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Twin girls Dannette and Jeanette vanish from Augusta · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph Channel
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Speaker 1: one two. I'll never give a hope. Growing up in
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Speaker 1: rural Middle Georgia, when we got home from school, we
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Speaker 1: could get on our bikes and ride until supper time,
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Speaker 1: until it got dark. We could play in the woods.
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Speaker 1: We could get wet in streams. We could play to
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Speaker 1: our hearts content. There was nothing but soybean fields and
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Speaker 1: pine trees as far as the eye could see. Those
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Speaker 1: days are over. Think about it. It starts getting dark,
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Speaker 1: It's time for your children to be home. You call,
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Speaker 1: you blow the car horn, You look around the neighborhood,
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Speaker 1: and they don't answer, and something inside of you says,
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Speaker 1: this isn't right, this isn't like any other night. That
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Speaker 1: is what happened to two beautiful young twin girls, Dannette
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Speaker 1: and Jeanette Millbrook. What happened. It was a Sunday. The
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Speaker 1: twins left where they lived to just walk up the
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Speaker 1: street to their godfather's home on Forest Street in the
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Speaker 1: Bethlehem neighborhood. The sisters make the walk to Forest Street
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Speaker 1: so their godfather could give them twenty dollars to ride
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Speaker 1: the city bus to and from Lucy c. Laney High School. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's what we know. Where are they now? I'm Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us.
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Speaker 1: With me, Laura Norton, fall Line podcast investigator and host,
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Speaker 1: Brooke Hargrove, fall Line podcast investigator and host, Michael Wheeling,
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Speaker 1: Unresolved podcast host and with Me special guest Shanty Sturgis.
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Speaker 1: Shanty is the sister of the twin girls, Danette and
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Speaker 1: Jeanette Millbrook. You know their case was largely ignored at
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Speaker 1: the time they go missing and has since become a
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Speaker 1: closed file, unsolved cold. I don't see it that way.
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Speaker 1: First to you, Shaunte Sturgis, ma'am, thank you so much
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Speaker 1: for being with us. Do you remember the day your
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Speaker 1: twin sisters disappeared? Yes, ma'am, I dude, what happened. We
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Speaker 1: went to church that morning and I think we left church.
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Speaker 1: I stay around by maybe twelve thirty, and we made
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Speaker 1: them home. Um before I believe in church. The pastor
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Speaker 1: at the church gave my mom money because she didn't
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Speaker 1: have any money to feed us for that day, so
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Speaker 1: he gave her money and she sent them to church's chicken.
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Speaker 1: I stay around about one o'clock. They came home and
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Speaker 1: they told where jan told my mom they um, a
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Speaker 1: guy was following them in a white van. We don't
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Speaker 1: know for sure if he was actually following them or not,
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Speaker 1: but that's what they was thinking he was following them,
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Speaker 1: So that's what they told my mom. They were fifteen
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Speaker 1: at the time. I was twelve when they went missing.
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Speaker 1: Let me interject right here, Mrs Sturgis, at fifteen years old,
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Speaker 1: I may not have noticed a white van driving by,
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Speaker 1: but I think I would have noticed if every time
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Speaker 1: I looked up, it was right there, uh with me
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Speaker 1: as Shaunte Sturgis, the sister of missing Jeanette and Jeanette.
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Speaker 1: So they tell the mom they've noticed a white than
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Speaker 1: following them all the way home from churches chicken. Then
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Speaker 1: what happened, and nothing really happened after they talked about it,
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Speaker 1: you know, everybody just sat down and ate and laid
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Speaker 1: on In the afternoon, I think it was light around back,
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Speaker 1: maybe two thirty. They was talking to my mom about
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Speaker 1: getting to school that next day, which would have been
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Speaker 1: that Monday, and she was like, she didn't have any
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Speaker 1: money for them to catch the bus, and she didn't
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Speaker 1: want them to walk you know, to school from where
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Speaker 1: we lived. That because the school that they lived that
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Speaker 1: it was probably like I say, about six miles or
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Speaker 1: so from where we moved to, as we just had
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Speaker 1: moved from the area they went missing from. She asked
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Speaker 1: them to call my god dad on the phone and
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Speaker 1: asked him because he give them some money for them
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Speaker 1: to be able to catch the bus back and forth
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Speaker 1: for that week. They left the house, I said, they
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Speaker 1: run back maybe three Um, so what they made it
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Speaker 1: to his house. From his house, they went to a
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Speaker 1: cousin of ours house. They asked her home you know
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Speaker 1: with them. I'm not sure why that particular day, her
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Speaker 1: mom told her to know, I guess you know, they
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Speaker 1: left and that's when they made it to my older
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Speaker 1: sister have. When they got her house, they asked her
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Speaker 1: could she walk on home with them? At this point, um,
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Speaker 1: we're not sure why they asked her. We're not sure
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Speaker 1: why they asked my cousin, but we just found out
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Speaker 1: recently my sister just now telling us is the reason
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Speaker 1: why she thinking they asked her? She said, because she
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Speaker 1: think they probably scared to walk back home by themselves
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Speaker 1: for some odd reason. I'm not sure why. Because they're
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Speaker 1: not here to tell the side of the store. So
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Speaker 1: after they left my sister house, um, my mom had
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Speaker 1: called her and asked her as she seen them, because
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Speaker 1: you know, it was already by I said, about four
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Speaker 1: third or five o'clock, and they still hadn't made it
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Speaker 1: back home. You know, it don't take that long to
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Speaker 1: get to where they had to go and to get back.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they wasn't supposed to go to my sister
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Speaker 1: house that day. They were supposed to go to my
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Speaker 1: guard their house and come back, but for some reason
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Speaker 1: they went to her house. Anyway. She told my mom
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Speaker 1: when they left there that they went walking towards the
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Speaker 1: pumping shop store. Once they went walking towards the pumping
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Speaker 1: shop store, you know, that's the reason why my mom
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Speaker 1: stopped at that store, because after they hadn't got home,
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Speaker 1: you know, at the Pacific time, and then she don't
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Speaker 1: call them around, asked the people had they've seen them,
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Speaker 1: heard from them. She got worried, so me and her
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Speaker 1: went walking to go try to see if we could
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Speaker 1: meet them or meet up with them somewhere or see
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Speaker 1: them somewhere, you know, And by that time we made
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Speaker 1: it down to the pumper shop store, and it's elated
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Speaker 1: by the name of Gloria who she knew us. And
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Speaker 1: my mom asked her had she seen them coming the store,
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Speaker 1: and she told them, yeah, they came in there. They
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Speaker 1: brought cannon shoulder and something to drink, you know, some
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Speaker 1: chills um. And she said she looked away, you know,
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Speaker 1: to ring up another customer. By the time she looked up,
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Speaker 1: they was gone. So she says, she don't know if
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Speaker 1: they got in the car with somebody. She don't know.
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Speaker 1: What we do know that they made it that far.
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Speaker 1: Hold On with me is a sister of the missing
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Speaker 1: twins Janette and Jeanette, and now the Richmond County Sheriff,
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Speaker 1: the elected sheriff, Richard Rowntree, says this is a quote
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Speaker 1: terrible injustice and he has actually reopened the case of
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Speaker 1: the missing twin girls, Danette and Jeanette. Mill brooks Now,
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Speaker 1: the very mysterious disappearance of Danette and Jeanette now reopened,
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Speaker 1: sat unresolved for so long. These two just walking home
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Speaker 1: from a convenience store in Augusta, Georgia, But unbeknownst to
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Speaker 1: the family, investigators had not even looked at the case
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Speaker 1: for over two decades. Why. According to the elected chair
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Speaker 1: of Richard Rowntree, the original case files are missing, and
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Speaker 1: not long after the two girls disappeared, the girls were
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Speaker 1: taken off the national database for Missing Children. Why why
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Speaker 1: did that happen? To Laura norton Fall Line podcast, thank
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Speaker 1: you for being with us, Laura, But what happened? Well,
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Speaker 1: it took us quite a while to kind of unpack that.
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Speaker 1: But what we have figured out is the case was
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Speaker 1: closed on hearsay, and that hearstay changes based on who
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Speaker 1: is describing it. The original investing. I don't know what
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Speaker 1: you're saying. Hold on, the case was closed on hearsay.
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Speaker 1: It was allegedly closed on hearsay according to the ig.
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Speaker 1: What means well, a case closed on hearsay? What does
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Speaker 1: that even? There's what the original investigator said, Um, we
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Speaker 1: actually did speak to him on the phone once, so
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Speaker 1: we got some information there. According to him, he says
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Speaker 1: that the twins were found and he based that judgment
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Speaker 1: on he alleges that a juvenile investigator or a juvenile
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Speaker 1: probation officer rather saw the twins. Now that is not
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Speaker 1: anywhere in the case file. Uh, there's no support for that.
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Speaker 1: He told the family the case was closed because the
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Speaker 1: twins that turned seventeen and they could no longer be
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Speaker 1: made to go home. Um, as we know, that's not
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Speaker 1: the case. He closed it in April, seven days after
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Speaker 1: their seventeenth birthday. Then two years I completely smell a rat.
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Speaker 1: You don't close a missing person, much less a double
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Speaker 1: missing person of young girls just because they reached majority.
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Speaker 1: That that's not that's not even true. Laura, Yep, that's
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Speaker 1: that's exactly. That's why we were so shocked to hear
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Speaker 1: Shaunty tell us that. Then when we finally got some
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Speaker 1: information from Nick Mack when we spoke with them, he
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Speaker 1: then called in and closed the case there in Um, well,
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Speaker 1: we don't know and we can't find out, but our
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Speaker 1: guest is that because that is the year he changed jobs,
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Speaker 1: and he may have been going through his files and
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Speaker 1: closing things out here and there. But that of course
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Speaker 1: was a major blow to the case because for you know,
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Speaker 1: twenty years, nothing was checked against them, no DNA on file. Nothing.
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Speaker 1: I cannot even imagine. Back to Shanty Sturgis, the sister
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Speaker 1: of the missing girls, I can't imagine the suffering your
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Speaker 1: mom went through finding out the case was closed because
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Speaker 1: somebody claimed they saw the twins. Is that true? Did
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Speaker 1: somebody see them? Chante? No, nobody has never seen them. Um.
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Speaker 1: We actually don't even know if that is true about
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Speaker 1: the probation officer being in contact with them the whole time. Um,
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Speaker 1: because the same probation officer also told my mom that
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Speaker 1: he didn't understand why I've reached m the county went
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Speaker 1: and go out ahead to look for them or when
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Speaker 1: doing investigation, and he was gonna try to help her
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Speaker 1: because he didn't understand how two girls go missing and
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Speaker 1: nobody does anything. Well, who was who do we know?
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Speaker 1: Also joining me in addition to Laura Norton from Aline
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Speaker 1: is Brooke hard Growth from Fall Lines highly popular podcast
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Speaker 1: and Michael Wheeling from Unresolved highly popular podcast? Brooke, who
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Speaker 1: is this person? Says he saw the twins? So what
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Speaker 1: we found out Nancy about this individual? There were several
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Speaker 1: cases that he was in charge of investigating over the
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Speaker 1: years of missing missing persons, but specifically missing children. He
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Speaker 1: seemed to tire of these cases because he said that
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Speaker 1: they would often find these children that were runaways, returned
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Speaker 1: them to their family, only to have them run away again.
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Speaker 1: So in his mind, these children were in that category.
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Speaker 1: He actually referred to them as just two runaways. In
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Speaker 1: our recent call with him, UM, he reported that they
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Speaker 1: had been found, when that was not true. We believe
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Speaker 1: he was trying to clear the case out because he
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Speaker 1: didn't want to investigate them. He seemed to just look
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Speaker 1: at them as to two kids from the projects, you know,
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Speaker 1: just gott into trouble and we're runaways. Okay. That is
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Speaker 1: breaking my heart because these girls, two sisters, didn't run
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Speaker 1: away and stay away from their mother and their sister
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Speaker 1: and their family all these years. That's not true. That
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Speaker 1: is not true. If you have any information regarding Janette
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Speaker 1: and Jeanette, please call the Richmond County Sheriff seven zero
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Speaker 1: six eight to one one zero six zero repeat, seven
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Speaker 1: zero six eight to one zero six zero. Michael Wheeling
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Speaker 1: Unresolved podcast host way in. Oh, yeah, this is just
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Speaker 1: one of those stories that UM. I first discovered it,
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Speaker 1: there wasn't really any like major news coverage of the case.
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Speaker 1: But I moved to Augusta a year and a half ago,
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Speaker 1: and I remember when I discovered the story was a
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Speaker 1: kind of like an article that was covering Augusta's missing
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Speaker 1: unsolved cases. Basically everything dating back to the nineteen seventies,
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Speaker 1: and hidden right in the middle of it is a
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Speaker 1: story of two twins that disappeared on the exact same
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Speaker 1: day in and to me, that just always stood out
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Speaker 1: as something that, you know, set this case apart from
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Speaker 1: everything else I've researched, because when you talk about missing people,
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Speaker 1: it's normally a big deal. People make a big stink
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Speaker 1: about it, and when two or more people go missing,
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Speaker 1: it's you know, like the Springfield three is one of
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Speaker 1: the biggest mysteries in America, and that's gotten tons of
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Speaker 1: press conforage, it's gotten news articles, it's gotten news clippings,
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Speaker 1: and this just had nothing. It's just heartbreaking nothing. As
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Speaker 1: the mother sat by with her heartbreaking every single day.
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Speaker 1: And I want to know, I love my girls, my family,
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Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that we do get justice what it
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Speaker 1: was known at all. For those of you just joining us,
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Speaker 1: we are investigating the sudden and mysterious disappearance of two
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Speaker 1: young girls from Augusta, Georgia, Danette and Jeanette Millbrook. For
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Speaker 1: some reason, within the police department, the case was closed.
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Speaker 1: The file disappeared shortly after their disappearance. They were that
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Speaker 1: it wasn't just lost. The two girls were then actively
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Speaker 1: removed from the National Database of Missing Children. So that's
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Speaker 1: not just accidentally losing the file, Laura Norton. It's not
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Speaker 1: just saying, okay, it's it's a cold case. This is
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Speaker 1: actively going to the national database and removing them that
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Speaker 1: it's no longer an act of a mission. It's a
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Speaker 1: a decision to remove them from the databank. Laura, I
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Speaker 1: don't understand it. It was a purposeful choice, and it
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Speaker 1: was very strange because we have mentioned a probation officer,
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Speaker 1: but I want to be clear, the twins were not
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Speaker 1: on probation. They were not in trouble. The probation officer
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Speaker 1: lived in their neighborhood, uh, and that's why their mother
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Speaker 1: went to him for some help. And this is the
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Speaker 1: man that was blamed after he had already died for
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Speaker 1: this problem by the original investigator. The twins where homebodies.
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Speaker 1: They were sweet girls, and Danette actually was on seizure
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Speaker 1: medication for grandma's seizures. Certainly not the kind of runaway
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Speaker 1: that you might imagine. Back to Shanta Sturgis, the sister
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Speaker 1: of Jeanette and Danette, the missing twin girls. Now we
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Speaker 1: left off with the story at they were at You
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Speaker 1: guys went to church that morning. Your mom was broke.
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Speaker 1: The pastor gave her money for everybody to go out
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Speaker 1: for a fried chicken lunch. They go to church's chicken.
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Speaker 1: They make it to a convenience store that has been
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Speaker 1: verified and then at that point, shante what happens? Um
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Speaker 1: At that point, um, my mom went, we went back home.
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Speaker 1: My mom called reached my county, and they told her
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Speaker 1: that in order for her to report them missing, that
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Speaker 1: she had to wait twenty four hours. So she waited.
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Speaker 1: The twenty four hours. They still he came back. She
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Speaker 1: still was calling around asking people here they've seen them? Um, nobody,
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Speaker 1: nobody still had seen him at that point. The next
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Speaker 1: week after is when they sent the investigat out. The
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Speaker 1: investigator came out and wait a minute, wait a minute.
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Speaker 1: A whole week passes, yes, ma'am. Oh Brooke Hargrove, Oh man,
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Speaker 1: that's bad. A whole week passes, yes, ma'am. This is
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Speaker 1: one and as spring of outrageous actions um against this family,
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Speaker 1: frankly by the local law enforcement. To Michael wheel And,
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Speaker 1: host of Unresolved podcast, why a Week, I honestly wish
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Speaker 1: I could tell you that that is what I've covered
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Speaker 1: my fair share of missing persons cases, But this is
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Speaker 1: the first time where there's been the twenty four hour
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Speaker 1: waiting period to report two children missing and then days,
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Speaker 1: if not a week, to come out and take statements
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Speaker 1: from the family members. This is so unlike anything even
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Speaker 1: for you know, at some point when you start looking
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Speaker 1: at it and hearing all this, it almost seems as
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Speaker 1: if the investigators no more. Then they're saying because you've
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Speaker 1: got them first saying, oh, you can't report them for
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Speaker 1: twenty four hours. Then the detective assigned to it goes,
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Speaker 1: they're just runaways. Then he claims a witness spots them
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Speaker 1: and actively closes the file. The file gets quote lost.
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Speaker 1: Then someone goes to the next level of having them
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Speaker 1: removed from the national database of Missing people. Now we
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Speaker 1: learn an investigator wasn't even sent out for a week. Michael,
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Speaker 1: I mean, is there any explanation for that? Um? I
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Speaker 1: wish I could tell you. Unfortunately, all the like you said,
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Speaker 1: the original case documents are gone, so we can't even
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Speaker 1: you know, other than what the family has said since then,
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Speaker 1: there's no record of you know, when they went out
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Speaker 1: and when they started to actually investigate anything or even
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Speaker 1: what they investigated. This is what we know. If I
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Speaker 1: could clarify Nancy, this is Brooke, I'd like to clarify um.
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Speaker 1: After the twenty four hour waiting period, they did send
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Speaker 1: a beat cop. He took down a few preliminary notes.
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Speaker 1: Almost all of them were incorrect. He incorrectly spelled their name,
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Speaker 1: he took down their birthday wrong, the wrong street they
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Speaker 1: were last seen on, etcetera. After that, the family didn't
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Speaker 1: hear anything from the police department for a week, and
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Speaker 1: that after that week is when they sent out an
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Speaker 1: investigator who came out and said he would be in
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Speaker 1: charge of the case. So beet Cock comes gets the
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Speaker 1: wrong information, but still an investigator did not come for
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Speaker 1: a solid week. I've been investigating the twins and this
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Speaker 1: is what I've learned. They were well known and loved
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Speaker 1: and their small community there in Augusta. They loved music,
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Speaker 1: they loved TV, they were happy, they loved school. They
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Speaker 1: got great grades. They were never known to be troublemakers.
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Speaker 1: They didn't They had no history of ever running away.
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Speaker 1: There was no motive at the time for them to
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Speaker 1: run away. It was normal Sunday. They had no history
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Speaker 1: of misbehavior. There was one instance because one of them
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Speaker 1: was being bullied at a bus stop that they got
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Speaker 1: into an argument one time, and that is consistent with
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Speaker 1: what Seanta, the sister has told us that no trouble
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Speaker 1: good grades the works. The mother, Mary Louise Sturgis, has
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Speaker 1: been very involved trying to find her twins. Now understand this,
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Speaker 1: Danette and Jeanette had eight siblings, and the mom has
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Speaker 1: her hands full as she's trying to find two teen
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Speaker 1: missing girls, apparently getting very little help from the local police.
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Speaker 1: And then the file gets lost. There's a false siding
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Speaker 1: that's not confirmed, and investigators dropped the case with out
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Speaker 1: the mom knowing. It just seems to get worse and
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Speaker 1: worse and worse. I want to tell you something that
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Speaker 1: I've learned about Jeanette and Danette mill Brooks. In the
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Speaker 1: world of these two twins, Jeanette and Janette, they spend
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Speaker 1: a lot of time on their front porch and Augusta, Georgia,
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Speaker 1: just the way we would sit on my grandmother Lucy's
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Speaker 1: front porch outside of Making Georgia, watching the world go by, talking,
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Speaker 1: being together. That was where these two twins love to
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Speaker 1: be and according to their cousin that she can still
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Speaker 1: remember their smiles with their her eyes closed. Then one
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Speaker 1: day both of them they leave that porch and they vanish.
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Speaker 1: The mystery has never been soft. The cousin says, I
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Speaker 1: love them and I will never stop looking for them
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Speaker 1: until the day I die. Shante Sturgis, their sister, is
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Speaker 1: with us. Now, Shanty, tell me about how their disappearance
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Speaker 1: affected your mother. It has affected hers tremendously, because um
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Speaker 1: she has I mean, you know how some people get
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Speaker 1: around and they're like her age. She ceased to three.
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Speaker 1: Now they went missing with they was she was in
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Speaker 1: her thirties, so she she don't get around like most
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Speaker 1: people do. She it has took a toll on her
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Speaker 1: pretty much. Some days we used to be at home,
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Speaker 1: you know, I know, we have to go to school.
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Speaker 1: We get from school. Sometimes you're being in the room,
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Speaker 1: you know, crying and we can see a crying. It
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Speaker 1: just it did something to her. So sometimes she was
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Speaker 1: giving up hope, you know. And I used to have
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Speaker 1: to tell her a little mama, you know, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: have to keep going. We're gonna have to keep trying.
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Speaker 1: Everybody ain't gonna tell, you know, So She kept trying
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Speaker 1: to call down there to the police department to get
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Speaker 1: somebody to help, and they would always tell her no.
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Speaker 1: So she sitting around for years and years and years
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Speaker 1: ago by and by the time I turned nineteen, I
24:34
Speaker 1: just started doing it myself. I said, look, Mama, everybody
24:38
Speaker 1: ain't gonna tell you know. I said, I got to
24:39
Speaker 1: try to do something. We got to try to do something.
24:42
Speaker 1: So I started calling down in myself from the age
24:45
Speaker 1: of nineteen all the way up the to now, and
24:47
Speaker 1: I'm forty years old. It was just before their birthday.
24:50
Speaker 1: The twins headed out to visit their family friend. Their
24:55
Speaker 1: little sister, then twelve, chante back to with him, but
25:01
Speaker 1: being the older sisters, they said no, just like my
25:06
Speaker 1: sister and brother would tell me. We we've pieced together
25:09
Speaker 1: the fact that they go to a local pump and
25:11
Speaker 1: shop gas station. It's also a convenient store, and it's
25:15
Speaker 1: there the intersection of twelfth Street and MLK Boulevard in Augusta.
25:20
Speaker 1: They go inside, they get chips and drinks. The store
25:23
Speaker 1: clerk positively identifies them being there and that they were fine.
25:29
Speaker 1: It was about four or thirty in the afternoon on
25:31
Speaker 1: a Sunday. The clerk got busy at the cash register,
25:34
Speaker 1: she saw the girls leave. She caught a glimpse of
25:37
Speaker 1: a vehicle outside, not enough to give a description or
25:41
Speaker 1: to say whether the twins got into the vehicle, but
25:45
Speaker 1: we know this. They disappeared. They disappeared and have never
25:49
Speaker 1: been seen again. To Laura Norton, fall Line podcast host,
25:55
Speaker 1: since the case has been reopened, what kind of searches
25:59
Speaker 1: are going on? None? So what's the point of reopening it?
26:03
Speaker 1: There wasn't Well, that's what I wondered when I found
26:07
Speaker 1: stumbled across the case. UM, I truly believe this is
26:10
Speaker 1: not the only case that had this sort of treatment
26:13
Speaker 1: in AUGUSTA. I want to be clear about that. Many
26:15
Speaker 1: missing persons cases of miners were mishandled during that period
26:20
Speaker 1: and closed prematurely. Um Hearsay was involved. Nothing has happened.
26:24
Speaker 1: An investigator was assigned in two thousand and thirteen, briefly
26:28
Speaker 1: took DNA from Chante and her mother and their sister,
26:32
Speaker 1: who was fully related to the twins in terms of
26:35
Speaker 1: them having both the same mother and father, best DNA sample,
26:38
Speaker 1: and began some preliminary research. But then she left the
26:42
Speaker 1: department and at the time that we began looking into
26:45
Speaker 1: the case, no one was assigned to it, and no
26:47
Speaker 1: further action have been taken. Are you suggesting that it
26:50
Speaker 1: was only reopened because pressure from your podcast fall line? Well,
26:56
Speaker 1: the it was reopened in two thousand and thirteen, and
26:59
Speaker 1: that was the new sheriff was elected. Richard Rowntree and
27:03
Speaker 1: Shawnta directly contacted the Sheriff's office at that point and
27:06
Speaker 1: asked them to do so. He was reaching out to
27:08
Speaker 1: the community asking what he could do. But between two
27:11
Speaker 1: thousand and thirteen and June of two thousand and seventeen,
27:14
Speaker 1: when we began our podcast, nothing further ahead happened. Agree
27:18
Speaker 1: or disagree, Michael with unresolved. Yeah, Richmond County so far
27:24
Speaker 1: has really done nothing to inspire any confidence that the
27:27
Speaker 1: investigation is going somewhere. In my opinion, I've tried reaching
27:31
Speaker 1: out to them. I've called, I've sent emails. I've even
27:35
Speaker 1: tried filing a Freedom of Information Act not too long ago,
27:38
Speaker 1: and I haven't even heard back on that. So, as
27:41
Speaker 1: far as I know, there is no movement on the case,
27:43
Speaker 1: and I'm not even sure if anyone is openly investigating
27:46
Speaker 1: the case as of this moment. They're not um there
27:51
Speaker 1: was someone assigned, but they've recently been moved to another department.
27:54
Speaker 1: We know because we do regularly contact and with leads
27:57
Speaker 1: and information that we developed, and there's no one currently
27:59
Speaker 1: assigned to the Take a listen to this. Once I
28:03
Speaker 1: took a look at the case, I saw that there
28:06
Speaker 1: was a gray miss justice done to that family. The
28:09
Speaker 1: individual work in that case. UM inversely close the case
28:13
Speaker 1: for whatever reason in the case shouldn't have been closed.
28:16
Speaker 1: Back to Shaunty started us the sister of Danette and Jeanette,
28:21
Speaker 1: Shaunte that day that you realized your sisters were gone?
28:28
Speaker 1: What do you remember about that day and that night
28:31
Speaker 1: as the hours began to pass and they didn't come home.
28:35
Speaker 1: My mom pacing up and down and just kept as
28:39
Speaker 1: I kept you know, I was up with her. My
28:41
Speaker 1: other sister was up with him. Um. She just kept
28:46
Speaker 1: talking about it, you know, and find everybody went to
28:50
Speaker 1: sleep and we got up to go to school. That
28:52
Speaker 1: next morning. When we got home from school, we asked
28:55
Speaker 1: the head they came back home and she was like, no,
28:58
Speaker 1: she hadn't heard from I said it, Where have you
29:00
Speaker 1: heard from the police? Did they say anything? And she
29:03
Speaker 1: was like no. Um, So like I said that next
29:10
Speaker 1: week where they did send the cop out that they
29:12
Speaker 1: got the information about they clothes they had on that day,
29:16
Speaker 1: on where they were going, and um who whoever they
29:22
Speaker 1: had contact with that day, did they have boyfriends and
29:27
Speaker 1: things of that nature. He would ask her questions like that,
29:30
Speaker 1: but we didn't really get no investigation out of anything,
29:34
Speaker 1: even when the investigator did come out on the thing
29:37
Speaker 1: he did was to go to the school and talk
29:39
Speaker 1: to the people at the school that they attended, which
29:41
Speaker 1: was Lucy Lane in high school. He talked to some
29:44
Speaker 1: of the kids there, I think they said he talked
29:46
Speaker 1: to the principal there, and the principal sup postman told
29:49
Speaker 1: him that he's seen the girls standing on the corner
29:52
Speaker 1: and when he called their name, they just took off runting.
29:55
Speaker 1: But that was never confirmed. This is what the investigator said.
29:59
Speaker 1: But he never went to the convenience sort of talk
30:02
Speaker 1: to Ms. Gloria. He never went and talked to my sister.
30:05
Speaker 1: He never talked to my cousin them that day. Everybody
30:08
Speaker 1: they had had contact with them the day they went missing.
30:12
Speaker 1: He never talked to on the people he talked to us.
30:15
Speaker 1: The people at the school that claimed that um, they
30:20
Speaker 1: saw them, um standing on the corner or they claimed
30:24
Speaker 1: he said they've seen them in the bottom, which is
30:27
Speaker 1: uh project that's called Underwood Homes. They were supposed to
30:31
Speaker 1: be down there, and then they said that they were
30:34
Speaker 1: supposed to being at somebody the house and um a
30:37
Speaker 1: project called delth to Manor where my mom she stays there. Now, Um,
30:42
Speaker 1: they had a couple of friends that did stay down there,
30:45
Speaker 1: but they really didn't go to many place, you know,
30:48
Speaker 1: and whenever we did go into where all of us
30:50
Speaker 1: went together, it's just that particular day, everybody just had
30:55
Speaker 1: came home from church and you know, my mom was
30:58
Speaker 1: getting there. Everybody rid of school the next day. She
31:01
Speaker 1: wanted to feed everybody before they went to bed, and
31:04
Speaker 1: she sent them out and ain't like you know, people
31:08
Speaker 1: might say, okay, well when we did that too, bet yo,
31:11
Speaker 1: it was walk. But I used to walk and I
31:14
Speaker 1: was twe of years old and we used to walk
31:16
Speaker 1: going to friends house of whatever. Back then. Also, we
31:20
Speaker 1: wasn't the only ones that was doing that. You know,
31:23
Speaker 1: we didn't think that nothing was gonna happen. She didn't
31:25
Speaker 1: know that they wasn't gonna come back home that day.
31:27
Speaker 1: Well I did too, Shante all over the neighborhood, out
31:31
Speaker 1: in the middle really of of of nowhere. Here's the
31:34
Speaker 1: question to Brook Hargrove, Brooke. Apparently it's believed that the
31:40
Speaker 1: girls got enough money to take a bus to a
31:44
Speaker 1: high school. Do we know if they got on the bus?
31:47
Speaker 1: Did that happen? No, ma'am. So they were collecting some
31:52
Speaker 1: money from their godfather to use to take the bus
31:56
Speaker 1: to the high school each day the following week. Uh,
32:00
Speaker 1: the last time they were seen was at the convenience store,
32:03
Speaker 1: which would have been around four or five pm. They
32:07
Speaker 1: were never seen again. Any reports that they were seen
32:11
Speaker 1: came directly from the original investigator, who it has been
32:16
Speaker 1: shown that he has um fabricated some details in the
32:20
Speaker 1: past in order to be able to close the case.
32:23
Speaker 1: We don't believe they made it very far past the
32:26
Speaker 1: convenience store, and they certainly never got on a bus
32:30
Speaker 1: and went to school again. Well, they were apparently real
32:34
Speaker 1: home bodies. And my question is how do two teen
32:38
Speaker 1: girls just disappear at the same time. I mean, it
32:44
Speaker 1: would be very difficult to control two teen girls that
32:48
Speaker 1: don't want to get in your vehicle or don't want
32:50
Speaker 1: to go with you from the convenience store to their home,
32:54
Speaker 1: to my understanding, is less than a mile, and most
32:59
Speaker 1: of that would have been along M. L K Boulevard.
33:02
Speaker 1: I've been on M l K a hundred times and
33:06
Speaker 1: it's a very busy street and at that time, it
33:10
Speaker 1: would have still been daylight outside. So how in broad
33:14
Speaker 1: daylight did two girls on a very busy street get
33:20
Speaker 1: dragged into a car by a random kidnapper? It says
33:25
Speaker 1: to me it had to be somebody that they knew.
33:29
Speaker 1: What about that, Laura Norton, I think that's the most
33:32
Speaker 1: likely scenario. The only other and less likely option. There
33:36
Speaker 1: was a serial rapist operating in the neighborhood at the time.
33:40
Speaker 1: Who was Washington, Yes, ma'am, and take George, sorry, Josephatrick Washington,
33:45
Speaker 1: and he was taking people off the street busy times
33:48
Speaker 1: a day with a gun. But once again, as you
33:50
Speaker 1: say to people, so the most likely scenario is it
33:53
Speaker 1: would be someone that they knew. Um, they did not
33:56
Speaker 1: take rides from strangers, They were not hitchhikers. Now with Washington,
34:01
Speaker 1: would this have been his emo? Compared to victims? Time
34:04
Speaker 1: of day a Sunday, And weren't the victims found with
34:09
Speaker 1: Washington as opposed to Janette. Janette never found. Well, it
34:14
Speaker 1: kind of was across the board. They would have been
34:16
Speaker 1: in the victim pool in a large and broadway. They
34:20
Speaker 1: were a little younger. Um, the time of day was
34:23
Speaker 1: a little later. But some of Washington's victims were found
34:27
Speaker 1: where he left them. But a few people were found
34:29
Speaker 1: fairly far away. But you're right, as far as we know,
34:31
Speaker 1: they were found. Questioned back to Shanty Stor just a
34:34
Speaker 1: sister of the missing girls, Dannette and Jeanette Millbrooks Chaunte question.
34:41
Speaker 1: I know that you finally took it over from your
34:44
Speaker 1: mother because she was just exhausted with trying to get
34:50
Speaker 1: the police to act in this case, and that you
34:54
Speaker 1: call them, call them, call them incessantly until a sheriff
35:01
Speaker 1: finally agrees to look into it, only discovered the case
35:05
Speaker 1: had been closed for years. When you would call them, Shaunte,
35:09
Speaker 1: when you would call police, what would they say to you?
35:13
Speaker 1: Crazy stuff that wasn't true. Um, I called down there
35:17
Speaker 1: a couple of times. They told me my mom kids
35:20
Speaker 1: head got taken away from I need the call to
35:23
Speaker 1: uh the defects office to find out information from Well,
35:28
Speaker 1: that wasn't true because you were there with your mother
35:30
Speaker 1: and the other all the eight brothers and sisters. They
35:34
Speaker 1: were not taken away and there have been no claims
35:37
Speaker 1: of child protective services in that home. I can't believe
35:40
Speaker 1: one of them even said that. Okay, what else? Okay?
35:44
Speaker 1: So at that call, I did what they said, I
35:47
Speaker 1: called defects. Defects told me to call foster foster home. Um,
35:52
Speaker 1: they probably was adopted out of something and so um.
35:55
Speaker 1: They gave me a phone them and to call some
35:57
Speaker 1: adoption agency that was in a lamb of Georgia. I
36:00
Speaker 1: called an adopted ation. They told me, well, I don't
36:03
Speaker 1: know what they would Why would they tell you to
36:05
Speaker 1: call us because we wouldn't be able to give you
36:07
Speaker 1: any information any way if they did. But they told
36:11
Speaker 1: me because I was the sister said, or the only
36:15
Speaker 1: way they would give me information is that I feeled
36:17
Speaker 1: that paperwork and they was gonna mad the paperwork to me,
36:20
Speaker 1: which they did, but I never filed it out of
36:23
Speaker 1: sent it back because I already know what was the
36:26
Speaker 1: stated wasn't true. Wait, let me understand what you're saying.
36:30
Speaker 1: Are you telling me Shanta police told you to call
36:33
Speaker 1: an adoption agency like your your team sisters were adopted
36:39
Speaker 1: that day. The police told me to call defects they
36:42
Speaker 1: see um because they from their recollection whatever they but
36:47
Speaker 1: they're saying the case file was closed. Now they they
36:50
Speaker 1: have them in the fiul. But from whatever he was seeing.
36:54
Speaker 1: The guy that I talked to, I don't know his name,
36:57
Speaker 1: but he told me from what he was seeing that
37:00
Speaker 1: my mom kids had got taken away. Maybe, um, they
37:04
Speaker 1: you called the defects office because they probably by now
37:07
Speaker 1: they've probably been adopted out because they had been so
37:09
Speaker 1: many youths from nine to the time that I start
37:13
Speaker 1: looking for them, oh like seven years. Oh oh oh,
37:18
Speaker 1: that's killing me. That's killing me, Brook Hargrove. She's trying
37:25
Speaker 1: to find her sisters. At police say called defacts. They
37:30
Speaker 1: all know that children are in the home, the other
37:32
Speaker 1: eight children are in the home. They know the children
37:35
Speaker 1: have not been removed from the home, and then they
37:38
Speaker 1: suggest defects suggest the girls were adopted. That's ridiculous. Absolutely,
37:45
Speaker 1: Even if children had been removed from the home and
37:49
Speaker 1: attempted to be adopted out, the biological mother has to
37:53
Speaker 1: sign paperwork terminating her parental rights, which of course Shaunte's
37:58
Speaker 1: mother never did. It's totally absurd. I just I don't
38:03
Speaker 1: understand why they would even say that. So, Shaunte, you
38:08
Speaker 1: know de Facts Department Family Children's Services, and we have
38:12
Speaker 1: confirmed this was never called to the home. The children
38:16
Speaker 1: were not put up for adoption, and the fact that
38:20
Speaker 1: they would say this is another black eye to the police.
38:26
Speaker 1: Why would they have said that instead of saying talking
38:29
Speaker 1: to you about the investigations. Chante exactly, that's what I am.
38:34
Speaker 1: I said. And then further, my why didn't y'all give
38:37
Speaker 1: her a chance to get her kids back if y'all
38:39
Speaker 1: feel that the ending of the kids was in danger?
38:42
Speaker 1: Whyle y'all left the other kids and just took two
38:45
Speaker 1: kids out of the home. I said, that don't make
38:47
Speaker 1: any sense. Well, it's all a big lie because we
38:50
Speaker 1: know the current sheriff has reopened a missing person possible
38:55
Speaker 1: homicide case. So that's totally a lie. That brings me
38:59
Speaker 1: to my question, Laura Norton, why the lie? Well, I
39:03
Speaker 1: think that this is a long culture of apathy and incompetence,
39:07
Speaker 1: and when we speak to the adoption case, there was
39:10
Speaker 1: someone in the system with a similar last name. There
39:13
Speaker 1: was not enough effort put into checking that to look
39:16
Speaker 1: at the first name and see. Of course it's not
39:19
Speaker 1: the twins um and I really think in this case,
39:23
Speaker 1: although it seems horrible and unbelievable, it has simply been
39:27
Speaker 1: a long string of incompetence, apathy, and not caring about young,
39:32
Speaker 1: poor girls of color. In Augusta, Georgia Chantey questioned, do
39:37
Speaker 1: you believe your sisters are alive at this point? I'm
39:42
Speaker 1: not sure. I want to believe they are, always hope
39:48
Speaker 1: all these years that they are, but right now I'm
39:52
Speaker 1: not sure. You know, years and years, like almost thirty
39:56
Speaker 1: years now, and we still haven't fountain anything. And I
40:00
Speaker 1: think he had to share the department did something back
40:03
Speaker 1: then in ninety we probably wanna be where we were,
40:06
Speaker 1: probably know something by now. But I never give up,
40:09
Speaker 1: I said, I keep on going and keep going until
40:13
Speaker 1: we can at least find something out because somebody out
40:16
Speaker 1: there's no They just disappeared and nobody to know anything.
40:21
Speaker 1: The heartache year after year of not knowing where your
40:26
Speaker 1: children are, what happened to them? But according to Schantay Sturgis,
40:34
Speaker 1: the sheriff reopened the case, but nothing else has happened.
40:39
Speaker 1: Has anything happened? Chantey since he said he would reopen
40:43
Speaker 1: the case. They opened the case back up in twent
40:46
Speaker 1: and thirteen. Okay, two months um after that, the let
40:52
Speaker 1: the investigator who they side over the case she was
40:56
Speaker 1: no longer at the police department anymore. They said that
41:00
Speaker 1: she had them moved on to I guess a different
41:03
Speaker 1: public agency or whatever. So after that, for months and
41:08
Speaker 1: months and months then went by and we haven't heard
41:11
Speaker 1: from them. Were called to find out what was going on,
41:14
Speaker 1: but we still got the same thing. They said that
41:17
Speaker 1: they were waiting for anybody with information to contact them,
41:21
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you know, why would you all wait?
41:24
Speaker 1: I said, it's been already the twenty three years that
41:27
Speaker 1: they've been missing so far, and y'all talking about way
41:30
Speaker 1: and whether y'all waiting on for somebody to come to
41:33
Speaker 1: I said, if anything, they would have been came down
41:36
Speaker 1: here by now, and Lord bhome, huh. Some months after
41:42
Speaker 1: I had called them, that's when I got contacted and
41:45
Speaker 1: then on Facebook by Brooke and Laura, And from that
41:50
Speaker 1: point on they've been doing the investigation. It has been
41:54
Speaker 1: the police department. So I think if I had I
41:59
Speaker 1: they contact to me, we're still be back in nineteen nine.
42:03
Speaker 1: We still feel like we are because they still ain't
42:06
Speaker 1: doing anything. Brooke Hargrove, one of the producers of fall
42:10
Speaker 1: Line podcasts along with Laura Norton with us Now Michael
42:14
Speaker 1: Wheelan host of the Unresolved podcast. Brooke Hargrove, um, question
42:21
Speaker 1: about something I've learned. I understand an investigator agreed to
42:27
Speaker 1: meet with you after you uncovered new leads, but on
42:31
Speaker 1: the condition they don't you don't discuss the case, and
42:35
Speaker 1: you were not allowed to ask any questions. The family
42:39
Speaker 1: could come, but only if they asked no questions. Is
42:42
Speaker 1: that true? That's true? And unfortunately when we did show
42:47
Speaker 1: up for the meeting, it was myself and Laura and
42:50
Speaker 1: Shanta and her mother Ms. Louise. Once we showed up,
42:55
Speaker 1: we were told there were too many people that only
42:58
Speaker 1: two people would be allowed to attend a meeting, so
43:01
Speaker 1: I had to go in and make the evidence presentation.
43:05
Speaker 1: Shanta went in because she's been heading the case since
43:08
Speaker 1: age nineteen, and Miss Louise, who had never had an
43:12
Speaker 1: in person meeting about her children's case since nine Ever
43:17
Speaker 1: she's never had one ever, was made to sit in
43:20
Speaker 1: the lobby and wait while this meeting took place. I
43:24
Speaker 1: just don't even know what to say to that Brooke,
43:27
Speaker 1: how horrible it is. Brooke, You on behalf of fall
43:33
Speaker 1: Line podcast have developed new leads. What are they? We
43:38
Speaker 1: have several Nancy. We started first looking into the Joseph
43:42
Speaker 1: Patrick Washington UM connection because his victim profile well is
43:50
Speaker 1: very similar to Jeanette and Janette. There have also been
43:54
Speaker 1: um some Jane does recovered in the Aiken, South Carolina area,
43:59
Speaker 1: which is very close geographically to Augusta. They're kind of
44:02
Speaker 1: like sister cities um. One of them, Shanta, saw a
44:08
Speaker 1: reconstruction on the news in the I believe late nineties,
44:13
Speaker 1: and she thought to herself, my goodness, that person looks
44:17
Speaker 1: so much like Jeanette. She called Richmond County she said,
44:20
Speaker 1: I just saw Jane Doe reconstruction on the news. Looks
44:24
Speaker 1: like my sister. They said, oh no, that that wasn't
44:26
Speaker 1: the twins, although they could never explain to her how
44:30
Speaker 1: they came to that conclusion because they didn't have any
44:32
Speaker 1: materials for testing until when they reopened the case. We
44:38
Speaker 1: were able to contact the corner in Aiken County, South Carolina,
44:43
Speaker 1: and he is currently running a comparison between that Jane Doe,
44:47
Speaker 1: who is still unclaimed and Jeanette, we're waiting on results.
44:52
Speaker 1: Laura Norton, what more can you tell me. We also
44:55
Speaker 1: looked into various people who would have been part of
44:57
Speaker 1: the twins lives, gathered information on them and passed that
45:00
Speaker 1: along to law enforcement as well to Michael wheel And
45:04
Speaker 1: what do you make of it? Well, at the moment,
45:08
Speaker 1: it's just really hard to overlook, you know, how many
45:11
Speaker 1: leads there were, how many suspects that police should have investigated,
45:15
Speaker 1: but they spent twenty three years not following up on
45:18
Speaker 1: any of them. So, like Lauren Brooke have painted that
45:21
Speaker 1: there was, you know, the connection to Joseph Patrick Washington,
45:25
Speaker 1: who was a serial rapist that lived, you know, in
45:27
Speaker 1: the neighborhood, But there were so many different, you know,
45:31
Speaker 1: serial offenders that lived in the surrounding area and none
45:35
Speaker 1: of them were really investigated. And it's just right now
45:39
Speaker 1: I'm looking at some cases from around the vicinity of
45:44
Speaker 1: where the twins lived, and it's like you said, it's
45:47
Speaker 1: just hard not to get frustrated with how much how
45:51
Speaker 1: much is out there to be investigated and police did
45:53
Speaker 1: none of it. For those of you that are hearing
45:56
Speaker 1: our public police for information on the disappearance of these
46:01
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46:08
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46:34
Speaker 1: Our tip line is that four zero four five nine
46:38
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46:44
Speaker 1: do you have a tip line? What is it? Yes?
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Speaker 1: I do. It is eight three one two zero zero
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Speaker 1: three five zero Laura Norton with fall Line Podcast. Is
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Speaker 1: it true that you have actually managed to raise thousands
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Speaker 1: of dollars? Yes, our listeners have raised eight thousand dollars,
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Speaker 1: which the Sheriff's office told Shawntay's family they would announce.
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Speaker 1: They have now declined to announce it. So now we
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Speaker 1: are once again crowdsourcing to raise enough money for a billboard.
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Speaker 1: I don't understand why am I even paying tax dollars
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Speaker 1: if they won't even announce the reward you guys managed
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Speaker 1: to scrape up. Take a listen to this. Both cases
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Speaker 1: are started through private funding UM, and then we locate
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Speaker 1: funding to try to match that case UM based on
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Speaker 1: the level of commitment that someone is already done. It's
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Speaker 1: so much stuff that has been said and done over
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Speaker 1: the years. It just upsets me to the point I'd
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Speaker 1: be won to cururse, you know, but I refrained from it.
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Speaker 1: Um when we went to go meet him, we was thinking,
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Speaker 1: you know, he said he wanted to treat um the
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Speaker 1: case if it was his own family. So I'm like,
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Speaker 1: this is how you treat them. I want to be
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Speaker 1: in your family because it's crazy. You said you was
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Speaker 1: gonna help us, but now of a sudden we get
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Speaker 1: the reward money, which I think he didn't think that
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Speaker 1: we were gonna be able to get it. I think
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Speaker 1: that's what it was. And now that we got it,
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Speaker 1: even if they can't master the reward, all we want
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Speaker 1: them to do is announce it. I had to go
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Speaker 1: out here and put up flyers with reward on there
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Speaker 1: by myself. You know. I got a Facebook page up
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Speaker 1: with my sister and them owner, asking people you know,
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Speaker 1: in the community to come out. But I think had
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Speaker 1: the Richmond County got some involvement in it and announced
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Speaker 1: it on the news, maybe I would have had more
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Speaker 1: people to come out to help. But then nobody to
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Speaker 1: show up but me and Mike, so I gave him
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Speaker 1: some of the flyers and me and my kids went
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Speaker 1: out to put some of the flyers up and we
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Speaker 1: are planning an event on the eighteenth uh the anniversary
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Speaker 1: of their disappearance in March and AUGUSTA. Well, I know
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Speaker 1: this climb online will help as well. I I strongly
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Speaker 1: believe that the FBI needs to be involved in this
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Speaker 1: disappearance and the investigation of what went wrong. Within the
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Speaker 1: Richmond County Sheriff's office, Shante Sturgis was contacted by my
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Speaker 1: mom and they told her they couldn't do anything to
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Speaker 1: help her because of the original investigator, see it they
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Speaker 1: had been found. Well, you know what, since that's not true,
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Speaker 1: maybe they can reconsider Nancy Grace crime stories. Signing off
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Speaker 1: goodbye friend,