt that lives in
32:30
Speaker 1: that same area. She has girlfriends that she kept in
32:34
Speaker 1: contact with in high school. So, dude, do you feel
32:38
Speaker 1: that the San Francisco Police are taking this seriously? You know,
32:42
Speaker 1: as a retired cop. M that's hard to say. Um.
32:46
Speaker 1: I know they're very busy. Um, they're a very busy department.
32:51
Speaker 1: But maybe maybe a little more compassion. A little more
32:55
Speaker 1: compassion would be preferred by me. But everybody's got their
32:59
Speaker 1: own style. So okay, I'll be honest. I don't like
33:03
Speaker 1: what you just said because I'm getting a lot of
33:06
Speaker 1: mixed signals. You start off by telling me I'm on
33:10
Speaker 1: your side. Dude, just understand that I'm a retard cop.
33:15
Speaker 1: Everybody has their own style. Okay, I know, BS when
33:18
Speaker 1: I smell it. Are they taking the case seriously? I
33:24
Speaker 1: know they're not. Yeah, why is that? Why is that?
33:29
Speaker 1: Doctor Angela Arnold? When a young girl goes missing? Oh,
33:33
Speaker 1: she must have been depressed, and she's trying to sort
33:37
Speaker 1: her wife out. She's got a boyfriend, she left with him,
33:41
Speaker 1: she's with a man. Why are there always explanations of
33:45
Speaker 1: where she's been when she's missing? That's where she is well,
33:49
Speaker 1: and you know, Nancy, Yeah, there are a lot of
33:52
Speaker 1: holes in the story that are bothering me. Okay, but
33:56
Speaker 1: to me, the police should just do their job. She
34:00
Speaker 1: is a missing person. She is missing. They don't get
34:03
Speaker 1: to make all of these assumptions. You don't assume anything.
34:07
Speaker 1: You don't assume anything in medicine, and you shouldn't assume
34:10
Speaker 1: anything in law enforcement. And I can't imagine why they
34:13
Speaker 1: are just assuming that they already know what's going on
34:17
Speaker 1: when throughout but when throughout the breadth of this show alone,
34:22
Speaker 1: so many questions have come up in just this short
34:26
Speaker 1: thirty minutes that we've been talking. How can they assume
34:29
Speaker 1: that they know what is going on with this young girl?
34:32
Speaker 1: And how dare them? You know, Ash Willcott, I don't
34:35
Speaker 1: believe this girl just disappeared into the fog. She's not
34:38
Speaker 1: her mayor. There is an answer, but nobody's getting it right.
34:43
Speaker 1: So two things Number one, that's what I thought of
34:46
Speaker 1: as well, which is, okay, nobody jumps off her bridge
34:48
Speaker 1: without a people seeing and be people posting it all
34:51
Speaker 1: over social media. Let's just be real so we know
34:53
Speaker 1: that didn't happen. The second part of this is, and
34:56
Speaker 1: there's a case right now that's in trial, and here's
34:58
Speaker 1: what bothers me about this. Could treat a case as
35:02
Speaker 1: a missing person case and treat it a little bit
35:04
Speaker 1: nonchalantly as, oh, they're just somewhere, they're missing but not
35:09
Speaker 1: a big deal, is very, very different than treating this
35:12
Speaker 1: as some things wrong, could be a homicide, and we
35:15
Speaker 1: need to investigate to the fullest extent that we are
35:17
Speaker 1: able to, because the problem is they're not going to
35:21
Speaker 1: have captured all of the information in the investigation that
35:26
Speaker 1: they could have otherwise captured, and it's going to mean
35:29
Speaker 1: that they're not going to be able to figure out
35:31
Speaker 1: what happened to our number one or number two, who
35:34
Speaker 1: a perpetrator is. And so it really, really really always
35:38
Speaker 1: causes me for a concern to hear when law enforcement
35:42
Speaker 1: is not treating it as seriously as they should and
35:44
Speaker 1: investigating as thoroughly as they should, because evidence disappears, and
35:48
Speaker 1: this is bad, bad, bad for this young lady. Guys,
35:51
Speaker 1: I want you to take a listen to our cut
35:54
Speaker 1: number thirteen, A message to Sydney from family there in
35:58
Speaker 1: Castro Valley. By Sydney, It's the Bronio family here from
36:04
Speaker 1: Castor Valley and we are thinking of you and so
36:09
Speaker 1: many of us, your family, your friends, we just all
36:12
Speaker 1: want you to come home. Please come home so we
36:16
Speaker 1: can go and enjoy a Giant's baseball game. Sydney, come home.
36:21
Speaker 1: I'll cook you some pizza. Please come home, Saidny, we
36:25
Speaker 1: missed you in your beautiful smile, you know, to doctor
36:29
Speaker 1: Angie Arnold, psychiatrist shorting us out of Atlanta. I remember
36:33
Speaker 1: when my dad, he was in the hospital and I
36:40
Speaker 1: was out on the sidewalk in New York at midnight
36:43
Speaker 1: trying to get a cab to get to the airport
36:45
Speaker 1: to get to him. And I got there, and what
36:49
Speaker 1: I would always do after supper is give him some
36:54
Speaker 1: kind of a dessert if we could sneak it past,
36:57
Speaker 1: because he was borderline diabetic and was like an eagle
37:01
Speaker 1: watching what he have and a cup of decalf. I
37:05
Speaker 1: was just hearing these friends and families saying, let's go
37:08
Speaker 1: to a Giant's game. Let's have a pizza. I remember
37:13
Speaker 1: whispering in my dad's ear. Everybody else was saying, you
37:16
Speaker 1: can go, feel free to die, and I was in
37:21
Speaker 1: his ear, going, Daddy, come come back, don't go anywhere.
37:25
Speaker 1: I'll make a cup of decalf, Let's go home. It's
37:30
Speaker 1: when you know everything is upside down and your world
37:33
Speaker 1: has fallen apart, and you're clinging to something. Right, Let's
37:37
Speaker 1: go to another giant's game. Let's cook a pizza. Let's
37:42
Speaker 1: make a cup of decalf. Well, because Nancy, they really
37:45
Speaker 1: don't know what has happened to this girl, do they?
37:48
Speaker 1: They don't know, but all they know is that she's missing.
37:51
Speaker 1: And for whatever reason, what if she's I mean, what
37:54
Speaker 1: if she's a runaway who knows? They're trying to They're
37:58
Speaker 1: trying to if she could, You're this, They're trying to
38:00
Speaker 1: pull her back in that way because you have to
38:03
Speaker 1: have hope. If you don't have hope, what is left? Amen? Amen?
38:11
Speaker 1: Guys Tip line nine two five seven zero five eight
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Speaker 1: through two eight nine two five seven A five eight
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Speaker 1: three two eight, please help us find Sydney. Nancy Grace
38:26
Speaker 1: kind story signing off, goodbye friend