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Midday Missing - Sarah Burton,Relisha Rudd & Ava Martinez · True Crime and Wine Time

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Speaker 1: I do have two cases today that we did announce
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Speaker 1: on the case. Hi, Sandra, So up drama Lamas here
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Speaker 1: captain everybody. Hey guys, So the first case we're going
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Speaker 1: to cover today is Sarah Burton. Guys. She went missing
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Speaker 1: on July seventeenth, twenty eighteen, in Joplin, Missouri. Guys, first off,
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Speaker 1: I have to tell you I always thought Joplin was
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Speaker 1: in Mississippi. Maybe it's in two places, but anyway, she
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Speaker 1: went missing in Joplin, Missouri. Now a friend dropped her
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Speaker 1: off in an alley or buy an alley, and Sarah
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Speaker 1: was going to walk the rest of the way home.
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Speaker 1: Sarah never arrived. Now, it was later reported after her
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Speaker 1: disappearance that she was last I've seen later the same
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Speaker 1: morning in northwest Joplin at a house. I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: why that came out. I will tell you the information
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Speaker 1: surrounding this case was very frustrating. Now, Sarah's family discovered
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Speaker 1: that she was missing when the friend who dropped her
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Speaker 1: in the alley called to tell Sarah's parents that she
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Speaker 1: left her purse in one shoe in their car. First thought,
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Speaker 1: why did she leave her purse and her shoe? Okay?
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Speaker 1: Now her parents called and reported her missing on July twentieth,
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. Now, I could not find out when the
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Speaker 1: friend called Sarah's parents, because I was curious if she
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Speaker 1: went missing. If you know, the friend dropped her off
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Speaker 1: on the seventeenth and the parents didn't call to her
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Speaker 1: the twentieth, When did the friend call the parents? Because
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Speaker 1: three days is a long time. When you have someone see,
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Speaker 1: the trails go colder, and it makes it harder. Right now,
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Speaker 1: Sarah was said to have been a good student and
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Speaker 1: was even in gifted classes. Guys not me, as we
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Speaker 1: know from my gas math. However, after high school, her
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Speaker 1: life took guys an all too familiar turn. She started
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Speaker 1: using meth amphetamines and suffered from addiction issues. Now Sarah
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Speaker 1: had several run ins with authorities and even spent a
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Speaker 1: little bit of time in prison because of those addiction issues. Now,
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Speaker 1: she did have two sons, and it's reported that her
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Speaker 1: excuse me and the father of the boys had a
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Speaker 1: very rocky relationship. Sarah was living with her parents at
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Speaker 1: the time of her disappearance and was also dealing with
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Speaker 1: legal issues related to her drug addictions, and she was
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Speaker 1: out on bail. But per her parents, she was attending
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Speaker 1: all of her court hearings and working really closely with
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Speaker 1: her attorney, so they didn't think she just took off
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Speaker 1: somewhere and dropped everything. So the other thing I found
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Speaker 1: really interesting was that she was living with her parents,
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Speaker 1: but they say the last time they physically saw her
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Speaker 1: was on July eighth. I remember, guys, they didn't report
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Speaker 1: her missing until the twentieth. The friend dropped her off
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Speaker 1: on the seventeenth. She was seen on video in a neighborhood. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I mean her parents saw her on the eighth when
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Speaker 1: her father helped her buy a new car. And I
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Speaker 1: wonder why you know they hadn't seen her, But Sadly,
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Speaker 1: her parents found out later that Sarah had wrecked that
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Speaker 1: new car on July eleventh, and they thought maybe that's
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Speaker 1: why she was avoiding them for several days. Now, I mean,
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Speaker 1: your parents are going to be pretty pissed off that
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Speaker 1: you wrecked a car they just helped you get. But
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Speaker 1: how do you not see your child that is living
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Speaker 1: with you from July eighteenth. You don't report her missing
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Speaker 1: until the twentieth. I don't know if they had any
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Speaker 1: text message contact with her, if they had phone calls,
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Speaker 1: but you would think with her being out on bail,
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming they paid her bail, if they helped buy
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Speaker 1: her a car, that they would keep a little bit
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Speaker 1: more tabs on her, knowing she had these editions, you know, issues.
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Speaker 1: But that's just me, Okay, just me. Now, Sarah's parents
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Speaker 1: were hoping to get Sarah into a long term treatment
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Speaker 1: facility at the time she went missing, and they were
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Speaker 1: waiting on a bed to open up because she had
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Speaker 1: gotten clean, and then she went into prison and she
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Speaker 1: had relapsed after getting out of prison. Okay. I was
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Speaker 1: able to find an article where Sarah's mother told about
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Speaker 1: police searching the residence where Sarah was last seen and
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Speaker 1: that they had a person of interest. Now, police have
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Speaker 1: been very tight lipped in this case and are playing
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Speaker 1: things very close to the vest. Even the family says
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Speaker 1: they're not being told a lot of information, which I
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Speaker 1: get police do that because you don't want people running
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Speaker 1: around and running their mouth or things like that. But
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Speaker 1: a lot of suspicious things for me, why did the friend?
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Speaker 1: I mean, if I drop a friend off and I
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Speaker 1: noticed their purses in my car and their shoe, I'm
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Speaker 1: immediately going to be tracking them down. And if I
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Speaker 1: can't find them, and I know they're living at home,
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Speaker 1: I'd be driving to the friend's house and saying, hey,
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Speaker 1: sums up, she left her person in my car. She
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Speaker 1: left a shoe. Just seems suspicious. Right then I got
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Speaker 1: to thinking, well, maybe that friend was a drug connection
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Speaker 1: and didn't want to get in trouble. They have not
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Speaker 1: released the name of the friend anywhere. The information on
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Speaker 1: this case is very small, Okay, very small. Now, in
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, police found evidence while doing the drug investigation
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Speaker 1: for totally different Clay case, and it was outside of Joplin,
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Speaker 1: and they rated this establishment. They said that they found
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Speaker 1: items that led them to believe the property could be
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Speaker 1: related to Sarah's disappearance and then gave no further information.
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Speaker 1: Guys gave nothing. That's all they said, which I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Maybe I'm expecting them to give us more information. I mean,
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Speaker 1: say you found the other shoe, say you found an
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Speaker 1: article of clothing, or say that you found someone at
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Speaker 1: that residence that knew the person. Give us something, because
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Speaker 1: if you release that information, maybe somebody could call in
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Speaker 1: a tip and say, oh, I never knew that girl's name,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, she had been at that place on this date.
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Speaker 1: I mean, right, am I the only one that thinks
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Speaker 1: that way? But now this next thing. Sarah's family released
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Speaker 1: an open letter to her on the three year anniversary
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. I am going to read you
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Speaker 1: this letter, and I'm going to try to do it
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Speaker 1: without getting all choked up. So bear with me, grab
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Speaker 1: some tissues along with your lunch. Right on the night
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Speaker 1: of July sixteenth, twenty eighteen, our world and the world
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Speaker 1: of our young grandsons changed forever when our daughter, Sarah
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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Burton went missing. Sarah has had no contact with
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Speaker 1: anyone since. There has been no confirmed sighting of Sarah.
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Speaker 1: Our hearts are beyond broking. Three long years later, we
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Speaker 1: are still living in the nightmare of not knowing what
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Speaker 1: happened or where she is. Two innocent little boys are
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Speaker 1: put to bed every night, not by their mommy, and
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Speaker 1: they have to live each day without her. Three years
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Speaker 1: is an eternity with no answers and no word from
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Speaker 1: our daughter. We desperately need to know where she is.
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Speaker 1: The most important thing now is to bring her home.
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Speaker 1: Please help us. Her oldest son asked questions that we
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Speaker 1: heartbreakingly cannot answer. It's devastating someone or many someone's knows
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Speaker 1: what or where. If you know anything, please help bring
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Speaker 1: Sarah to a final resting place. Speak up, Do it
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Speaker 1: for Sarah, her two boys, and her family. From the
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Speaker 1: bottom of our hearts, we think the Joplin Police Department,
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Speaker 1: the FBI, and those who have looked for Sarah and
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Speaker 1: turned in tips, please do not stop. Bring Sarah home
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Speaker 1: so she can be placed where she belongs into seers.
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Speaker 1: The boys need a place to say, my mommy is here. Sarah,
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Speaker 1: we love you and we will never give up. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: The Burton family, guys, I don't know if you caught
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Speaker 1: the tone leads them to believe she's no longer on
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Speaker 1: this earth. I have goosebumps, which makes me wonder if
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Speaker 1: the police have given them some information saying we think
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Speaker 1: your daughter's just ceased, because so many families, as you
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Speaker 1: all know, lead out hope and say we hope she
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Speaker 1: can be found alive, but we're also realistic that you know,
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Speaker 1: she may not be here. So I found that very
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Speaker 1: very sad, and guys to think that two innocent little
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Speaker 1: boys want a place to be able to say mommy's here.
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Speaker 1: They want a grave site, they want to be able
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Speaker 1: to say goodbye and bury her. So. Sarah was twenty
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Speaker 1: nine at the time of her disappearance, was five foot seven,
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Speaker 1: weighed one hundred and seventy pounds, and has light brown
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Speaker 1: hair with blue eyes. If you have any information regarding
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Speaker 1: the disappearance of Sarah, please call the Joplin Police Department
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Speaker 1: at four one seven six two three thirty one thirty one,
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Speaker 1: Extension four forty, or you can submit a tip online
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Speaker 1: and also anonymously to tips dot FBI dot go dot gov.
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Speaker 1: Now there is a reward of five thousand dollars. I
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Speaker 1: saw somewhere reward for seven thousand, but the one that
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Speaker 1: I saw on the FBI page is five thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: So please, if you know anything, and if you know
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Speaker 1: anything about the raid that happened right outside of jop
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Speaker 1: One in twenty nineteen, maybe look into your newspaper or
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Speaker 1: look into articles see where it happened. And if you
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Speaker 1: know anything that somehow this is related to Sarah, please
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Speaker 1: reach out because guys, that open letter may be sad.
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Speaker 1: It was not filled with a lot of hope. It
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Speaker 1: was filled with please and anguish saying please tell us
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Speaker 1: where she is. So that breaks my heart. Oh I
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Speaker 1: needed to get a drink of water because let me
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Speaker 1: tell you, Texas is hot. If Hell is hotter than Texas,
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Speaker 1: I for dang sure do not want to go to Hell. Okay,
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Speaker 1: just putting that out there now. I'm going to warn
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Speaker 1: you guys, this next case can be triggering. This next
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Speaker 1: case is going to make a lot of people angry.
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Speaker 1: It made me angry. I'm still angry. I still have
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Speaker 1: so many questions and I've thought about this case a
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Speaker 1: lot since doing research on it. So sit back, get ready,
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Speaker 1: because this is just devastating in many ways. Relisha Rudd
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Speaker 1: was eight years old at the time of her disappearance
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Speaker 1: and have had been absent from her second grade class
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Speaker 1: for almost three weeks. Some places I saw thirty days
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Speaker 1: three weeks. Depends on if you do gas math or
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Speaker 1: if you do real math. Now, mister Workman had spoken
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Speaker 1: with Relicious mother, who said she was out due to
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Speaker 1: migraines and told him that her daughter was under the
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Speaker 1: care of doctor Tatum. Now, mister Workman worked at the school,
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Speaker 1: and when kids go absent from school, there's some protocols
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Speaker 1: that need to be followed. Now, mister Workman had spoken
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Speaker 1: with relicious mom, so he held off on reporting her
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Speaker 1: to Child and Family Services. Okay, that, however, turned out
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Speaker 1: to be a nightmare for mister Workmen. Relicia and her mother,
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Speaker 1: Shamika Young, were living in a DC homeless shelter, which
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Speaker 1: which was extremely overcrowded and beyond filthy. Guys, they took
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Speaker 1: an abandoned hospital turned it into a homeless shelter, which
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Speaker 1: great thinking out of the box, But the stories I
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Speaker 1: saw online about the disgust in this place was horrible.
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Speaker 1: People are already down having to come there because they're
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Speaker 1: living on the streets, and you can't even clean it up. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I regress, I regress. Okay. Now, Relicia and her mom
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Speaker 1: made friends with some of the other children and the
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Speaker 1: janitor who worked at the shelter. Now mister Workman needed
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Speaker 1: to make sure he was doing right by Relicia. He
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Speaker 1: had already talked to the mom, had talked to the doctor,
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Speaker 1: but he needed a copy of the note for Relicia's file. So, guys,
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Speaker 1: he went in above and beyond. He drove to the
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Speaker 1: DC Homeless Shelter to see her mom. Now, mister Workman
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Speaker 1: had spoken with doctor Tatum on the phone, but like
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Speaker 1: I said, he needed that physical document, right because you
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Speaker 1: got to cross your det's dot, your eyes, all of
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Speaker 1: that good stuff. So when he got to the homeless shelter,
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Speaker 1: he arrived, he asked the security guard if he could
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Speaker 1: please speak with doctor Tatum. The security guard did not
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Speaker 1: know who doctor Tatum was, which could make sense. Maybe
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Speaker 1: the doctor's volunteer and they come, you know, they come
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Speaker 1: through there. Right Then he talked to the caseworker who
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Speaker 1: was just disconfused. Now, mister working later when he was
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Speaker 1: interview said he started getting scared. All kind of bells
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Speaker 1: started going off, red flags. So sit back, people and
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Speaker 1: clutch your pearls. Because he then learned that doctor Tatum
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Speaker 1: was not a doctor and that he was the janitor
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Speaker 1: at the shelter. Mister Workman said, everything collapsed for him
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Speaker 1: in that moment. Guys, I want to sit back and
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Speaker 1: stop for a minute. Imagine that you discover that the
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Speaker 1: mom has lied to you, introduced you to a fake
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Speaker 1: doctor who turns out to be the janitor. That is crazy, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I mean, and yes he used his real name. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they say, if you're going to tell a lie, I
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Speaker 1: keep it close to the truth. Right now. An amber
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Speaker 1: alert was immediately issued for Relisha Rudd, and it was
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Speaker 1: discovered that she had not been seen alive since March
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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. And like I said, mister Workman was shocked
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Speaker 1: that he realized he had been talking to the fake
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Speaker 1: doctor after the sighting of Releisia the last time. So
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Speaker 1: he spoke to this fake doctor after she was last
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Speaker 1: seen on March first. Now, I'm going to ask y'all
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Speaker 1: to please bear with me because here comes a terry rant.
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Speaker 1: I am going to try to be as kind as
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Speaker 1: I possibly can, and I'm going to warn you it's
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Speaker 1: really hard for me. Okay, it's really hard, but Shamika Young.
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Speaker 1: Relicia's mother befriended Khalil Tatum, who is a fifty one
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Speaker 1: year old janitor at the shelter who already had a
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Speaker 1: reputation for being inappropriate with the kids and for paying
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Speaker 1: too much attention to the young girls. This janitor even
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Speaker 1: bought Relicia at happlet computer and took her without her
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Speaker 1: mother to see Disney on Ice. Then her mother let
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Speaker 1: him take her overnight to allegedly stay with his grandmother. Guys,
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Speaker 1: excuse the fuck out of me. You are staying in
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Speaker 1: a homeless shelter. Yeah, it's great that this guy that
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Speaker 1: works there as a janitor is being nice to you
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Speaker 1: and your daughter, but guess what you do not let
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Speaker 1: your eight year old child go with a man that
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Speaker 1: you do not know any you, especially not overnight. Okay,
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Speaker 1: what mother in their right mind lets the eight year
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Speaker 1: old daughter go away with the janitor you just met
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Speaker 1: out of shelter, because I'm telling you, excuse me, that
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Speaker 1: is a hell no know. Even if the shelter was
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Speaker 1: on fire, I'd maybe let him walk her outside with
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Speaker 1: a bunch of other people, but I damn sure would
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Speaker 1: not let her go spend the night now it later
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Speaker 1: came out she also let Tatum take Relesia for weekends
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Speaker 1: away without her Friday to Sunday. Guys, I just can't.
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Speaker 1: I can't why. And my other question is why did
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Speaker 1: the caseworkers and the people working at this shelter not
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Speaker 1: put a stop to this, because there's rules that they
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Speaker 1: are not supposed to be having this kind of contact.
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Speaker 1: Some adult should have stepped in and said, ma'am, your
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Speaker 1: daughter is not leaving here with him. Not happening. So
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Speaker 1: not only did the mother let this girl down, so
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Speaker 1: did the people running that DC shelter. Okay, now, I'm
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Speaker 1: trying not to get emotional. After she was reported missing,
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Speaker 1: police found video footage at a Holiday and Express and
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Speaker 1: a Day's in showing Relesia walking with Tatum into the
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Speaker 1: hotel rooms. He was taking her to hotel rooms. Let
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Speaker 1: that sink in. Let that sink in the video footage
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Speaker 1: that I mentioned. That was the last time she was
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Speaker 1: seen alive was at the Day's Inn on March first,
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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. That is the last time she was seen alive. Now,
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Speaker 1: remember workman from school had spoken to the mother and
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Speaker 1: to the fake doctor after March first, Okay, March first
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Speaker 1: he was talking to them. This mother knew she was missing. Okay, guys,
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to be kind. Don't know if she was
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Speaker 1: suffering from addiction issues, I don't know, but at least
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Speaker 1: the people working at the shelter. Back in Nacodochus, I
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Speaker 1: worked at a battered women's shelter and I worked with
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Speaker 1: the kids. Guys, I was not allowed to be alone
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Speaker 1: with those kids. Okay. When I took them to the
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Speaker 1: bowling alley, multiple adults went with me. If a child
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Speaker 1: had to go to the restroom, multiple adults went. Never
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Speaker 1: was an adult left alone with a child. So she
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Speaker 1: was failed by the system and by Washington DC. Okay. Now,
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Speaker 1: I do not know if Alicia's mom knew this, but
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Speaker 1: Tatum was a convicted felon. He had spent two different
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Speaker 1: sent two different times in prison for burglary, larceny, and
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Speaker 1: breaking and entering. Okay, did not find any thing against children,
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Speaker 1: But it doesn't matter. He is still a man and
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Speaker 1: should not be alone. Right. Also, I want to know
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Speaker 1: why in the hell the Community Partnership for the Prevention
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Speaker 1: of Homelessness hired a twice convicted felon to work in
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Speaker 1: a homeless shelter with vulnerable women and children. I personally say,
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Speaker 1: no way in hell. Yes, do felons have a right
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Speaker 1: for a second chance and need jobs? Ads freaking looty.
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Speaker 1: Back when had my staffing company, we had a program
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Speaker 1: we helped people get jobs that came out of jail,
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Speaker 1: out of prison. As long as it was nothing against children, elderly,
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Speaker 1: or sex crimes, we would help them. We put them
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Speaker 1: to work and warehouses, different places like that. We did
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Speaker 1: not put them where they were interacting with children and
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Speaker 1: mothers who are down on their luck and very susceptible
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Speaker 1: to being taken advantage of. Okay, so no and guys.
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Speaker 1: And then when there is talk that he is inappropriate
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Speaker 1: with people and he takes to the young girls, this
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Speaker 1: was known. Multiple people said that was known there at
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Speaker 1: the shelter. The people running the shelter should have gotten
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Speaker 1: him the hell out of there immediately, immediately. And I'm
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Speaker 1: not just going to say in my opinion, I am
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Speaker 1: going to say that factual. It's not my opinion, it's
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Speaker 1: a fact. You should have gotten him out of there. Okay. Now,
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Speaker 1: when the amberlerre was put out, it was believed that
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Speaker 1: she was still with Tatum, who she was last seen
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Speaker 1: with on March first. Now, guys, remember the alert did
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Speaker 1: not go out to the twentieth of March, twenty days
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Speaker 1: since she was lasting alive twenty days. Now, the police
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Speaker 1: jumped right into this case investigating it. I mean, they
27:25
Speaker 1: knew they were behind the eight ball, and the investigation
27:29
Speaker 1: led them to another hotel. I'm wondering if this guy
27:33
Speaker 1: didn't have a house, or if he was using hotels
27:36
Speaker 1: for his activities, this time the Red Roof Inn or
27:40
Speaker 1: they found Tatum had been saying sadly, they did not
27:45
Speaker 1: find Tatum or Relicia in the room. However, to police
27:50
Speaker 1: officers shock, they did find a body, a deceased body
27:55
Speaker 1: in the room. It turned out to be Tatum's wife,
28:00
Speaker 1: Andrea Tatum, who had been shot. Andrea and Tatum had
28:06
Speaker 1: been married for twenty four years, but she had recently
28:10
Speaker 1: filed for divorce. Some speculated online because I went down
28:15
Speaker 1: the Reddit rabbit hole, that that's the reason she filed
28:18
Speaker 1: for divorce, because she suspected he was doing things he
28:22
Speaker 1: shouldn't do. But there was you know, it's Reddit. Now.
28:28
Speaker 1: They did find the truck that Tatum was known to drive,
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Speaker 1: but they did not find Releasha. So, guys, police continued
28:38
Speaker 1: to do a full court press. I'm going to give
28:41
Speaker 1: these police officers. They busted their butt once that amber
28:46
Speaker 1: alert was put out, once mister Whorton from the school
28:49
Speaker 1: went there, I mean they jumped on it. So they
28:53
Speaker 1: I give kudos for kudos or due. Now, they did
28:57
Speaker 1: a full court press. They searched the surrounding areas where
29:00
Speaker 1: he was last known to be, by the hotels that
29:03
Speaker 1: he was on video. Guys, you can even see the
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Speaker 1: video footage online if you want to go and look
29:12
Speaker 1: at it. Relicia is not in distress, He's not trying
29:16
Speaker 1: to hide his face. But he should not be taken
29:18
Speaker 1: an eight year old to a hotel room. I sorry, shouldn't.
29:22
Speaker 1: Now they focus on a park and aquatic center after
29:27
Speaker 1: seeing video footage of Tatum buying a shovel line and
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Speaker 1: forty two gallon trash bags near the hotel on March second. Now,
29:39
Speaker 1: remember the last time Releasha was seen alive was on
29:43
Speaker 1: video March first, so the day after he purchased the stuff.
29:54
Speaker 1: So I I also want to know any shelter they
30:02
Speaker 1: make you check in morning and night, why did they
30:05
Speaker 1: not notice an eight year old hadn't checked in. Why.
30:11
Speaker 1: I have so many questions and I'm so furious. But
30:16
Speaker 1: on March thirty first, twenty fourteen, during their search, police
30:21
Speaker 1: found Tatum dead by a gunshot wound from the same
30:25
Speaker 1: gun that killed his wife. Now they're saying it's believed
30:29
Speaker 1: he committed suicide. The gun was with them, so probably
30:35
Speaker 1: he did. He knew the jig was up and he
30:38
Speaker 1: was about to get in trouble. There have been no
30:42
Speaker 1: other sightings of Realicia. Now miss Shamika young unfit mother
30:49
Speaker 1: in my opinion, did lose custody of her three sons. Good.
30:55
Speaker 1: I mean that that's good now. However, one of the
31:00
Speaker 1: boys was adopted, one was with the foster family, and
31:04
Speaker 1: one had to be placed into a state at home
31:06
Speaker 1: due to difficulties. He had behavioral issues. Something was going
31:11
Speaker 1: on that just it wasn't good. Two of Relicia's brothers
31:17
Speaker 1: Shamika's children were the children of Antonio Wheeler, who says
31:21
Speaker 1: he is still fighting to try to get his boys
31:24
Speaker 1: back into his custody. He said that the older boy
31:28
Speaker 1: still believes his sister owns alive and that people need
31:32
Speaker 1: to keep looking for her, while the other shuts down
31:37
Speaker 1: at the mere mention of her name. Now, I couldn't
31:41
Speaker 1: find if the boys were also staying in the homeless shelter.
31:45
Speaker 1: Like I said, it a lot of craziness in all
31:49
Speaker 1: of that. Right now, Shamika has not been charged in
31:53
Speaker 1: connection with Relisha's disappearance, and the only consequences she faced
31:59
Speaker 1: for letting her do or go with this, gentleman, we're
32:01
Speaker 1: losing her three other kids. Now, I will tell you
32:06
Speaker 1: can go out there. There's a video of Shamikha and
32:10
Speaker 1: her family going on a talk show and I'm going
32:15
Speaker 1: to tell you it is not Jerry Springer, but it's
32:19
Speaker 1: Jerry Springer. Crazy. I had never seen this talk show
32:22
Speaker 1: host before. Since then, she hasn't, you know, really spoke out.
32:28
Speaker 1: And that bothers me because you should be making up
32:33
Speaker 1: for how you failed your daughter. I'm sorry. They went
32:37
Speaker 1: on to talk about the fact she was getting her
32:39
Speaker 1: ged and she was doing this, and she was doing that.
32:42
Speaker 1: I don't give a shit. I want to know what
32:44
Speaker 1: you're doing to try to find out what happened to
32:47
Speaker 1: your daughter. Okay, there's a lot of theories out there.
32:52
Speaker 1: One of the big ones is that she was sold
32:55
Speaker 1: to sex traffickers. Or that he traded her still sex
33:02
Speaker 1: trafficking to a pimp, or that he killed her, or
33:08
Speaker 1: that a pimp killed her during a sexual escapade. The
33:16
Speaker 1: one thing I found interesting, and they probably are keeping
33:20
Speaker 1: it close to the chest because he was their primary
33:23
Speaker 1: suspect and he committed suicide. I would have loved to
33:26
Speaker 1: have seen that they had video footage of him coming
33:30
Speaker 1: out of the hotel room with big trash bags. That
33:33
Speaker 1: would have maybe given us a little bit more information
33:36
Speaker 1: to where possibly Relicia, what happened to her. Sadly, we
33:42
Speaker 1: do not know. We do know that she would be
33:45
Speaker 1: eighteen years old today and the residents of DC and
33:51
Speaker 1: along with law enforcement, want to find her, even if
33:56
Speaker 1: it's only her remains. They want to bury her, let
34:00
Speaker 1: her be in peace. So guys, I want you to
34:11
Speaker 1: I don't know, I want you just to send all
34:15
Speaker 1: of the good vibes in good juju to DC law
34:19
Speaker 1: enforcement because if they had a suspicion of where she was,
34:23
Speaker 1: they would have looked. They jumped on this case. They
34:26
Speaker 1: worked once again, and I mentioned this I think last week.
34:30
Speaker 1: Why they have not compelled that mother to tell more
34:34
Speaker 1: because she knew her daughter was missing, She was lying
34:38
Speaker 1: to the school about her daughter not going to school.
34:41
Speaker 1: She knew something was going on. Okay, Now I didn't
34:49
Speaker 1: go into this part in detail because it was batshit crazy.
34:56
Speaker 1: Somehow the mother and the mother's boyfriend came into some
35:00
Speaker 1: cash right around the time she went missing. You know,
35:06
Speaker 1: they tried to say it was from insurance settlement tax returns.
35:12
Speaker 1: But very suspicious that they are living in a homeless
35:15
Speaker 1: shelter and we're talking it with thousands of dollars. So, guys,
35:23
Speaker 1: that is extremely sus to me. Okay, very sus And
35:30
Speaker 1: the fact that the mom is not out there screaming
35:34
Speaker 1: from every rooftop. She should own it. She should say
35:38
Speaker 1: I screwed up. I did this. I'm horrible. I deserve
35:41
Speaker 1: to be punished. Here's what I know, or here's proof
35:45
Speaker 1: of where this body came from something. And that's once again,
35:51
Speaker 1: I don't understand why there can't be a law when
35:54
Speaker 1: it comes to missing children are missing people that you
35:57
Speaker 1: can't compel people. I mean, in this case, if she's deceased,
36:03
Speaker 1: give her immunity, give the mom immunity, just leip the
36:07
Speaker 1: little girl be buried. I mean, I don't want her
36:09
Speaker 1: mom to get away with it, but she's getting away
36:10
Speaker 1: with it anyway. If she was involved, we don't know
36:13
Speaker 1: she was involved. We know that she made some very
36:16
Speaker 1: bad decisions and let her daughter go with this man. So, guys,
36:24
Speaker 1: m that girl was failed. Okay, they failed her. So
36:33
Speaker 1: I threw in a last minute case that I didn't
36:36
Speaker 1: even share with the mods because got permission to share
36:40
Speaker 1: this late last night. And I am going to ask
36:45
Speaker 1: everyone watching right now, anyone that watches this on replay,
36:50
Speaker 1: to please go onto your social media and share the
36:54
Speaker 1: hell out of this missing person case as it's not
36:57
Speaker 1: getting the attention it needs and it's pissing me off. Okay.
37:03
Speaker 1: Ava Martinez is a fourteen year old missing from Pleasanton, California,
37:08
Speaker 1: and is labeled an endangered minor. Like I said, sadly,
37:13
Speaker 1: she is fourteen years old. Guys. She was a victim
37:18
Speaker 1: of being trafficked in her past and even became addicted
37:23
Speaker 1: to drugs during the time she was trafficked. She's fourteen, guys,
37:30
Speaker 1: and she's already been a victim of trafficking. Okay. She
37:35
Speaker 1: went missing on April thirtieth, twenty twenty four, and due
37:38
Speaker 1: to the fact they are considering her runaway, police have
37:42
Speaker 1: not issued an Amber alert and they're not actively searching
37:46
Speaker 1: for her. Okay, guys, she was pimped out, given drugs
37:52
Speaker 1: before she was found and returned home, but she did
37:56
Speaker 1: not get resources and the family did not get what
38:02
Speaker 1: they needed because when a young child or person goes
38:07
Speaker 1: through this. Okay, before I get into that, let me
38:11
Speaker 1: share some information I found online. Okay, based on the
38:15
Speaker 1: New York Times article on May third, twenty twenty twelve
38:20
Speaker 1: by Natalie Katroff, who spoke with with Thelma Ortis, I'm
38:26
Speaker 1: gonna just call her or Tis because I know I
38:28
Speaker 1: slaughtered her first name, who was a victim of sex
38:32
Speaker 1: trafficking at the age of ten. She's now an adult.
38:35
Speaker 1: The man who trafficked Ortiz had told her he would
38:38
Speaker 1: give her a better life and that he would help
38:41
Speaker 1: her survive after being in the foster care system for years.
38:46
Speaker 1: She was like, Oh, finally someone cares about me, someone
38:51
Speaker 1: wants to give me a better life. So she said okay.
38:59
Speaker 1: He then begins selling her for sex because our young
39:02
Speaker 1: body was in high demand. He not only beat her,
39:06
Speaker 1: he threatened her. He then would apologize and cry. It's
39:12
Speaker 1: like the type of treatment with battered women's syndrome. In
39:15
Speaker 1: my opinion, it's not just physical harm. They're emotionally battering them.
39:25
Speaker 1: You know, they beat you up. Oh, I'm so sorry,
39:29
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to. They buy you flowers. We all know.
39:32
Speaker 1: It's that rubber band pull and take. Okay, it's a
39:35
Speaker 1: common psychological manipulation using the mix of violence, fake love,
39:43
Speaker 1: all of that. And guys, eighty percent of females return
39:49
Speaker 1: to the abusers who are trafficking them, and are trafficked again,
39:56
Speaker 1: eighty percent return. Guys, that's because they're low self esteem,
40:07
Speaker 1: they are taught they need that person to survive. That
40:11
Speaker 1: person's the only person that's gonna love them. Or they
40:14
Speaker 1: need to feed their drug habit that they got while
40:17
Speaker 1: being trafficked, because they give them all these drugs to
40:21
Speaker 1: keep them, you know, pliable. Now, I'm not saying that's
40:27
Speaker 1: what happened to Ava this time, and the reason I
40:29
Speaker 1: can't say that is because we don't know what happened. However,
40:33
Speaker 1: I am comfortable in saying she is at higher risk
40:36
Speaker 1: of being sex trafficked or killed because she was a
40:41
Speaker 1: prior victim of being trafficked. And that effect alone pisss
40:47
Speaker 1: me off at local law enforcement because they're treating her
40:50
Speaker 1: like a runaway and not a true missing kid. Guys,
40:53
Speaker 1: I don't care. I don't give a shit if she
40:55
Speaker 1: ran away on her own. She's fourteen years old, and
40:59
Speaker 1: considering the fact she was trafficked before dealing with that trauma,
41:05
Speaker 1: the drug addiction from that, we cannot comprehend what she
41:11
Speaker 1: was dealing with. She probably had a secret cell phone
41:16
Speaker 1: and it has been communicating with that person. That's highly possible. Guys,
41:21
Speaker 1: it happens all the time. Okay, she is under the
41:27
Speaker 1: influence of either drugs or that former pimp. But guys,
41:33
Speaker 1: this means she's not only in danger, she is in
41:37
Speaker 1: danger and that I mean, hello, police, this should be
41:43
Speaker 1: a hue red flag and they should be busting their
41:48
Speaker 1: ass to find her. She is a fourteen year old
41:50
Speaker 1: girl who deserves to be found, Okay, and then once
41:55
Speaker 1: she's found, her and her family need to be given
41:59
Speaker 1: the resources. And I don't know what those resources are,
42:03
Speaker 1: I can tell you they're vast to help her deal
42:07
Speaker 1: with everything that has happened to her. I personally cannot
42:10
Speaker 1: imagine what she went through. Guys, she's fourteen. Now, we'll
42:17
Speaker 1: say I posted her endangered flyer on our Facebook page earlier.
42:23
Speaker 1: She does not look fourteen, but she is fourteen, and
42:28
Speaker 1: based on the way she is done up, tells me
42:31
Speaker 1: she was groomed for sex. She was groomed to try
42:37
Speaker 1: to make herself look that way. And please tell me
42:43
Speaker 1: how her missing does not warrant an AMBER alert. I mean,
42:50
Speaker 1: please tell me she is endangered. She is fourteen. I
42:55
Speaker 1: mean if she was seventeen, I could probably see where
42:58
Speaker 1: you didn't do an AMBER She's fourteen, guys, she's fourteen,
43:04
Speaker 1: and you know she's already been a victim before. So
43:10
Speaker 1: I am asking all of you to please go share
43:14
Speaker 1: the flyer for Ava Martinez on all of your social
43:17
Speaker 1: media accounts, because if the police are not willing to help,
43:21
Speaker 1: then let's do what's right by this fourteen year old
43:24
Speaker 1: and get the word out now. I can tell you
43:28
Speaker 1: the person who I spoke with about this case, they
43:31
Speaker 1: are working to make sure the resources are there when
43:35
Speaker 1: she's found, and they're going to keep looking for her.
43:40
Speaker 1: There are some people you know, outside of the family
43:43
Speaker 1: who care and really want her found. So I'm asking
43:48
Speaker 1: you if you live in the Pleasanton area, I believe
43:50
Speaker 1: Oakland is where she was found before all of the
43:53
Speaker 1: Bay Area of California. I beg you to keep your
43:57
Speaker 1: eye out for Ava and to get her back to
44:00
Speaker 1: her family. Let's get her what she needs to be
44:06
Speaker 1: a happy child. She will never be the same little girl.
44:10
Speaker 1: You can't be the same little girl after you go
44:13
Speaker 1: through what she's been through. But she can still have
44:17
Speaker 1: a good life. So if you have any information, please
44:23
Speaker 1: call MCR Investigations at nine two five eight one three
44:28
Speaker 1: five two three seven. Also, if you see Ava, do
44:33
Speaker 1: not approach her. Do not try to make contact with her, okay,
44:40
Speaker 1: because we know last time there were threats that they
44:44
Speaker 1: were going to you know, kill her, do things to
44:47
Speaker 1: her if her parents stopped looking. If her parents continue
44:51
Speaker 1: looking for her, so do not approach her. Call MCR Investigations.
44:56
Speaker 1: If they don't answer, call nine one one and tell
44:59
Speaker 1: them that you see a fourteen year old endangered child
45:05
Speaker 1: and tell them where she is. She needs to be
45:09
Speaker 1: found and she needs to be protected. The fact that
45:12
Speaker 1: they threatened her life before tells you they will do
45:18
Speaker 1: it again. They will hurt her, Okay, So let's bring
45:22
Speaker 1: Ava home. Guys. All of these cases really hit me
45:27
Speaker 1: hard today. The last two really RELISHA Rudd really kind
45:32
Speaker 1: of pushed me over the edge because I just can't
45:39
Speaker 1: with the mom. And Shamika Young, if you want to
45:42
Speaker 1: call me and tell me your side of the story,
45:44
Speaker 1: I'm open to that. Like I said, I tried to
45:46
Speaker 1: be kind. I really tried to be kind. I don't
45:50
Speaker 1: know what you were going through, but you do not
45:54
Speaker 1: let your eight year old daughter go and California Pleasanton Police,
45:59
Speaker 1: a fourteen year old is not endangered missing. She is
46:03
Speaker 1: missing and in danger. Okay. Like I said last week
46:09
Speaker 1: on you know the boy who left. Even if she
46:12
Speaker 1: ran away, Okay, something bad can happen to her. She's
46:17
Speaker 1: still a fourteen year old. Okay. She Relisha Rudd was failed.
46:30
Speaker 1: Let's not fail Ava. Okay, everybody in the Bay Area
46:36
Speaker 1: look for her. Okay, and Relisha Rudd's mom, Shamika call
46:44
Speaker 1: me because I too want to know about the money
46:47
Speaker 1: and where you got it from. Proved to me you
46:50
Speaker 1: did not sell your daughter. Because that's where my brain's going,
46:54
Speaker 1: because why would you lie and say she's sick and
47:00
Speaker 1: you know she's missing. I'm not saying that's what happened.
47:03
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you that's where my brain goes. So, guys,
47:07
Speaker 1: these cases hit me hard. I wish I could have
47:11
Speaker 1: a very big glass of wine instead, I'm drinking my water.
47:17
Speaker 1: But I want to thank you all for joining me today.
47:21
Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing you all again on Wednesday
47:24
Speaker 1: for our next episode of Midday Missing Don't Forget. You
47:27
Speaker 1: can catch all of our productions here on our YouTube
47:30
Speaker 1: channel and our podcast wherever you listen to your podcast. Also,
47:36
Speaker 1: be sure to share with me any cases you want
47:39
Speaker 1: me to look into, because there's a lot out there,
47:43
Speaker 1: but a lot of them don't have a lot of information.
47:49
Speaker 1: Uh Dramala, thank you, drink it for me. I will
47:52
Speaker 1: tell you I'm going to be going to pick up
47:54
Speaker 1: Jasper since he's out of surgery. I'm going to be
47:57
Speaker 1: getting me some goat snuggles, and those goat snuggles are
48:01
Speaker 1: gonna help me get through it because I have an
48:05
Speaker 1: eleven year old granddaughter and I can't even imagine. I
48:12
Speaker 1: just can't. My brain goes to places that I don't
48:16
Speaker 1: want it to go. As someone who was sexually abused
48:20
Speaker 1: as a child, I wasn't sex trafficked. I was just
48:23
Speaker 1: sexually abused. I can't imagine how much more that takes
48:29
Speaker 1: it up. I just I just can't so also hug
48:35
Speaker 1: your kids, love your kids. Remember your kids come first.
48:40
Speaker 1: Do not let your kids out of your sight and
48:44
Speaker 1: go with strange men and strange people you don't know.
48:47
Speaker 1: And if they're missing, tell, don't lie, tell where they are.
48:54
Speaker 1: So I'm going to ask you all stay safe until
48:57
Speaker 1: next time, watch out for crime, and guys, enjoy your
49:01
Speaker 1: wine time because tonight, as soon as I can, I
49:05
Speaker 1: will be enjoying my wine time. Bye guys, until next time,