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Son tells Mom he's headed home, never seen again. Where is 22-year-old William Brian McKenzie, Jr.? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. I know a lot of
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Speaker 1: you listening right now have children, have grandchildren, maybe nieces
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Speaker 1: or nephews. Can you imagine pouring all your love, all
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Speaker 1: your time, all your energy, your thoughts into your child,
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Speaker 1: and then suddenly your child goes missing. You have hopes
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Speaker 1: for them. I have hopes for John, David and Lucy
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Speaker 1: that I can get them through high school and get
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Speaker 1: them into a good college so their life will be
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Speaker 1: easier than mine and my parents' life. I just devote
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Speaker 1: all that love and time and energy into them, and
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Speaker 1: then suddenly they don't come home. Ever, I have no
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Speaker 1: idea what happened to them. Right now, I am focusing
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Speaker 1: on a young Tennessee man just scrubbed in sunshine. Brian McKenzie.
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. I'm Nancy Grace. This is
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here on
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Speaker 1: Fox Nation and Sirius XM one eleven. Let's kick it
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Speaker 1: off with sound from our friends at w nb J,
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Speaker 1: NBC thirty nine. This is reporter Camilla Ruda. My son
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Speaker 1: is out there somewhere. My son is and it's already
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Speaker 1: been this many days, six days now, twenty one year
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Speaker 1: old William Brian Mackenzie was last on Friday, September twenty seventh.
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Speaker 1: He left work, stopped by a friend's house and called
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Speaker 1: his mom to tell her he was on his way home.
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Speaker 1: He was like, yes, Mom, Yes, I'm going to be home.
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Speaker 1: I'm on my way home. But Mackenzie never got home
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Speaker 1: that night. His mom says, his bed hasn't been slept,
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Speaker 1: in his charger, his clothes and everything looks exactly the
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Speaker 1: same as the last time she saw him, and that's
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Speaker 1: how she knows he hasn't been home yet. His mom,
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Speaker 1: Francis Gaines, says, even though he did not make it
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Speaker 1: home that night, she still expected to see him at
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Speaker 1: work at the Denny's on sand Pebble Drive the next day.
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Speaker 1: That just breaks my heart. That his room, his charger,
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Speaker 1: his everything is still sitting there exactly the way it
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Speaker 1: was when he was expected home that night. And how
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Speaker 1: many times it's typically My son John David called said mom, Mom,
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Speaker 1: give me ten more minutes, Give me ten more minutes.
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Speaker 1: That's what this sounds like. With me, an all start
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Speaker 1: panel to figure out as best as we can what happened.
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Speaker 1: Nicole Parton with me Crime online dot Com investigative reporter,
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Speaker 1: renowned New York psychologists joining us out of Manhattan. Karen
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Speaker 1: start at Karenstark dot com. Former FBI special agent, Jeff Cortes,
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Speaker 1: Ashe Wilcott judge, trial lawyer, anchor at Court TV at
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Speaker 1: Ashe Wilcott dot com. Ricky d Alexander from Tennessee, missing
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Speaker 1: and unsolved and joining me right now is a very
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Speaker 1: special guest, Francis Gaines. This is Brian McKenzie's mom, Miss Gaines.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us. You're welcome. Thank you
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Speaker 1: for having me, Miss Gaines. I want to start with
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Speaker 1: the day before Brian William Brian McKenzie goes missing. That
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Speaker 1: day that morning, was it like every other day or morning? Well,
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Speaker 1: he worked and I didn't go to work because I
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Speaker 1: was going through an emotional stage because I was losing
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Speaker 1: someone very close to my heart. She was in California
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Speaker 1: and she was on her deathbed. They were going to
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Speaker 1: be pulling the plug, but they weren't sure when, so
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Speaker 1: I was pretty devastated about that. It was his godmother.
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Speaker 1: She had heard Patricia, she's a godmother of my first
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Speaker 1: three children, and I just I couldn't focus at work,
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Speaker 1: and they didn't know what was going on there. Let
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Speaker 1: me let me understand, Francis you stayed home. Where did
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Speaker 1: you work at the time? At the time when we worked,
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Speaker 1: I was recruited to start at Danny's. Okay, So you
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Speaker 1: were both at Danny's. Yes, And he also worked at Danny's. Yes.
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Speaker 1: I recruited him from from IHAB Okay, so you guys
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Speaker 1: both are working at Danny's. He goes in that day, correct, Yes,
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Speaker 1: and you're at home? Is that correct? Yes? As far
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Speaker 1: as it relates to your son, Brian, was anything out
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Speaker 1: of the ordinary that day? Was he upset? Was he
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Speaker 1: getting odd phone calls or text Was anything wrong before
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Speaker 1: he went to work? No, everything seemed to be fine,
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Speaker 1: even on the day before. He was with that same
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Speaker 1: boy that he was on his porch with because they
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Speaker 1: had text me and let me know. So was that
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Speaker 1: his regular routine, Miss Gains, that he would text you
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Speaker 1: if he was going to be late or he was
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Speaker 1: going somewhere. Okay? Did he live with you? Yes? Okay?
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Speaker 1: Who else lived in the home? All his siblings, my
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Speaker 1: husband and I. So that would be how many people,
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Speaker 1: loving people altogether? Okay, that's a lot of people in
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Speaker 1: one home. Yea. So let me understand something. You stay home,
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Speaker 1: he goes to work. What time did he go to
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Speaker 1: work at Denny's that day? Okay, he always goes in
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Speaker 1: at eight o'clock in the morning, that's the schedule time.
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Speaker 1: He clocked in at eight o two. I watched him
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Speaker 1: as I viewed the cameras because I had access to
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Speaker 1: do all of that. That was just determined to find
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Speaker 1: out where my son was. So UM, I viewed the
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Speaker 1: cameras of him clocking in at eight o two. Okad
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Speaker 1: of hold on, wait a minute, wait a minute, who
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Speaker 1: wa white? White? White? He goes in that morning? Had
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Speaker 1: he been home the night before? Yes, he was. He
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Speaker 1: was there the night before. He goes into work as
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Speaker 1: normal eight o two. When did you next hear from? Um?
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Speaker 1: The last I heard from him was that day on
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Speaker 1: the twenty six, saying that he was going to be home.
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Speaker 1: It was snapshot his phone record, UM five thirty five.
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Speaker 1: So around five thirty in the afternoon when he gets
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Speaker 1: off of Danny's. Is that correct? He got off of
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Speaker 1: work at Danny's at three three thirty ish or so,
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Speaker 1: and he headed over to his friend's house. According to
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Speaker 1: what the detectives say, that he pumped gas. We're affiliated
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Speaker 1: with Pilot gas stations, so he pumped gas with them
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Speaker 1: in the parking lot. And he drove across from our
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Speaker 1: parking lot to Speedway parking lot. And he said, they
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Speaker 1: said they don't see that he got out of his car,
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Speaker 1: but that he stopped for a minute and then he
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Speaker 1: drove back out the way that he drove in the
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Speaker 1: parking lot. Let me go to Jeff Cortez, a former
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Speaker 1: FBI special agent. I know that these details may not
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Speaker 1: matter to a lot of people, but when you have
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Speaker 1: a missing person, every detail matters. Why is that, Jeff, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: every detail absolutely matters. What it does is it's going
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Speaker 1: to give us an idea of particularly the missing person's situation.
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Speaker 1: It could be last direction of travel. It could provide
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Speaker 1: us with opportunities for identifying video surveillance equipment, identifying potential witnesses.
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Speaker 1: Is it could do us a sense of the state
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Speaker 1: of mind of the person prior to disappearing. It is,
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Speaker 1: you know, we're going to start at the last known location,
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Speaker 1: so we want to get as far down that path
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Speaker 1: as we possibly can. Right So, right now I've got
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Speaker 1: him getting off or work around three. He kind of
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Speaker 1: skirted across the gap the parking lot, got gas and
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Speaker 1: then we can tell which direction he headed from the
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Speaker 1: gas station. Then he either texts that are called his mother.
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Speaker 1: Francis gains with us right now around five thirty in
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Speaker 1: the afternoon. And what did he say? What was the
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Speaker 1: gist of it, Francis, He said he was going to
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Speaker 1: be home. The conversation that he had his last known
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Speaker 1: place per se it was at the Dollar three. I'm
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Speaker 1: assuming because they have him on foot walking into the store.
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, we are talking about
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Speaker 1: a missing twenty one year old young man, the apple
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Speaker 1: of his mother's eye. This young guy, scrubbed in Sunshine,
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Speaker 1: had left his job that afternoon as scheduled when he
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Speaker 1: got off of work around three. He contacted his mother
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Speaker 1: around five thirty that afternoon. Take a listen to our
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Speaker 1: friends at w NBJ NBC thirty nine. This is reporter
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Speaker 1: Camill at Ruda. The next morning, Mackenzie was supposed to
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Speaker 1: be working the same shift as his mom, and when
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Speaker 1: he didn't show up to work that morning, that's when
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Speaker 1: she says she really knew something was wrong. The Jackson
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Speaker 1: Police Department confirms that McKenzie has disappeared under suspicious circumstances,
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Speaker 1: and his cell phone appears to be inactive. Would the
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Speaker 1: last call be to his mom? Gaines has spent all
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Speaker 1: these days searching throughout Jackson. Now she is asking for
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Speaker 1: the community to help her find her son and keep
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Speaker 1: a lookout for him. In the car he was last driving.
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Speaker 1: It's a two thousand and six Jeep, black Jeep Liberty
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Speaker 1: and it has Star Wars stickers in the back. You
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Speaker 1: know that detail is so important, the fact that there
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Speaker 1: were Star Wars stickers on the back. I'm gonna go
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Speaker 1: to Ricky d Alexander Special Guests joining us from Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: Missing and unsolved. So often, Ricky, I have investigated, prosecuted
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Speaker 1: and covered cases where a bumper sticker or a scratch
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Speaker 1: along the side of the car. We just saw that
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Speaker 1: emerge in the case of Molly Tibbitts. As you recall,
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Speaker 1: the young woman who was out jogging and disappeared off
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Speaker 1: the face of the earth. Well. Police were looking at
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Speaker 1: home surveillance video and noticed one car going back and
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Speaker 1: forth along the area where she would have jogged, and
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Speaker 1: they noticed unusual scrapings or markings along the side of
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Speaker 1: the car. That's how they found the car. So the
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Speaker 1: fact that there are Star Wars stickers on the back
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Speaker 1: of his vehicle, that's important because that sets that vehicle
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Speaker 1: apart from all other jeeps same same model. Ricky agree
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Speaker 1: or disagree, absolutely agree. The small details are incredibly key
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Speaker 1: to any case like this, and people in this lead
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Speaker 1: they think it's nothing, but it's still small, minute details
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Speaker 1: that can make or break an entire case. I remember
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Speaker 1: another case where a young lady goes missing. Her car
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Speaker 1: is found abandoned in a nearby apartment complex, and the
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Speaker 1: thing that made people notice it it had had an
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Speaker 1: advertisement for I think a salon or tanning on the
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Speaker 1: side of it, and that's where she had worked, and
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Speaker 1: that was significant. Later it was determined that it had
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Speaker 1: been removed from the car, which shows her kidnapper planned
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Speaker 1: for her car not to be spotted. So these are
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Speaker 1: very critical pizzas of information. I want you to listen
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Speaker 1: now to WBBJ seven Allie Mason from the twenty seven
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Speaker 1: to today. It's twelve whole days, almost two weeks and
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Speaker 1: my Sun's disappeared. No one has heard from William Bryan
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Speaker 1: McKenzie since September twenty seventh. McKenzie's mother, Francis Gaines, says
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Speaker 1: she gets more concerned as the days pass, and I
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Speaker 1: just want to find new I don't want to know
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Speaker 1: worries at Jackson Police say that McKenzie went to a
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Speaker 1: friend's house in Madison County after getting off work at
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Speaker 1: Denny's on sand Pebble Drive that day he went to work.
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Speaker 1: I taught to him and he say he was on
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Speaker 1: his way home the next day. I didn't see the
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Speaker 1: jeep in through the driveway, so I knew something's wrong. Stop.
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Speaker 1: Like Bryan. He would tell me, Mom, I'm gonna stay somewhere.
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Speaker 1: Don't worry, because he knows I always worry. You are
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Speaker 1: hearing the voice of Brian mom Francis Gaines, who is
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Speaker 1: with us along with Ricky Alexander, Ashley Willcott, Jeff Cortesi,
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Speaker 1: Karen Stark and Nicole Parton. Back to Miss Gaines. Miss Gaines,
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Speaker 1: you said he called you at five thirty five and
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Speaker 1: in a nutshell. Sorry, what did he tell you? Sorry?
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Speaker 1: This is hardy. I'm trying to stay as strong as
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Speaker 1: I can on this conversation. It's just like it happened yesterday.
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Speaker 1: So I'm so sorry. Hearing his voice. I could, I
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Speaker 1: could just hear his voice right now, just telling me
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Speaker 1: that it's gonna be okay and he's gonna be home
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Speaker 1: and don't worry, and it just bothers music. What Why
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Speaker 1: was he saying don't worry, don't no? I just know
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Speaker 1: that he didn't shill back up home. Miss Gains. I
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Speaker 1: am so sorry. I'm so sorry what you're going through.
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Speaker 1: I just want to help you so much. When he
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Speaker 1: called you at around five thirty that day after he
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Speaker 1: got off of Danny's, where did he say he was going?
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Speaker 1: He didn't tell me where he was going. He just
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Speaker 1: told me where he was coming. You know, he was
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Speaker 1: going to come home. And I mean, I guess I
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Speaker 1: was just so rubbled in my own depression that I
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Speaker 1: didn't say where exactly are you right now? Brian? You know,
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Speaker 1: I just I was just I wanted him to come home,
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Speaker 1: because it's like we're just inseparable. My son is my
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Speaker 1: best friend, he's my rock. He always encouraged me, you know,
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Speaker 1: when I'd be at work and it was so frustrating
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Speaker 1: and stressful, stressful environment. Mom, You got this, you know,
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Speaker 1: don't worry about it, have you? He's just really a
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Speaker 1: good boy. He's good and I know people saying, oh,
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Speaker 1: he's twenty two years old, what's she talking about. He's
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Speaker 1: just he's a man. My children, no matter how old
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Speaker 1: they are, they're always my babies. And there's something special
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Speaker 1: about Brian, and I do believe that he was. His
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Speaker 1: main focus was to get home. I don't know what happened.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what went from there. Let me try
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Speaker 1: to figure out at that point he called to you.
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Speaker 1: Let's try to get a description, Jackie. Let's hear w
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Speaker 1: BBJ seven News again, this is Ali Mason. Listen from
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Speaker 1: the twenty seven to today. It's twelve whole days, almost
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Speaker 1: two weeks, and my son's disappeared. No One. McKenzie was
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Speaker 1: last seen wearing his black Denny's uniform. He's six one
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Speaker 1: and weighs around one hundred and eighty pounds. Police say
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Speaker 1: his cell phone has been turned off. I wish these
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Speaker 1: people would just understand if something happened, if something was wrong,
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Speaker 1: you know, they should just have came forth to begin with.
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Speaker 1: McKenzie was last known to be driving a black Jeep
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Speaker 1: Liberty with Star Wars stickers on the back windshield. The
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Speaker 1: license plate number is three L six sixty seven and
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Speaker 1: the back bumper is also denned on the left side.
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Speaker 1: Ganes says she just wants her son home so much.
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Speaker 1: I just want him to come home. We are also
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Speaker 1: learning that after he left work, he apparently stopped by
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Speaker 1: a friend's home. To Nicole parton Crime online dot Com
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Speaker 1: investigative reporter Nicole, what do we know about him stopping
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Speaker 1: at a friend's home? We know that after he pumped gas,
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Speaker 1: he went to his friend's house. This again not a
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Speaker 1: very uncommon thing. He had been known to frequent his
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Speaker 1: friend's house. How do we know that? How do we
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Speaker 1: know he stopped there? He apparently witnesses saw him there.
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Speaker 1: There were text messages exchanged, and he was at that location.
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Speaker 1: And the witnesses and the friends say he was there.
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Speaker 1: They were out on the porch, they were talking. They
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Speaker 1: were visiting something that he did quite often, go over
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Speaker 1: to this particular friend's house and visit with the guys there.
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Speaker 1: Let me ask Ricky d Alexander from Tennessee, Missigan, and
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Speaker 1: solved how far away was the friend's home from his
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Speaker 1: mom's home, from Francis's house to the friend's house. It's
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Speaker 1: probably give or take about three three and a half
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Speaker 1: miles from Denny's, not far from Denny's where Brian left from.
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Speaker 1: It's maybe maybe a mile at the most north from
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Speaker 1: his life location. Wow to Jeff Cortesi, former FBI special agent.
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Speaker 1: So all of this happens and about a five mile
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Speaker 1: radius or less. Denny's is three miles away. Ish, it's
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Speaker 1: like a triangle Denny's, the friend's home, the mom's home
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Speaker 1: where Brian lives, and we can't find him. I find
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Speaker 1: that really hard to take in. Yeah, that's a remarkably
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Speaker 1: small area that we're working working with. You know, Unfortunately
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Speaker 1: a lot goes into you know, the search first particular
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Speaker 1: individuals when they go missing and the time that lapses
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Speaker 1: between the time that they were last identified and the
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Speaker 1: appointment which you are able to start looking for them.
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Speaker 1: A lot can happen in that time frame, a lot
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Speaker 1: of travel can be done in that time frame, and
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Speaker 1: so that that's one of the issues in when somebody
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Speaker 1: is missing, reporting as quickly as possible. Salon Porce, get
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Speaker 1: on it as quickly as possible, right right, guys, I
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Speaker 1: want you to take a listen to our friends. W
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Speaker 1: B Jay This is cut five. Jackie this is Stephanie Fernandez.
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Speaker 1: The Jackson Police Department says William Brian McKenzie went to
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Speaker 1: a friend's house in Madison County after getting off at
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Speaker 1: work at Denny's, and since that day, no one has
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Speaker 1: heard or seen McKenzie. Since September twenty seventh, a mother
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Speaker 1: is desperately trying to find her twenty one year old son,
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Speaker 1: who who has been missing since September. William Brian McKenzie's mother,
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Speaker 1: Francis Gaines, says she is desperate and will not stop
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Speaker 1: until she gets answers on her son's disappearance. We're searching
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Speaker 1: endlessly for my son, and it's coming overwhelming to just
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Speaker 1: search once or twice a week. I wish you I
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Speaker 1: could search every single day. One of the volunteers, Thomas Curry,
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Speaker 1: who is assisting in the search for McKenzie, says he
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Speaker 1: can relate to gains after his son, Thomas Curry Junior,
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Speaker 1: was shot and killed on October fourth, twenty nineteen. I'm
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Speaker 1: here to Branson, closer to Francis gain and I have
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Speaker 1: my closure. I buried my child. I think about my
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Speaker 1: son every day, every day, every day joining me is
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Speaker 1: Brian's mom. Francis. Francis, what can you tell me about
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Speaker 1: the friend? Where he stopped and they were sitting on
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Speaker 1: the porch with other friends talking. Who is the friend?
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Speaker 1: What do we know about the friend? Well? I can
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Speaker 1: say that I employed him at IHAP. He was a
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Speaker 1: third shift server there at IHAPS and he asked for
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Speaker 1: a job and I he wasn't there at Denny's too
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Speaker 1: long before he met my son and they became friends.
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Speaker 1: So he and my son were very new there at UM.
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Speaker 1: At Denny's, Brian was just expected to get his first
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Speaker 1: check from there, so they weren't like long time friends.
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Speaker 1: Even when they were at IHAWP, they never really met
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Speaker 1: because he was a third shift server, but Sean spent
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Speaker 1: more time at Denny's when I was shortt server, So
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Speaker 1: they I guess, ended up meeting and becoming friends. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so they met at Denny's. Yes, they had not been
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Speaker 1: friends for long. No, did he often stop at the
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Speaker 1: friend's house on the way home? Was that normal? From
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Speaker 1: from what I know, I don't know what his relationship
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Speaker 1: was with Sean. I just know that they had became friends.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever stopped there before after work? I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be able to tell you everywhere he went after work.
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Speaker 1: I just know usually I would come, he would come home. Okay,
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Speaker 1: got it. I'm just trying to figure out if the
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Speaker 1: visit to the friends home was out of the ordinary too,
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Speaker 1: Ricky d Alexander Tennessee, missing and unsolved. Do we have
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Speaker 1: any information about when or if he left the friends home?
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Speaker 1: From what we have gathered, it wasn't a very very
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Speaker 1: long visit. You know that it was anas hot day,
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Speaker 1: Brin stopped after work. No, they just visited, talked, and
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Speaker 1: I mean it really wasn't anything out of the ordinary.
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Speaker 1: Broun is a very trusting guy. Okay, That's what I'm
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Speaker 1: trying to get at. So that was normal for him
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Speaker 1: to stop off and talk. Do we have information, Ricky,
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Speaker 1: that he left the friends home? We do? We do?
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Speaker 1: All right, That's all I needed to hear. He we
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Speaker 1: We've got him from there, So now we should be
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Speaker 1: around Francis. When he called you, had he left at
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Speaker 1: home or not? I believe so I'm I'm home. I'm
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Speaker 1: thinking that he did. I just know that he we spoke.
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Speaker 1: It was a call to me and we lasted forty
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Speaker 1: one second. Okay, Ricky, Alexander, do we know where he
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Speaker 1: went next. We know at some point after he left
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Speaker 1: Shaun's house, he stopped at the Dollar Tree, which is
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Speaker 1: close to Denny's, and that's where um. They suspect that
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Speaker 1: the phone call to Francis was made around that. Did
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Speaker 1: he buy anything at the Dollar Tree? Ricky, No, he
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Speaker 1: just withdrew twenty dollars from his debit corps. We got
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Speaker 1: cash back, so we know that he was there. We
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Speaker 1: have a receipt for that. What time was that, Ricky?
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Speaker 1: Do you know I wouldn't become fable saying I know
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Speaker 1: it was rot around. We know the phone call was
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Speaker 1: around five thirty, so that places him at Dollar Tree
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Speaker 1: around five thirty. Nicole Pardon, Crime online dot Com investigative reporter.
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Speaker 1: Do we know his movement after that? We don't. That
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Speaker 1: phone call to mom around five thirty was the very
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Speaker 1: last of anything that we know. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys,
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Speaker 1: we were talking about a missing young man just twenty
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Speaker 1: one years old. If you have information, dial seven three
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Speaker 1: one four two five eighty four hundred. His mother is
23:49
Speaker 1: desperate for help. If you want to see his photo,
23:52
Speaker 1: go to crime online dot Com read his movements, see
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Speaker 1: his photo. We need help finding this young man. We
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Speaker 1: know he was there at the dollar Tree getting twenty bucks.
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Speaker 1: How many of us have done that after that? We
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Speaker 1: don't know. Question how difficult would it be or do
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Speaker 1: you know, Ashley will cut Let me ask you. It's
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Speaker 1: not terribly difficult if your phone is on and we
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Speaker 1: know his phone was on to trace the movements, is it, Ashley? No,
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Speaker 1: it's not. And that's one of the things I was
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Speaker 1: gonna say, is the phone to me is key in
24:29
Speaker 1: this and law enforcement math to subpoena records. But that phone,
24:35
Speaker 1: even not physically having the phone, can tell people's law
24:39
Speaker 1: enforcement specifically so much about his actions, where he is right,
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Speaker 1: who he's calling, who he's texting to Karen start North
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Speaker 1: psychologists joining us. Part of the conundrum is that he
24:51
Speaker 1: seemed perfectly normal when he was speaking to his mom
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Speaker 1: at five thirty when he made that ATM withdrawal, nothing
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Speaker 1: seemed to be wrong. He said, I'll be home in
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Speaker 1: a little while, tells me nanties that whatever happened, it
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Speaker 1: seems that it must have happened after he made that
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Speaker 1: phone call. And yeah, unless what I'm saying, there was
25:10
Speaker 1: no threat or no problem at five thirty two, Francis.
25:15
Speaker 1: What time does he normally get home at night? He's
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Speaker 1: here usually in the afternoon. He sits here and he
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Speaker 1: plays his video game like cook him make dinner, serve
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Speaker 1: on this plate. It's the normal routine. He comes straight
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Speaker 1: home from work or so. That night he calls you
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Speaker 1: at five thirties getting twenty bucks. You never hear from
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Speaker 1: him again? When did you start trying to call him
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Speaker 1: right after that? My calls were continuous. I just I
25:39
Speaker 1: needed to hear his voice. I needed to know, you know,
25:43
Speaker 1: where he was at. And it looks pretty weird when
25:46
Speaker 1: you look at his call out because I just felt,
25:49
Speaker 1: you know, something's wrong. I had texted him actually that
25:53
Speaker 1: day and said, if you're out and about, can you
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Speaker 1: stop at cook out and get me an a one
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Speaker 1: burger or chili fives or something. And I noticed that
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Speaker 1: when I woke up there was no response to that.
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Speaker 1: And what time was that? It was the evening. And
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Speaker 1: I can tell you I'm looking at his phone log
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Speaker 1: right now, the twenty seventh, at eight o eight pm,
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Speaker 1: buying Canny, get me food. I'm hungry, you know, I
26:17
Speaker 1: just did you say eight pm? Eight o eight pm? Okay?
26:21
Speaker 1: Stop there it is there. It is right there. That's
26:24
Speaker 1: the timeline. By eight pm, something had already happened. He
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Speaker 1: is alive and well at five thirty an atm at
26:35
Speaker 1: eight pm, two and a half hours later, he's no
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Speaker 1: longer responding to text now right. Some people don't respond
26:43
Speaker 1: to text till a day later. But this young man
26:47
Speaker 1: always responded directly to his mother always. So I now
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Speaker 1: have a timeline time stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, we
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Speaker 1: were talking about the disappearance of William Brian mackenzie. Okay,
27:16
Speaker 1: I've got a timeline. Let's talk about that to Ricky Alexander.
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Speaker 1: Do you know something I don't know? Or can you
27:25
Speaker 1: place that as the time he goes missing, something goes
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Speaker 1: wrong between five thirty and eight Nancy, we know. Um,
27:34
Speaker 1: while he was at his friend's house, another a friend
27:39
Speaker 1: of his friends showed up. Bron had no idea who
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Speaker 1: this guy was, UM, and he asked Brian for a
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Speaker 1: rod and UM, you know, Bron, Bron's a very trusting guy.
27:52
Speaker 1: He's a he's a very good guy. And he agreed,
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Speaker 1: even though he didn't know the guy, to give him
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Speaker 1: a rod. Home. Um, after five thirty two, there's there's
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Speaker 1: no activity um, we don't know anything past five thirty two.
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Speaker 1: I believe whatever happened to Brian occurred between five thirty
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Speaker 1: and eight o eight p. And let's talk about the
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Speaker 1: man he gave to whom he gave a ride. Take
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Speaker 1: a listen to clant Island w BBJ seven. During the hearing,
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Speaker 1: Jackson Police Department investigator Joseph Williams read Murphy's statement about
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Speaker 1: the September twenty fifth shooting that killed Julio Almirez and
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Speaker 1: injured Joe Ramirez. Investigators say Murphy bought a gun from
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Speaker 1: Almirez before the shooting, but investigators say after Almeres refused
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Speaker 1: to drive into Academy Sports to buy more bullets, Murphy
28:42
Speaker 1: decided to shoot him. Almirez died three weeks later from
28:54
Speaker 1: his injuries. The second shooting was October fourth, where Murphy
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Speaker 1: is accused of shooting Thomas Curry and Vincent Regi Jr.
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Speaker 1: He came with. Investigators say Murphy told Curry he needed
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Speaker 1: a ride to his girlfriend's house. Please say during that drive,
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Speaker 1: Murphy shot Curry. I decided Tom I shot him. I
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Speaker 1: shot him once. Currey died at the scene. Okay, why
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Speaker 1: do we care about a seemingly unrelated shooting. That was
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Speaker 1: Jackson Police investigator Joseph William reading statements from a guy
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Speaker 1: named Keenan Murphy in court detailing the shooting of two
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Speaker 1: guys two days before Brian goes missing September twenty five,
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Speaker 1: and a shooting on ten four, and both cases Keenan
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Speaker 1: Murphy was getting a ride from the victims. I want
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Speaker 1: you to now take a listen to Miss sing An
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Speaker 1: America host Jerry Dean. Listen at about five thirty two,
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Speaker 1: Brian and his mom talking on the phone. He let
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Speaker 1: Francis know that he was on his way home, he
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Speaker 1: would be home in the next little bit. And initially,
30:17
Speaker 1: you know, Francis believed Brian was being that reassurance because
30:22
Speaker 1: of the situation that was going on. The phone call
30:26
Speaker 1: is a very very important piece of the puzzle because
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Speaker 1: the suspect who Brian gave a ride to, and I'm
30:35
Speaker 1: not going to name any names. The names are out
30:37
Speaker 1: in the media, but I personally don't want to give
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Speaker 1: this monster any more credit than what he already has.
30:47
Speaker 1: This man was able to repeat word for word Brian's
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Speaker 1: phone call with his mom. What it's so significant. That
30:53
Speaker 1: means that whoever he gave a ride to is still
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Speaker 1: with him when he calls his mom Francis at five
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Speaker 1: thirty two, because he could recount that conversation word for word.
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Speaker 1: And to Nicole Parton, who did he give the ride? Two?
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Speaker 1: He gave the ride to a gentleman, twenty one year
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Speaker 1: old Keenan Murphy. This is the same guy that's the
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Speaker 1: alleged shooter in the other cases. That's correct. He is
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Speaker 1: accused of shooting four other men in very similar circumstances
31:25
Speaker 1: where he had asked them for To Ricky Alexander, what
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Speaker 1: do you make of it, I think it's very I
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Speaker 1: think the answers to this entire saga law with Keenan Murphy.
31:38
Speaker 1: I think Kena knows exactly what happened with Braun. I
31:42
Speaker 1: think Keena knows where Braun is and you know he
31:47
Speaker 1: he will no longer cooperate with investigators. And we, I mean,
31:52
Speaker 1: we are absolutely desperate to know what happened and why.
31:57
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, Keenan's crimes occurred within a ten
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Speaker 1: day span. We know spree um. We know Keenan was spiraling.
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Speaker 1: This This was not I mean, this was completely out
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Speaker 1: of the normal for Keenan. We know We know something
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Speaker 1: had to occur in Keenan's loft for him to go
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Speaker 1: on foot a spiral because from all we know Keenan.
32:25
Speaker 1: You know, Keenan was a broad kid, and um we
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Speaker 1: know that Braun absolutely did not know Keenan beforehand, and
32:34
Speaker 1: umwe just gave him a ride and now he's never
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Speaker 1: seen again. Absolutely, I want you to take a listen
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Speaker 1: to our friends at w B B J seven, Clint Island.
32:45
Speaker 1: I don't want to give up until I find him,
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Speaker 1: because I know that he would not give up on me.
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Speaker 1: Francis Gaines is the mother of William Bryan Mackenzie, at
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Speaker 1: Jackson area man who went missing on September twenty seven,
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Speaker 1: shortly after leaving work around five thirty at night. On
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Speaker 1: Sunday morning, a group of nearly thirty people came together
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Speaker 1: a Northeast middle school to continue the search. He was
33:04
Speaker 1: last seen in the area of Bermuda Drive and Greenview
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Speaker 1: off of Christmasfield Road, near the oape Field community in
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Speaker 1: northeast Masson County. And we know from this area he
33:14
Speaker 1: would have went to the southwest somehow, or at least
33:16
Speaker 1: been traveling west to go back on North Island South
33:19
Speaker 1: so that's kind of the area. That's what brings us
33:22
Speaker 1: back to this general area. Sergeant Stanfield says they're still
33:25
Speaker 1: looking for any clues that could help in the investigation.
33:28
Speaker 1: We have not received any tips since this disappearance in
33:31
Speaker 1: the initial publication, which is very unusual in a case
33:34
Speaker 1: like this, so any hell would be greatly appreciated. They
33:37
Speaker 1: divided into two groups and searched the nearby area, some
33:40
Speaker 1: on foot, others and cars for his mother to support.
33:43
Speaker 1: Means the world where's can describe it. There is a
33:49
Speaker 1: guid I missed my son. To top it all off, guys,
33:54
Speaker 1: some texts have been being sent to Brian's mom. Transis
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Speaker 1: what can you tell me about these texts? You're talking
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Speaker 1: about the ransom and I'll read him. I feel like
34:10
Speaker 1: I'm just putting you through so much asking these questions.
34:13
Speaker 1: I'll read them. I know where your son is, but
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Speaker 1: I won't tell you by selfish bitch, keep the money
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Speaker 1: for his funeral. I can't read the rest because they're
34:23
Speaker 1: they're so awful about what is being done, what they
34:27
Speaker 1: say is being done to your son, about torture and
34:31
Speaker 1: what they are doing to him. Rickie Alexander, who was
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Speaker 1: sending her these horrible texts. We know that the phone
34:38
Speaker 1: number these texts are coming from is registered to some
34:43
Speaker 1: scam organization in South Africa. We spent a lot of
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Speaker 1: time with the detective. He was able to thoroughly trace it.
34:50
Speaker 1: This is a part of a new it's very sickening, Nancy,
34:54
Speaker 1: but it's part of a new modern age scam where
34:57
Speaker 1: you know they're not calling your typical well social Security recipient.
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Speaker 1: They're scouring the internet for these families who are absolutely desperate,
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Speaker 1: just like Francis, and they are. They're scamming them out
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Speaker 1: of lots of money. They're horrible. Now you can see
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Speaker 1: his neck is getting wide. It's one of the side
35:18
Speaker 1: effects of illicit drugs I injected him in him It
35:23
Speaker 1: chokes a lot and makes air passages difficult. If you
35:28
Speaker 1: want further proof, you get the effing credit cards now
35:31
Speaker 1: and I will drive down again and let him, let
35:34
Speaker 1: you talk to him with my sale number. These are
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Speaker 1: the texts this mom is getting. This is the pain
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Speaker 1: that she is enduring. On top of looking for her
35:44
Speaker 1: missing son. Someone is torturing her with these horrible texts
35:51
Speaker 1: claiming they have him and they are torturing him, and
35:53
Speaker 1: she's got a hand over credit cards to hear him
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Speaker 1: speak to her. It's awful. It's just another scam on
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Speaker 1: an innocent victim. Guys, if you have information on this
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Speaker 1: wonderful boy, please help us, Please help Francis. The tipline
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Speaker 1: is seven three one four two five eight four hundred.
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Speaker 1: Go to crime online dot com read all the details.
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Speaker 1: Please let's give her peace and Francis please know that
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Speaker 1: we are praying. Nancy Grace Crime Story signing off, goodbye friend,