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Midday Missing - Chandice Cochran & Michael Allen Dillard - MISSING IN West Virginia · True Crime and Wine Time

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  Speaker 1: Hello, my lovelies. And when you're hearing this, it is
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  Speaker 1: a home day, so I hope you're having an amazing
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  Speaker 1: week so far. I have pre recorded this episode because
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  Speaker 1: I am currently an awesome and I did not want
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  Speaker 1: to skip getting these stories out. Now I am Terry
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  Speaker 1: True Crime and welcome to Midday Missing, where we highlight
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  Speaker 1: current missing person cases that need more attention. Now we
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  Speaker 1: stream shows every Monday and Wednesday at noon Central. Now
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  Speaker 1: let's get into our cases for today. Now, our first case.
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  Speaker 1: On January twelfth, twenty eighteen, fifteen year old Michael Allan
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  Speaker 1: Dillard vanished from his home in Calvin, West Virginia after
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  Speaker 1: a minor disagreement with his mother. Typical teenager now, he
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  Speaker 1: ran into the woods behind the house, carrying only two dollars,
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  Speaker 1: leaving behind his phone and his eyeglasses. Sadly, he has
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  Speaker 1: never been seen again. Now. Michael was born on December thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and two, now at four years old. He
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  Speaker 1: was adopted and grew up in Calvin, near the intersection
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  Speaker 1: of Tioga Road in Little Beaver Road. He was said
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  Speaker 1: to be especially close to his older sister Britney, who
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  Speaker 1: lived nearby. Now, his family remembers him as a sweet, funny, loving,
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  Speaker 1: and silly boy. But Michael also struggled with severe depression.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, less than a year before his disappearance,
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  Speaker 1: he wrote a suicide note, leading to multiple hospital stays
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  Speaker 1: and a long term residential program for teenagers battling suicidal
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and self harm. Now. He remained in treatment until
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  Speaker 1: December nineteenth, twenty seventeen, just three weeks before he disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: But despite these challenges, Michael was making progress. His sister
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  Speaker 1: recalled that only days before he went missing, he described
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  Speaker 1: having the best day of his life. On January twelfth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, Michael spent the afternoon visiting his sister with
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  Speaker 1: this mom Now Britney noticed he seemed off that day,
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  Speaker 1: different from his upbeat mood earlier in the week. Back home,
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  Speaker 1: Michael helped his mother and load forty pound bags of
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  Speaker 1: woodstove pellets. When she warned him not to carry too
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  Speaker 1: many at once, he grew frustrated, dropped the bag, shouted,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to listen to you, and ran off
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  Speaker 1: behind the house. It was about five pm. Michael ran
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  Speaker 1: into a heavily wooded area without his phone. His glasses.
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  Speaker 1: Without them, his vision would have been severely impaired. He
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  Speaker 1: was last seen wearing an orange or rust colored jacket
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  Speaker 1: and maroom T shirt layered with a black tank top, jeans,
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  Speaker 1: deadpool socks, red shoes, and a three inch silver crossed
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  Speaker 1: necklace on a dag dog tag style chain. That evening,
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  Speaker 1: a storm rolled in and rain quickly turned into snow,
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  Speaker 1: making conditions dangerous invisibility. Poor searchers returned at first light
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  Speaker 1: with helicopters, dive teams, bloodhounds, and the hundreds of volunteers.
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  Speaker 1: Still there was no sign of Michael. About a week
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  Speaker 1: and a half later, his orange jacket was found three
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  Speaker 1: hundred yards from his home by the family's dog. The
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  Speaker 1: area had been searched before, but was now covered in snow.
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  Speaker 1: The jacket was in good condition, raising questions about whether
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  Speaker 1: it had been overlooked or placed there. Later, some theorized
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  Speaker 1: Michael may have suffered from hypothermia, leading behavior's life paradoxl undressing,
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  Speaker 1: which is removing clothes despite the cold, or burrowing hiding
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  Speaker 1: in in closed spaces. These behaviors could explain why searchers
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  Speaker 1: struggled to locate him. Sorry, guys, I'm going to take
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  Speaker 1: a quick drink. A neighbor reported seeing Michael walking along
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  Speaker 1: Tiaga Road in Craigsville, but this has not been confirmed now.
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  Speaker 1: His backpack, which had been left behind at school, was
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  Speaker 1: found empty. Oddly. Classmates said that on the day he disappeared,
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  Speaker 1: he poured water on it and then tried to board
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  Speaker 1: the wrong bus, and mentioned going to see his biological father,
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  Speaker 1: who had been deceased for years. Some wonder if Michael
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  Speaker 1: impulsively hitched a ride with a passing truck from a
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  Speaker 1: nearby industrial stop. Now. Signs were posted asking truckers to
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  Speaker 1: come forward, but no one did. Despite tips and possible
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  Speaker 1: sightings in the months after, none have been confirmed. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The family hired retired West Virginia State trooper John Bonazzo
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  Speaker 1: as a private investigator, calling this the most puzzling case
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  Speaker 1: of his career, he offered a three thousand dollars reward
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  Speaker 1: out of his own pocket. Bonazzo believes Michael did not
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  Speaker 1: plan his disappearance, but he doesn't roll out the possibility
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  Speaker 1: that Michael was picked up by someone. Guys I have
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  Speaker 1: said before, someone can leave home and then something nefarious happens.
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  Speaker 1: It happens all the time now, In October of last year,
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  Speaker 1: police followed up on a new tip, but it did
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  Speaker 1: not leave to Michael's Authorities have said they will continue
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  Speaker 1: to investigate every lead. As of today, more than seven
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  Speaker 1: years later, Michael remains missing. At the time, he was
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  Speaker 1: five foot five, weighed one hundred and one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty three pounds, brown hair, and hazel eyes. His family
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  Speaker 1: continues to fight for answers. They run the Breen Michael
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  Speaker 1: Dillard home Facebook page with over three thousand followers dedicated
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  Speaker 1: to keeping his story alive. Guys, please let's go show
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  Speaker 1: the family some support and follow their page. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: question remains, did Michael fall victim to the elements, did
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  Speaker 1: someone pick him up? Or could he still be alive somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: For Michael's family, especially his mother and his sister, these
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  Speaker 1: unanswered questions are heartbreaking. They just want to know what
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  Speaker 1: happened to him. The search for Michael continues, with that
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  Speaker 1: three thousand dollars reward offered still standing. If you have
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  Speaker 1: any information, please contact the West Virginia State Police at
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  Speaker 1: three oh four eight seven to two zero eight zero zero. Also,
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  Speaker 1: please share Michael's missing poster that we have posted on
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  Speaker 1: our midday missing page and share this video or our
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  Speaker 1: podcast as it does help get the word out. So
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  Speaker 1: if you know of or you have a loved one
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  Speaker 1: missing and are interested in having their story featured on
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  Speaker 1: an upcoming episode, or maybe join us for a live interview,
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  Speaker 1: please contact Amy, our assistant producer, by emailing her at
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  Speaker 1: Amy at tcwtmedia dot com, or you can always send
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  Speaker 1: us a DM on our Facebook page now. On August twentieth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Chandie Rebecca Cochrane was last seen in our
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  Speaker 1: hometown of set in West Virginia. That morning, her mother, Becky,
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  Speaker 1: had returned home to find a handwritten note left on
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen counter the message raad mom, I took off
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  Speaker 1: for a little while. I'm in good hands. I promise
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  Speaker 1: be back shortly. Please don't worry, no need to call
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  Speaker 1: if you need me. Love you chan guys. That is
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  Speaker 1: chilling now. Later that day, investigators confirm that Christopher Spees
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  Speaker 1: of Gilmour County picked Chandas up from her home. The
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  Speaker 1: two traveled to the Birch River area of Nicholas County,
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  Speaker 1: a location that is said Chandas was familiar with, but
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  Speaker 1: spies had a little connection to it. Now Troopers would
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  Speaker 1: later say the belief the pair had gone there to
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  Speaker 1: sell drugs. Guys, no judgment, Okay, no judgment. That night,
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  Speaker 1: Spee's and Chandas ended up at the home of Sam Kelly.
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  Speaker 1: According to Senior Trooper Caleb Popper, what happened next is
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  Speaker 1: where the story became unclear. Now, around midnight, Kelly and
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  Speaker 1: his girlfriend left briefly to buy cigarettes. When they returned,
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  Speaker 1: they reported seeing SPE's and Chandas leaving on foot, walking
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  Speaker 1: in the direction of the local fire department. Guys. That
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  Speaker 1: would be the last time anyone admits to seeing her now.
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  Speaker 1: Spiece later told investigators that Chandace's phone died around midnight
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  Speaker 1: and was never powered back. On the following morning, around
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  Speaker 1: seven am, Kelly City happened to see Spea's walking alone
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  Speaker 1: on Wildon Dill Road, a few miles from Birch River.
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  Speaker 1: He offered him a ride to work, but Chandas was
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  Speaker 1: not with him. Suspicious Now Since that night, there has
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  Speaker 1: been no confirmed proof that Chandice is still a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Troopers have stated that the central question remains what happened
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  Speaker 1: after they left the Kellys house. Now authority suspect foul play,
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  Speaker 1: but with little fiscal evidence answers have been hard to
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  Speaker 1: come by now. Spee, the person she was last seen with,
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  Speaker 1: was later arrested on unrelated charges, including grand marsony in
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  Speaker 1: failure to register as a sex offender. He is currently
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  Speaker 1: serving prison time on those convictions. Guys, that just makes
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  Speaker 1: me worried now. In a letter that Spiez wrote from
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  Speaker 1: prison to a reporter in the area, said, I would
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  Speaker 1: love for Chandice to be found so it would clear
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  Speaker 1: my name. I've sat down with investigators countless times going
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  Speaker 1: over the events of that night Chandace and I was partying.
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  Speaker 1: Been up a few days on meth in xanax, so
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  Speaker 1: my memory was like one of them picture books that
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  Speaker 1: you flip through really fast, frame by frame. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: do anything to Chandas and I don't know where she
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  Speaker 1: is at. Sir, If you've been up for days during
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  Speaker 1: meth in xanax and your memory is not great, how
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  Speaker 1: do you know you didn't do anything to her. Now,
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  Speaker 1: at the time Chandace went missing, She's had brown hair,
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  Speaker 1: blue eyes, five foot three in waves around one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and ten pounds. Now. West Virginia police have searched the
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  Speaker 1: areas in Nicholas and Clay Counties, but to this date
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  Speaker 1: nothing has been found. Now, troop or put it, we
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  Speaker 1: are not going to let this die. This case remains
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  Speaker 1: active and investigators continue to proceed pursue leads. Guys, if
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  Speaker 1: you have any information about the disappearance of Chandas Cochrane,
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  Speaker 1: please contact the West Virginia State Police at three oh
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  Speaker 1: four seven sixty five twenty one oh one. Guys, also,
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  Speaker 1: please go share her missing person poster from our Facebook page.
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  Speaker 1: Let's help get the word out about both of these cases,
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  Speaker 1: because guess what, somebody knows something. Okay. Now, I do
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  Speaker 1: want to thank you all for joining me today and
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  Speaker 1: I'll look forward to seeing you again on Monday's next episode. Now, also,
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  Speaker 1: I said, that's where we post all of our missing
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  Speaker 1: I have not read anything about that case. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I will be able to tune in due
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  Speaker 1: to the time differences, but I will definitely be watching
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  Speaker 1: it on the replay. So guys, as always, until next time,
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  Speaker 1: please stay safe, stay aware. If you see something, say something,
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  Speaker 1: and let's help bring these families some peace, some justice,
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  Speaker 1: and let's get the word out. Bye, guys, The the
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