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Gorgeous Girl 26, Caught on Camera Leaving for Work, DISAPPEARS: WHERE'S ARELIE · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 2: A gorgeous young twenty five year old girl seemingly vanishes
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Speaker 2: into thin air, the family getting no answers. We've got
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Speaker 2: to help find Arelie. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for being with us here at Crime Stories
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Speaker 2: and Serious xem one eleven. Listen to this a rally.
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Speaker 3: Garcia was seen leaving her apartment around six thirty in
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Speaker 3: the morning, headed to work. Garcia never made it to work. Instead,
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Speaker 3: police found her red Honda Accord in Big Sir near
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Speaker 3: the Little Sir River. Her car was locked, and phone
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Speaker 3: and car keys were found inside the vehicle, but no
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Speaker 3: sign of a rally Garcia. Brian Johnson of the Sealina's
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Speaker 3: Police Department told KSBW Action News eight that they had
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Speaker 3: help from Monterey County Sheriff's departments Search and Rescue Team,
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Speaker 3: as well as helicopters, airplanes and drones in the sky
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Speaker 3: and search and Rescue team dogs on the ground, but
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Speaker 3: nothing came up after two days of searching. Since then,
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Speaker 3: police have checked Orelli Garcia's bank account activity, phone records,
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Speaker 3: contacted area hospitals and police departments, but they have no
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Speaker 3: leads or any evidence of foul play.
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Speaker 2: No leads? How can that be? You know, in my
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Speaker 2: experience after helping to search for hundreds and hundreds of
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Speaker 2: missing people, they don't just disappear into thin air. There
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Speaker 2: are leads, they just haven't been found. With me an
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Speaker 2: all star panel to make sense of what we know
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Speaker 2: right now, the first to Mike Hassel, President founder, Peace
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Speaker 2: River Canine Search and Rescue. You can find them online
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Speaker 2: at p r SAR dot org. Peace River Canine Search
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Speaker 2: and Rescue. Mike Castle. Nobody disappears into thin air. That
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Speaker 2: doesn't happen. There are clues, there is evidence left behind,
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Speaker 2: apparently nobody's finding it. Do you agree or disagree with that?
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Speaker 4: No, I totally agree with that. Somebody probably saw something.
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Speaker 4: They just haven't found that person yet, and hopefully they
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Speaker 4: will and maybe with enough attention they'll come forward and
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Speaker 4: say what they saw. It's a really unusual case that
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Speaker 4: two days of searching around the car that they found
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Speaker 4: her personal items in the car and no trace of
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Speaker 4: or whatsoever. Montress is a good search team. And I'm
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Speaker 4: going back to my old stopping grounds because that's where
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Speaker 4: I started back in Malibu, so I know this area
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Speaker 4: really well and very surprised they didn't find anything at all.
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Speaker 2: I'm very surprised too, and Mike Hass I think that
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Speaker 2: there is evidence that has not been found or as
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Speaker 2: you say, has it been let me say relayed. Someone
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Speaker 2: sees knows heards something, but they don't know what they heard,
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Speaker 2: saw or learned. In order to hand it over, We're
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Speaker 2: looking for a beautiful twenty five year old girl, her
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Speaker 2: family beside themselves. But what more do we know about
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Speaker 2: this young girl? Alrellie, take a listen to our friends
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Speaker 2: at crimeonline dot com.
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Speaker 3: Really Garcia is the youngest of six children. After her parents'
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Speaker 3: marriage broke up, Garcia lived with her mother, Blanca Sanchez,
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Speaker 3: in Selinas, California. After high school, Garcia began training in
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Speaker 3: the Automotive Mechanics Technology program at the Center for Employment Training.
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Speaker 3: She found a job at my Chevrolet and Selenas as
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Speaker 3: a service advisor. Co workers described to Really Garcia as
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Speaker 3: the quote happy one of the group.
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Speaker 2: To Dan Corsantino, joining me, former police chief, former sheriff,
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Speaker 2: also with US Homeland Security on the senior advisory board,
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Speaker 2: now private eye at Dan Coorsantino dot com. Dan Corsantino,
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Speaker 2: did you hear that that she was the quote happy
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Speaker 2: one of the group. Now this is a young woman
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Speaker 2: that has broken into a male dominated industry, you know, service,
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Speaker 2: car service. I will never forget when I worked at
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Speaker 2: Sears when I was in high school. Normally I was
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Speaker 2: in the girls junior clothing department or the candy shop.
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Speaker 2: Once in a great while that throw me into automotive.
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Speaker 2: I would basically want to go hide in the back
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Speaker 2: room and never come back out. I didn't know what
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Speaker 2: anybody was talking about that asked questions, I would have
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Speaker 2: no answers. This girl plows into it, makes her way
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Speaker 2: at my Chevrolet and Selina's as a service advisor, telling
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Speaker 2: people what they need to get done to their car.
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Speaker 2: So she's a success. She's doing really well, and she's
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Speaker 2: known as quote the happy one day Corsentino. Why is
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Speaker 2: it that we see the best, the sweetest, the most
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Speaker 2: wonderful people turn into victims while all the dope dealers
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Speaker 2: and the child six pressures they seem to live forever, Corsentino,
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Speaker 2: they never go away.
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Speaker 5: Well, you said it, Nancy, it's really difficulty. Here's a
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Speaker 5: young woman who had a passion for automobiles.
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Speaker 2: She loved cars. You know, my nephews like that. We
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Speaker 2: thought he was going to turn down college and be
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Speaker 2: a car mechanic. He worked at what is it Autos
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Speaker 2: on the whole way through high school. He loves nothing
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Speaker 2: more than to work on cars.
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Speaker 5: And she was part of a Miso Fresh car club
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Speaker 5: where she customized and showed her own Honda Accord at times.
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Speaker 5: So she had a passion. But your question the victimization
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Speaker 5: of those of their kind, gentle, outgoing and happy. I
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Speaker 5: can't explain that there's no explanation in regards to this
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Speaker 5: cruel world that we live in, but we see that
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Speaker 5: all too often. Well, other things this does suggest, though,
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Speaker 5: in a male dominated vocation, is she had the respect
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Speaker 5: of her fellow mechanics and she was successful in that environment.
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Speaker 2: Joining me right now is a very special guest, Ellie Mendoza.
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Speaker 2: This is Aureli's sister and you can find her online
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Speaker 2: at Aurelli Garcia spelled r e l i E Arelli
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Speaker 2: Garcia dot com, gofund me dot com, Help find Arelli Garcia,
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Speaker 2: and at Bring Aurelli Home Underscore. We really need your help.
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Speaker 2: Arelli is not a celebrity, she is not a high
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Speaker 2: profile case. She's not a fashion model that walks the
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Speaker 2: runways of New York at fashion Week. This is a beautiful, young,
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Speaker 2: loving girl coming from a big family that loved her
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Speaker 2: more than anything. This is a girl who loved cars.
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Speaker 2: She has a red wrapped Honda that she worked on incessantly.
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Speaker 2: This is a great girl, and she's not getting the
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Speaker 2: attention and the effort that she needs. Ellie, thank you
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Speaker 2: for being with us. I just can't say enough about
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Speaker 2: your sister, but I won't. I mean, I've researched Herbert.
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Speaker 2: I want you to tell me about Arelli.
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Speaker 6: Yes, of course, thank you for having me. I'm glad
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Speaker 6: that you pointed out that point. Obviously, we're just a
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Speaker 6: simple family. We are not rich, we are not somewhat important.
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Speaker 2: Well, you're important to us, You're important to us. Just
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Speaker 2: know that.
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Speaker 7: Thank you.
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Speaker 6: I appreciate it because a lot of people still don't
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Speaker 6: know about her story. They still don't know, and it's
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Speaker 6: just really frustrating because we've been asking for it, o
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Speaker 6: Inness since the beginning, and we're not getting back.
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Speaker 2: Tell me about her, tell me about her personality. Dan
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Speaker 2: Corsentino with formerly with the US Homeland Security. He certainly
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Speaker 2: knows slouch. He knows what he's talking about. He said
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Speaker 2: something that really caught my attention, and it was kindhearted
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Speaker 2: people that are loving and happy and kind hearted. I mean, Ellie,
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Speaker 2: when we see a homeless person, we go buy them
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Speaker 2: food or we give them money. And one day John
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Speaker 2: David my son got out of the car to go
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Speaker 2: give someone money. I'm like, no, don't. I pulled the
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Speaker 2: car over and I went and gave the guy a
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Speaker 2: twenty because I was afraid the guy. I mean, I
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Speaker 2: didn't know if he was mainly unstable. I didn't know
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Speaker 2: what would happen, and I didn't want anything to happen
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Speaker 2: to John David. My point is a good heart. My
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Speaker 2: daughter's the same way. They would do anything to help
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Speaker 2: somebody else. And it makes me think up already and
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Speaker 2: did that somehow put her in harm's way? Her own
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Speaker 2: heart of gold tell me about her well, at.
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Speaker 6: At least a really funny person. She loves to help people.
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Speaker 6: Always they put other people before her. It's a very
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Speaker 6: hard working girl. See in what point she hadn't almost
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Speaker 6: three yilds like he really loves working. She's very girly.
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Speaker 6: She loves shopping for chinks stuff. She's at addicted to
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Speaker 6: Starbucks and obviously her car is everything like she would
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Speaker 6: always be working on it, buy new things, you know,
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Speaker 6: either inside or yes, making it look cute and shiny
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Speaker 6: like whenever she's driving around. You could tell that suddly
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Speaker 6: because her car was special.
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Speaker 2: You know that munds me so much of my nephew Sam,
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Speaker 2: ever since he was a teen boy, like thirteen, obsessed
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Speaker 2: with cars, knows all about cars, works on cars. I
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Speaker 2: mean he went on to major in chemistry and became
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Speaker 2: an eye tech superstar, but he still has a thing
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Speaker 2: for cars. And when he visits, he pulls up in
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Speaker 2: this shiny red truck and it literally shines. I think
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Speaker 2: you could eat off of it. There's something about people
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Speaker 2: that get the car bug. They devote so many hours
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Speaker 2: to them. And she actually succeeded in a male dominated
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Speaker 2: business and they loved her there. So what more do
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Speaker 2: we know about Arelli? What kiss should lie on? What
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Speaker 2: happened to her? Listen?
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Speaker 3: Even though she's the youngest, Arelly Garcia is very close
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Speaker 3: to two of her married sisters, Veronica and Elisette. Still
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Speaker 3: living at home with her mother, Garcia texted sister Veronica
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Speaker 3: almost daily. On September twenty second, Arelly Garcia sent Veronica
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Speaker 3: a message at six am, a simple message of good morning,
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Speaker 3: I love you. At six thirty am, Garcia is seen
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Speaker 3: on surveillance video leaving her apartment headed for work a rally.
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Speaker 3: Garcia is scheduled to be on the job by seven
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Speaker 3: am and is known to always be on time, but
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Speaker 3: this day Arelly Garcia wasn't.
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Speaker 1: She didn't show up at all.
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Speaker 2: So in just thirty minutes, everything changes.
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Speaker 1: Time stories with Nancy Grease.
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Speaker 2: Let me go to another special guest joining us, Ricardo
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Speaker 2: two var journalist, digital content manager at KIO N forty
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Speaker 2: six that, by the way, was the very first station
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Speaker 2: to pick up on Aurelli's case and has followed it extensively.
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Speaker 2: One of the few, and I'm not sure why others
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Speaker 2: are not joining, but we are. Ricardo, thank you for
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Speaker 2: being with us. Let me just ask you a couple
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Speaker 2: of very quick questions. Ricardo did already have a boyfriend.
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Speaker 7: As far as I'm concerned, not at the time.
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Speaker 2: No, Okay, that's important, Ellie. Do you know of a
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Speaker 2: boyfriend or an ex?
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Speaker 6: Well, we did find out after ye find out what
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Speaker 6: that she was on a relationship.
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Speaker 2: Okay, important? Who? What? Where?
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Speaker 8: Why?
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Speaker 2: When who is the boyfriend? Why was it a secret
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Speaker 2: and what did you find out about it? And has
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Speaker 2: the ex the boyfriend been clear?
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Speaker 6: Not sure how long they were dating. They were barely starting.
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Speaker 6: So that's why, you know, on typical static families, we
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Speaker 6: don't normally like to bring a guy too soon because
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Speaker 6: you know, well, my family starts, you know, assuming, Okay,
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Speaker 6: this is a guy, you're gonna marry him whatever.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I can understand that. The minute you bring
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Speaker 2: him home, everybody starts planning the wedding.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and like you don't even know if that's you know,
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Speaker 6: if they're gonna last or not. So I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 6: that was the main reason, other than that his name
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Speaker 6: is Marcello. He what Marcello?
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Speaker 2: Marcello? Question regarding Marcello. Yeah, did police get his alibi
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Speaker 2: for those thirty minutes.
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Speaker 6: According to what they told us, they did interview him
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Speaker 6: and other people, which names are unknown till this day.
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Speaker 2: But they interviewed the boyfriend.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if he could really even they called
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Speaker 2: a boyfriend, because what you're telling me is they've been
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Speaker 2: out a couple of Yeah.
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Speaker 6: No, I'm not, like I said, they don't really have
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Speaker 6: anything on Ham or any other interview that they have done.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting that you're saying that. Let me go out
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Speaker 2: to you. Wendy Patrick joining me. Prosecutor, author of Why
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Speaker 2: Bad Looks So Good and Red Flags. She's a star
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Speaker 2: of Today with Doctor Wendy on KCBQ San Diego, and
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Speaker 2: you can find her at Wendy Patrick, PhD Wendy. I
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Speaker 2: don't have any cases at all where after just a
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Speaker 2: few dates, say two three dates, there's been a homicide.
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Speaker 2: I've had cases where you know, people date for a
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Speaker 2: few months and they become obsessed, but never on just
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Speaker 2: a couple of dates. Have you ever seen that.
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Speaker 9: I've never seen that. And what we normally see is
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Speaker 9: you talk about somebody that's that approachable and kind hearted
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Speaker 9: and loving. She ends up being a target because she's
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Speaker 9: so likable, not necessarily to date for somebody who's the
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Speaker 9: perspective paramore was for a perspective stalker. And that's what
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Speaker 9: struck me about this case. She's just so delightful. She's
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Speaker 9: working in a man's world. She's successful, she's generous, she's
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Speaker 9: like John David should probably volunteer to show up at
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Speaker 9: work early to help somebody, which probably her sisters might
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Speaker 9: have talked her out of if they knew about So
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Speaker 9: it's not unusual to start in with the inner circle,
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Speaker 9: like the boyfriend she's just starting to date, but it
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Speaker 9: would be unusual for him to have been the primary
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Speaker 9: suspect once you figure out about the relationship.
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Speaker 2: I believe I've reason to believe, Ricardo Tovar, that police
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Speaker 2: have already interviewed the boyfriend and have ruled him out.
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Speaker 2: What do you know, Ricardo, Oh, absolutely da.
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Speaker 7: In the course of this investigation, we heard Rin Johnson
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Speaker 7: commanded with a police police department earlier in the podcast.
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Speaker 7: They interviewed over sixty two people extensively, and they've gone
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Speaker 7: back and forth with them over the course of the year,
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Speaker 7: and they've ruled all sixty two out those possible suspects
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Speaker 7: as possible leads for this case.
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Speaker 2: Guys, we are on the search for Aurelli Garcia H
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Speaker 2: twenty five. She heads out six point thirty am. It
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Speaker 2: is never late to work. At seven o'clock, she hasn't
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Speaker 2: shown up. You were earlier hearing from our friends at KSBW.
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Speaker 2: Now take a listen to this.
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Speaker 8: Really.
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Speaker 3: Garcia's sister, Elizete Mendoza tells NBC. I got a call
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Speaker 3: from the manager saying that she never arrived, asking if
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Speaker 3: I knew anything because there was no sign of her
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Speaker 3: and that's not something she would do. Her sisters started
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Speaker 3: texting and calling their sister's phone to no response. Garcia's sister, Veronica,
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Speaker 3: logged in to find my iPhone and was surprised to
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Speaker 3: see Arellly Garcia's phone last ping to a location in
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Speaker 3: Big Sir, about an hour away from Selina's.
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Speaker 2: Wow. Okay, Todd Shipley joining us. Todd G. Shipley, certified
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Speaker 2: fraud examiner forriends at computer examiner, fiber crime expert, former
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Speaker 2: detective sergeant and author of Investigating Internet Crimes and Introduction
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Speaker 2: to Solving Crimes in Cyberspace. You can find them online
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Speaker 2: at dark intel dot info. Todd Shiley, thanks for being
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Speaker 2: with us. Okay, explain how to find my iPhone has
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Speaker 2: really revolutionized finding missing people. Remember that was used in
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Speaker 2: the Sherry Peppini case. Her phone, of course told me
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Speaker 2: a lot because the theory out there was that she
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Speaker 2: had been brutally kidnapped, snatched off the street. But the
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Speaker 2: phone was found neatly placed I believe on top of
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Speaker 2: a mailbox or something and it had the phone cord
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Speaker 2: wrapped around it neatly. Uh uh no, No, that's not
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Speaker 2: how your phone gets thrown down when you're fighting for
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Speaker 2: your life. That said, it was used then, and it
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Speaker 2: brought a lot of attention to to find my ipphone.
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Speaker 10: App Well, I think that, you know, it's pretty obvious
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Speaker 10: that the use of the technology is probably going to
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Speaker 10: further this if we know more about what law enforcement's done,
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Speaker 10: because having her iPhone that was apparently left in the
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Speaker 10: car is a valuable piece of evidence, not only from
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Speaker 10: the fact that they were able to find where her
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Speaker 10: car was, but the iPhone itself tracks so much information.
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Speaker 8: About where we've been and what we've done. And I
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Speaker 8: haven't seen the reports, and I don't know if the
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Speaker 8: family has gotten the exact you know, fornsic reports from
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Speaker 8: the law enforcement agencies involved. But there's a lot of
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Speaker 8: data in there that would let people know what she
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Speaker 8: had been doing, just the text messages in the you know,
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Speaker 8: find my iPhone, but her social media, other texting apps,
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Speaker 8: other things that are out there, and a lot of
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Speaker 8: data that stored the cloud data. There's just tons and
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Speaker 8: tons of data that could potentially give rise to new
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Speaker 8: information that we don't have right now, and I haven't
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Speaker 8: heard that yet.
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Speaker 2: It's the very latest in a search for ourl Garcia
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Speaker 2: h twenty five when she goes missing. Call quote the
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Speaker 2: happy one at work where she worked at my Chevrolet
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Speaker 2: there and Selena's as a service advisor, beloved respected. How
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Speaker 2: does this family girl seemingly just vanish without a trace.
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Speaker 2: It's not exactly without a trace. Take a listen to
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Speaker 2: Dave Mack.
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Speaker 3: The search for a rally Garcia began with a phone
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Speaker 3: call from Garcia's employer. The family tried calling and texting
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Speaker 3: with no answer. Sister Veronica logged in to find my
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Speaker 3: iPhone a rally. Garcia's phone last pinged to a location
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Speaker 3: in Big Sir that's about an hour away from Selina's.
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Speaker 3: Once her family found the car, a red Honda, police
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Speaker 3: searches begin.
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Speaker 2: Oh yes they did. Here's more.
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Speaker 3: Elis Mendoza and her husband drove to Big Sir, finding
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Speaker 3: Garcia's car parked on the side of the road. Locked.
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Speaker 3: Garcia was nowhere to be found with no cell phone service.
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Speaker 3: Eliz Mendoza said she and her husband had to drive
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Speaker 3: about ten minutes away to let family know they found
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Speaker 3: her car. By the time they returned to the car,
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Speaker 3: local police were on the scene and unlocked the car.
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Speaker 3: Inside the locked car, they found Arelli Garcia's phone, key's
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Speaker 3: and other personal belonging.
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Speaker 2: That's telling me a lot. To Ricardo Tovar, who's been
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Speaker 2: on the store from the very beginning, joining us from
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Speaker 2: k Io in forty six, explain to me, help me
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Speaker 2: visualize where Arelli's vehicle, her red wrapped Honda, was found.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, of course. So Highway one is a huge stretch
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Speaker 7: of roads stretching all the way from the Bay area
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Speaker 7: all the way down into Bernardino County. In fact, it's
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Speaker 7: two lanes, not you know, one one lane going north,
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Speaker 7: one lane going south, and in the area it's right
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Speaker 7: almost close to the famous big bridge we have in
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Speaker 7: the Big Cirt area.
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Speaker 10: Not a whole lot.
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Speaker 7: We got the ocean to one side, we got giant
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Speaker 7: cliff video side.
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Speaker 8: Some only some brush and.
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Speaker 7: Obviously they're they're little areas where cars can go off
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Speaker 7: to the side and park. That's through use for scenic photographs.
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Speaker 7: We're looking at the view and that sort of thing.
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Speaker 7: So not a whole heck of a lot out there.
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Speaker 7: You know, some some off trails, but that's about it,
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Speaker 7: and not not a whole heck of a lot in
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Speaker 7: that area.
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Speaker 2: Why would she be there?
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Speaker 1: Time stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 2: Joining me is Ellie Mendoza. This is Arelli's older sister.
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Speaker 2: Why would she have been there?
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Speaker 6: I have no idea. There's no reason for her to
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Speaker 6: be there, especially that morning that she was supposed to
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Speaker 6: go to work around seven seven thirty. There's no way
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Speaker 6: she was gonna have enough time to get ready if
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Speaker 6: she did win for a walk or whatever. It's just very.
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Speaker 2: Strange just thinking this whole thing through her car has
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Speaker 2: found about an hour away in Big Sur She was
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Speaker 2: on her way to work. Had she ever hiked there
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Speaker 2: or visited there, camped there that you know of? Ellie?
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Speaker 6: According to one of her friends, they did Winstanly hiking.
21:23
Speaker 2: They had gone there hiking or just hiking.
21:26
Speaker 6: Period, just hiking her and one of her friends.
21:30
Speaker 2: Okay, so not necessarily there and why would she have
21:32
Speaker 2: gone at six thirty in the morning.
21:35
Speaker 9: Nancy, this is Wendy. The very first thing I thought
21:37
Speaker 9: when I heard about that location is it's a good
21:40
Speaker 9: place to kidnap somebody and make a quick getaway without
21:42
Speaker 9: being seen. And I would just wonder whether or not
21:45
Speaker 9: somebody alleged to have car trouble because she's very forthcoming
21:49
Speaker 9: and sweet and helpful and knowledgeable about cars and asked
21:53
Speaker 9: for her help, only knowing that that would be a
21:55
Speaker 9: place to be able to abduct her and not have witnesses.
21:58
Speaker 9: If it's near a thoroughfare, that's a quick getaway, and
22:01
Speaker 9: if it's in a remote area, there's less opportunity to
22:03
Speaker 9: be seen, and early in the morning, not a lot
22:05
Speaker 9: of people are up. That was the first thing I
22:07
Speaker 9: thought when I heard of why she would have been
22:09
Speaker 9: there to begin left.
22:10
Speaker 2: You know, I'm guessing, just an educated guess, and Ricardo Tovar,
22:15
Speaker 2: you know the topography very well. That she was abducted
22:19
Speaker 2: between six thirty and seven o'clock in the morning, from
22:22
Speaker 2: the time she left her mom's apartment where she lived,
22:25
Speaker 2: which also greatly reduced our list of suspects. Nobody stayed
22:29
Speaker 2: over there with her the night before, nobody was loitering around.
22:33
Speaker 2: She was actually caught on camera getting into her red
22:36
Speaker 2: wrapped Honda and leaving. Isn't that true, Ricardo Tavar, Yes,
22:40
Speaker 2: it is.
22:41
Speaker 7: Family Very early on an investigation, maybe a couple months in,
22:45
Speaker 7: you actually see video the only piece of video we
22:48
Speaker 7: have of her that morning. She's just getting done, steps
22:52
Speaker 7: from her apartment top, she gets into that red Honda,
22:55
Speaker 7: drives off and never to be seen again. And I
22:58
Speaker 7: thought that was strange that, you know, whole city loads
23:01
Speaker 7: cameras and whatnot. That's not as short drive. It's an
23:05
Speaker 7: hour and no one else saw and on once of
23:09
Speaker 7: that red Honda.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that leads me to a lot of questions. Ricardo
23:12
Speaker 2: Tovar and you and Ellie Mendoza and her sister should know.
23:15
Speaker 2: Are there any toll booths between her home and where
23:20
Speaker 2: her car was found in Big Sir an hour away.
23:24
Speaker 2: There's gotta be traffic cams. I mean, we're talking about
23:27
Speaker 2: Selena's There's got to be traffic cams that would have
23:30
Speaker 2: caught her vehicle. What about that? Either of you know
23:33
Speaker 2: about that?
23:34
Speaker 7: There are no tolls whatever you get on what is
23:38
Speaker 7: sixty eight to sixty four, you go all the way
23:42
Speaker 7: you can get one from there, and you just go.
23:44
Speaker 7: It's a straight shot down there no toll booths, but
23:47
Speaker 7: security cameras. Absolutely. You know, we've had several cases I've
23:51
Speaker 7: been dealing with. I do a bit of court reporting
23:53
Speaker 7: here they have security cameras and all from businesses, from everything,
23:58
Speaker 7: and I'm sure they asked for it and not one
24:00
Speaker 7: of them caught. There is a path there and it's
24:02
Speaker 7: a very clear path.
24:03
Speaker 2: Well, there had to be red red light camp. There
24:06
Speaker 2: has to be red light cam of her car between
24:09
Speaker 2: her mom's apartment and Big sirvice that you Ellie jump in.
24:12
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, I agree. There's lots of cameras and it's
24:16
Speaker 6: just incredible how there's no other lead of her driving
24:22
Speaker 6: all the way to Big Fued. Obviously once you get
24:25
Speaker 6: to Big Suit there's no signal. But still like all
24:27
Speaker 6: the cameras before that, and we can we don't have
24:30
Speaker 6: anything at all. That's a brilliant video that shows when
24:34
Speaker 6: she's leaving home. Was given to us three months.
24:38
Speaker 2: After Who gave it to you?
24:41
Speaker 6: The detective pretty much. But we were asking for it
24:44
Speaker 6: since the beginning and for some reason day I don't
24:47
Speaker 6: know why they waited till the third month went.
24:49
Speaker 2: Do you know if they've gotten the traffic cam video, Ellie?
24:52
Speaker 6: According to them, there is no other videos.
24:54
Speaker 5: Okay, I got a question if I could ask, this
24:57
Speaker 5: is damn sure in relationship to hell, whether they had
25:01
Speaker 5: license plate readers that were posted off along the roadway
25:07
Speaker 5: anywhere in addition to the traffic cam.
25:10
Speaker 2: Do you know, Ellie, not that I don't know? What
25:12
Speaker 2: about Ricardo?
25:13
Speaker 7: Yeah, yes I do. This is a city of Selenas
25:16
Speaker 7: has a partnership they lock they're a type of license
25:21
Speaker 7: plate readers in the city, So yes, if there are
25:25
Speaker 7: license plate readers in the.
25:26
Speaker 2: Celinas area, Okay, I'm just not understanding what if anything
25:29
Speaker 2: has been done on the case. Maybe they've done it
25:32
Speaker 2: and we don't know, but it's impossible for her car
25:35
Speaker 2: to have gone from mom's apartment all the way to
25:38
Speaker 2: Big Sir and not be caught by one license grabber
25:41
Speaker 2: or one red light cam or one business cam. I
25:43
Speaker 2: mean that route. Let me ask you, Ricardo. Ellie helped
25:46
Speaker 2: me out on the route from the apartment she shared
25:50
Speaker 2: with her mom to where her car was found A
25:52
Speaker 2: big stir. Are there any businesses do you pass by?
25:55
Speaker 2: Strip centers or a mall because they've all got security cam.
26:00
Speaker 6: Business there's like a liquor store kind of in the
26:02
Speaker 6: corner if she went through the Aliso Street. But basically
26:08
Speaker 6: there's camera on every light stock, so there has to
26:11
Speaker 6: be a trace. I just don't understand why there's not none.
26:16
Speaker 2: Nancy, this is Todd, gohead, go ahead, Todd place.
26:19
Speaker 8: Well, that's why I'm so concerned about the phone. The
26:21
Speaker 8: phone tracks so much information, and we have little or
26:25
Speaker 8: no information about what's on that phone, and because it'll
26:29
Speaker 8: track you from that house to that location and so,
26:32
Speaker 8: and we have no information so far that I've seen
26:35
Speaker 8: that will detail exactly what's happened. And it should all
26:39
Speaker 8: be there. The technology recorded it.
26:40
Speaker 2: Ricardo Tovar joining is k Io in forty six. What
26:45
Speaker 2: was the make of arel Honda?
26:48
Speaker 7: It was somewhere Sat two twelve ish Honda.
26:52
Speaker 2: Chord, Honda a chord and to you talked Shipley. When
26:58
Speaker 2: did Honda start NAV systems in the accord?
27:02
Speaker 8: Well, they've had them for a long time, I mean
27:05
Speaker 8: probably you know, a couple of decades of variations. You
27:09
Speaker 8: really started it? How much that version actually recorded, It's
27:13
Speaker 8: going to be something we've got to research. But the
27:15
Speaker 8: point is there's another location that this potential data that
27:19
Speaker 8: might be an indication of what happened, and we haven't
27:22
Speaker 8: seen it now.
27:23
Speaker 2: I was just told that the NAV system as we
27:26
Speaker 2: know it today in the hand Accord was commenced in
27:31
Speaker 2: twenty eleven to twenty twelve. I'm also getting information that
27:36
Speaker 2: NAV system, a rudimentary elementary NAV system has been in
27:40
Speaker 2: place for two decades now. I think the twenty eleven
27:45
Speaker 2: is a more reliable NAV system day as far as
27:48
Speaker 2: forensically analyzing where the car has been. And I want
27:52
Speaker 2: to direct everyone's attention. And you know this well. Dane Corsantino,
27:56
Speaker 2: for instance, in the Alex Murdog trial, and I use
27:59
Speaker 2: that because he's such an example his double murders of
28:04
Speaker 2: so many forensic intricacies. For instance, in that case, we
28:09
Speaker 2: looked at his I believe he was driving a suburban,
28:11
Speaker 2: a big honkin suburban, and we learned when he would
28:18
Speaker 2: turn the car on at the time of admission, when
28:20
Speaker 2: he put it in drive, reverse, neutral park, what time
28:26
Speaker 2: the location, when he would let his electric windows up
28:29
Speaker 2: and down, when he would slow down, how fast he
28:33
Speaker 2: was driving, where he went. The NAV system tells a lot.
28:38
Speaker 5: What about it, Corzantino, Absolutely, I requate that to a
28:42
Speaker 5: black box as an airplane. It gives you all the
28:44
Speaker 5: intelligence that you need from speed, as you stated, in
28:49
Speaker 5: every turn that was made in relationship to accelerations, stopping
28:55
Speaker 5: everything so clearly the fifty six to six steam minute
29:00
Speaker 5: south to Sir would be recorded and they would be
29:06
Speaker 5: able to journal every aspect of this travel that she
29:12
Speaker 5: was involved in. Which also is interesting, which Ali had
29:16
Speaker 5: stated at one point, was how she parked the vehicle.
29:21
Speaker 5: And I don't want to get ahead of myself, but
29:24
Speaker 5: it was very interesting as a clue that when she
29:28
Speaker 5: normally backed in and lowers or air bank suspension when
29:33
Speaker 5: they came upon the car. When Ali came upon the car,
29:36
Speaker 5: the vehicles pulled forward and the hydraulics were not lowered
29:41
Speaker 5: in that vehicle, and that also suggests that there was
29:47
Speaker 5: the potential for suspicious activities.
29:50
Speaker 2: Okay, you got to slow down. You know what I
29:52
Speaker 2: did not teach me that in law school. Who's jumping
29:54
Speaker 2: in this is Minny Patrick.
29:55
Speaker 9: You know what that suggests to me is that she's
29:57
Speaker 9: not the one that parked the car. You know, when
29:59
Speaker 9: you look at the way somebody has have it in custom,
30:01
Speaker 9: the way they park, the way they drive, the way
30:03
Speaker 9: they position their personal belongings within the car when they
30:06
Speaker 9: leave it. You got to wonder who was that to
30:08
Speaker 9: part that. You know, the one thing I have found
30:10
Speaker 9: from detective crews just kind of looking online is apparently
30:14
Speaker 9: a vehicle matching hers past. What it says is the
30:16
Speaker 9: Carmel Highlands General Store, which is forty minutes from her apartment.
30:20
Speaker 9: So it seems like she's not taking you know, some
30:22
Speaker 9: roundabout rogue. Nobody's going to see her. But in fact,
30:24
Speaker 9: as we're talking about going right through main thoroughfares where
30:28
Speaker 9: there should have been other camera footage besides the Carmel
30:31
Speaker 9: Highlands General Store.
30:32
Speaker 2: Was she driving it? Wendy at that time?
30:35
Speaker 9: That was what I was just going to say, who's
30:37
Speaker 9: behind the wheel.
30:37
Speaker 2: Can't tell who's behind the wheel. So there is Ricardo
30:41
Speaker 2: Tovar and Ellie Mendoza. There is cam footage from businesses.
30:47
Speaker 2: We have to get the cam footage, and I want
30:49
Speaker 2: to follow up on what we're saying about how she parked.
30:55
Speaker 2: It reminds me of the case of Tara Grinstad, a
30:57
Speaker 2: high school teacher that goes missing. We find out years later,
31:01
Speaker 2: of course, that she was murdered and her body destroyed, burned,
31:05
Speaker 2: But I remember going to her home with her mother
31:09
Speaker 2: and the home was off, like there was something. A
31:14
Speaker 2: necklace had been broken on the floor, and she would
31:17
Speaker 2: never have left it like that. The mom told me
31:20
Speaker 2: the driver's seat had been pushed back, and Tara was
31:23
Speaker 2: very small and petite, and there was mud all over
31:26
Speaker 2: her car, and she was a neat neck. She would
31:28
Speaker 2: never have parked the car like that, covered in mud
31:31
Speaker 2: and with a seat out of space, out of place,
31:33
Speaker 2: which means, as Wendy Patrick just said, somebody else was
31:37
Speaker 2: driving it. What are we learning about the investigation. We
31:42
Speaker 2: know that her purse, her keys, her private items, her
31:46
Speaker 2: personal items were still in the car. Her phone was
31:50
Speaker 2: still in the car, So I guarantee you, I mean, Ellie,
31:52
Speaker 2: she would never go anywhere without her.
31:54
Speaker 6: Phone, right, definitely, especially nowadays, everything's in your phone, So
31:58
Speaker 6: there's no way she was like behind definitely.
32:02
Speaker 2: Jumping go ahead place.
32:03
Speaker 3: I'm on.
32:04
Speaker 4: The one News reporter said that she left at five
32:06
Speaker 4: thirty in the morning, which is two hours earlier than
32:08
Speaker 4: her normal departure. Is that correct?
32:11
Speaker 2: I thought she left at six thirty. Ricardo Tovar, what
32:13
Speaker 2: do we know?
32:14
Speaker 7: Yeah? Absolutely. If you look at the we have an
32:17
Speaker 7: article on it on the timestamp of the video has
32:21
Speaker 7: a time stamp a five thirty and the text message
32:23
Speaker 7: comes in at six fifty six from her sister.
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Speaker 2: Okay, hold on just a moment. So she did not
32:28
Speaker 2: leave at six thirty. She left at five thirty in
32:30
Speaker 2: the morning.
32:30
Speaker 6: Oh no, the thing isn't a Brillian video. It's like
32:34
Speaker 6: an hour behind, but it's original at six thirty.
32:37
Speaker 2: So question, Ellie, did she leave at five thirty or
32:41
Speaker 2: six thirty six?
32:42
Speaker 6: Around six thirty?
32:43
Speaker 2: And your mother confirms that, Ellie.
32:45
Speaker 6: My mom normally leaves to work before her, but she
32:49
Speaker 6: always checks on her before leaving.
32:51
Speaker 2: So was she still at home when your mom left?
32:54
Speaker 6: Yeah, she was sleeping before she left.
32:56
Speaker 2: What time did your mom leave?
32:57
Speaker 6: She normally leaves around fuck thirty US twenty five.
33:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that time Arelli was still asleep. That corroborates
33:06
Speaker 2: to six thirty depart time. And you're right, that's really important.
33:09
Speaker 2: If she had left a whole two hours before she's
33:11
Speaker 2: due it work, that would have raised a red flag
33:14
Speaker 2: that did not happen. Somebody else was jumping in, who
33:16
Speaker 2: was it?
33:16
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was jumping in. This is in again, and yes,
33:20
Speaker 5: when we were getting to the parking of the vehicle.
33:23
Speaker 5: Another concern that I had in regards to the crime
33:26
Speaker 5: scene investigation that was conducted, which we don't know or
33:30
Speaker 5: I don't know, is whether or not. Really's driver's seat
33:34
Speaker 5: was in a position for a five five inch person
33:39
Speaker 5: if there was someone else driving, was the investigation able
33:44
Speaker 5: to document where that seat was upon the exit of
33:48
Speaker 5: that vehicle. If there was a larger person driving, obviously
33:52
Speaker 5: they would push the seat back. And it's just a
33:57
Speaker 5: tipping point to tell you who was actually drying. In
34:00
Speaker 5: relationship to the forensic evidence of the DNA and everything else, bodies, fluids,
34:06
Speaker 5: anything that may have been left behind which warn't found.
34:09
Speaker 2: An extensive search goes down. Take a listen to Dave mac.
34:15
Speaker 3: An extensive search was conducted by the Monterey County Sheriff's
34:17
Speaker 3: Search and Rescue teams, which used drones, canine units including canaverdogs,
34:22
Speaker 3: and aircraft around Big Serve, but did not find Garcia.
34:25
Speaker 3: Video surrounding Garcia's home, according to Detective Oo and Cruise
34:28
Speaker 3: with the Selena's Police Department, showed that Arelli left home
34:31
Speaker 3: alone in her red Honda. Cruz says no one approached
34:35
Speaker 3: her and there is no indication that her vehicle was followed.
34:38
Speaker 3: Police found footage of a vehicle matching Garcia's passing at
34:41
Speaker 3: the Carmel Highlands General Store about forty minutes away from
34:44
Speaker 3: her apartment. It's on a route consistent with the drive
34:47
Speaker 3: to Big Serve. There were no obvious indications of foul play,
34:50
Speaker 3: and police executed multiple search warrants for Garcia's electronic devices
34:54
Speaker 3: and bank accounts, but there's been no activity. Sixty two
34:57
Speaker 3: people have been interviewed, including family, friends and coworkers. No
35:01
Speaker 3: leads have fanned out.
35:02
Speaker 2: I'm trying to make sense of what we know right now.
35:05
Speaker 2: The family, of course, is not giving up the search.
35:10
Speaker 2: To Ellie Mendoza, this is Aureli's older sister. Tell me
35:13
Speaker 2: what your mother has gone through since Arelli went missing.
35:19
Speaker 6: It isn't doing horrible iously. She already has you know, diabetes,
35:23
Speaker 6: She's she's always lie on a pression now and she's
35:28
Speaker 6: not doing well. She's been really depressed, you could tell
35:31
Speaker 6: by looking at her, and her face just looks devastating.
35:36
Speaker 6: In we're not losing hope that she's going to return home.
35:40
Speaker 2: Guys, if you know or think you know anything about
35:45
Speaker 2: Aurelli Garcia's disappearance, please contact This is the detective. Selena's detective,
35:53
Speaker 2: Edwyn Cruz cru Z at eight three one seven five
35:59
Speaker 2: eight seven three nine three repeat Edwin Cruz eight three, one, seven, five, eight, seven, three,
36:07
Speaker 2: nine three, and we have his email because I'd really
36:12
Speaker 2: like to know if they've gotten all of that surveillance video,
36:15
Speaker 2: if they've gotten the tag grabbers, who have they interviewed,
36:19
Speaker 2: what's the status of the case. Why is the mother
36:23
Speaker 2: and the family having to go in front of the
36:26
Speaker 2: SELENASPD and protests for answers. I'd like to hear that answer.
36:31
Speaker 2: Here's the email, Edwin c As in California, edwinc at
36:39
Speaker 2: c I dot selenas dot c A dot us. Edwinc
36:48
Speaker 2: at Ci dot Selenas dot c A dot U s.
36:56
Speaker 2: We continue our search for Aurelli. There is a ten
37:01
Speaker 2: thousand dollars reward. A ten thousand dollars reward again tipline
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Speaker 2: eight three one seven five, eight, seven, three, nine three.
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Speaker 2: We continue our search for a rally. Goodbye friend,