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Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty five, a group of hikers were making
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Speaker 1: their way down a trail in this big forest in
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Speaker 1: southern California when one of them looked through the trees
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Speaker 1: off to their side and they saw there was a
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Speaker 1: stream running down parallel to the trail they were on.
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Speaker 1: And in this stream, the hiker saw something that just
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Speaker 1: didn't look right, and so the hikers left the trail
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Speaker 1: and made their way down to the stream. And when
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Speaker 1: they actually saw the thing that stood out to this
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Speaker 1: hiker that was in the stream, they just stopped and
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Speaker 1: stared at it.
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Speaker 2: It would take.
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Speaker 1: Investigators another three years before they would finally understand what
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Speaker 1: the hikers had just found. But before we get into
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. In nineteen eighty five, seventeen
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Speaker 1: year old Michelle Avila, who just went by the nickname Missy,
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Speaker 1: was a high school junior living in the working class
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Speaker 1: town of Arlita, California, which is located just north of
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, California. Despite Missy being very physically small she
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Speaker 1: was under five feet tall and barely weighed ninety five pounds,
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Speaker 1: she had a big presence about her and it made
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Speaker 1: her very popular at her school. Not only was she
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Speaker 1: incredibly beautiful, with boys and girls falling over themselves to
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Speaker 1: try to win her affection, but also Missy was just
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Speaker 1: very kind and gentle and didn't seem to take herself
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Speaker 1: very seriously. But life for Missy was not all perfect.
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Speaker 1: A year earlier, during her sophomore year, nasty rumor had
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Speaker 1: been spread around Missy's high school that Missy had apparently
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Speaker 1: been sleeping with all of these boys who were in
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Speaker 1: established relationships with girls in the school. And even though
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Speaker 1: this rumor was a total lie, by the time the
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Speaker 1: rumor reached the girlfriends of these boys that Missy had
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Speaker 1: apparently slept with, these girls believed it, and so to
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Speaker 1: get their revenge on Missy. One day after school, when
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Speaker 1: she had walked outside, this group of girls ganged up
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Speaker 1: on her and beat her really, really badly. In fact,
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Speaker 1: the beating was so severe that when Missy came home,
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Speaker 1: her family immediately pressed charges on the girl that seemed
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Speaker 1: to kind of lead the attack.
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Speaker 2: Her name was Sonia Bonn.
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Speaker 1: But despite Missy and her family immediately filing these charges,
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Speaker 1: the case dragged.
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Speaker 2: For months and months and months.
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Speaker 1: But finally by October one, nineteen eighty five, So at
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Speaker 1: the beginning of Missy's junior year, Missy was within a
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Speaker 1: week of actually going to court and taking the stand
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Speaker 1: and testifying against Sonya. And while Missy was certainly nervous
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Speaker 1: about going to court and testifying, she knew deep down
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Speaker 1: she was making the right decision. On October first, so
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Speaker 1: a week before Missy is set to testify, Missy came
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Speaker 1: home from school and she told her mom that she
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Speaker 1: had plans that afternoon to go hang out with her friends.
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Speaker 1: This was fairly routine for Missy, who had a big
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Speaker 1: circle of friends, and so her mother, Irene, told her
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Speaker 1: that was totally fine, but you got to be home
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Speaker 1: by six pm. Missy agreed, and then just a couple
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Speaker 1: of minutes later, a seventeen year old girl named Laura Doyle,
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Speaker 1: who was very close with Missy, she pulled up outside of.
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Speaker 2: Missy's house and she honked the horn, and so Missy
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Speaker 2: heard her.
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Speaker 1: She said goodbye to her mom and to her brother,
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Speaker 1: and then she left the house. Randa, Laura's carr, hopped inside,
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Speaker 1: and the two girls drove off. A few hours later,
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Speaker 1: at six pm, Missy had still not come home yet. However,
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Speaker 1: her mother, Irene, was not that surprised. Missy was not
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Speaker 1: really a troublemaker, but she really liked staying out with
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Speaker 1: her friends, and so it wasn't that uncommon for her
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Speaker 1: to stay out past curfew and then come home and
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Speaker 1: ask for forgiveness. Or she would stay out past curfew
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Speaker 1: and then she would call her mother and ask for
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Speaker 1: more time. And shortly after six pm, the phone rang
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Speaker 1: inside of Missy's house, and so Irene she hears the
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Speaker 1: phone ringing, and she's expecting it to be her daughter,
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Speaker 1: and so she walks over. She picks the phone up
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Speaker 1: and says hello, But it's not her daughter. It's another
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Speaker 1: young girl's voice. It's Laura's voice, the girl who had
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Speaker 1: picked Missy up after school to go hang out with friends.
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Speaker 1: And before Irene could ask Laura why she was calling,
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Speaker 1: Laura kind of awkwardly asked Irene, hey, is Missy home?
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Speaker 1: And Irene would say, Laura, she left with you. Isn't
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Speaker 1: she with you? No, she's not here.
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Speaker 2: She's running late. Why what's going on?
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Speaker 1: After Irene said this, Laura began to panic, and then
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Speaker 1: she proceeded to tell Irene what happened that afternoon while
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Speaker 1: she was out with her daughter. She said, after she
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Speaker 1: picked Missy up, the two of them just kind of
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Speaker 1: drove around town, which they did all the time, and
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Speaker 1: then at some point they made their way over to
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Speaker 1: Stonehurst Park, where Missy and Laura and a bunch of
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Speaker 1: their friends would often go and hang out, and so
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Speaker 1: they drove over to Stonehurst.
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Speaker 2: They made their way.
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Speaker 1: Into the parking lot, and as soon as they were
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Speaker 1: in there, Laura began looking around for other cars that
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Speaker 1: she recognized to see if maybe their friends were there.
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Speaker 1: But after looking around, she didn't recognize any of the cars,
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Speaker 1: and so Laura just reflexively began turning the car around
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Speaker 1: to leave the park. But as she was doing that,
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Speaker 1: Missy stopped her and said, wait a minute, I know
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Speaker 1: the guys over there. I want to go say hi.
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Speaker 1: And so Laura stopped the car and she looked in
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Speaker 1: the direction that Missy was pointing, and on the far
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Speaker 1: side of the parking lot were these two guys who.
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Speaker 2: Appeared to be maybe in their late teens early twenties.
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Speaker 1: Laura did not recognize either of them, and they were
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Speaker 1: standing outside of this blue car, a blue Camaro. Now,
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Speaker 1: Laura was accustomed to Missy just kind of knowing everybody
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Speaker 1: in town because everybody loved Missy and Missy loved everyone,
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Speaker 1: and so this type of situation was not totally uncos However,
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Speaker 1: Laura was just not very excited at the prospect of
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Speaker 1: going and hanging out with these two total strangers to her.
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Speaker 1: But she could tell Missy really wanted to, and so
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Speaker 1: she turns to Missy and says, Okay, you know, go
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Speaker 1: out there, go say hi to them.
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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna park and I'll meet you in a second.
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Speaker 1: And so Missy she hops out of the car and
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Speaker 1: she begins walking over to these two guys and she's
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Speaker 1: waving to them, and they're waving back and smiling at her.
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Speaker 2: And Laura meanwhile pulls the car into a parking spot.
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Speaker 1: She throws it in park, and she's about to get
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Speaker 1: out when she notices her gas gauge is below empty,
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Speaker 1: and so she calls out to Missy, who's now halfway
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Speaker 1: to these two guys, and she says, hey, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to go fill my car up with gas and then
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Speaker 1: i'll come back and i'll meet you. And so Missy
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Speaker 1: turns around and she's like, okay, bye, and so Laura
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Speaker 1: puts her car back in drive and she pulls out
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Speaker 1: of the lot and she heads into town to get
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Speaker 1: some gas. A few minutes later, when Laura pulled back
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Speaker 1: into the Stonehurst parking lot, she looked in the direction
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Speaker 1: of where the blue Camaro and the two guys were
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Speaker 1: and where Missy was headed, and they're all gone.
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Speaker 2: Missy is nowhere to be seen. Now, this was nineteen
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Speaker 2: eighty five, so Laura.
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Speaker 1: Could not just call or text Missy to see where
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Speaker 1: she had gone, and so instead Laura just sat in
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Speaker 1: the parking lot, looking at the vacant spot where the
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Speaker 1: blue car had been, kind of going over in her
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Speaker 1: mind what she should do, and eventually she told herself that,
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Speaker 1: you know what, Missy was a big girl.
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Speaker 2: She can handle herself. She knew those guys.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure everything is just fine, and those guys will
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Speaker 1: drop her off at her house when she needs to
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Speaker 1: go home. And so, even though Laura is telling herself this,
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Speaker 1: she would leave the Stonehurst parking lot and spend a
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Speaker 1: while just kind of driving around town looking for Missy
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Speaker 1: and looking for this blue camaro and these two guys.
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Speaker 2: And after finding none of them, she would head home.
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Speaker 1: And then right after six pm, Laura picked up the
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Speaker 1: phone and she called Missy's house because she knew Missy's
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Speaker 1: curfew was six.
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Speaker 2: Pm and so she should be home by now.
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Speaker 1: But of course, when Missy's mother, Irene, picked up the phone,
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Speaker 1: Laura would learn Missy had not come home, and so
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Speaker 1: Irene and Laura are immediately really worried about out Missy,
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Speaker 1: but not to the point where either of them think
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Speaker 1: they should involve the police. Instead, Laura and Irene would
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Speaker 1: spend the next couple of hours after that six pm
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Speaker 1: phone call calling everybody they could think of that might
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Speaker 1: know where Missy was, and when that yielded no results,
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Speaker 1: Laura and Irene actually met up that night and began
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Speaker 1: going door to door to all of Missy's friends and
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Speaker 1: acquaintances houses, asking the occupants if they knew where Missy was,
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Speaker 1: But by late that night, no one had given them
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Speaker 1: any information about Missy's whereabouts, and so, still feeling very
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Speaker 1: concerned about Missy, Laura and Irene decided the best thing
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Speaker 1: to do was just to go back home and go
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Speaker 1: to bed and hope in the morning Missy turned up
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Speaker 1: or someone contacted them with information about where Missy was.
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Speaker 1: But the following morning, Missy had still not turned up
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Speaker 1: and no one had heard from her, and so that
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Speaker 1: morning Irene went to the police.
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Speaker 2: And told them what was going on.
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Speaker 1: Immediately the police honed in on Laura and began going
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Speaker 1: over every single detail of what that blue camaro was doing,
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Speaker 1: what those two guys looked like.
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Speaker 2: You know, what did Missy say about these two guys?
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Speaker 1: Did she give any information about where they might go
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Speaker 1: or who these guys were? And Laura, I mean, she
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Speaker 1: was totally guilt ridden and emotional about being the last
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Speaker 1: person to see Missy before she has apparently vanished, and
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Speaker 1: she sat there trying to give every bit of information
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Speaker 1: she possibly could about what had happened that day, but
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Speaker 1: unfortunately she was just too far away from these two
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Speaker 1: guys and their vehicle. She could only give them a
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Speaker 1: sort of basic physical description, which Laura even admitted was
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Speaker 1: not very accurate because it was really far away and frankly,
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Speaker 1: she wasn't looking that hard. And so, after getting all
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Speaker 1: the information they possibly could from both Laura and Irene,
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Speaker 1: the police launched a very extensive search all over Arlita,
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Speaker 1: California and the surrounding areas. And while they were doing that,
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Speaker 1: Irene and other members of Missy's family, along with Laura
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Speaker 1: and other close friends of Missy's, began their own search.
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Speaker 1: But after a couple of days, neither the professional search
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Speaker 1: nor the amateur search had turned up any new information
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Speaker 1: about Missy's whereabouts or the whereabouts of those two guys
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Speaker 1: and their blue Camaro. But then, on October fourth, just
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Speaker 1: three days after Missy.
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Speaker 2: Went missing, Missy would be found.
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Speaker 1: However, it would take investigators another three years to finally
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Speaker 1: make sense of what actually happened to her. Based on
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Speaker 1: eyewitness testimony, here is a recreation of what happened to
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Speaker 1: Missy on the day she vanished.
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Speaker 2: On that day, which.
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Speaker 1: Was Tuesday, October first, nineteen eighty five, Missy came back
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Speaker 1: from school, she told her mother she wanted to go
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Speaker 1: out and hang out with her friends. Her mother told
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Speaker 1: her okay, be home by six, and then a couple
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Speaker 1: of minutes later, Laura pulled up outside and haunted the
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Speaker 1: horn and Missy ran outside, hopped in the.
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Speaker 2: Car, and they drove off.
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Speaker 1: The pair would drive around town for a few minutes
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Speaker 1: before making their way to Stonehurst Park.
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Speaker 2: Now to understand what happens next, you need some context.
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Speaker 2: Missy had two best friends.
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Speaker 1: One of them was seventeen year old Doyle, who she
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Speaker 1: was with, and the other was another seventeen year old
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Speaker 1: girl named Karen Severson. These three girls had met when
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Speaker 1: they were in grade school. They lived basically on the
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Speaker 1: same street, and they spent virtually every second of every
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Speaker 1: day together. However, a month earlier, in September, the trio
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Speaker 1: had had a falling out because a month earlier, another
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Speaker 1: rumor about Missy sleeping with boys who had girlfriends began
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Speaker 1: circulating around the school. Except this time, the girlfriends in
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Speaker 1: the rumor were Laura and Karen. Now, of course, Laura
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Speaker 1: and Karen were well aware of the fact that a
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Speaker 1: year earlier, Missy had been accused of something similar.
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Speaker 2: And it had all been a big lie.
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Speaker 1: And so going into this new roomor Laura and Karen
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Speaker 1: knew that the likelihood of it being real was very slim,
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Speaker 1: but because this rumor directly involved them and their boyfriends,
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Speaker 1: they felt a little concerned.
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Speaker 2: And so Laura and Karen went.
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Speaker 1: To Missy and they said, hey, we don't think it's true,
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Speaker 1: but is it true?
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Speaker 2: Did you sleep with our boyfriends? And Missy immediately is like,
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Speaker 2: are you kidding me? No, I didn't sleep with your boyfriends.
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Speaker 2: Did you see what happened last year? It's the same thing.
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Speaker 2: It's a lie. It's just a rumor. I can't believe
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Speaker 2: you would think I would do that to you.
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Speaker 1: And so pretty quickly this discussion escalated to a full
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Speaker 1: blown fight between the girls, or more specifically, it turned
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Speaker 1: into a full blown fight between Karen and Missy because
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Speaker 1: Laura she was worked up about it, but pretty quickly
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Speaker 1: she was able to calm down. But Karen she didn't
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Speaker 1: calm down because apparently Karen had seen Missy at some
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Speaker 1: point flirting with her boyfriend, and so when this rumor
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Speaker 1: began to circulate, Karen felt like, you know what, it
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Speaker 1: could be true. She might have had sex with my boyfriend.
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Speaker 1: And so eventually the three girls just stopped fighting, not
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Speaker 1: because they had reached some sort of compromise, but rather
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Speaker 1: because Missy just tried to turn around and walk away,
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Speaker 1: and when she did, Karen wound up and slapped her
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Speaker 1: across the face. And as soon as that happened, all
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Speaker 1: three girls knew a line had been crossed and now
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Speaker 1: their decade long friendship was potentially ruined. Over the next
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks, Missy and Laura were able to come
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Speaker 1: together and patch things up, but Missy and Karen continued
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Speaker 1: to avoid each other. However, the distance between them really
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Speaker 1: wore on both of them, and so finally, on the
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Speaker 1: morning of October first, Karen would reach out to Missy
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Speaker 1: and she would apologize, and Missy was really touched by this,
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Speaker 1: and before long, Missy and Karen and Laura had made
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Speaker 1: plans for that afternoon to meet up at Stonehurst Park
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Speaker 1: to have a good day.
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Speaker 2: Together, just like old times.
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Speaker 1: So that afternoon, Laura picks up Missy from her house
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Speaker 1: and the two of them drive around for a bit
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Speaker 1: before heading over to Stonehurst Park where they're planning to
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Speaker 1: meet Karen. But when Laura pulls the car into the
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Speaker 1: parking lot. They look around and Karen is not there,
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Speaker 1: and the blue Camaro and those two guys standing around
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Speaker 1: it on the far side of the parking lot they
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Speaker 1: weren't there either, because Laura had made up the blue
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Speaker 1: Camaro and those two guys.
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Speaker 2: They never existed.
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Speaker 1: would show up just a couple of minutes later. But
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Speaker 1: when she showed up, all hell broke loose. Karen came
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Speaker 1: flying into the parking lot and came to a screeching
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Speaker 1: stop right up alongside Laura's car. Karen had parked her
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Speaker 1: car so close to Laura's car that Laura literally couldn't
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Speaker 1: open her door without striking Karen's car. And in Karen's car,
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Speaker 1: in the passenger seat, which was closest to Laura's car,
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Speaker 1: was a terrified looking seventeen year old named Eva Charambolo,
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Speaker 1: who was friends with all three of the girls, and
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Speaker 1: that day Karen had apparently asked Eva to come over
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Speaker 1: for dinner, but after picking Eva up without giving her
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Speaker 1: any explanation, she had flown over to Stonehurst and then
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Speaker 1: came to this screeching stop right.
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Speaker 2: Next to Laura's car.
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Speaker 1: And so Eva is sitting in the passenger seat looking
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Speaker 1: at Karen and looking over at Laura and Missy, having
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Speaker 1: no idea what's going on, And Karen begins yelling at
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Speaker 1: Eva to roll her window down, and so Eva rolls
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Speaker 1: her window down, and Laura and Missy are looking over
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Speaker 1: in absolute astonishment. And then once the window is down
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Speaker 1: on Eva's side, Karen begins screaming across Eva out the
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Speaker 1: window at the car that Laura and Missy are in.
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Speaker 2: And so Laura and Missy exchange totally confused looks, and
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Speaker 2: then Laura rolls her window down, and suddenly Laura and
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Speaker 2: Missy can hear what Karen is yelling, and Karen is
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Speaker 2: hurling the most vile and horrible insults at Laura, not
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Speaker 2: at Missy. It takes Laura a second to realize what
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Speaker 2: Karen is yelling about, but once she realizes that Karen
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Speaker 2: is just ruthlessly insulting her, Laura just turns and begins
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Speaker 2: hurling insults back at Karen. And so the whole time
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Speaker 2: Laura and Karen are just screaming at each other. Missy
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Speaker 2: and Eva are just sitting in their respective passenger seats
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Speaker 2: having no clue what's going on.
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Speaker 1: And just as quickly as Karen had arrived and begun
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Speaker 1: screaming at Laura, Karen put her car back and drive
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Speaker 1: and sped right out of the parking lot, and Laura,
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Speaker 1: at this point is totally incensed and enraged at Karen
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Speaker 1: for some of the things she had said. Laura fired
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Speaker 1: up her car, threw it and drive, and before Missy
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Speaker 1: could tell her otherwise, Laura had sped out of the
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Speaker 1: parking lot after Karen, and for the next forty five minutes,
18:10
Speaker 1: Karen and Laura drove like absolute maniacs north of the
18:15
Speaker 1: city up into the mountains, where the whole time they're driving,
18:18
Speaker 1: Karen is swerving side to side and she's speeding along
18:21
Speaker 1: these desolate roads, and Laura would speed up and get
18:24
Speaker 1: right on her bumper like she was experiencing this extreme
18:28
Speaker 1: case of road ridge.
18:29
Speaker 2: Now, for the first few minutes of this both Missy
18:32
Speaker 2: and Eva.
18:32
Speaker 1: Were desperately trying to get their drivers to calm down
18:36
Speaker 1: and just pull over. Whatever you're fighting about, it's not
18:39
Speaker 1: worth crashing and dying over. But little did Missy or
18:43
Speaker 1: Eva know there was something much, much bigger going on
18:47
Speaker 1: between Laura and Karen, and so their requests to stop
18:50
Speaker 1: the cars fell on death ears. Finally, after this forty
18:54
Speaker 1: five minute white knuckle insane drive along these mountain roads
18:59
Speaker 1: came to an end when the road they were on
19:02
Speaker 1: kind of funneled them into this dirt parking lot in
19:04
Speaker 1: the middle of this huge forest.
19:06
Speaker 2: And as soon as they.
19:07
Speaker 1: Reached this parking lot, Karen came to a stop and
19:10
Speaker 1: Laura narrowly avoided smashing into her and came to a
19:13
Speaker 1: stop right next to her, and as soon as the
19:15
Speaker 1: two cars were stopped, both drivers hopped out and were
19:18
Speaker 1: immediately in each other's faces, shoving each other, streaming at
19:21
Speaker 1: each other, just continuing this awful fight. Eva just stayed
19:25
Speaker 1: in the passenger seat and did nothing. She was just
19:27
Speaker 1: hoping that whatever was going on would eventually end and
19:30
Speaker 1: they could leave. But Missy, she's looking out there at
19:33
Speaker 1: her two best friends who seem like they're about to
19:35
Speaker 1: kill each other, and so Missy decides she's going to
19:37
Speaker 1: get out and try to separate them, and so she
19:39
Speaker 1: begins to open her car door, and the second she does,
19:43
Speaker 1: both Karen and Laura, who were maybe five or six
19:45
Speaker 1: feet away from her car door, they both immediately stopped fighting.
19:49
Speaker 1: It was like a switch had been thrown and whatever
19:51
Speaker 1: was going on had come to a complete and total stop.
19:54
Speaker 1: And at the same time they have suddenly stopped fighting,
19:57
Speaker 1: Both girls simultaneously and look at Missy, and before Missy
20:03
Speaker 1: could say or do anything, Karen and Laura ran over
20:06
Speaker 1: and positioned themselves right outside of Missy's door, so Missy
20:10
Speaker 1: could no longer shut the door, and Missy could not
20:13
Speaker 1: get out of the car.
20:14
Speaker 2: She was totally trapped.
20:15
Speaker 1: And as soon as Karen was in position right outside
20:18
Speaker 1: of the car. Karen kind of got down and got
20:20
Speaker 1: right in Missy's face, and with a very menacing and
20:23
Speaker 1: hissing voice, she looks at Missy and says, you know,
20:26
Speaker 1: this whole thing was a joke.
20:28
Speaker 2: Me and Laura, we weren't actually fighting. We're not mad
20:30
Speaker 2: at each other, but we are mad at someone. We're
20:33
Speaker 2: mad at you.
20:34
Speaker 1: And then Karen and Laura would reach down and pull
20:37
Speaker 1: Missy out of the car and they would slam her
20:39
Speaker 1: back up against the side of Laura's car, and then
20:42
Speaker 1: Laura and Karen pressed up against her and began screaming
20:45
Speaker 1: at Missy that she had slept with their boyfriends and
20:47
Speaker 1: they knew it.
20:48
Speaker 2: And this whole time, Missy is trying to tell them, no,
20:50
Speaker 2: I didn't I did not sleep with your boyfriends. I
20:52
Speaker 2: don't know what's going on.
20:53
Speaker 1: But at some point Karen and Laura were screaming so
20:56
Speaker 1: loudly and they were right on top of her that
20:58
Speaker 1: Missy just kind of began to shut down, and she
21:00
Speaker 1: went quiet and kind of tucked herself into a ball.
21:02
Speaker 1: And as soon as this happened, Karen and Laura they
21:05
Speaker 1: grabbed Missy and they began pushing her away from the
21:08
Speaker 1: car towards a trail that led into the forest. And
21:11
Speaker 1: Missy she's four foot ten ninety five pounds, she's tiny.
21:15
Speaker 1: And Karen was five foot two over two hundred pounds,
21:19
Speaker 1: and Laura was five foot six inches tall and weighed
21:22
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty five.
21:23
Speaker 2: Pounds, and so Missy knew she could not put up
21:25
Speaker 2: a fight.
21:26
Speaker 1: She had no chance against these two, and so Missy
21:28
Speaker 1: just kind of began shuffling her feet walking towards this trail,
21:31
Speaker 1: and periodically Karen and Laura would walk up and push
21:34
Speaker 1: her to walk towards this trail. And as this is happening, Eva,
21:37
Speaker 1: who had been sitting in the car the whole time,
21:40
Speaker 1: she finally got out and kind of walked up behind
21:42
Speaker 1: the group, but didn't participate. She just walked along behind them.
21:46
Speaker 1: And so after a couple of minutes, Karen and Laura
21:48
Speaker 1: had managed to push Missy all the way to the
21:51
Speaker 1: actual start of the trail, this narrow trail that left
21:55
Speaker 1: the parking lot. And at that point, Laura walked around
21:58
Speaker 1: Missy so she was in front of her and Karen
22:00
Speaker 1: stayed behind Missy, and the two girls ordered Missy to
22:04
Speaker 1: keep following them into the woods, and Missy did not
22:07
Speaker 1: put up a fight. She just put her head down
22:09
Speaker 1: and continued walking along the trail behind Laura, with Karen
22:12
Speaker 1: behind her periodically pushing her, and then several steps behind
22:16
Speaker 1: Karen was Eva, who just continued to do nothing. After
22:19
Speaker 1: the girls had walked for a little while on this
22:21
Speaker 1: trail and were out of sight of the parking lot,
22:23
Speaker 1: Laura came to an abrupt stop and she turned around
22:26
Speaker 1: to face Missy, and by this point Missy was genuinely terrified.
22:30
Speaker 1: She was crying, She had her head down and she
22:33
Speaker 1: was just hoping that her captors were going to let
22:35
Speaker 1: her go. But once they stopped and Missy looked up
22:38
Speaker 1: at Laura, Laura wound up and decked Missy right in
22:42
Speaker 1: the face. And as soon as she hit Missy, Karen
22:45
Speaker 1: immediately jumped in and before long Missy was on the
22:48
Speaker 1: ground getting punched and kicked and stomped on by Laura
22:52
Speaker 1: and Karen, and again Eva just stood there watching, doing nothing. Eventually,
22:56
Speaker 1: Laura and Karen would stop beating Missy. At that point,
23:00
Speaker 1: Laura would pull out a knife and she would reach
23:02
Speaker 1: down and she would grab Missy's hair and she began
23:05
Speaker 1: hacking it off. Missy was not a vain person, but
23:09
Speaker 1: she loved her hair. It had to be perfect anywhere
23:13
Speaker 1: she went. It was her prized possession, and Laura and
23:16
Speaker 1: Karen knew it, and so Laura she begins hacking off
23:19
Speaker 1: the hair with her knife, and Karen, who wanted to
23:21
Speaker 1: get involved but didn't have a knife, just began grabbing
23:24
Speaker 1: Missy's hair and ripping it out with her fists. Finally,
23:28
Speaker 1: after much of Missy's hair had been hacked off of
23:31
Speaker 1: her head, Laura and Karen stopped and just stood up
23:34
Speaker 1: and looked down at Missy, who was now in the
23:36
Speaker 1: fetal position, just crying to herself. But Laura and Karen
23:40
Speaker 1: were not done at this point. They got out restraints
23:43
Speaker 1: and they tied Missy's hands behind her back, and they
23:46
Speaker 1: gagged her mouth, and again Eva did nothing.
23:50
Speaker 2: Once Missy was completely restrained, Laura.
23:53
Speaker 1: Got up and began walking towards a nearby stream that
23:56
Speaker 1: was about ten feet away from them down a hill, and.
23:58
Speaker 2: So Laura gets down to the sea.
24:00
Speaker 1: She wades in about halfway where the water comes up
24:03
Speaker 1: about eight inches on her leg, and then she turns
24:05
Speaker 1: around and she looks up the hill at Missy and Karen,
24:08
Speaker 1: and Eva, who's off to the side.
24:10
Speaker 2: And Laura.
24:10
Speaker 1: While staring directly at Missy, she reaches down and begins
24:14
Speaker 1: running her fingers through the water and says to Missy,
24:17
Speaker 1: why didn't you come down and get in the water
24:19
Speaker 1: with me. When Missy didn't move, Karen, who was standing
24:22
Speaker 1: next to her, hauled her up and then pushed her
24:25
Speaker 1: down the hill, and Missy doesn't have the ability to
24:27
Speaker 1: brace her fall because her.
24:28
Speaker 2: Hands are bound, and so she slams down on.
24:31
Speaker 1: Her face and she rolls down to the edge of
24:33
Speaker 1: the water, and there she stops, and before Missy can
24:35
Speaker 1: get up, Karen and Laura had descended on her.
24:39
Speaker 2: They'd grabbed her by the shoulders.
24:40
Speaker 1: And they began dragging her out into the water, and
24:43
Speaker 1: so Eva, who's watching this happen again, does nothing and
24:46
Speaker 1: just turns around and begins running down the trail back
24:49
Speaker 1: towards the cars. When she gets to the cars, she
24:52
Speaker 1: discovers they are both locked, so she can't go anywhere,
24:55
Speaker 1: and she was too far away from anywhere to walk,
24:58
Speaker 1: and so her only choice just to go back down
25:01
Speaker 1: the trail to where her friends were, and so Eva
25:03
Speaker 1: goes back to this trail, and she begins walking in
25:05
Speaker 1: the direction of the stream. And as she's walking, before
25:09
Speaker 1: she can see any of the girls, she hears a terrifying,
25:13
Speaker 1: blood curdling scream coming from somewhere deep in the forest.
25:16
Speaker 1: And Eva was so terrified that she stopped where she was,
25:20
Speaker 1: She turned around, and she ran back to the cars.
25:22
Speaker 1: Eva would sit down on the ground between the two
25:25
Speaker 1: cars and she would begin to rock back and forth.
25:28
Speaker 1: After nearly an hour of doing that, Karen and Laura
25:32
Speaker 1: suddenly emerged from the trailhead soaking, wet and laughing.
25:36
Speaker 2: Missy was not with them.
25:38
Speaker 1: After Ava had turned around and run away from the
25:41
Speaker 1: stream to go back to the cars. The first time,
25:44
Speaker 1: Laura and Karen had grabbed Missy, dragged her into the
25:47
Speaker 1: water and laid her on her stomach in the eight
25:50
Speaker 1: inches of water. And so Missy is trying desperately to
25:53
Speaker 1: keep her head out of the water, but Laura comes
25:55
Speaker 1: around and grabs her legs and presses them into the water.
25:58
Speaker 1: And then Karen comes around and grabs the back of
26:01
Speaker 1: Missy's head and forces her head down into the water.
26:04
Speaker 1: Missy would start fighting for her life, trying to wriggle
26:07
Speaker 1: her way out of the water, and at some point
26:09
Speaker 1: she would manage to get out from under their grasp,
26:11
Speaker 1: and as soon as her head cleared the water, she
26:14
Speaker 1: took in a big breath and then let out that piercing,
26:16
Speaker 1: horrifying scream that Aba heard as she was walking back
26:20
Speaker 1: down the trail, which scared her and caused.
26:23
Speaker 2: Her to run away again.
26:24
Speaker 1: And after Missy let out that primal scream, Karen readjusted
26:28
Speaker 1: her grip.
26:29
Speaker 2: And pressed her head back into the water.
26:31
Speaker 1: Missy would continue to squirm and fight against Karen and Laura,
26:35
Speaker 1: and periodically she'd get her head up out of the
26:37
Speaker 1: water just enough to get a little gulp of air,
26:40
Speaker 1: and then she choked down a bunch of water and
26:42
Speaker 1: have her head pushed down into the water again, until
26:44
Speaker 1: finally Missy's strength just started to ebb, and when Karen
26:48
Speaker 1: and Laura sensed that Missy was on the verge of
26:50
Speaker 1: death and she was very weak, they seized the opportunity
26:53
Speaker 1: and they leapt off of her just long enough to
26:56
Speaker 1: run over to the side of the stream where there
26:58
Speaker 1: was this big heavy which investigators would later determine weighed
27:03
Speaker 1: over one hundred pounds, so it weighed more than Missy
27:06
Speaker 1: and Karen and Laura. They'd picked this log up, they'd
27:08
Speaker 1: walk back into the stream, and they'd dropped the log
27:11
Speaker 1: directly on the back of Missy's head, forcing it down
27:14
Speaker 1: into the water permanently. A few minutes after drowning Missy
27:18
Speaker 1: in the stream, Karen and Laura walked out of the trail.
27:21
Speaker 1: They got into their cars, Eva climbed into Laura's car,
27:24
Speaker 1: and the girls just left the parking lot and drove
27:27
Speaker 1: back home, leaving Missy in the woods. Three days later,
27:30
Speaker 1: a group of hikers were in that forest near where
27:33
Speaker 1: Missy had been killed, and they spotted her body in
27:36
Speaker 1: the stream. When police arrived, they found cigarette butts, a
27:39
Speaker 1: beer bottle, and men's overalls lying out near where Missy
27:44
Speaker 1: was found. These items were there entirely coincidentally. They had
27:47
Speaker 1: nothing to do with what happened to Missy, but they
27:50
Speaker 1: somehow made the lie about Missy being with those two
27:54
Speaker 1: guys in their Camaro before she vanished seem more believable,
27:58
Speaker 1: mostly because when Laura described these two guys to police,
28:02
Speaker 1: she kind of made it seem like they were bad
28:05
Speaker 1: boys or troublemakers, like the type of guys who would
28:08
Speaker 1: go off into the woods and smoke and drink for fun,
28:10
Speaker 1: and so the police just continued to chase down this
28:14
Speaker 1: two guys and a blue Camaro lead until the murder
28:17
Speaker 1: case went cold. But three years after Missy was murdered, Eva,
28:22
Speaker 1: who had been threatened by Karen and Laura never to
28:25
Speaker 1: say a word about what she knew, finally came forward
28:28
Speaker 1: to police and told them that Karen and Laura had
28:31
Speaker 1: killed Missy. When Karen, Laura, and Missy became teenagers, Missy
28:36
Speaker 1: really blossomed into this beautiful young woman who everybody seemed
28:39
Speaker 1: to adore.
28:40
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Laura and Karen had.
28:43
Speaker 1: The opposite experience. They felt awkward in their bodies and
28:46
Speaker 1: felt like no one really liked them, and so in
28:48
Speaker 1: time they became very jealous of Missy, and that jealousy
28:52
Speaker 1: turned into resentment, and that resentment turned into hatred, and
28:57
Speaker 1: so in nineteen eighty four, it was Sar and Laura
29:01
Speaker 1: who started that rumor about Missy sleeping with all these
29:04
Speaker 1: boys who had girlfriends, and that lie would get Missy
29:08
Speaker 1: attacked and beat up really badly. But that wasn't enough
29:12
Speaker 1: for Karen and Laura. They felt like Missy deserved worse,
29:15
Speaker 1: and so the following year in September of nineteen eighty five,
29:19
Speaker 1: Laura and Karen decided to kill Missy. Their plan began
29:23
Speaker 1: with spreading another rumor about Missy, about how she was
29:27
Speaker 1: sleeping around with boys with girlfriends, except this time the
29:31
Speaker 1: girlfriends in this rumor would be Laura and Karen.
29:34
Speaker 2: They did this knowing this rumor would start a fight.
29:38
Speaker 1: Between the three of them, and they knew that Missy
29:40
Speaker 1: just would not be able to be mad at her friends,
29:43
Speaker 1: she would want to make up with them, and so
29:45
Speaker 1: Karen and Laura they start this rumor. It does cause
29:48
Speaker 1: a big blowout fight between the three of them, but
29:51
Speaker 1: then after this fight, Laura very intentionally makes up with
29:55
Speaker 1: Missy and kind of says, hey, you know, let's make
29:57
Speaker 1: things right again. And so she pretends to be friends
29:59
Speaker 1: with Missy. And then a couple of weeks later, on
30:01
Speaker 1: the morning of October first, Karen would contact Missy. She
30:05
Speaker 1: would tell her how sorry she was, and she asked her, Hey,
30:08
Speaker 1: do you want to get together today all three of us.
30:10
Speaker 2: Just like old times?
30:11
Speaker 1: And Missy fell right into their trap because she was
30:15
Speaker 1: so excited at the prospect of getting to spend time
30:18
Speaker 1: with her two best friends, who she really did love,
30:21
Speaker 1: and so she quickly agreed to meet up with them.
30:23
Speaker 1: And so Laura and Missy they arrive in the parking
30:26
Speaker 1: lot of Stonehurst Park and then Karen comes.
30:29
Speaker 2: Flying in and there's this huge fight, and there's.
30:31
Speaker 1: This forty five minute drive up into the mountains where
30:34
Speaker 1: they reached this parking lot, and Karen and Laura are
30:37
Speaker 1: fighting with each other and Missy has no idea what's
30:39
Speaker 1: going on, and then all of the sudden, the fighting stops.
30:43
Speaker 2: Because the fighting wasn't real. It was all rehearsed.
30:46
Speaker 1: Laura and Karen had done that in order to throw
30:48
Speaker 1: Missy off guard and to get her up into this
30:52
Speaker 1: forest up in the mountains where.
30:53
Speaker 2: They could kill her.
30:54
Speaker 1: It's unclear why Laura and Karen brought Eva along, but
30:58
Speaker 1: most likely she was brought along as a decoy as well.
31:01
Speaker 1: After Missy's body was found and the police were on
31:04
Speaker 1: this mad hunt to find these two guys and the
31:07
Speaker 1: blue Camaro, Karen actually moved in to Missy's family's home.
31:12
Speaker 1: She told them she just wanted to offer support during
31:14
Speaker 1: this really difficult time, but in reality, she just wanted
31:18
Speaker 1: to keep close tabs on the investigation and any chance
31:21
Speaker 1: she got she wanted to make sure she threw police
31:24
Speaker 1: and Missy's family off of her and Laura's trail, and
31:27
Speaker 1: so for months, Karen slept in Missy's bed, She ate
31:31
Speaker 1: at the same dinner table where Missy would eat with
31:34
Speaker 1: Missy's family, and Karen would spend hours out in the
31:37
Speaker 1: car with Missy's mother, Irene, and other members of Missy's family,
31:41
Speaker 1: driving around looking for clues about where Missy could have
31:44
Speaker 1: gone or who really was responsible for Missy's death. When
31:48
Speaker 1: the truth finally came out three years later that Karen
31:51
Speaker 1: and Laura had been the ones who killed Missy, Missy's
31:55
Speaker 1: family could not believe that their daughter's killer was literally living.
32:00
Speaker 2: With them the whole time.
32:01
Speaker 1: Ultimately, Laura and Karen would be found guilty of killing
32:05
Speaker 1: Missy and they would each be sentenced to fifteen years
32:08
Speaker 1: to life in prison. Karen Severson was paroled in December
32:12
Speaker 1: of twenty and eleven, and Laura Doyle was parolled a
32:15
Speaker 1: year later in December of twenty twelve.
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