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S2 E42 _ Midday Missing _ David Crouch & Billie Bennett _ Missing in Wyoming (1) · True Crime and Wine Time

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  Speaker 1: Hello lovelies. I am Terarry True Crime and welcome to
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  Speaker 1: Midday Missing, where we highlight missing person cases that need
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  Speaker 1: get into today's cases, we do have two Amber alerts.
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  Speaker 1: The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has activated in the LAMB
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  Speaker 1: Amber Alert at the request of the Atlanta Police Department.
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  Speaker 1: Sola Cooper a four year old black female three foot
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  Speaker 1: nine inches tall, weighing about forty two pounds, with brown hair,
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  Speaker 1: brown eyes, and black hair, wearing a multicolored dress, and
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  Speaker 1: her sister, Nora Cooper, at eleven month old black female
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  Speaker 1: who's about two foot tall, weighing twenty eight pounds, has
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  Speaker 1: brown eyes and black hair. They have been abducted. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The children were abducted on August fifteenth at six pm
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  Speaker 1: by their babysitter, Lakeisha Brown, who's a forty two year
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  Speaker 1: old black female. She is said to be about five
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  Speaker 1: foot nine inches tall, weighing about one hundred and forty pounds.
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  Speaker 1: She has brown hair and brown eyes and black hair. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Lakeisha was last seen at three sixty five James P.
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  Speaker 1: Brawley Drive Northwest and was believed to be traveling in
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  Speaker 1: a two thousand and nine white Ford three point fifty
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  Speaker 1: truck with Alabama tag. I see zero eight seven y four. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you see Lakeisha, Zola or Nora, I'm asking you
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  Speaker 1: to please contact the Atlanta Police Department at four seven
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  Speaker 1: zero two one eight five zero zero one. And this
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  Speaker 1: week today we do have pictures and look at these
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  Speaker 1: sweet sweet faces and guys. I have to say, a
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  Speaker 1: babysitter abducting the children. She's taken care of that only
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  Speaker 1: shes a new fear for every parent. Okay, and grandparent
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  Speaker 1: that releases a new fear for me. So we want
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  Speaker 1: you to all please keep your eyes open if you
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  Speaker 1: live in the area. Okay, Now, today we are headed
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  Speaker 1: back to Whyowming and guys, I will stay. Wyoming is
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  Speaker 1: home the most breathtaking wilderness in America. Got to finally
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  Speaker 1: visit there this summer and I will say it had great.
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  Speaker 1: You know, towering peaks, they have Yellowstone National Park, they
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  Speaker 1: have big corn mountains. But then also they do have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of long roads where you just drive in
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  Speaker 1: the landscape looks the same for hours on end. Okay. Now,
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  Speaker 1: these landscapes do draw millions of visitors every year. But guys,
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  Speaker 1: this makes search efforts difficult. Okay, Now, according to the
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  Speaker 1: most recent data, Wyoming consistently has one of the highest
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  Speaker 1: missing person rates per capita in the nation, despite its
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  Speaker 1: relatively small population. Good news is most cases are resolved quickly.
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  Speaker 1: But guys, there are still so many families out there
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  Speaker 1: that are continuing waiting for answers on their left ones. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and guys, everyone of these cases deserve to be remembered. Well.
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  Speaker 1: Hello Pam, welcome in. Hello Angie of Oz. It is
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  Speaker 1: so great to see all of you here, Pam, I
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  Speaker 1: hope you are doing well. And yes, we need to
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  Speaker 1: bring these sweet girls home. Like I said, that just
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  Speaker 1: freaks me out, the thought of a babysitter doing that, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: And I do want to apologize up front from my
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  Speaker 1: raspy voice. I'm not even drinkling sparkling water. I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: straight because I got something going on. Now, up first,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about David Milton Crouch. Now, once again,
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  Speaker 1: not tons I could find on this case. But on
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  Speaker 1: September seventh, nineteen ninety seven, twenty seven year old David
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  Speaker 1: Milton Crouch disappeared while on a week long camping and
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  Speaker 1: fishing trip and Wyoming's Rugged Bridger Titon National Forest near Pinedale. David,
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  Speaker 1: who had traveled from Maryland with three friends, had hired
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  Speaker 1: local outfitter to guide their horseback trip into the Wind River. Now,
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  Speaker 1: David was an avid cyclist, a runner, and a sailor.
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  Speaker 1: This guy's athletic, okay, and David was very enthusiastic about
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  Speaker 1: the adventure althose those who knew him said he had
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  Speaker 1: very little experience camping in remote wilderness. Thankfully they had
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  Speaker 1: a local outfielder. Now throughout the trip. Both the outfitter
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  Speaker 1: and his friends repeatedly stressed the imports of staying together
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  Speaker 1: in the back country, where the terrain is beautiful but
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  Speaker 1: very unforgiving. The group planned to spend September seventh fishing
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  Speaker 1: around Island Lake, located at an elevation of approximately ten
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  Speaker 1: five hundred feet, before meeting for lunch at the nearby
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  Speaker 1: Fremont Crossing Trail junction at two pm. David was last
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  Speaker 1: seen around noon, standing on the western shore of Island
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  Speaker 1: Lake with a fishing rod in hand. When fellow campers
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  Speaker 1: looked for him later, he was gone. At first, no
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  Speaker 1: one panicked. It was Labor Day weekend, the trails were
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  Speaker 1: busier than usual with hikers and campers, and they assumed
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  Speaker 1: he had simply taken a different route and arrived at
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  Speaker 1: the meeting point. Sadly, guys, as the afternoon turned into
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  Speaker 1: evening and David never appeared, turned into alarm and law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement was notified. Guys, they say what followed was one
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  Speaker 1: of the largest search efforts that area had seen for
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  Speaker 1: two weeks. The Sublete County Sheriff's Office, along with approximately
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  Speaker 1: fifty search and rescue volunteers, searched miles of steep mountain terrain,
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  Speaker 1: dense forest, and rocky slopes. Search teams utilized tracking dogs,
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  Speaker 1: horseback riders, and helicopters guys, Yet despite these extensive efforts,
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  Speaker 1: no sign of David was found. Now former Sublete County
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff Hank Rulin, who led the search and later served
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  Speaker 1: four terms as sheriff before retiring in two thousand and five,
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  Speaker 1: has said David's disappearance remains one of the cases that
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  Speaker 1: has stayed with him throughout his career. Loss hikers and
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  Speaker 1: campers were not uncommon in the wind River Range. They
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  Speaker 1: were almost always located within a day or two. David
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  Speaker 1: was the exception. As Sheriff Ruland later reflected, we tried everything.
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  Speaker 1: It's the ones you don't find that really bother you, guys.
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  Speaker 1: The only possible league came from a group of hikers
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  Speaker 1: who reported seeing a man matching David's general description around
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  Speaker 1: seven pm that evening. They encountered a man wearing a
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  Speaker 1: black and red flannel shirt carrying a fish and pole
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  Speaker 1: several miles north in east of Island Lake. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they said high as they passed, but he continued walking
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  Speaker 1: by without responding. Investigators have never been able to confirm
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  Speaker 1: whether that individual was David, but if it was, it
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  Speaker 1: suggested that he had wondered a considerable distance from where
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  Speaker 1: he was last known to be. The conditions in the
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  Speaker 1: mountains quickly became dangerous. The night David disappeared was moonless,
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  Speaker 1: leaving very little visibility, and temperatures dropped into the low
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  Speaker 1: forties and thirties. Over the following days, temperatures continued to
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  Speaker 1: fall and a light snowfall moved in the area. David
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  Speaker 1: was dressed in jeans, applied plaid flannel shirt, and hiking boots.
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  Speaker 1: He had no tint, no sleeping bag, no food, no water,
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  Speaker 1: compass matches, or other survival equipment that would have helped
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  Speaker 1: him endure it at night in the harsh wilderness. No
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  Speaker 1: trace of David Milton Crouch has ever been found. Guys's
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  Speaker 1: been nearly three decades, and his family continues to hope
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  Speaker 1: that someone may one day provide the answers that have
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  Speaker 1: remained hidden. Afternoon in September of nineteen ninety seven. If
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  Speaker 1: you have any information, please contact Sublet County Sheriff's Office
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  Speaker 1: at three oh seven three six seven four three seven eight. Also,
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  Speaker 1: is missing, or you know of a missing person whose
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  Speaker 1: story deserves more tension, guys, we would be honored to
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  Speaker 1: help share their case on an upcoming episode of Midday Missing,
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  Speaker 1: and families are always welcome to join us for a
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  Speaker 1: live interview to discuss their loved one and tell us
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  Speaker 1: Okay now. On July sixteenth, twenty twenty one, forty four
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  Speaker 1: year old Billy Danell Bennett was last seen in Cody, Wyoming.
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  Speaker 1: Where she was headed remains unknown, and after that day
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  Speaker 1: she was never heard from again. Friends and family quickly
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  Speaker 1: became concerned when they were able to when they were
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  Speaker 1: unable to reach her, sorry guys. Three days later, on
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  Speaker 1: July nineteenth, twenty twenty one, investigators located Billy's black two
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  Speaker 1: thousand Chevrolet Extended SAP extended cat pickup truck abandoned near
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  Speaker 1: the Crystal Creek Rest area off US Highway fourteen a
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  Speaker 1: east of Lavelle in Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains. What made
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  Speaker 1: the discovery especially troubling was that all of her other
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  Speaker 1: all of her personal belongings, including her wallet, had been
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  Speaker 1: left inside the vehicle. There was no signs of Billy
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  Speaker 1: anywhere in the surrounding area, and despite extensive efforts, she
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  Speaker 1: has never been located. Billy is described as a white
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  Speaker 1: female with brown hair and blue eyes, standing between five
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  Speaker 1: feet seven inches and five foot eight weighs about one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty one hundred and forty pounds. She has
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  Speaker 1: been known to use the names Brandy Bennett and Daniel Messik,
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  Speaker 1: names investigators continue to include in her case information in
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  Speaker 1: hopes that someone may recognize her now. Before her disappearance,
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  Speaker 1: Billy had experience working in the oil industry and may
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  Speaker 1: have had contacts out southern and eastern Wyoming, as well
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  Speaker 1: as Oklahoma, North Dakota, and maybe even Texas. Investigators have
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  Speaker 1: considered those connections while attempting to trace her movements, but
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  Speaker 1: they are finding very few details about the circumstances surrounding
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  Speaker 1: her disappearance, and they have not released a lot of information.
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  Speaker 1: More than four years have passed since Billy Danelle Bennett vanished,
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  Speaker 1: yet her family is still searching for answers. The discovery
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  Speaker 1: of her abandoned truck with her wallet and personal belongings
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  Speaker 1: deepens the mystery of what happened that day. Anyone with
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  Speaker 1: information about Billy's disappearance is urged to contact the Big
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  Speaker 1: Horn County Sheriff's Office at three oh seven five six
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  Speaker 1: eight two three two four. Even the smallest bit of
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  Speaker 1: information could help investigate her finally determine what happened to
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  Speaker 1: Billy and provide our loved ones with the answers they
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  Speaker 1: have been waiting for. And once again I ask you,
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  Speaker 1: case with Part five till death, do us part and guys,
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  Speaker 1: for being here with me today. I know sometimes these
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  Speaker 1: but guys, we cover their cases to help bring them home,
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