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Gorgeous 25-year-old goes to seance, vanishes, Parents beg for help. · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: What first attracted me to this beautiful girl just twenty
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Speaker 1: five years old, Stephanie Pars. It's her big smile. I
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Speaker 1: looked at all of her pictures and she has this
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Speaker 1: picture perfect smile. And then on top of her photo,
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Speaker 1: I kept seeing it said, gorgeous makeup artist twenty five
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Speaker 1: vanishes after a seance. And I've never heard such a
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Speaker 1: thing before. But when I hear the heartbreak and her parents' voices,
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Speaker 1: all I want to do is help find Stephanie. Crime
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Speaker 1: Stories with Nancy Grace. Paris lived in the house right
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Speaker 1: behind me. Her car is still in the driveway. Her
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Speaker 1: parents came over to this home and they found her
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Speaker 1: cell phone inside the living room. Now they're trying to
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Speaker 1: hold out hope that she is still alive and know
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Speaker 1: that we will do everything we post we can to
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Speaker 1: get you old. Her disappearance is a mystery. Stephanie Pars
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Speaker 1: was last seen around ten o'clock last Wednesday night, after
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Speaker 1: she spent a night out with family to see a
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Speaker 1: well known psychic in New Brunswick. The family came home
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Speaker 1: together and Stephanie added to the home she lives in
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Speaker 1: that was once owned by her maternal grandmother Stephanie's mother
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Speaker 1: and father have been waiting to hear from her after
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Speaker 1: she went missing without a trace. And we will see
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Speaker 1: you soon and we'd love you so much. Think about
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Speaker 1: what Daddy taught you to what I told you to do.
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Speaker 1: The weight is an emotional roller coaster, you know how you,
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Speaker 1: her parents said. The twenty five year old who loves
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Speaker 1: art is a very independent person. Stephanie is also petit
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Speaker 1: in size, standing four ft eleven inches and weighing one
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen pounds. You are hearing our friend Anthony
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Speaker 1: Johnson at maybe seven in New York. How many times
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Speaker 1: have I heard that voice? I Meanancy Grace, this is
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. With me
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Speaker 1: two very special guests, Stephanie's mother and father, Charlene and
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Speaker 1: Edward pars also with me an all star panel. California prosecutor,
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Speaker 1: author of Red Flags, Wendy Patrick with us. Jeff Curtesi,
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Speaker 1: former FBI special agent at Jeff Kurtesi dot com. Renowned
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Speaker 1: forensic psychiatrists joining me out of the Florida jurisdiction, doctor
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Speaker 1: Daniel Bober but right now to investigate. A reporter with
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Speaker 1: Radar Online dot Com Alexis z Alexis. I'd want to
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Speaker 1: hear from the parents, but for our listeners, please tell
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Speaker 1: me about the disappearance of Stephanie. Stephanie just twenty five
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Speaker 1: years old and had gone with her mom and some
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Speaker 1: other family members, not to a fance. She went to
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Speaker 1: see a media speak. This is an event. This is
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Speaker 1: a woman who would read people in the audience. She's,
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Speaker 1: you know, a really neat fun event, a family event.
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Speaker 1: So she goes on Wednesday night and she goes home.
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Speaker 1: She talks to her mom, she kisses her to night,
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Speaker 1: she says goodbye. She goes to her house, as you said,
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Speaker 1: this was her maternal grandmother's house, and she sends a
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Speaker 1: snapchat photo on the way home, cute picture of herself.
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Speaker 1: Gets home, nobody hears from her, but ten thirty at night,
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Speaker 1: she probably gets gone to bed. They can't find her.
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Speaker 1: They go over the next morning to the house because
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Speaker 1: no one has heard from her. She is not there.
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Speaker 1: They look for all of her things. They find the
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Speaker 1: cell phone, the one thing that he would keep with
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Speaker 1: you at all times, the thing that could help them
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Speaker 1: find their daughter, and it is in the sofa of
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Speaker 1: the house. Hold on Alexa Teresa joining me investigative reporter
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Speaker 1: writer online dot Com, also with Me Edward and Charlene Pars.
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Speaker 1: This is Stephanie's mom and dad and they are begging
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Speaker 1: for your help. Miss Pars. Thank you for being with us.
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Speaker 1: When alexas Uress, Chuck says the phone her cell phone
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Speaker 1: was in the sofa, what do you mean by that?
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Speaker 1: It was actually on the side of the couch that
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Speaker 1: we found it. When I was at the house looking
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Speaker 1: for her, I rang her phone and that's where her
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Speaker 1: sister found it, on the side of the couch, on
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Speaker 1: the floor or on a table or where on the
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Speaker 1: floor there was a bunch of blankets and stuff. I
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Speaker 1: don't know whether it just sell off the arm of
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Speaker 1: the chair, but we had to move some stuff to
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Speaker 1: get to it too. Jeff courtesy former FBI special agent Jeff.
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Speaker 1: That actually tells me a lot well. I also want
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Speaker 1: to know how it was positioned, But it seems that
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Speaker 1: she had come in and at least sat down on
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Speaker 1: the sofa, or at least had that much time when
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Speaker 1: she got in hold on Jeff. Another question to sry
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Speaker 1: Lane was the house otherwise Nate or did it look
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Speaker 1: like there had been a struggle? Did it look like
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Speaker 1: anyone had broken in and ransacked. It was anything missing,
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Speaker 1: not that I could say everything was this normal. The
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Speaker 1: leftovers that she took home that night was left on
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Speaker 1: the piano. When we first walked in. I saw her
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Speaker 1: shoes and her leather jacket were on the on the
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Speaker 1: floor where the side of the couch where we found
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Speaker 1: her phone is where her phone charger is, so she
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Speaker 1: always sat on that side. Was it plugged in? No? No,
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Speaker 1: got another question. I just sounds silly, But Charline, what
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Speaker 1: were the leftovers that she had brought home? Where did
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Speaker 1: you guys go? What does she bring home? It was
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Speaker 1: just like chicken fingers on buffle fries and something that
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Speaker 1: she was just gonna it's you left over from the dinner,
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Speaker 1: but she was gonna take it for lunch the next
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Speaker 1: day to work. See right there, that tells me I
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Speaker 1: don't think she ever made it into the kitchen because
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Speaker 1: she's saying she sat it down. It was by the
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Speaker 1: front door. Is that what she said? It's in the
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Speaker 1: rambo where the front door is. Yes. However, every light
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Speaker 1: in the house was on, which was very strange. Every
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Speaker 1: light in the house is that single or two storied.
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Speaker 1: It's a ranch single ranch. Every light in the house
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Speaker 1: was on. That's not like her, right, because I'm telling
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Speaker 1: you have certain lights I leave on when I leave
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Speaker 1: and that's that. If anything else is left on, then
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Speaker 1: that was a mistake, right, even the one, even the
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Speaker 1: light going down to the base, down to the basement
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Speaker 1: was on and she would never go down that way. Okay,
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Speaker 1: that's very odd in my mind. It was the front
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Speaker 1: door locked or unlocked? It was unlocked, but that's kind
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Speaker 1: of normal for her to have it unloved. Yeah, really, well,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what at night, like when she goes
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Speaker 1: to bed, you know, but when she's home, you know,
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Speaker 1: she would keep it unloved. What about her vehicle that
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Speaker 1: was in the driveway locked unlocked? But she was she
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Speaker 1: driving the night before? Was she in the car with
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Speaker 1: you guys? She drove to my house and then we
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Speaker 1: all took my vehicle, you know, to the show, and
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Speaker 1: then she took a vehicle home from my interesting and
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Speaker 1: to Edward pars this is Stephanie's dad. When you saw her,
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Speaker 1: what was her demeanor? Was she upbate, I can go
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Speaker 1: to the girls right now. I guess something the going
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Speaker 1: out and I'm trying to think we're looking. Take a
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Speaker 1: listen to our friend Matt Kozar at CBS to New
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Speaker 1: York your mind, just Race says, you don't know what's
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Speaker 1: happened to her? Where she is ed. Pars's oldest daughter
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Speaker 1: is missing, and he's doing everything in his power to
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Speaker 1: find her. It's not like her. She would call us,
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Speaker 1: she would text she could. According to her parents, Pars
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Speaker 1: stopped by their home in Freehold Wednesday night and left
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Speaker 1: around ten o'clock to drive five miles to her grandmother's house,
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Speaker 1: where they say she was staying. But when she didn't
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Speaker 1: show up to work the next morning, friends and family
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Speaker 1: knew something was wrong. Police saw patrolling the neighborhood where
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Speaker 1: she lived. Her parents say. Investigators found her car and
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Speaker 1: her cell phone at her grandmother's house. Everybody just helped
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Speaker 1: get it, you know, and get the word out and
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Speaker 1: please find her. You know, she's only four eleven. She
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Speaker 1: probably weighs like one hundred and ten hundred and fifteen pounds,
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Speaker 1: and like, I just want her home. Volunteers have been
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Speaker 1: posting flyers with Pars's photo across downtown Freehold. Since then,
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Speaker 1: We've just been calling crazy, trying to contact everybody and
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Speaker 1: anybody that she knew and we know and everything, hospital wherever.
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Speaker 1: It is, just to see if we can locate her
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Speaker 1: and haven't had anything, no trace her at all. Her
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Speaker 1: family says Pars works as a nanny and a makeup artist.
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Speaker 1: Detectives asked that you call them if you have any
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Speaker 1: information crime stories with Nancy Grace. Several searches are going
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Speaker 1: on today outside the police investigation, a community reaching out
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Speaker 1: to help a heartbroken family find answers to find their daughter.
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Speaker 1: My state of mind is just hopeful, okay, you know,
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Speaker 1: I mean it's bittersweet. You want to find something, but
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Speaker 1: you don't want to find something. It's hard to explain that.
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Speaker 1: You've got to really feel that. You know, if you
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Speaker 1: do find something right away, you're energized. You know, you're like, okay,
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Speaker 1: what do we find and then you're hoping it's not
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Speaker 1: the wrong thing that we're finding ed. Pars expressed his
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Speaker 1: gratitude to all of the volunteers, hundreds, really the restaurants
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Speaker 1: who've donated food and warm drinks for the people who've
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Speaker 1: been searching for hours out here for his daughter. That
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Speaker 1: search resumes tomorrow morning at eight thirty here and in
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Speaker 1: several other places around Freehold. You were hearing our friends
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Speaker 1: at ABC seven. That was our friend Tony Yates speaking.
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Speaker 1: The heartbroken family of this gorgeous young girl just twenty
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Speaker 1: five years old. If you see a picture of her,
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Speaker 1: you can see it at crime online dot com. Just
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Speaker 1: she looks like everybody's little sister. Just precious. You know,
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Speaker 1: she reminds me of Jackie. I don't know if you
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Speaker 1: ever watched Gilligan's Island, she reminds me of Marianne. The
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Speaker 1: big smile, the brunette hair, the gorgeous big eyes, just
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Speaker 1: a good energy, just even from the picture. The heartbroken
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Speaker 1: family of Stephanie pars who goes missing after girls night
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Speaker 1: out with her family. Her mom others to a seance
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Speaker 1: say they are holding onto hope that she is still alive,
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Speaker 1: and I'm hoping the very same thing. The tipline please
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Speaker 1: write this down seven three two four six two seventy
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Speaker 1: five hundred repeat seven three two four six two seven
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Speaker 1: five zero zero. If you know anything or think you
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Speaker 1: know anything, please call this number and with me. In
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Speaker 1: addition to Alexis Terres choke Radar Online, doctor Daniel Bober,
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Speaker 1: forensic psychiatrist, former FBI Jeff Cortesi, Wendy Patrick, former prosecutor
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Speaker 1: Edward and Charlene pars the mom and dad of Stephanie,
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Speaker 1: begging for your help. So let me understand this. Charlene,
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Speaker 1: that night, she leaves your house in her car. And
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Speaker 1: just for our listeners, what kind of car was she driving?
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Speaker 1: Nata wait de cool white Hunda Sonata? Yeah, okay, she
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Speaker 1: drives that home from your place to her place which
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Speaker 1: used to be your grandma's house. And how far away?
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Speaker 1: Five miles away? And did you expect her to call
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Speaker 1: you when she got home? Yes, I told her to
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Speaker 1: call me or text me to let me know that
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Speaker 1: she got home. Okay, did she No? No, I didn't
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Speaker 1: hear from her. Does she normally do that when you
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Speaker 1: ask her? Oh? Yeah, oh definitely. And if and if
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Speaker 1: for some reason ends up falling asleep, you know, by like,
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Speaker 1: you know, just a couple hours later, she's texting me,
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Speaker 1: sorry I fell asleep, you know, I'm okay, when did
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Speaker 1: you become suspicious? Showing? Well? The next I called the
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Speaker 1: next day. I kept on calling that night or texting her,
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Speaker 1: and she didn't answer. So I thought that she did
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Speaker 1: fall asleep, and I texted her again like seven o'clock
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Speaker 1: in the morning. I also thought maybe her phone was
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Speaker 1: on silent because of the show, and that she never
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Speaker 1: put it back on ringer, So I called her when
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Speaker 1: I thought that she was on her way to work,
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Speaker 1: so I figured her car phone would pick up if
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Speaker 1: her phone was on silent, And there was no answer,
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Speaker 1: and I kept on texting her and nothing, and she
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Speaker 1: was supposed to be at work. So your husband and
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Speaker 1: I took a ride over there and her car was
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Speaker 1: in the driveway. I quick ran in and that's when
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Speaker 1: I told all the lights were on. I know, went
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Speaker 1: room to room searching for her. I quick looked for
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Speaker 1: her phone and didn't find it. But my mom has
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Speaker 1: a three big dogs and she has a little tiny dog,
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Speaker 1: and they were all locked in the house where they
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Speaker 1: normally have a doggy door where they could go out.
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Speaker 1: But when Stephanie has her little Yorkie out, she doesn't
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Speaker 1: want her to go out the doggy door because you know,
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Speaker 1: she's so tiny and fretu verge, you're gonna like pick
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Speaker 1: her up. So I mean I went back a couple
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Speaker 1: hours later. Okay, let me understand what that means right there.
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Speaker 1: That means something always I once proved a murder case,
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Speaker 1: but based on the location of an ear ring, and
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Speaker 1: it's it's a long story, but every fact means something.
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Speaker 1: That left Diver's still in the entrance area, that the
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Speaker 1: phone by the sofa where she would typically charge it
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Speaker 1: and sit. I mean, I don't know about you guys
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Speaker 1: on the panel, and I guess I could ask her
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Speaker 1: a shrink Dodgor Daniel Bober about this. But I have
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Speaker 1: a spot I sit in our den. My daughter has
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Speaker 1: a to my right, my son has a spot to
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Speaker 1: my left, my husband has a spot when he's home.
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Speaker 1: And that's just I don't know why that is. Why
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Speaker 1: is that, doctor, Daniel Bober? It means something, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: and nobody, Hey, this is my spot. But even at
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Speaker 1: the supper table we sit in the same spot. What
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Speaker 1: does that mean? Bober? Well, there's always the first time
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Speaker 1: you sit in that spot. And I think once you
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Speaker 1: do it, enough time to develop a certain pattern in
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Speaker 1: a certain comfort zone. And that's kind of where you
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Speaker 1: just say because that's where you feel comfortable, and you know,
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Speaker 1: I know. Wendy Patrick, California prosecutor author, I've read flags, Wendy.
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Speaker 1: It's called behavioral evidence, or routine evidence. What that means
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Speaker 1: is you do the same thing. It's not like you're
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Speaker 1: antal compulsive. It's just you have a routine because that
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Speaker 1: is what suits you. For instance, the moment I walk
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Speaker 1: in the door, locked the door, and even when we're home,
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Speaker 1: turned on the alarm. It's ingrained in me. You just
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Speaker 1: do certain things by rote. And the fact that she
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Speaker 1: left food in the entrance area that she had, in
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Speaker 1: my mind made it to sit down on her sofa,
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Speaker 1: that means something to me. And the fact that she
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Speaker 1: didn't text back, that means something to me. I know
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Speaker 1: it sounds crazy, Wendy, but even up when I was
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Speaker 1: still a prosecutor, you know, I was thirty, My mom
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Speaker 1: had to be at work really early in the morning,
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Speaker 1: like seven am. The moment she got there, as soon
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Speaker 1: we still had long distance phone calls and no cell phones.
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Speaker 1: She would call me on her as I think they
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Speaker 1: called it a Watts line, an eight hundred line, to
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Speaker 1: make sure at seven am that I was up and
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Speaker 1: leaving to get to court. And I mean still when
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Speaker 1: I'm thirty, and if she didn't call me, I would
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Speaker 1: think something was wrong. It means something. Everything that Charlene
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Speaker 1: is telling us, every fact which may seem small to
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Speaker 1: other people means something. That's one of the reasons that
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Speaker 1: Charlene you are an amazing witness because it is all
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Speaker 1: these little details. You know, we often hear the overused
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Speaker 1: phrase the devil is in the detail. Yet that's exactly
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Speaker 1: how we prove cases, as Nancy just stated, proving a
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Speaker 1: murder case based on the location of an earring. Not
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Speaker 1: only are we creatures of habit, but we're also creatures
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Speaker 1: of patterns, like doctor Bober was saying, patterns and comfort zone.
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Speaker 1: So when you think about the food in the entryway,
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Speaker 1: the cell phone near the sofa, how far did she
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Speaker 1: get before something happened that was out of the ordinary?
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Speaker 1: You know, all of the lights on. That almost indicates
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Speaker 1: searching for something. That's the kind of thing you do
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Speaker 1: when something's gone missing. That's just one of the explanations,
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Speaker 1: but it gets us thinking as to what could it mean?
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Speaker 1: How far did she get? And Charlene, you also bring
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Speaker 1: up some very practical explanations. We run through all of
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Speaker 1: the reasons that somebody might not be answering their phone,
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Speaker 1: maybe the batteries dead, maybe the ringers off, until we
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Speaker 1: just can't come up with any other explanations where you
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Speaker 1: moved on this right away. So my prayers are with
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Speaker 1: you and Edward and your whole family. The circumstantial evidence
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Speaker 1: you're describing is going to assist in solving this case.
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Speaker 1: I want to pick up on something Wendy just said
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Speaker 1: to Arline and Edward. Trust me, I'm not ignoring you,
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Speaker 1: my most beloved person in the world up there with
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Speaker 1: my twins, my dad, and I know you love your
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Speaker 1: little girl so much. I got to ask Charline another
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Speaker 1: question about all those lights being on, because that's really
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Speaker 1: bothering me. When you said that. When you said those words,
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Speaker 1: I had chills go up both my arms. And when
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Speaker 1: Wendy said looks like somebody who's looking for something, She's right.
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Speaker 1: Why would you go turn on every light in the house, Sharline,
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Speaker 1: That is a question that I've been asking myself because
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Speaker 1: she never had every single light on the house. She
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Speaker 1: would have to go over to the sliding door to
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Speaker 1: turn you know, to shut the doors to the dog
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Speaker 1: stump out the dog doggie door. But that is right
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Speaker 1: off the living room, which is right off the front door.
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Speaker 1: Leaving the food on the piano, that would be stuff
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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, that's kind of normal, like
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Speaker 1: she would do that, but not having her phone. One
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Speaker 1: thing I did realize, like when I started getting worried, Um,
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Speaker 1: I have a app on my phone that says find
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Speaker 1: my device, and she knows it and she likes that.
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Speaker 1: I had that idea because if she ever lost her phone,
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Speaker 1: I was able to trace it. I did notice that
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Speaker 1: the location was off. However, her phone was at forty
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Speaker 1: four percent. When I checked it a couple hours later,
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Speaker 1: it only went down to thirty nine percent. And then
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Speaker 1: when we went back that evening when I actually found
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Speaker 1: her phone, it was down to thirty four percent. So
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Speaker 1: I knew that she was not on her phone all day.
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Speaker 1: Otherwise it would have dreamed so much more stories with
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Speaker 1: Nancy Gray. Missing posters have been put up around the
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Speaker 1: town of Freehold, and family is standing by to get
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Speaker 1: any word on the whereabouts of Stephanie Pards. Hopefully she
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Speaker 1: sees this and you know every bit of penity that
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Speaker 1: she has to fight and to get hold of us.
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Speaker 1: Friends and family have gathered around Stephanie's parents to give
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Speaker 1: them support. She comes from a very close knit family
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Speaker 1: who has become known in the area for their elaborate
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Speaker 1: holiday decorations. Her father would have begun setting up those
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Speaker 1: decorations this past weekend, but has been too distraught and
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Speaker 1: too worried about his daughter to think about a celebration.
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Speaker 1: She'd be try and reach us, not like her, not
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Speaker 1: the contact. Here are the missing posters or one of
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Speaker 1: the missing posters that you can find around the town
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Speaker 1: of Freehold. She was last seen wearing blue jeans of
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Speaker 1: burgundy v neck and burgundy sweater. You're hearing our friend
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Speaker 1: ABC seven New York reporter Anthony Johnson and with me
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Speaker 1: Stephanie's parents, Edward and Charlene. Charlene, you were with her
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Speaker 1: the night before and they keep saying she went to
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Speaker 1: a seance. It was really more like a show. What
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Speaker 1: was the show and what was her demeanor there? Charlene, Yes,
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Speaker 1: it was a show. We actually went to a comedy
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Speaker 1: club up in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and there was
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Speaker 1: eight of us, her and her, all four of my
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Speaker 1: daughters when and it was a really good night. We
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Speaker 1: just had dinner. There was a medium there. However, it
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Speaker 1: was three hundred people in the audience, so it wasn't
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Speaker 1: something that was just going to be a one on
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Speaker 1: one reading with us, who was the medium, Cyndi Kaza.
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Speaker 1: So it was like a show, okay. A lot of
20:45
Speaker 1: people were attaching significance that she went to a seance,
20:48
Speaker 1: that she was trying to find out some question. But
20:50
Speaker 1: that's not the case at all. It was a comedy club.
20:52
Speaker 1: It was a show, okay. What was her demeanor? Very
20:56
Speaker 1: very concerned about her demeanor. Oh, she was fine. I mean,
20:59
Speaker 1: it was a she loved going out. We're always doing okay,
21:03
Speaker 1: family binding time to the binding time, and it was
21:06
Speaker 1: just a girl's night out. We had a great time.
21:10
Speaker 1: To Edward pars this is Stephanie's dad joining us, asking
21:13
Speaker 1: for your help. Repeat tip line seven three two four
21:16
Speaker 1: six two seven five hundred seven three two four six
21:19
Speaker 1: two seven five hundred. Edward, tell me your recollections of
21:25
Speaker 1: that evening and the next morning when you go over
21:29
Speaker 1: to Stephanie's home, what you observed, Like I said, I
21:32
Speaker 1: didn't see her when she left the house after they
21:34
Speaker 1: came back from the show, And we went over the
21:39
Speaker 1: house the next afternoon. Once we got to the house,
21:42
Speaker 1: then after my wife, when in the house, couldn't find her,
21:48
Speaker 1: came back out. She was a little nervous but it
21:50
Speaker 1: looked like she had just left with somebody to go,
21:52
Speaker 1: you know, to the store or something like that, because
21:56
Speaker 1: locked in and stuff, and she would never leave them
21:57
Speaker 1: walked in because they can't go to the bathroom. Rathing.
22:00
Speaker 1: So we went to h doctors the point that I
22:03
Speaker 1: had real quick and then I went back home. And
22:05
Speaker 1: then a little while later, my wife and my other
22:07
Speaker 1: daughter went back to the house. That's when they found
22:10
Speaker 1: the still not there and they found the phone. At
22:15
Speaker 1: that point, she let me know that she still wasn't
22:18
Speaker 1: there and if they did point the phone and she
22:21
Speaker 1: was looking at the phone and she saw a message
22:22
Speaker 1: from her the parents of the little girl that she
22:25
Speaker 1: watched is I'm saying that you know, she comes to
22:28
Speaker 1: work today's making sure that he's okay. At that point,
22:31
Speaker 1: I got extremely concerned. My wife got a little distraught.
22:36
Speaker 1: M We started calling everybody and everybody she knew, all
22:39
Speaker 1: of her friends, all friends that we knew that we
22:42
Speaker 1: hadn't see if anybody knew her, called her, rest my
22:46
Speaker 1: daughters and make sure they haven't heard from her. Some
22:49
Speaker 1: family friends, nobody had seen or heard from her at all.
22:54
Speaker 1: And then we just have to be exhausted that we decided,
22:58
Speaker 1: you know, we've got a call the police. Just not lakers,
23:00
Speaker 1: just not shouldn't do that. You know, she's the homebody.
23:03
Speaker 1: She lets un't know everything. Well, just started getting the fear,
23:07
Speaker 1: just started sitting at that point. Let me ask you
23:09
Speaker 1: a question. What have you learned, if anything, from police
23:11
Speaker 1: regarding the last time her phone was used and what
23:16
Speaker 1: if any text messages were on her phone? Well, the
23:19
Speaker 1: police I really haven't given us so much information or
23:23
Speaker 1: is the investigations concerned? Um? So I don't really know
23:26
Speaker 1: it was on her phone or anything like that. Um,
23:30
Speaker 1: they didn't know they had the phone, and you know
23:32
Speaker 1: they they did the report that we made very very curiously. Really,
23:36
Speaker 1: the ball started rolling the police officers got the house here. Um.
23:41
Speaker 1: You know, I know a lot of these police officers
23:43
Speaker 1: and detectives personally, so you know, they took it the
23:46
Speaker 1: heart immediately and they knew we weren't. It wasn't some
23:49
Speaker 1: kind of runaway or something like that. So. Um, but
23:53
Speaker 1: as far as anything they found on the phone, well,
23:56
Speaker 1: did you guys look at the phone's relase? Do you
23:59
Speaker 1: you said that there were was a text from the
24:01
Speaker 1: family with whom she worked where she was a nanny saying, hey,
24:05
Speaker 1: where are you? Are you okay? Could you read her text? Now?
24:09
Speaker 1: If she had a code on her phone and I
24:14
Speaker 1: wasn't able to get into it, which she had just
24:16
Speaker 1: told me about what her code was like a month ago,
24:19
Speaker 1: but I couldn't remember it. But I was able to
24:23
Speaker 1: jop down the bar and was able to see that
24:27
Speaker 1: one notification from the parents. But that was the only
24:31
Speaker 1: thing I could say. So I actually ended up calling
24:34
Speaker 1: Verizon and explaining the situation that I needed to get
24:38
Speaker 1: in the phone, but they said that I couldn't get
24:40
Speaker 1: in the phone. The only thing I could do was
24:42
Speaker 1: through a factory reset, but that would delete everything. Another
24:46
Speaker 1: wrinkle in the case is we are now learning through
24:49
Speaker 1: police sources that her stockbroker boyfriend sent her about ten
24:55
Speaker 1: unanswered text messages and about not nine minutes the night
25:02
Speaker 1: before she was discovered disappeared. It could very well have
25:05
Speaker 1: been the night she disappeared, ending with curse words an
25:10
Speaker 1: expletive laced message. I guess because she wasn't texting back
25:15
Speaker 1: to Alexa's arrest, I can investigative reporter Radar online dot
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Speaker 1: com what have we learned from her cell phone regarding
25:22
Speaker 1: those texts? What was the boyfriend saying? John Osbilt. According
25:26
Speaker 1: to the police sources, he was harassing her. It was
25:30
Speaker 1: a barrage of messages, so many of them, and she
25:33
Speaker 1: was not answering. Now, this may have been they came
25:37
Speaker 1: when she was in the wait wait and I see.
25:39
Speaker 1: There's a big difference Alexis and him going, hey, where
25:42
Speaker 1: are you? Why don't you call me? Why are you
25:43
Speaker 1: annoying my calls? What's happening? That's one thing, and him
25:47
Speaker 1: stalking her and you know, bombarding her with text messages
25:50
Speaker 1: ten and nine minutes, that's a whole other thing. Right
25:52
Speaker 1: that This wasn't hey, what are you doing? You want
25:55
Speaker 1: to go to the movies? This was exactly tenant one
25:58
Speaker 1: every minute, just where are you where? And they were
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Speaker 1: filled with curse words like as you said, swearing at her.
26:06
Speaker 1: And so the police have said that you know, they've
26:09
Speaker 1: discovered these messages, they were able to get the messages
26:12
Speaker 1: from the phone, and that they know that he had
26:14
Speaker 1: sent her so many harassing messages. Then another wrinkle in
26:20
Speaker 1: the case. Take a listen to Tony eight s ABC
26:22
Speaker 1: seven OZ. Belgian blinked heavily in court today as he
26:25
Speaker 1: listened to allegations against him. He's been held for the
26:28
Speaker 1: past eleven days on child pornography charges for images found
26:31
Speaker 1: on his phone. Prosecutors say a few images, then more
26:35
Speaker 1: nine additional images were king of female children being expectfully
26:39
Speaker 1: abused exploited. Those images found after as Belgian became a
26:43
Speaker 1: person of interest in the disappearance of his on again,
26:45
Speaker 1: off again girlfriend. Twenty five year old Stephanie Pars, the
26:49
Speaker 1: makeup artist who lives in Freehold, went missing October thirtieth
26:52
Speaker 1: after she'd headed home after a night out with her family.
26:55
Speaker 1: Prosecutors say she had a domestic violence case against oz Belgian,
27:00
Speaker 1: that this defendant was texting and Facebook messaging Stephane Parson.
27:04
Speaker 1: Eight before her, Jason hearing a domestic violence case against
27:07
Speaker 1: his stockbroker boyfriend. Cops find child porn on his cell phone.
27:25
Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Two searches were conducted by
27:30
Speaker 1: law enforcement last week along a marsh land area on
27:33
Speaker 1: Staten Island, near where oz Belgian once worked. Nothing was found.
27:38
Speaker 1: Her father, ed Par says dozens of people will launch
27:40
Speaker 1: a search for his daughter tomorrow and Thursday, led by
27:44
Speaker 1: first responders in Freehold, in and around areas where tips
27:47
Speaker 1: have come in. You don't know. That's the thing. He
27:49
Speaker 1: unknown is what's driving us out of our minds. So
27:52
Speaker 1: we're going to try and just check off the boxes.
27:55
Speaker 1: The best weekend. In the meantime, Oz Belgian is now
27:58
Speaker 1: a freeman. The only crime he's facing thus far is
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Speaker 1: third degree pornography charges free on bail. I mean, see Grace.
28:06
Speaker 1: This is crime stories. While a twenty five year old
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Speaker 1: beauty Stephanie Pars is missing and her stalker boyfriend is
28:15
Speaker 1: caught with child porn on his cell phone, he somehow
28:19
Speaker 1: makes bond and then a torpedo to the case. This
28:25
Speaker 1: is a startling development in the case of missing twenty
28:28
Speaker 1: five year old Stephanie Pars, which brings investigators here to
28:31
Speaker 1: the home of her ex boyfriend, who is found dead
28:35
Speaker 1: and sources telling us it appears he took his own life.
28:38
Speaker 1: In this photo from the Facebook page of the missing woman,
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Speaker 1: Stephanie Pars is at the beach with twenty nine year
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Speaker 1: old John Osbalgin, a stockbroker who police say sent ten angry,
28:48
Speaker 1: unanswered texts to his former girlfriend the night before she
28:52
Speaker 1: went missing. The Momouth prosecutor put out this message on
28:55
Speaker 1: social media. John Oswilgin found deceased at his Freehold home
28:59
Speaker 1: this morning. We do not believe his death was suspicious
29:02
Speaker 1: At this time. Osbulgen was recently released from jail after
29:06
Speaker 1: being charged with possession of child pornography. Investigation remains active.
29:11
Speaker 1: More to follow. It's a complication for the Pars investigation
29:15
Speaker 1: with no identified suspects and no sign of her. Pars,
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Speaker 1: a cosmetologist who also worked as a nanny, vanished after
29:23
Speaker 1: a family outing to a comedy club in New Brunswick
29:26
Speaker 1: on October thirtieth. At home is where the young woman's
29:29
Speaker 1: car and cell phone were found, indicating she made it
29:32
Speaker 1: back there before disappearing. This is almost too much to
29:36
Speaker 1: take in. That is our friend Dave Carlin at CBS
29:39
Speaker 1: to New York Alexi's terrestuck, so he is picked up
29:44
Speaker 1: after cops find images of child porn on his cell phone.
29:47
Speaker 1: This is a young, up and coming stockbreaker that had
29:50
Speaker 1: been basically stalking Stephanie, harassing her, sending ten profanity laced
29:57
Speaker 1: expletives and just nine handsome sl sing. How the hey
30:02
Speaker 1: does he get out all bond while Stephanie's missing and
30:05
Speaker 1: then goes hangs himself. How does that happen. Well, I'm
30:10
Speaker 1: really actually stunded this to me, this this should have
30:12
Speaker 1: been the police would sit him down, they would talk
30:15
Speaker 1: to him, they would find Stephanie. He would tell them
30:19
Speaker 1: and what he knows, and they would find her and
30:22
Speaker 1: she would be home right now. So, but they were
30:24
Speaker 1: only holding him on this child brun our recharge, which
30:27
Speaker 1: to me is probably the worst charge out there. But
30:29
Speaker 1: he made Bill Edward Pars and Charlene Pars with me.
30:32
Speaker 1: These are Stephanie's parents. Every source I I've spoken with
30:38
Speaker 1: or learned about says that he was released on bail.
30:42
Speaker 1: But that's not correct, is it, Edward? No, that's incorrect.
30:46
Speaker 1: New Jersey has a bell or format, that's a point system.
30:53
Speaker 1: It goes by the offenses that are committed in the charges.
30:56
Speaker 1: And apparently, I mean you can go online and actually
30:59
Speaker 1: look this up. A criminal actually going to line and
31:00
Speaker 1: look this up and do the point system himself, and no,
31:03
Speaker 1: he's going to get out of it. Commits a certain crument.
31:07
Speaker 1: So according to the point system, even though the prosecutors
31:10
Speaker 1: had a case and it made their case very well,
31:14
Speaker 1: the judge had no choice point to release him. There's
31:17
Speaker 1: no monetary bail or anything like that that was that
31:20
Speaker 1: was taken understanding, is Patrick, California Prosecutor. That's just my
31:27
Speaker 1: boggling to me that on child porn charges you would
31:31
Speaker 1: grid out without relieving putting up any bond. Yeah, you know, Nancy,
31:35
Speaker 1: it's frustrating across the country that we do have systems
31:38
Speaker 1: that basically assign levels of bail. I'm going to use
31:42
Speaker 1: that word loosely, whether you call it a point system
31:45
Speaker 1: or money or wherever have you, depending on the level
31:48
Speaker 1: of the crime. And one of the things we've seen
31:50
Speaker 1: across the country is that seems to just be getting
31:53
Speaker 1: more lenient in many areas. So it is so frustrating,
31:56
Speaker 1: particularly in a case like this where somebody is released
31:59
Speaker 1: who's unders fishing for something else, to see how easy
32:02
Speaker 1: it is sometimes to get out when, as you say,
32:04
Speaker 1: crimes can be particularly despicable, and you know, images on
32:08
Speaker 1: somebody's phone. You know, we need to know more obviously
32:11
Speaker 1: about exactly what they were to decide what charges they
32:14
Speaker 1: would they would merit. But still, when you look at
32:17
Speaker 1: these points from the beginning, as Edward was saying, knowing
32:20
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of time knowing what Edward knew
32:23
Speaker 1: about this man or at least had the bad feelings
32:25
Speaker 1: that both he and Charlene had. That's especially troubling. Either
32:30
Speaker 1: knowing something about Stephanie's disappearance or Big busted on child porn.
32:35
Speaker 1: He would definitely lose his stockbroker's license, his life as
32:38
Speaker 1: he knew it would be over. I want to go
32:40
Speaker 1: to Charlene and Edward Parr's Stephanie's parents. First of all, Edward,
32:45
Speaker 1: did you know about her relationship with twenty nine year
32:48
Speaker 1: old John Osbill Ginning? Yeah? I knew seeing him on
32:51
Speaker 1: him officer about two months. What did you think of him?
32:54
Speaker 1: Had you ever met him? I only met him briefly twice.
32:56
Speaker 1: We went on a rafting trip in Rafting trivery year
32:59
Speaker 1: the family. Um, there's fifty sixty people airing. He was
33:03
Speaker 1: in a different boat, so I met him all goodbye. UM.
33:06
Speaker 1: I don't know. Weird feeling about him when I met him,
33:09
Speaker 1: but that's just normal feal goad and a new boyfriend. UM.
33:14
Speaker 1: The only other time I met him. What about you, Charlene?
33:16
Speaker 1: What was your take on os Bilgan? I didn't care
33:19
Speaker 1: from from the beginning. There was just something that bothered me. Um.
33:24
Speaker 1: I'm always analyzing. I have four girls. So I'm always
33:27
Speaker 1: you know, checking the new boyfriends that come in, and
33:30
Speaker 1: you know, and Stephanie's always you know, she had somebody over,
33:33
Speaker 1: I guess opinions and stuff. And he was just very unsociable,
33:37
Speaker 1: you know, never spoke um even you know, her friends
33:43
Speaker 1: didn't care for him. Um. And I guess every time
33:47
Speaker 1: he talked apparently of what the friend said, it was
33:50
Speaker 1: like more like a cold joke that he would do
33:54
Speaker 1: instead of like a conversation. Um. But no, I had
33:58
Speaker 1: just I had just told Stephanie um on Yeah, the
34:01
Speaker 1: monday before she went missing, I had asked her what
34:04
Speaker 1: was the what was going on with her and John?
34:07
Speaker 1: And um, you know, she had said to me that
34:11
Speaker 1: it's complicated. She says, uh, like I almost completely broke
34:14
Speaker 1: it off with him. Yeah, two days ago, she says,
34:17
Speaker 1: But um, I'll go back to like when we first
34:20
Speaker 1: started dating and it's so nice and then he just
34:22
Speaker 1: reeled me back in and then you know, it gets
34:27
Speaker 1: bad again. Then he reeled me back in and he says,
34:30
Speaker 1: it's hard to get away from him. Yeah. But I
34:33
Speaker 1: had told her that because he had hit her three other,
34:36
Speaker 1: you know, three times, that he was never going to
34:39
Speaker 1: be accepted his family. There would be no holidays, no
34:42
Speaker 1: family gather at the gatherings, no wedding, no nothing. And
34:48
Speaker 1: you know, it just seemed like she was just trying
34:50
Speaker 1: to end it with him. You know, um, I'm just thinking, sorry,
34:53
Speaker 1: what had happened in their relationship? Things have become so
34:56
Speaker 1: bad between them that Stephanie had filed on a saw
35:00
Speaker 1: domestic violence complaint against him in September and very disturbing
35:06
Speaker 1: to Jeff Cortesi, former FBI special agent. You can find
35:10
Speaker 1: him at Jeff Cortesi dot com. While investigating Stephanie's disappearance,
35:14
Speaker 1: detectives noticed marks around his neck. What do you make
35:19
Speaker 1: of that, Jeff? You know, before any of this information
35:23
Speaker 1: that we've discussed today, you know, the first place that
35:26
Speaker 1: law enforcement is going to be looking in a missing
35:28
Speaker 1: person case is the person closest to the person missing,
35:31
Speaker 1: whether it's a husband or boyfriend. And then, you know,
35:35
Speaker 1: after hearing all of this other information, you can't help
35:37
Speaker 1: but raise your eyebrows even more. Obviously when you see
35:41
Speaker 1: physical violence or physical marks on somebody, you know, sometimes
35:47
Speaker 1: you can it suggests obviously that an altercation maybe between
35:52
Speaker 1: two people. You know, there are other excuses but in
35:57
Speaker 1: a situation like this, given this circumstances, the marks on
36:02
Speaker 1: his body would be significant um to questioning. I'm very
36:07
Speaker 1: curious to doctor Daniel Bober and m D as well
36:11
Speaker 1: as a forensic psychiatrist, whether they performed any kind of
36:15
Speaker 1: DNA test on those marks. What do you think, Bober?
36:20
Speaker 1: Very hard to say, but certainly would be helpful information.
36:23
Speaker 1: Edward pars what do you know if anything about DNA
36:26
Speaker 1: testing on oz bilgen they also did. They also did
36:30
Speaker 1: dom also did do DNA testing of the stratted arms,
36:35
Speaker 1: neck and complete uh, forensic screening of himself, the whole person.
36:43
Speaker 1: So they did that. What did they find, if anything, Well,
36:48
Speaker 1: it was after the fact though it was kind of
36:50
Speaker 1: hard to find any usable DNA or anything like that,
36:53
Speaker 1: so they really didn't. They did find the next scratches
36:57
Speaker 1: cratched in the neck, but the rest and apparently it
37:02
Speaker 1: was clear it was watch on his legs and we know,
37:06
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just thinking through what we know so far,
37:10
Speaker 1: it could be taken so many different ways, doctor Bober,
37:12
Speaker 1: that he goes home, he gets out on bail, which
37:14
Speaker 1: was just I don't know what judge would have done that.
37:18
Speaker 1: But he gets out on bill and goes home and
37:19
Speaker 1: hangs himself. Some would say that's evidence of guilt. Some
37:23
Speaker 1: would say he was ashamed of the charge getting busted
37:27
Speaker 1: on child porn on his cell phone. Doctor Bober. Yeah,
37:30
Speaker 1: maybe he couldn't even handle the pressure or the prospect
37:32
Speaker 1: of being charged. And I see this a lot in
37:35
Speaker 1: cases that I'm involved in, where someone will take their
37:37
Speaker 1: own life just the appearance of impropriety without even being charged.
37:41
Speaker 1: But also in addition to the child porn, we know
37:43
Speaker 1: that there were at least nine images of children as
37:46
Speaker 1: young as three being sex abused on his phone. We
37:51
Speaker 1: know that he would be facing about five years behind
37:54
Speaker 1: bars on that, but the fact that she had taken
37:57
Speaker 1: out about an assault charge on him. We know that
38:03
Speaker 1: two electronic devices were seized, but would not clarify whether
38:07
Speaker 1: they were seized in relation to Stephanie's case. UM trying
38:12
Speaker 1: to figure out where this leaves us. Now to Charlene
38:16
Speaker 1: Pars Charlene, what is your message today? The community and
38:23
Speaker 1: the family and friends have been fantastic. We're doing everything
38:27
Speaker 1: we possibly tend to find her, from you know, flyers
38:31
Speaker 1: to lawn times, to shirts to volunteers. The outpour is amazing.
38:38
Speaker 1: People that you know we haven't seen in thirty years,
38:41
Speaker 1: are knocking on our door. People that don't have never
38:45
Speaker 1: even met us for Stephanie are coming out to, you know,
38:49
Speaker 1: help for the search. It's touching everybody. I mean, this
38:54
Speaker 1: town is amazing, and all the law enforcement, I mean
38:58
Speaker 1: everybody has been helping. Above and beyond that we couldn't
39:03
Speaker 1: ever imagine. We just want to get her home. We
39:09
Speaker 1: need to find her. For those of you listening now,
39:11
Speaker 1: the tip line to help find stept Old seven thirty
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Speaker 1: two four six two seventy five hundred repeat seven three
39:19
Speaker 1: two four six two seventy five hundred. Her parents holding
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Speaker 1: out hope, and we join them today in asking you
39:29
Speaker 1: to help us bring Stephanie home. Our prayers with the
39:34
Speaker 1: pars family and with Stephanie. Nancy Grace Crime Story signing
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Speaker 1: off good bye, said