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Vanished in the Valley: Young women gone missing in Los Angeles · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Friends and family are desperately searching for twenty six year
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Speaker 1: old mate Sella Garcia, and we're really terrified. I don't
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Speaker 1: even know what to think. This is crime stories with
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. She's like a grade back there. I'm just
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Speaker 1: gonna go to such a smoke a cigarette and when
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Speaker 1: I came out, she wasn't there. She tried calling, no
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Speaker 1: answer in her phone stead so I was like, okay,
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Speaker 1: let's not over wracked. I stood in the rain and
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Speaker 1: by her car for like I don't even know. I
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Speaker 1: lost time, probably over thirty forty minutes waiting for her,
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Speaker 1: and she took him back. It is odd that she's
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Speaker 1: walked away, but we're still investigating. And where I am
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Speaker 1: saying is that there's no evidence of foul play that
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Speaker 1: we did to a manyist. She would never leave me
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Speaker 1: alone like I was her younger sister. There's no way
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Speaker 1: I see her every day. She doesn't just wander off
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Speaker 1: by herself. Two young women have gone missing, and no
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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the so called Sherry Peppini copycats.
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Speaker 1: I've already told you about three other women, including Amy
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Speaker 1: Stacy Roajing Camp. All three of those are unsolved. Although
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Speaker 1: Amy's may have been an accidental death, not sure about that.
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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about those three women that go missing
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Speaker 1: in the wake of Sherry Peppini's disappearance. I'm not talking
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Speaker 1: about the then nice woman that was found thrown out
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Speaker 1: of an suv half naked and now has disappeared. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about another woman. Another woman is missing, and apparently
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Speaker 1: one of these missing women's family is having to go
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Speaker 1: door to door themselves trying to find surveillance video. Marciella
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Speaker 1: Garcia is just twenty six years old. She disappeared while
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Speaker 1: shopping at a good Will store in Rossetta. Now listen,
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Speaker 1: don't cast her, don't throw her in any particular pot
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Speaker 1: to stew, because she was at a good will just
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. My children had to dress
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Speaker 1: up for a project at school. We went shopping at Goodwill. Okay,
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Speaker 1: mock me if you wish. So she told her sister
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Speaker 1: she was going outside to have a cigarette. She never returned.
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Speaker 1: Now I can tell you in all the years I
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Speaker 1: have prosecuted and investigated cases, actually about ten thousand in
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Speaker 1: the ten years that I was a violent crimes prosecutor,
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Speaker 1: plus all the cases I haven't counted when I was
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Speaker 1: covering them. You don't go shopping with your sister, step
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Speaker 1: outside to have a cigarette and then never come back. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is why the family is upset. They say the
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Speaker 1: l A p D and assured don't want to grab
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Speaker 1: a tiger by the tail because you can't hold on
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Speaker 1: and you can't let go. But the family of Marcella
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Speaker 1: Gracia is saying they insist on calling her voluntarily missing
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Speaker 1: because they couldn't find a sign of struggle. They did, however,
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Speaker 1: find her broken necklace near a dumpster after a dog
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Speaker 1: led them there. That's not good. Ah, just Monday, another
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Speaker 1: woman goes missing. We are taking calls today. Hey, everybody, welcome.
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Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace and joining me
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Speaker 1: investigative reporter Alan Duke. Alan, before we get sidetracked about
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Speaker 1: why Sherry Peppini telling the truth or not? I mean,
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Speaker 1: we can go round and round about with that all
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Speaker 1: day long, but I want to talk to you about
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Speaker 1: this spate of women missing and why police are calling
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Speaker 1: it voluntary disappearance. Because if my necklace that I'm wearing
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Speaker 1: at the time I step outside for a cigarette it's
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Speaker 1: broken by a ductor, I wouldn't do that voluntarily? Help me.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of reasons to believe that it
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Speaker 1: wasn't voluntary missing. I talked with a family spokesman and
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Speaker 1: got some details. Well, let's listen to that right now. Today, Um,
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Speaker 1: the family went around gathering security video and talking to
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Speaker 1: the detectives and trying to get a little more UM
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Speaker 1: investigation done. Isn't that normally something that the police would do,
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Speaker 1: going around looking for security camera video? Why? Why? Why
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Speaker 1: is the family doing that? The police have indicated that
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Speaker 1: since there was no physical evidence of an abduction at
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Speaker 1: her car, that they don't feel that there has been
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Speaker 1: a crime committed and they don't see the need to
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Speaker 1: pull any security footage. This was January the twelve of Thursday,
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Speaker 1: a rainy day in Los Angeles, and it was in
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Speaker 1: the evening, right pm, which is dark in Los Angeles
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Speaker 1: in January, absolutely and maris Ella was out shopping with
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Speaker 1: her sister. Correct tell me about that. Maricella had spent
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Speaker 1: the day with Sarah. They had been hanging out doing
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Speaker 1: girl things. Maricella had made a couple of deliveries from
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Speaker 1: her job she's a delivery driver for Postmates. Because they
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Speaker 1: were on their way home Sarah said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I've got a decades party this weekend. I needed to
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Speaker 1: see if Goodwill has some supplies. They didn't know where
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Speaker 1: the nearest Goodwill was. They, like I said, we're not
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Speaker 1: in their neighborhood. So Maricella put in Goodwill to her
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Speaker 1: GPS and it took them to the Goodwill there on
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Speaker 1: German Way. She lives in Tarzana, which is about what
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Speaker 1: six or seven miles away from Recita, something like that,
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Speaker 1: so she normally wouldn't have been in this area of
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Speaker 1: this Goodwill store in Racita, according to correct According to Sara,
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Speaker 1: they had never been to that area before. That makes
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Speaker 1: it even odd or that she would disappear at the location, right,
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Speaker 1: any pre arranged anything, right. So she was shopping at
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Speaker 1: the Goodwill for a decades party, sort of some throwback clothes,
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Speaker 1: right right, And she decided to go out to smoke
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Speaker 1: a cigarette and she left her younger sister Sarah inside.
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Speaker 1: That's right. What happened after that, Sarah maybe fifteen twenty
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Speaker 1: minutes later, um Maricella had not come back in. Sarah
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Speaker 1: went out to the car, thanking Maricella was in the
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Speaker 1: car and she wasn't there. So Sarah waited by the car,
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Speaker 1: maybe fifteen minutes or so. And keep in mind it's
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Speaker 1: dark and it's rainy, and by this time Sarah's phone
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Speaker 1: is dead, so she has no way to call anybody.
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Speaker 1: And when she had waited there for a fifteen or
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Speaker 1: twenty minutes, she started worrying, and she began looking. She
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Speaker 1: went into the ninety nine cent store, she went into
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Speaker 1: pay less, she went into there's a church also right
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Speaker 1: there at the end of the strip mall. She went
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Speaker 1: into the church where two women said that Maricella had
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Speaker 1: been there. How did they know Maricella? How would they
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Speaker 1: have known her that she had been in there? She
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Speaker 1: had described her, Sarah had described, had you seen my sister?
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Speaker 1: This is what she looks like. Right? So this lady
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Speaker 1: in a church said that someone like that had been
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Speaker 1: in there, correct. And they asked, Sarah, was your sister sick?
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Speaker 1: And Sarah said, no, what do you mean? And they
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Speaker 1: said she had come in, but when she left, she
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Speaker 1: looked panicked, she looked scared and upset, and she had
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Speaker 1: gone out the side door into a back parking lot.
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Speaker 1: Sarah of course went out there and Maricela was not there. Um,
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Speaker 1: Sarah continued looking around. She went across the street to
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Speaker 1: the seven eleven and also actually let me backtrack a
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Speaker 1: little bit more. When she was still in front of
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Speaker 1: Goodwill in the nine nine cent store, two men approached Sarah,
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Speaker 1: and Sarah said they were very um. She got a
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Speaker 1: bad vibe from him. She thought they were creepy. Um.
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Speaker 1: One of them asked her what time it was and
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Speaker 1: then made the comment, oh, is your phone dead? And
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Speaker 1: she just thought that was odd anyway, so she went
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Speaker 1: over to the seven eleven. She was feeling spoots. It's
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Speaker 1: a not a very good neighborhood, especially at night for
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Speaker 1: a young, pretty single girl. And waited at the seven
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Speaker 1: eleven where she could keep an eye on, you know,
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Speaker 1: the church and the strip plaza from there, and waited
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Speaker 1: there until she had called to ride, until her ride
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Speaker 1: got there, and she went home and told her family
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Speaker 1: and they went back out and stayed for hours looking
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Speaker 1: for Maricella. Her car, her purse, everything was still there.
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Speaker 1: Maricella had her keys and her phone. And that was it.
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Speaker 1: What happened the numerous times I'm sure that Sarah tried
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Speaker 1: to call Maricella, her sister on the cell phone. Well,
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Speaker 1: Sarah's phone was dad, but obviously when she got in
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Speaker 1: contact with her family, the phone was going straight to voice. Now,
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Speaker 1: so she has been missing now going on two weeks.
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Speaker 1: What had the police done. They came out and looked
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Speaker 1: over the car, and I mean looked over the car,
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Speaker 1: and there were no signs of a struggle, no signs
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Speaker 1: in an abduction, and they took a missing report and
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Speaker 1: listened to her as volunteery missing. Why would they say
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Speaker 1: voluntary missing because she is a grown woman and there
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Speaker 1: were no there was no blood, there was no keys
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Speaker 1: on the ground, there was no indication that she had
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Speaker 1: been abducted, despite the fact she left her baby sister,
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Speaker 1: her little sister there alone in the dark in a
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Speaker 1: sketchy part of town, walked out of a car with
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Speaker 1: no phone, and she has no history of ever doing
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Speaker 1: anything like this. Before you mentioned that the family is
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Speaker 1: out doing the police work essentially right now. Absolutely they are.
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Speaker 1: We did a search on Saturday. We went over every
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Speaker 1: intground within my at least a good mile radius. We
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Speaker 1: talked to business owners, we talked to everybody we could,
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Speaker 1: homeless people, we talked to store managers, store owners, and
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Speaker 1: you know, of course, it's it's a word gets around.
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Speaker 1: Everybody knew Maricela was missing. There was a number of
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Speaker 1: business owners that we're asking, why haven't the police asked
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Speaker 1: us for our footage? Why haven't the police been here
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Speaker 1: asking questions? They haven't heard from the police. Maybe at
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Speaker 1: least knowing that this is going on, they'll preserve it
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Speaker 1: so that when the police do ask for it will
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Speaker 1: be available, right and they were willing to make it
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Speaker 1: available to the family. And that's what Marisola's dad has
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Speaker 1: been all day doing, was going back to where we
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Speaker 1: spent Saturday, doing the same things we were doing, talking
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Speaker 1: to the business owners and haying flyers and talked to
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Speaker 1: the homeless people. And he was at the police station
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Speaker 1: trying to get them to do anything. We had a
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Speaker 1: canine team out there on Saturday. It also indicated where
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Speaker 1: Maricella had been. Some items were found that were the
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Speaker 1: family identified as hers. Of course the police have not
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Speaker 1: confirmed that yet. They came out and they took the
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Speaker 1: items and that's it. We showed them where the dogs
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Speaker 1: said she had gone and what the dogs had indicated.
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Speaker 1: It seemed that she was hiding in places that she
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Speaker 1: by her movements indicated that she was possibly being chased
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Speaker 1: or followed. We've asked for security footage that could say
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Speaker 1: that that's what happened and that's not what happened. The
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Speaker 1: items that were found to understand, there was a necklace
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Speaker 1: that the family says belonged to her. It was a
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Speaker 1: black fabric choker. If you could imagine having something around
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Speaker 1: your neck and if someone reached out and ripped off
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Speaker 1: your neck is how it looked. It was ripped on
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Speaker 1: both ends. The stone was not there. That was found
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Speaker 1: immediately behind the dumpster where the dogs said they lost
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Speaker 1: her set. This was January twelve, Thursday afternoon. I remember
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Speaker 1: that day. It was raining in l A. Which is rare.
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Speaker 1: It's been writing a lot lately though. But the very
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Speaker 1: next day, a really odd thing happened just a very
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Speaker 1: few blocks away, just down the street from the Sherman
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Speaker 1: Oaks location where Maricela was last seen. Van Nuys woman
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Speaker 1: was apparently released by who she says were her kidnappers.
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Speaker 1: This happened about well less than twenty four hours later,
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Speaker 1: just a handful of blocks away. It was within our surgrease, yes,
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Speaker 1: but that was dealt with by a different department of
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Speaker 1: the l A p D. It was the Van Nuys
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Speaker 1: headquarters instead of the West the West Valley headquarters. Who
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Speaker 1: knows if they were even in touch with each other. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we don't believe. So you don't even think that the
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Speaker 1: two investigations, the two investigators even connected on that. Wow, No,
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Speaker 1: we brought it to their attention. You probably saw some
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Speaker 1: of the some of the coverage of the Van Nuys
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Speaker 1: woman who disappeared just for four hours, thankfully, And there
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Speaker 1: were comparisons of that case with Sherry Peppini, which you're
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Speaker 1: familiar with. You told me at one point that you
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Speaker 1: think that there are similarities between Maricella Garcia and Sherry Peppini.
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Speaker 1: How how would you see that? I think Maricella was beautiful.
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Speaker 1: I think she was young. I think she had aspirations
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Speaker 1: maybe to be a model. I think she was just
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Speaker 1: very vulnerable and she was a perfect target to night.
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Speaker 1: So there are a lot of reasons to believe that
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Speaker 1: this lady, and we're talking about Maricella Garcia, was kidnapped.
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Speaker 1: This was just like three blocks away from where this
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Speaker 1: other Van Nuys woman was released, bound and half naked,
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Speaker 1: just twenty four hours later. And it's also disturbing to
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Speaker 1: find out that apparently the detectives on each case weren't
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Speaker 1: even aware of the other case. Okay, that's bad. I
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Speaker 1: want to tell you something now. Look, I get being
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Speaker 1: a public servant when you have a crush of cases.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Alan, I remember trying a case and it
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Speaker 1: was a hard one. Two was um it was a homicide.
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Speaker 1: It was a murder. And I didn't go back to
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Speaker 1: my office in the District Attorney's office for almost three
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Speaker 1: weeks because I was in court trying the case. I
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Speaker 1: would just go straight into the courtroom every morning, instead
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Speaker 1: of taking the extra twenty minutes to stop by my
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Speaker 1: office and do what check calls. I can do that remote.
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Speaker 1: I would go straight to the courtroom, and at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, it could be eight or nine o'clock,
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Speaker 1: I'd leave the courtroom and go straight to my car.
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Speaker 1: So for like three weeks I wasn't in my office.
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Speaker 1: I came back in my office still sitting there was
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Speaker 1: a carton of milk I had bought and some Crispy
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Speaker 1: Kreeing doughnuts sitting on the desk that I had bought
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Speaker 1: before I started the trial. And I walked out of
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Speaker 1: my office and never went back in there. And on
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Speaker 1: my desk. This is what I'm working up to, were
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Speaker 1: there had to be about maybe two hundred, about seventy
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Speaker 1: five cases in a stuff in a stack of files
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Speaker 1: that had fallen over, and beside my desk were two
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Speaker 1: boxes of new cases. Okay, So what I'm saying is
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Speaker 1: they're at l a p D. Are swamped. So I'm
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Speaker 1: not crazy upset that one detective didn't know that down
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Speaker 1: the hall another detective had a missing person. Do I
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Speaker 1: like it? No? I don't like it. But do I
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Speaker 1: understand why it happened? Yeah, you gotta start investigating before
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Speaker 1: you connect the dots to another missing person. I know
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Speaker 1: it sounds obvious to me and you on the outside
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Speaker 1: looking in, but it ain't always that easy, Alan, when
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Speaker 1: you're dealing with three hundred four hundred active cases. All right,
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Speaker 1: in their defense, Again, I don't like it, but what
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Speaker 1: I do. What I am angry about is that she
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Speaker 1: Marciolla Garcia, just twenty six, is being described as voluntary
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Speaker 1: missing because her mother has made an emotional plea to
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Speaker 1: l a p D. And she says her daughter net
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Speaker 1: necklace was ripped off her off her neck, it was
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Speaker 1: a choker and there was a smashed cell phone found
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Speaker 1: as well. She says the evidence quote that choker in
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Speaker 1: your evidence room. That was her favorite thing to where
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Speaker 1: I swear she would sleep and shower in it if
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Speaker 1: she could. Now to me, huh, this is not voluntary, Alan,
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Speaker 1: I agree with this, and I've spoken with the family.
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Speaker 1: They are so happy that you're talking about this. They
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Speaker 1: think that that is going to help their case of
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Speaker 1: putting some pressure on the l A p d Alan, Alan, Alan,
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Speaker 1: Before we pat ourselves on the back, There's more, there's
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Speaker 1: more catch this. She leaves her BMW and her purse behind.
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Speaker 1: Who leaves a BMW and your purse behind? And your
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Speaker 1: sister nobody? And your sister nobody? I mean, okay, here myself,
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Speaker 1: I am the only outside looking in. I hear myself
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Speaker 1: starting to get crazy and yell. But times of wasted.
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Speaker 1: This girl is not voluntary missing. That's not and that
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Speaker 1: is the title they put on it. I know it's
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Speaker 1: voluntarily missing and correct grammar, but she has been dubbed
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Speaker 1: voluntary missing. Okay, what else do we know? Like you
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Speaker 1: going to the Goodwill to search for a costume for
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Speaker 1: a party, That's why she was there. She lives in Tarzana.
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Speaker 1: Her sister says that she wanted to She was going
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Speaker 1: to a decades party and she wanted some vintage clothing,
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Speaker 1: and that's why she was there. She had never been
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Speaker 1: to the store. What's that? What's a decades party? You
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Speaker 1: dressed like the eighties or the seventies, something like that.
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Speaker 1: So she went to Goodwill in order to find a costume.
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Speaker 1: That's what a lot of people do. But the point
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Speaker 1: is she had never been to this good Will store before.
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Speaker 1: I have, by the way, I've been, I've done that.
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Speaker 1: And she disappeared from that neighborhood that she's never been
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Speaker 1: in before. So it's not like she knew the area.
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Speaker 1: Listen to what as I know about this? Lorie Wells,
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Speaker 1: who is a canine handler. She is the president of
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Speaker 1: a nonprofit Search Dogs seven. She went out and searched
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Speaker 1: the area on Saturday with her leopard dog, her Catahoula
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Speaker 1: leopard dog named Katrina. Now Katrina the dog is a
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Speaker 1: sense specific training dog. She's handed an article of clothing,
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Speaker 1: but that belongs to the missing person and she can
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Speaker 1: follow that scent through crowds, wilderness, parking lots. So she
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Speaker 1: goes out there with Katrina at the good Will. The
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Speaker 1: dog wanted to go to a nearby supermarket where a
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Speaker 1: cigarette was found in the back, the same brand Marcilla smokes.
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Speaker 1: Then to a church. She became very animated near the
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Speaker 1: church and wanted to go inside. Now what does that mean?
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Speaker 1: A woman? Two women said they saw a woman matching
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Speaker 1: the description near the church, looking upset at St. Catherine
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Speaker 1: of Sienna Catholic Church. The dog went to the back
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Speaker 1: of the church and then too a back of an
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Speaker 1: office building where there were security cameras and told the
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Speaker 1: family case they're able to view footage it could help them.
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Speaker 1: So this volunteer leaves the family with more clues to
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Speaker 1: work on than the police didn't. Now, you know, I
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Speaker 1: don't like trash and the police because I feel very
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Speaker 1: akin to law enforcement. But I'm really upset about this.
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Speaker 1: The Van Nuys case, actually that was in a different
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Speaker 1: building than the other detectives. This was Van Nuys versus
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Speaker 1: Valley View, and they're actually a few miles apart. So
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Speaker 1: that might explain why the detectives weren't talking to each
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Speaker 1: other in that period. But this is what's frustrating. I
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Speaker 1: talked with a family spokesman last night and she said
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Speaker 1: that the father spent yesterday going from store to store
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Speaker 1: trying to gather the surveillance video and that the stores
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Speaker 1: are being cooperative. Wit who who went door to door?
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Speaker 1: The father? Why is the family having to do it
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Speaker 1: because the police aren't doing it because they said is
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Speaker 1: voluntary missing. Now this could change real soon because I
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Speaker 1: also found out yesterday that the Missing Person's Unit of
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Speaker 1: the l a p D has taken over the case.
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Speaker 1: But that is that is a brand new development, So
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Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. You know. Another thing, the mother
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Speaker 1: said that she was a fierce quote fiercely protective of
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Speaker 1: her little sister and would never have left her there
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Speaker 1: alone to fend for herself at night. I would never
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Speaker 1: leave my sister. And she says, find out why my
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Speaker 1: daughter's sent ended at a dumpster in the far corner
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Speaker 1: of a dark parking lot where no one would have
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Speaker 1: gone by themselves. But most of all, please find my daughter.
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Speaker 1: That's what the mother says. I'm very distraught about this.
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Speaker 1: So do we know a tip line? Call the l
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Speaker 1: a p D Missing Person's Unit at two one three
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Speaker 1: nine hundred, two one three eight hundred. She's just gorgeous.
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Speaker 1: She looks like she's a about eighteen. The mom says,
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Speaker 1: my gorgeous, talented, tenderhearted daughter is reduced to one word case.
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Speaker 1: She says, I'm so lost without my marci Ella. You know,
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Speaker 1: the other night, after we did uh the story about
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Speaker 1: the van Nice woman, I had a horrible, horrible dream.
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Speaker 1: I woke up at three o'clock in the morning thinking
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Speaker 1: that Lucy, my daughter, was missing. God help me. And
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Speaker 1: I didn't even say the words. And I got up
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Speaker 1: and looked at her and covered her up with blankets again.
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Speaker 1: And I was up the rest of the night. Now
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Speaker 1: that was just me, and I had my daughter and
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Speaker 1: son asleep in bed like they were supposed to be.
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Speaker 1: But what about this mother begging, begging for help just
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Speaker 1: just hurts my heart. This scares me as well as
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Speaker 1: you know, I have a an adult daughter, gorgeous in
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Speaker 1: the same area. She's gorgeous. And and there was another
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Speaker 1: thing that we found out about yesterday, Nancy, that that
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Speaker 1: increased my fear. And that is the case of Laura
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Speaker 1: Lynn Stacy. And this is brand new. Go ahead, Laura
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Speaker 1: Lynn Stacy. She is from Denver, Colorado. She moved here,
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Speaker 1: I guess to seek for fame, like so many beautiful
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Speaker 1: young ladies, do you say here, you're right there in light,
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Speaker 1: right here in Los Angeles. Yes, well, this is just
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Speaker 1: right down the road from me, all of these I'm
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Speaker 1: right in the middle of this. This is what's really
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Speaker 1: scaring me personally. Nancy, twenty eight years old. Laura Lynn
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Speaker 1: Stacy disappeared on Sunday, last seen near Barn Boulevard. Now
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Speaker 1: this is for anyone who's ever been a tourist. Here
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Speaker 1: is near Universal City Studios. Universal Studios, you know, with
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Speaker 1: the Harry Potterick theme and all of that. And it's
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Speaker 1: right down the street from Warner Brothers Studio, very popular
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Speaker 1: area in the valley, on the Valley side of Hollywood Hills.
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Speaker 1: She has not been seen sin then. She was living
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Speaker 1: with a roommate in the Burbank area, which is near
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Speaker 1: that area. Her mother tells us that she that her
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Speaker 1: cell phone was found about thirty miles away in Santa Clarita,
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Speaker 1: which is a an area about thirty miles to the north.
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Speaker 1: So that is the latest. Like these other ladies, from
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Speaker 1: Sherry Peppini to Marcela Garcia, you look at a picture
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Speaker 1: of Laura Lynn Stacy and you think you might be
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Speaker 1: looking at a model. I mean she is or a
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Speaker 1: beauty queen. That is one of the common things about
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Speaker 1: these missing women. All women are beautiful, but these women
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Speaker 1: are like Hollywood beautiful. You know. I'm looking at both
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Speaker 1: of them, and they are and they're so young. What's
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Speaker 1: the proximity between Marcella's disappearance and Laura Lands. It's the
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Speaker 1: difference between Universal City and Recita, about eight miles right
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Speaker 1: across the valley, and it's a very simple drive between
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Speaker 1: the two. I want to talk to you about what
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Speaker 1: more we know regarding law len Um. Now, authorities are
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Speaker 1: confirming that the vehicle discovered Tuesday night in Lancaster is
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Speaker 1: the car of a twenty eight year old woman that
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Speaker 1: we're talking about that goes missing near to Luca Lake.
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Speaker 1: It's Laura Lynn Stacy that Alan Duke is describing as
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Speaker 1: he says, she just moved from Colorado to California and
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Speaker 1: she's last seen around Barn Boulevard. Now that's just two
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Speaker 1: blocks of Forest Lawn Drive. Is that where the famous
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Speaker 1: cemetery is Forest Lawn. It's not the one where Michael
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Speaker 1: Jackson is buried, but it's the one where Debbie Reynolds
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Speaker 1: and and of course her daughter was were recently married.
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Speaker 1: But a ton of stars are buried there. And I'm
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Speaker 1: bringing that up because it's a highly traveled tourists in
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Speaker 1: traffic area, but nobody saw anything. I mean, you know
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Speaker 1: when you go to l A, you see those sight
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Speaker 1: seeing buses going around. They go there. It's that popular,
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Speaker 1: and people go and walk through there. They find stars,
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Speaker 1: gray waves, or monuments, and long story short, this is
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Speaker 1: a very highly traveled area, is my point. So I'm
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Speaker 1: how did she go missing from an area where there
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Speaker 1: are tons of people around. Her cell phone is found
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Speaker 1: in a puddle at a Santa Clara Santa Clarita park,
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Speaker 1: thirty miles from her apartment. Now. The person who found
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Speaker 1: the phone texted her parents about five o'clock in the morning,
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Speaker 1: and the parents this statement just breaks my heart. The
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Speaker 1: mom says, it doesn't feel real, like a horrible nightmare.
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Speaker 1: I want to wake up from alan. I remember after
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Speaker 1: my fiancee was murdered. That's how I felt. I'd wake
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Speaker 1: up in the morning and at first I wouldn't realize
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Speaker 1: that it was real, and then like within seconds, it
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Speaker 1: would hit me, this is real. It happened. And the
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Speaker 1: mom says, it feels like a horrible nightmare. I've got
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Speaker 1: the tip line for Laura Lynn. It's two one three
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Speaker 1: nine six eighteen hundred two one three nine hundred. Let
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Speaker 1: me ask you, Alan, what are police telling you? Have
25:09
Speaker 1: they told you anything about Laurel Lynn's disappearance. Just yesterday
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Speaker 1: they put out the release asking, you know, with her
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Speaker 1: description and the circumstances, but they're not saying a whole lot. Now.
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Speaker 1: There are two police agencies involved. There's the one up
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Speaker 1: in Santa Clarita Valley, the Sheriff's Department. Then there's the
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Speaker 1: l A. P D here closer in the Hollywood Hills area.
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Speaker 1: But this is just a brand new case, just starting yesterday.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm looking at um Laura lens Stacy. Her
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Speaker 1: car was a two thousand five black Accurate TL with
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Speaker 1: Colorado license plate fifty nine seven W Woman F Frank D. Dog.
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Speaker 1: It was found thirty miles away her cell phone in
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Speaker 1: a puddle closer to where she was last seen. That
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Speaker 1: says to me that she have been carjacked right there
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Speaker 1: where her cell phone was found, or abducted right there
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Speaker 1: where cell phone was found, and she or her body
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Speaker 1: is somewhere between the cell phone and the car. Just
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Speaker 1: analyzing what I know, and also didn't she go missing?
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Speaker 1: Was it a Sunday evening? It was Sunday evening and
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Speaker 1: it was Monday morning that the mom got the cell
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Speaker 1: phone text. You know what, It just makes me want
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Speaker 1: to go get the children and lock them in the
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Speaker 1: room forever. Well, don't send them out here to Hollywood
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Speaker 1: out not right now. Well, don't worry about that. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you don't need to worry about that. And we're not
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Speaker 1: even gonna go to Harry potter Land out there. We'll
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Speaker 1: go in Florida for Pete's sake, although you know, Florida
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Speaker 1: has a high crime rate too, But I don't think
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Speaker 1: there's any criminals hiding out in um what is it
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Speaker 1: um the cricket broomstick or the what's the name of
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Speaker 1: the little anyway, we've you know, long story, short note,
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Speaker 1: we're not going out there. I'm not taking the twins
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Speaker 1: out there. Uh uh. So I'm still concerned about why
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Speaker 1: they're calling Marcilla Garcia's disappearance voluntary missing when they say
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Speaker 1: that the other girl, Laura Lynn Stacy, they're sending out
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Speaker 1: pictures of her and acting like she's missing, which I
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Speaker 1: think she is. So I'm just showing you a dichotomy
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Speaker 1: there um, which is disturbing. L A. P D. But
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Speaker 1: it's two different, two different precincts. If you will, did
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Speaker 1: you give me the tip line for Marcilla? I got
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Speaker 1: the tip line out for Laura Lynn two one three D.
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Speaker 1: Still hoping for word on the kidnapped van nice woman.
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Speaker 1: And still no word on the truth regarding Sherry Peppini,
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Speaker 1: although I think I know the truth will find out. Guys,
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Speaker 1: we are taking your calls. The number is hit him
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Speaker 1: with the number Alan nine O nine four nine crime.
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Speaker 1: It's seven called anytime. Oh whoa, whoa, Wait a minute.
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Speaker 1: Don't make me drive off the road texting and driving, okay,
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Speaker 1: don't don't say a word in a phone number. Okay.
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Speaker 1: If you say a word like crime in a phone number,
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Speaker 1: please allan, please follow that up with a numeric interpretation,
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Speaker 1: so I don't run off the road trying to dial it. Okay,
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Speaker 1: And don't tell Opri I'm dialing numbers what I'm driving
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Speaker 1: for pizza nine oh nine four nine crime. Would you
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Speaker 1: see R I M A second to seven four three?
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Speaker 1: So all together now nine O nine four nine two
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Speaker 1: seven or three correct two seven four six three to
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Speaker 1: seven four six three. Okay, there we have it. Nine Oh,
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Speaker 1: just say the whole thing it once, please nine O
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Speaker 1: nine four nine two seven four six three. Okay, all right.
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Speaker 1: I think maybe I like to better when you actually
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Speaker 1: said the word crime. But let's take a call. Let's
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Speaker 1: take our call right now. I want to hear this. Hi, Nancy, UM,
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Speaker 1: this is Laura from Kansas City, Kansas. And UM, we
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Speaker 1: have a friend that's been missing. Her name is Tony Anderson.
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Speaker 1: It's been all over the news here or she's twenty
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Speaker 1: years old. She's been missing for about a week. And UM,
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Speaker 1: we're just devastated and we haven't gotten many leads. UM.
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Speaker 1: I would just like to know if you could please
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Speaker 1: share her missing person UM flyer on one of your shows.
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Speaker 1: It would be a great help to get the word out.
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Speaker 1: We don't want to give up, and we still are
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Speaker 1: actively trying to find her. Laura is referring to a
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Speaker 1: young lady who disappeared over a week ago, still missing.
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Speaker 1: It's Tony Anderson. I wrote the article myself for her
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Speaker 1: disappearance on our website. Tony's just twenty years old and
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Speaker 1: she was last spotted early early in the morning leaving
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Speaker 1: a quick trip in North Kansas, Missouri. She was seen
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Speaker 1: driving a black two thousand fourteen Ford Focus. The black
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Speaker 1: Ford Focus has Kansas plates nine eight nine GE Georgia
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Speaker 1: A Alpha X as in X ray nine eight nine
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Speaker 1: g A X. Now. She had worked all night, was
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Speaker 1: getting off work and stopped at the quick trip. She's
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Speaker 1: five five. She weighs just a hundred and twenty pounds.
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Speaker 1: Blonde hair, green eyes. She is a student. Investigators have
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Speaker 1: followed leads as far as Wichita and still have not
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Speaker 1: found her. Now we've got a tip line. It's eight
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Speaker 1: one six four seven four tips eight one six four
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Speaker 1: seven four tips, and I'm gonna actually look that up
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Speaker 1: for you. Tips is eight four seven seven eight four
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Speaker 1: seven seven eight one six four seven four eight four
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Speaker 1: seven seven. She is a missing U m k C
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Speaker 1: student and you can go to hashtag bring Tony Home
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Speaker 1: t O n I. Her parents are begging for the
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Speaker 1: public's help. Tony Anderson missing eight one six four seven
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Speaker 1: four tips. Laura, thank you for calling us. Everyone. You
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Speaker 1: can reach us at our call in number, and if
31:41
Speaker 1: you go to crime online dot com, we have an
31:44
Speaker 1: email and a number there as well that you can
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Speaker 1: leave information or report cases. Please help us fight crime guys.
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Speaker 1: Our thoughts in our prayers with all these young ladies
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Speaker 1: and their families As the minutes ticked by Nancy Race
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Speaker 1: crime stories, signing off goodbye friend,