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Maricela Garcia: Missing two weeks, but is LAPD looking? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Friends and family are desperately searching for twenty six year
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Speaker 1: old mate Sella Garcia, and we're really terrified. I don't
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Speaker 1: even know what to think. This is crime stories with
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace, She's like, all, great, buck there, I'm just
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Speaker 1: gonna go to such a smoke a cigarette. And when
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Speaker 1: I came out, she wasn't there. She tried calling, no
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Speaker 1: answer in her phone stead so I was like, okay,
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Speaker 1: let's not over react. I stood in the rain and
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Speaker 1: by her car for like I don't even know. I
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Speaker 1: lost time, probably over thirty forty minutes waiting for her
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Speaker 1: and she to come back. It is odd that she's
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Speaker 1: walked away, but we're still investigating. And where I am
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Speaker 1: saying is that there's no evidence of foul play that
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Speaker 1: we did to any sister. She would never leave me
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Speaker 1: alone like I was her younger sister. There's no way
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Speaker 1: I see her every day. She doesn't just wander off
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Speaker 1: by herself. That day was supposed to be like any other.
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Speaker 1: They were shopping Marcia Ella and her sister Sara, but
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Speaker 1: by nighttime, the day had turned into something much more disturbing,
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Speaker 1: much more nefarious. A gorgeous, talented, tenderhearted girl has been reduced,
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Speaker 1: according to her mother, to one word case case number five.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about Marisella Garcia, absolutely beautiful young girl, and
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Speaker 1: we are getting calls and emails like crazy about the
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Speaker 1: disappearance of Marisilla Garcia. This is how it went down.
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Speaker 1: First of all, thank you for being with us. My
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Speaker 1: number one is to thank you for being with us.
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Speaker 1: I Nancy Grace and this is crimes to worries. We
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Speaker 1: are also writing articles giving tiplines asking for you to
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Speaker 1: give information on this or any other case at crime
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Speaker 1: online dot com. We're talking about Maricella Garcia and we're
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Speaker 1: not giving up. The day she goes missing, she went
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Speaker 1: shopping with her sister Sarah. They were going to a
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Speaker 1: quote decades party where you dress in a particular way,
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Speaker 1: and she was dressing for the eighties. So they went
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Speaker 1: to a good will store, which I have done many
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Speaker 1: times to outfit the twins for various dress up occasions.
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Speaker 1: Imagine my shot. When I saw Nancy Grace T shirt there,
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Speaker 1: I immediately bought it back to Marcella. So she and
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Speaker 1: sister Sarah younger sister Sarah are in the goodwill and
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Speaker 1: she decides she wants a cigarette. She goes outside for
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Speaker 1: a smoke. She says, quote, I'll be right back, you
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Speaker 1: know the rest. She never comes back. She leaves her
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Speaker 1: parked locked BMW in the parking lot with her purse inside.
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Speaker 1: There's no trace of appeing on her cell phone. She vanished. Now,
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Speaker 1: they may have gotten there in daylight, but when this
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Speaker 1: went down, it was seven thirty at night in California
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Speaker 1: and it was dark. The family has brought in volunteer
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Speaker 1: volunteer canines who led to a dumpster in the far
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Speaker 1: corner of the Goodwill parking lot. It's kind of a
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Speaker 1: strip center with other shops there as well, like a
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Speaker 1: and under a type store. They found where the dog
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Speaker 1: led them to the dumpster. Maricella's choker ripped off, her
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Speaker 1: neck broken. At the dumpster, they found a smashed cell
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Speaker 1: phone similar to Maricella's. They think it's her, as the
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Speaker 1: SIM card had been removed, so we can't say yes,
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Speaker 1: that's it. But I mean, let's just look at the
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Speaker 1: evidence with me. Is the Duke Alan Duke investigative reporter Allen.
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Speaker 1: She's there in that spot, think a cigarette. The k
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Speaker 1: nines go to that spot, They passed that spot. Her
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Speaker 1: choker has found there, ripped off her neck, her favorite
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Speaker 1: choker that she would have worn in the shower if
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Speaker 1: she could had according to her mother. So it's more
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Speaker 1: than likely given those facts. Her smashed cell phone. Now,
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Speaker 1: one of the calls I got on this call on
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Speaker 1: this case is from Donna Donna A. And Donna A says,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, if she went outside for a smoke,
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Speaker 1: wouldn't she have had her cigarettes in her pocketbook, in
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Speaker 1: her purse, otherwise they would have been crushed. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Maybe she had them in a pocket. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: but that made sense to me. She may have gone
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Speaker 1: out to the car and gotten the cigarettes out of
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Speaker 1: the car and locked the car back with a person
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Speaker 1: in the car, but where were the keys to the car?
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Speaker 1: I'd like to know that she never went back for
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Speaker 1: her sister. But that question about the car that Donna
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Speaker 1: A has called in, I think it's significant because I'm
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Speaker 1: wondering if we're gonna learn anything more along that line
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Speaker 1: from the surveillance video. It was dark, Alan, so I
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Speaker 1: don't know where exactly they were part. They were kind
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Speaker 1: of over toward the ninety nine cent store. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if they had surveillance in the parking lot. But
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Speaker 1: if she had gone to the car to get her
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Speaker 1: cigarettes and then she had was standing out by the
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Speaker 1: building smoking, I mean she could have been abducted near
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Speaker 1: her car and not near the structure, which is a
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Speaker 1: whole another wrinkle in what happened. But you've been to
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Speaker 1: the scene and you met with the family. We are
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Speaker 1: investigating this case ourselves. What have we learned, Alan, I
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Speaker 1: walked the entire route that the tracking dog indicated that
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Speaker 1: Maricella followed that night, and we did it exactly to
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Speaker 1: the minute, two weeks after she was last seen and
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Speaker 1: when she apparently took that route. But there have been
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Speaker 1: some changes there. First, there is now a security guard there. Second,
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Speaker 1: the lights in the parking lot that were out the
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Speaker 1: bulbs have been replaced in the last two weeks. I
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Speaker 1: was able to confirm that throughout that parking area. I
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Speaker 1: was mentioning to you, there's part of it that's lighted,
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Speaker 1: part of it that's dark. The lighting in the parking
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Speaker 1: lot around the ninety nine cent store and the Goodwill
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Speaker 1: store have been improved that it's a lot brighter now
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Speaker 1: two weeks later. Why does that always happen? There are
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Speaker 1: these horrible circumstances and someone gets kidnapped or killed and
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Speaker 1: then they fix it. You know, it's always like that. Okay,
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Speaker 1: go ahead, Now, this was an odd discovery that I found. Now,
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Speaker 1: when I walked it the night before, I've been there
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Speaker 1: several times. I noticed there were a lot of security
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Speaker 1: cameras around, and the family is working on their own
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Speaker 1: to get the video. But then I went over to
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Speaker 1: this cathedral, this church that the tracking dog indicated she
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Speaker 1: had gone through, and you look all around the church
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Speaker 1: and you see these cameras up on the roof surrounding
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Speaker 1: almost like a fortress. That's the good news. The bad
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Speaker 1: news is Nancy. And are you sitting down for this one? Yes,
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Speaker 1: maybe I better lay down. The father went to the
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Speaker 1: church asked for the video, and he was informed, Oh,
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Speaker 1: those are fake cameras. We just have them up there
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Speaker 1: to deter crime. Can you believe that? Oh I cannot
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Speaker 1: believe it. But they're fake cameras. But they are working
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Speaker 1: to get camera video from several of the buildings. They
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Speaker 1: can't do it as quickly as the police, and the
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Speaker 1: police aren't involved in it, unfortunately, and we can get
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Speaker 1: to that. Okay, wait a minute, he just threw that
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Speaker 1: out there. The police are not involved in it. That's
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Speaker 1: exactly right. The police, according to the family, because they
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Speaker 1: determined she was voluntary missing. They're not going out there
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Speaker 1: getting warrants for videos. How can it be voluntary missing
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Speaker 1: with a choker ripped off your neck and a smashed
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Speaker 1: cell phone? How can that be? That is the question.
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Speaker 1: Those are questions that I asked last night, and I
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Speaker 1: saw such frustration. I was able to walk along the
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Speaker 1: path two weeks later with Sarah Garcia, her dad, her
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Speaker 1: brother Edgar and to talk to them about their frustration
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Speaker 1: and what's going on, and I recorded it. Let's listen
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Speaker 1: the route that the tracking dog took, dissess make a
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Speaker 1: lot of sense to you. It does. The dogs helps
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Speaker 1: a lot, But I think the dogs help more than
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Speaker 1: the police did. Now, that's the thing. The l A
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Speaker 1: p D. Are they still calling this voluntary missing? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they're still calling it voluntary missing as if she's a
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Speaker 1: runaway and she's an adult, which I think honestly is
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Speaker 1: b s because like the other girl went missing and
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Speaker 1: they found her in three days. Yeah, and l ip
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Speaker 1: D detective detectives actually traveled sixty or seventy miles up
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Speaker 1: to help the search for her and not doing going
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Speaker 1: down the street for you. Well, yeah, the detectives haven't
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Speaker 1: done anything at all. I've called the detective today and
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Speaker 1: I told her what has she actually done in the
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Speaker 1: last two weeks, and she couldn't say anything because she
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Speaker 1: hasn't done anything. And you know, you would think that
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Speaker 1: they would actually go and try to find a missing person.
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Speaker 1: But I just think that they're comfortable with people going
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Speaker 1: missing and they're comfortable with their jobs. And I think
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Speaker 1: that's ridiculous because if it was somebody with the last
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Speaker 1: name Jones or somebody with the last name, you know,
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Speaker 1: just a white last name, it would have been different.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not okay with that just because of something.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we don't really look Hispanic. We we don't.
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Speaker 1: Nobody ever knows what we are. But the reason that
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Speaker 1: my last name is Garcia, I feel like that on
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Speaker 1: paper changes everything. Uh So, what reasoning did they give
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Speaker 1: you for not investigating She could be a runaway, there's
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Speaker 1: no foul play, But when is there going to be
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Speaker 1: foul play when her body turns up dead? That's like
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Speaker 1: not like not solving a crime is a crime in itself,
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Speaker 1: And you know they're supposed to be there to protect
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Speaker 1: and serve. But they're not protecting and serving. They're letting
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Speaker 1: someone be missing, They're letting someone possibly get raped and hurt. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I know that there's you know, so many things that
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Speaker 1: could be happening, but what are they doing nothing. They're
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Speaker 1: just waiting for something for their work to be turned
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Speaker 1: turned in for them. So so you don't just think
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Speaker 1: that maybe they know something they're not saying and that
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Speaker 1: they're confident that probably, But that's ridiculous because how is
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Speaker 1: it that I found out more information and without credentials
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Speaker 1: And I'm not a professional. I'm that I didn't go
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Speaker 1: to school to be a cop, But how is it
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Speaker 1: that I know more than they do? It just doesn't
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Speaker 1: make any sense. It just seems like they're just, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, twiddling their thumbs, not doing anything about the situation.
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Speaker 1: Yet some girl with some blonde hair, blue eyed girl
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Speaker 1: goes missing. In three days, boom they have her. Yeah, well,
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Speaker 1: I guess your best hope is in fact that they're
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Speaker 1: right that your your sister ran away or you know what.
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Speaker 1: That's what I really hope it is. But I don't
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Speaker 1: think she would just leave me alone. Logically, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: make sense. Who leaves their little sister alone and no
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Speaker 1: offense but the ghetto. I mean, you guys, this isn't
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Speaker 1: your neighborhood, isn't It's not. And you know, it was
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Speaker 1: just we were at the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I can think of all the reasons
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Speaker 1: why I wouldn't want to come here, but we weren't.
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Speaker 1: We weren't thinking about, oh, you know, something's gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: We don't think, oh, we're in danger all the time.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's America. You think you're safe everywhere. So
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Speaker 1: we're just across the street from the seven eleven from understand,
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Speaker 1: I mean you waited there for a long time, just
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Speaker 1: hoping to to see her. Well, I waited around the
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Speaker 1: plaza for a while waiting for her to show up.
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Speaker 1: And she didn't show up. And you know, at first
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Speaker 1: I thought maybe I was overreacting, and then once I
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Speaker 1: realized she wasn't there, and I knew something was wrong.
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Speaker 1: I spent two weeks, two weeks tonight right the phone
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Speaker 1: that one of the volunteer searchers found. Have you seen
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Speaker 1: that I did like her? I actually found the phone.
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Speaker 1: Oh you found the phone? Did it look like hers?
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Speaker 1: It did look just like hers, and it was it
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Speaker 1: didn't have a battery, it didn't have a SIM card.
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Speaker 1: Somebody had smashed it. It seemed like it seemed pretty aggressive.
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Speaker 1: And if if that's not a foul play, then I
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Speaker 1: don't know what is. Who just smashes the phone and
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Speaker 1: you're waiting for the police to confirm that was her phone? Right?
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Speaker 1: But they haven't come from anything. But you know, you
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Speaker 1: would think that they have the resources to do all
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Speaker 1: these things, but they're not doing anything. And the choker
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Speaker 1: that was found, tell me about that? What is that?
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Speaker 1: They found a necklace cut up like it seems like
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Speaker 1: it was terried and they found it near the dumpster.
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Speaker 1: They also have that in the evenence room. But it's like,
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm doing all the work when I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm the sister and I don't mind looking for all
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Speaker 1: this stuff, but you know, I'm not the detective. That's
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Speaker 1: not my job. Like I'm stressed out as it is
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Speaker 1: being her sister and not knowing where my sister is,
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Speaker 1: not knowing if my sisters alive, not knowing if something
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Speaker 1: happened to her, and the police isn't helping have you
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Speaker 1: gone any higher than just that detective, if you maybe
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Speaker 1: even try to get the mayor's attention or anything like that.
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Speaker 1: I didn't think that i'd have to, but I think
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Speaker 1: I'm going to because ridiculous. I mean, prosecutors, somebody, somebody
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Speaker 1: beyond that. Go go political. I mean I thought about it. Um,
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Speaker 1: I'm still deciding what I want to do. But the
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Speaker 1: street lights, everything, they're gone. This whole situation is just
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Speaker 1: must Yeah. I see that. You guys put up hundreds
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Speaker 1: of posters with your sister's picture on them, and a
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Speaker 1: lot of I was here last night impressed with how
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Speaker 1: maybe we're around here. They seem to have been ripped down,
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Speaker 1: and I understand you also put some up around the
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Speaker 1: good Will store and those are gone. Most of them
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Speaker 1: are gone. Um, may because of the rain or people
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Speaker 1: just taking them down. Indicated that she would. Chatty came
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Speaker 1: across the intersection. So the intersection we just crossed, very
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Speaker 1: busy intersect. So we're probably were several hundred yards away
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Speaker 1: from the good Will store. Yeah, you're not inside of
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Speaker 1: the good Rill at all, But to cross an intersection
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Speaker 1: diagonally without waiting for the lights, she was running, So
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Speaker 1: that's what the dog said. After she left the church,
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Speaker 1: went down the street and came back. She crossed over
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Speaker 1: Sherman Way diagonally, a very busy six lane road. Now listen, okay,
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Speaker 1: everybody's up. Okay again, we're following the sent the dog
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Speaker 1: left or followed. It's seeing that Marisela went up here
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Speaker 1: and behind the little wall right there. Her stent was
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Speaker 1: behind there, not just on the four years um. How
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Speaker 1: long she was behind there, why she was behind there,
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Speaker 1: if it was raining, if she was hiding whatever. And
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Speaker 1: then we don't know if she went through Kaiser to
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Speaker 1: the back parking lot or around the side. So again
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Speaker 1: not to trade through a building. We're going to go
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Speaker 1: around the side. But there's a security guard right there.
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Speaker 1: Not only the security guard, but there's tons of cameras.
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Speaker 1: They won't give them to anybody with the police. And
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Speaker 1: the police aren't asking for correct They're not asking even
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Speaker 1: though we've told them we think she might have run
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Speaker 1: through here, we think she was in the parking lot.
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Speaker 1: They won't ask just to say whether she was in
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Speaker 1: there and she was heavy dancing and got to a
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Speaker 1: car and drove off, or whether she took her or whatever.
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Speaker 1: They won't say they won't tell the family where their
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Speaker 1: child is. It's understand your your father is going around collecting,
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Speaker 1: working to collect. They're collecting all the footage they can.
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Speaker 1: We've gone to every place that the dogs went through. Um,
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Speaker 1: not everyone you know, really helping out, but I mean,
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Speaker 1: you need you need a certain clearance to get certain footage.
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Speaker 1: So I mean, I don't have any kind of experience
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Speaker 1: being a copper detective, so they won't give it to me.
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Speaker 1: M And once you get it, you gotta have somebody
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Speaker 1: look at it and analyze it. I mean, I've been
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Speaker 1: I've been through that and it's not an easy thing
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Speaker 1: even there. Well maybe maybe after maybe after this and
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Speaker 1: the embarrassment of not doing anything, I'll they'll think again
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Speaker 1: about it. Is that what you're hoping, Well, that's what
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Speaker 1: I'm hoping for. Um, that's honestly all I want is
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Speaker 1: for them to help me find my sister. Tell me
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Speaker 1: about your sister. My sister was very protective over me always.
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Speaker 1: She always wanted to know where I was, always wanted
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Speaker 1: to know where I was going. She always wanted me
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Speaker 1: to be safe and being you know the last person
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Speaker 1: who saw her and her not being safe. Right now,
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Speaker 1: because obviously she's not. She hasn't had any kind of
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Speaker 1: contact with anything. Her accounts that are frozen, her phone
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Speaker 1: is not working. If she was out parting or a
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Speaker 1: runaway like they say she is, somebody would have spotted her.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of media involved. It just doesn't make sense.
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Speaker 1: So in the parking lot, the last place the dogs
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Speaker 1: picked up the scent is that, right, misty. There's a
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Speaker 1: lot of cars here and this is probably this is
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Speaker 1: exactly pretty much two weeks to the close to the minute,
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Speaker 1: maybe right close to the minute. That's what we're open.
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Speaker 1: And there's nobody in the parking lot. More about a
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Speaker 1: car but not really. Well, there's a liquor store open
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Speaker 1: right there. I didn't know, but we're gonna talk to
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Speaker 1: that litre and we're gonna search the dumpster and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna wait for people. Get out of Kaiser right now
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Speaker 1: now the dumpster down here, did you find any any
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Speaker 1: kind of evidence of her other than the dogs saying
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Speaker 1: that she was down here in the corner was what
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Speaker 1: appeared to be her torn sugar but not being confirmed. Oh,
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Speaker 1: this this is where so this is this is where
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Speaker 1: her s This was it, And they said she's gone
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Speaker 1: at this point, she's either in a car, she's something gone,
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Speaker 1: and now we're probably a long way five yards away
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Speaker 1: from the good real story. Come all the way to
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Speaker 1: this corner? Why why would you come all the way
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Speaker 1: back here? There's no logical reason, Nancy. This was a
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Speaker 1: very emotional and disturbing evening last night for me. But
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Speaker 1: I'm so glad that I went out there and saw
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Speaker 1: for myself. And I've got my Marcella Garcia poster posted
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Speaker 1: right You're at my desk in front of my microphone,
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Speaker 1: so I keep her in mind all the time. Based
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Speaker 1: on what you learned from the family and what you
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Speaker 1: saw as you walked the walk that she we believe
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Speaker 1: she took. What did you learn? I learned that there
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Speaker 1: should be surveillance video to confirm what the tracking dog
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Speaker 1: said indicated, but that it's taking time to get it.
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Speaker 1: And this is the other problem with that. There's a
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Speaker 1: lot of these DVRs, these recording devices will keep it
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Speaker 1: digitally stored for about two weeks and then it gets
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Speaker 1: the hard drive gets erased and recorded over. Do you
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Speaker 1: remember when that came to light, Alan, that that practice
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Speaker 1: and procedure. It was during seandrel Levy. Remember she left
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Speaker 1: her apartment her I guess it was the high Rise
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Speaker 1: apartment complex in d C. And they record over the
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Speaker 1: video every three days. I believe it was every seventy
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Speaker 1: two hours. So by the time the police got there,
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Speaker 1: it was too late. It would already been recorded over. Well. Fortunately,
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Speaker 1: hard drives are getting less expensive and bigger, and I
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Speaker 1: think the window now is I talked to a detective
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Speaker 1: private investigator who was out there last night about this,
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Speaker 1: and he said that it's gotten better that it's now
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Speaker 1: about two weeks, but it puts a window for you
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Speaker 1: to capture that video. Oh here's another thing that I
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Speaker 1: found out. This private investigator, he's not officially working on
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Speaker 1: the case, but he was just curious and he went
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Speaker 1: out there last night. He said he ran a check.
20:31
Speaker 1: You know, the sex offender registration that every place is required,
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Speaker 1: and you can search it geographically. Within Recita, California, there
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Speaker 1: are five hundred registered sex offenders, fifty of them within
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Speaker 1: a two mile radius of the good Will store. I
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Speaker 1: wonder what they're what I don't get, I started to say,
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Speaker 1: I wonder what they're doing about it. Nothing, apparently. I
20:51
Speaker 1: hope you could get all that information on crime online
20:54
Speaker 1: dot com. Hello, we have a sex offender registring map
20:57
Speaker 1: by zip code. But why does she say? The sister
21:03
Speaker 1: and the mother say. Police are insisting this is a
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Speaker 1: voluntary disappearance because her A t M, her credit cards,
21:10
Speaker 1: her checking account have not been touched. Her cell phone
21:13
Speaker 1: is either destroyed, powered off, or turned or dead. And
21:18
Speaker 1: now we're going on over a week, So how can
21:22
Speaker 1: that be a voluntary disappearance? They don't understand that. I
21:26
Speaker 1: don't understand it. But in contrast to this case of
21:31
Speaker 1: miss Stacy, she disappeared without any sign of foul play.
21:38
Speaker 1: It was just a call to nine one one by
21:40
Speaker 1: her roommate who said she didn't come back tonight and
21:43
Speaker 1: I'm worried about her. And that was on Sunday. Well,
21:45
Speaker 1: there was a search going on by Monday, and by
21:49
Speaker 1: Tuesday night and Wednesday, the l a p D went
21:52
Speaker 1: out of their jurisdiction seventy miles up the highway to Lancaster, California,
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Speaker 1: out in the desert near the soft flag to help
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Speaker 1: with the search, and they actually found her walking along
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Speaker 1: the street near a freeway. The l a p D
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Speaker 1: sent detectives up there and there was no sign of
22:10
Speaker 1: foul play with her, no evidence that they don't have
22:13
Speaker 1: with Maricella. Why did they do that? And the sister
22:16
Speaker 1: raises that question. I'd love to know the answer, and
22:19
Speaker 1: I'm hoping the answer will be, you know what, We're
22:21
Speaker 1: gonna start taking this thing as a possible kidnapping. You
22:26
Speaker 1: know what's interesting, um, the fact that the family has
22:29
Speaker 1: not heard from her since she went missing, and she
22:32
Speaker 1: just left her sister there shopping. I want to go
22:35
Speaker 1: back to what Donna a called in about the cigarettes,
22:40
Speaker 1: the fact that she said, I'm gonna go have a cigarette.
22:44
Speaker 1: If she went to her car to get the cigarettes,
22:48
Speaker 1: do you think she made it to the car where
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Speaker 1: the cigarettes in the car? I mean, I'm just wondering
22:53
Speaker 1: if she ever made it to the car. That is
22:55
Speaker 1: a really good observation, a really good question, because you
22:59
Speaker 1: leave your pocketbook in the car. By the way, I
23:01
Speaker 1: wouldn't leave my pocketbook in the car in anywhere in
23:04
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, in the car unless it's in the trunk. Oh,
23:07
Speaker 1: can I tell you a story. When I was a
23:09
Speaker 1: brand new prosecutor in inter city Atlanta, I had driven
23:14
Speaker 1: to Midtown, where I care what stantly lived at the time,
23:18
Speaker 1: very high crime rate. But I was there to investigate
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Speaker 1: a burglary, and I stupidly put my pocketbook in my car.
23:28
Speaker 1: There were a bunch of notebooks and school books over
23:31
Speaker 1: because I was teaching not school at night as well,
23:35
Speaker 1: And of course somebody broke in the car and took
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Speaker 1: my pocket. But guess what I had in the pocket
23:39
Speaker 1: but my Social Security number? Well you know what happened
23:42
Speaker 1: after that. My my I D was taken and there
23:45
Speaker 1: was a whole uh not a gang, but I guess
23:49
Speaker 1: it would be a gang. Uh. There was busted in
23:52
Speaker 1: Chicago with a whole new Nancy Grace and a bunch
23:54
Speaker 1: of other people too. My point is, you really don't
23:58
Speaker 1: get it until it happens to you. I wouldn't leave
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Speaker 1: my pocketbook or anything like that in the car anywhere,
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Speaker 1: even out in the church parking a lot. No, absolutely not.
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Speaker 1: The other day I took my iPad into church and
24:10
Speaker 1: I was asked, you're actually going to go online during church.
24:14
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, but I don't want to. My my
24:17
Speaker 1: car window bashed it in the parking a lot while
24:19
Speaker 1: I'm in here for forty five minutes. So yeah, don't
24:22
Speaker 1: leave anything in the car. My point is, did she
24:26
Speaker 1: marya sella go to the car to get the cigarettes
24:29
Speaker 1: if she had had her pocket because the car. I
24:31
Speaker 1: just don't see her walking around with a pack of
24:34
Speaker 1: cigarettes in her hand, do you. I don't smoke, and
24:37
Speaker 1: nobody around me smoke, so I don't know the smoking. Well,
24:41
Speaker 1: you're a reporter, for Pete's sake. Haven't you ever seen
24:43
Speaker 1: a smoker? Yes? I have. Do you see women walking
24:47
Speaker 1: around with nothing in their hand but a pack of cigarettes? No,
24:50
Speaker 1: you don't. There's the cell phone, now, that's what you're
24:53
Speaker 1: always carrying. You've got that talking about the cell phone.
24:55
Speaker 1: Tell me what the family is saying exactly about the
24:58
Speaker 1: cell phone. The sister and the brother both insists that, yeah,
25:02
Speaker 1: that is the kind of cell phone that she had.
25:05
Speaker 1: And by the way, we're putting a picture of up
25:08
Speaker 1: on crime online dot com along with the story I'm
25:11
Speaker 1: writing about this case today with the podcast, so you
25:14
Speaker 1: can see for yourself how it was smashed. I mean
25:17
Speaker 1: it was not like you drop it and it breaks
25:19
Speaker 1: the screen. This was like somebody took not a hammer,
25:23
Speaker 1: but maybe smashed it on the ground several times, took
25:26
Speaker 1: the battery out, and took the SIM card out and
25:28
Speaker 1: left it there near the parking lot. You know, I'm
25:31
Speaker 1: wondering if she also wore glasses, because I've looked up
25:34
Speaker 1: a lot of pictures of her and in some of
25:36
Speaker 1: them she's wearing glasses. But back to the pocketbook and
25:40
Speaker 1: the cell phone and the cigarettes. Does the family know
25:44
Speaker 1: she does not wear glasses. Does the family say that's
25:47
Speaker 1: her cell phone? Because I know the SIM card was taken,
25:49
Speaker 1: They say it is hers. They they insist that it is,
25:52
Speaker 1: but of course they're deferring to the police. It's in
25:54
Speaker 1: the police evidence locker. They're concerned, though, is that the
25:57
Speaker 1: police aren't doing the the investor geistion to confirm it.
26:01
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that there are two possibilities that a the
26:04
Speaker 1: family doesn't understand it, but the police are or be.
26:09
Speaker 1: And I asked the sisters you know this question. I said,
26:12
Speaker 1: don't you hope the police are right? Don't you hope
26:15
Speaker 1: this is voluntary missing? Maybe the police know something that
26:19
Speaker 1: they're holding close to their vest that they're not even
26:21
Speaker 1: sharing with you or the public about this case. And
26:24
Speaker 1: she says, yeah, that's my hope. That is my hope.
26:26
Speaker 1: And by the way, I do know that Marisella has
26:30
Speaker 1: disappeared for brief periods before when she was younger, but
26:34
Speaker 1: now she's twenty six. Guys, if you have information, I'm
26:38
Speaker 1: going to give you the l A p D tip
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Speaker 1: line and just a moment, call us at crime online
26:43
Speaker 1: dot com. Now, Allen, I've gone over and over with
26:47
Speaker 1: you not to just say crime and expect people as
26:51
Speaker 1: they're driving along to spell it on their cell phone.
26:55
Speaker 1: What's the tip line? Nine oh nine four nine crime
26:59
Speaker 1: that nine oh nine four nine two seven four six three.
27:06
Speaker 1: I want to break it down even more easily. Okay,
27:10
Speaker 1: what's the area code nine oh nine? What are the
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Speaker 1: first three digits four nine two four nine two seven
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Speaker 1: four six three four nine to seven four six three
27:27
Speaker 1: nine oh nine four nine two seven four six three.
27:34
Speaker 1: We need to make that into a jingle. I kind
27:36
Speaker 1: of have one, but I've I've been and now I've
27:39
Speaker 1: been criticized over my as I call it, my singing voice.
27:43
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna go with repeating it over and over.
27:46
Speaker 1: You know I'm getting I'm just I didn't ask you
27:49
Speaker 1: this when I wanted to hear it when you were speaking.
27:52
Speaker 1: I mean, you went with a whole family, went with Garrido,
27:55
Speaker 1: You went with the sister what is their demeanor? How
27:59
Speaker 1: are taking this? When we stopped at the Catholic church
28:03
Speaker 1: and they lit candles inside, it was during the confessional
28:06
Speaker 1: period last night. They were very sad and they stopped
28:10
Speaker 1: for ten minutes and just prayed. They are praying the father.
28:14
Speaker 1: I will tell you, while you heard Sarah talk a lot,
28:19
Speaker 1: the father is not talking a lot. He doesn't want
28:21
Speaker 1: to roll up the l a p D. But you
28:23
Speaker 1: can't stop Sarah from saying what's on her mind. The
28:26
Speaker 1: father is much more reserved about this. But they are
28:29
Speaker 1: spending all of their time and resources on this investigation
28:34
Speaker 1: that they're doing themselves. So they are absorbed in this
28:38
Speaker 1: sad and they're perplexed, and they're getting desperate. And that's
28:42
Speaker 1: why they really need help. They need people to help
28:47
Speaker 1: them solve this. Fine. Maricella Garcia, I'm just taking in
28:52
Speaker 1: everything you're saying. Everyone. If you have information about Marasilla Garcia,
28:57
Speaker 1: she's five five, she weighs around any, brown hair, brown eyes,
29:02
Speaker 1: absolutely gorgeous. Dial l a p D at two one
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Speaker 1: three nine eight hundred between a choker ripped off her neck,
29:13
Speaker 1: a smashed cell phone, her phone being dead, smashed, turned off,
29:21
Speaker 1: or lost her purse, her car left behind. I just
29:25
Speaker 1: don't see how this can be voluntary. I'm I'm with
29:28
Speaker 1: you Allan. I'm just hoping the l a p D
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Speaker 1: Knows something they're not telling us. Nancy Grace Crime Stories,
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Speaker 1: signing off goodbye friend,