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Cold Case: The strange death of Mindy Lee · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Mindy Lee disappeared the day after Thanksgiving in Woodland Park,
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Speaker 1: and Mindy called me at a quarter to six. She
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Speaker 1: was going. Mindy's friends called saying Mindy ran off without
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Speaker 1: shoes and a jacket. The red flag started coming. This
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Speaker 1: is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Family and friends started searching. Immediately,
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Speaker 1: a police officer found her body here behind Wooden Park
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Speaker 1: High School, five days after Mindy disappeared. It's in the
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Speaker 1: exact same spot where friends and families say they served
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Speaker 1: several times. She was my only child, she was my world.
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Speaker 1: I want as so VICKI turned to a team of
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Speaker 1: private investigators from her homicide detective Bobby Brown, who was
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Speaker 1: not a vrowd in my mind, but there was a
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Speaker 1: serious problems case. What happened to Mindy Lee? How was
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Speaker 1: she killed? It remains a mystery. I Nancy Grace, this
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Speaker 1: is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us, with me.
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Speaker 1: A special guest to tell the story of cold case
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Speaker 1: Mindy Lee's murder in Colorado is our special guest, Bobby Brown.
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Speaker 1: No relation, as I'd like to say farm our homicide investigator,
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Speaker 1: detective and now cracker Jack p I. You may have
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Speaker 1: seen him on Dog the bounty hunter. He still gets
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Speaker 1: stopped on the street all the time for that. But
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Speaker 1: in my mind and from where I'm coming, you're more
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Speaker 1: famous to me for all the homicides you investigated and solved. Bobby,
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Speaker 1: thank you for being with us. Well, thank you for
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Speaker 1: having me. It's a real honor to have you on
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Speaker 1: the MANA Springs mom's body was found, but autopsy couldn't
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Speaker 1: be performed for days because her body was comp lately
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Speaker 1: frozen after exposure to freezing temperatures in snow. She disappeared.
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Speaker 1: It was on a Friday night. She's just thirty three
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Speaker 1: years old. Friends say she was in their pickup and
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Speaker 1: just inexplicably jumped from the pickup near Woodland Park High School.
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Speaker 1: Now she's she less, She's got on a black shirt
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Speaker 1: and red pants. Something's not right. Let's go to Bobby Brown. Bobby,
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Speaker 1: let's start at the beginning. What happened. Well, it was
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Speaker 1: the night before Thanksgiving on November and it was strange
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Speaker 1: because Mendy Lee had made a phone call to her mother.
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Speaker 1: I was about six thirty pm and Mindy had placed
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Speaker 1: a call to her mom and in the phone call,
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Speaker 1: all she could hear Mendy say was mom, mom, mom,
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Speaker 1: like that she was whispering and that she was, you know,
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Speaker 1: actually trying to get help from her mom or she
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Speaker 1: sounded very, very distressed. Unfortunately, that was the last time
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Speaker 1: that her mom, Vicky White, that she hurt from Mindy Lee.
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Speaker 1: And then as it progressed, and I'll just kind of
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Speaker 1: fast forward and you can stop me. I know, Bobby,
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Speaker 1: I don't want you to fast forward because I'm just
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Speaker 1: antacting from a from a mother's point of view, hearing
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Speaker 1: your child on the other end going mom, mom, mom,
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Speaker 1: And for the rest of your life, you wonder what
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Speaker 1: could I have done to help her, to save my
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Speaker 1: child exactly, and that haunts that haunts Vicky to this
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Speaker 1: very very day. They and and let me tell you,
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Speaker 1: Vicky and Mindy Lee were extremely close. She had two
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Speaker 1: children and matter If the oldest Amber she is now
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Speaker 1: one years old, and she is at her sights are
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Speaker 1: to go into the FBI, and that's and so she's
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Speaker 1: doing all of the work because what this case has
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Speaker 1: done to her, and she has worked extremely close over
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Speaker 1: the last six plus years of coming to my office
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Speaker 1: and and literally sitting down trying to you know, she
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Speaker 1: talks to her grandma Vicky all the time and trying
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Speaker 1: to piece together what could have happened. Well that night
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Speaker 1: after after Vicky got the call mom, mom, just a whisper.
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Speaker 1: You know, she knew instantly wrong. That is really getting
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Speaker 1: to me to get that phone call mom mom. And
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Speaker 1: you can tell. I can tell in my children's voice
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Speaker 1: whether they're upset, whether they're her and I can hear
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Speaker 1: him go out in another room, whether it's serious, whether
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Speaker 1: they're about to cry. I mean, you just know, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Okay, go ahead, Bobby. Sorry. Well, it's amazing
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Speaker 1: that you say that, because I had had that conversation
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Speaker 1: with Vicky. I could not count how many times that
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Speaker 1: you know, she knew that it wasn't that she was sick,
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Speaker 1: because then they tried to people that she was in
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Speaker 1: the vehicle with, tried to say that well she had,
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Speaker 1: that she had laryngitis and that they were trying to
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Speaker 1: take her to emergent care to get her a shot.
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Speaker 1: What whoa wow? Whoa whoa what are they and m
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Speaker 1: D a shot of what? What kind of shot? Did
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Speaker 1: these two think they were going to get her in
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Speaker 1: an emergency care for laryngitis? Exactly? And the thing is
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Speaker 1: is that from her mom. Mindy Lee was a cancer survivor,
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Speaker 1: and she was born with medical issues at birth and
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Speaker 1: then and she did she actually survived cancer. But throughout
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Speaker 1: her life she had been stuck by so many needles.
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Speaker 1: She absolutely hated hated the thought of ever getting a shot.
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Speaker 1: And so the theory that they were taking her to
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Speaker 1: to get a shot for her laryngitis was absolutely garbage.
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Speaker 1: I just didn't play and we you know, we have
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Speaker 1: to just keep relying on, you know, mom's instincts, and
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Speaker 1: so she knew that, you know, none of this was right.
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Speaker 1: Well after she didn't hear from Mindy for a few hours,
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Speaker 1: then she did get a phone call from one of
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Speaker 1: the people that was with Mindy and they told her
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Speaker 1: that Mindy, they tried to take her to the emergent care.
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Speaker 1: She ran out, ran out of the emergent Care. Well,
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Speaker 1: my investigation proved that because of the cameras and the
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Speaker 1: people that were at the facility, the medical facility, there
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Speaker 1: was nothing, absolutely nothing that showed that they ever went there.
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Speaker 1: There was nobody that there was no there was absolutely
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Speaker 1: nothing on video and there was no one that could
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Speaker 1: say that they even that anybody came on Thanksgiving eve.
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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, Bobby Brown, it's Thanksgiving. You don't
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Speaker 1: think the people at the emergency care or as you're saying,
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Speaker 1: emergent Care would remember her coming in without any shoes on.
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Speaker 1: I mean, my question would be not whether they're lying,
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Speaker 1: because a there had to be some kind of payment,
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Speaker 1: there had to be some kind of a record, or
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Speaker 1: there had to be some kind of a paper trail
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Speaker 1: that they were there and she was treated, or security
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Speaker 1: cameras or the recollection of a witness, a nurse, a doctor,
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Speaker 1: a secretary, anybody. None of that existed. So the fact
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Speaker 1: that they're lying to me that that's not a question.
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Speaker 1: The question is why why are they lying? So let's
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Speaker 1: take it from there. So they tell you they went
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Speaker 1: to emergent Care, there's no record of that. What else
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Speaker 1: do we know, Bobby? There there's absolutely no record of
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Speaker 1: that whatsoever. And and obviously on Thanksgiving evening, the people
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Speaker 1: that are there, they it's a very it's a rural community. Uh,
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Speaker 1: there's no doubt that that would have been a big
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Speaker 1: deal because supposedly it was like a ruckus that Mandyle
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Speaker 1: ran out of the facility. Uh. You know, if if
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Speaker 1: something like that happened, it would have been captured on video,
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Speaker 1: and it would have been it would have been something
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Speaker 1: that maybe they would have called the police. You know, hey,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what just happened here, but none of
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Speaker 1: that happened. So and that, well, wait a minute, that's
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Speaker 1: a whole. That's a whole another thing, Bobby, Because if
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Speaker 1: you've got a patient it runs out treated or untreated,
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Speaker 1: they probably would have to report it, because that's not
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Speaker 1: you know, like at a hospital they make go out
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Speaker 1: in a wheelchair. They have all this protocol and procedure.
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Speaker 1: She couldn't just run out and them not report it.
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Speaker 1: So I'm about to square one. Why it's not are
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Speaker 1: they lying? It's why are they lying? That's where this
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Speaker 1: whole case goes. Is that Then they call and they
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Speaker 1: tell Vicki her mom that they had went to a
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Speaker 1: house and it was near actually above where the Woodland
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Speaker 1: Park High School is, and that they had gone to
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Speaker 1: this house and that when they pulled in the driveway
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Speaker 1: that Mindy decided to jump out of the vehicle, she
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Speaker 1: took her shoes off, so she has she had no
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Speaker 1: socks on, and she allegedly took her shoes off. But
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Speaker 1: here comes Grandma again Vicky that not only did she
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Speaker 1: leave her shoes allegedly in the car, but she had
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Speaker 1: her four year old daughter, Aspen in the car. There
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Speaker 1: isn't a chance on God's green earth that she would
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Speaker 1: have jumped out of that vehicle and left her daughter
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Speaker 1: in that car with people that supposedly that whatever craziness
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Speaker 1: was going on, There's no way I mean that she
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Speaker 1: would have left her four year old daughter in the car,
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Speaker 1: stripped down in freezing temperature, jump out and supposedly run
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Speaker 1: towards the high school. The husband of the husband and
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Speaker 1: wife that were driving the vehicle said that he jumped
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Speaker 1: out and that he tried to chase or follow Mindy
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Speaker 1: and to get her back in the car, and that
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Speaker 1: he was gone just a few minutes and said that
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Speaker 1: it was dark and that he couldn't find her. Well,
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Speaker 1: let me tell you the terrain where she allegedly got
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Speaker 1: out of the vehicle, the suv. How when she got
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Speaker 1: out of the vehicle and ran towards the high school.
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Speaker 1: I have went up and down that area. We have
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Speaker 1: videotaped that, We've done everything under the sun, and it
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Speaker 1: is it's a very very rough terrain. It has broken glass,
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Speaker 1: it's got broken concrete, all kinds of weeds. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's it's natural terrain. So there's you know, there's valleys,
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Speaker 1: there's gullies, and and she allegedly is running towards the
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Speaker 1: high school with no shoes or socks on. How can
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Speaker 1: this man not catch She was overweight, she has no
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Speaker 1: use her socks on, She's not, you know, ready for
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Speaker 1: the freezing weather. And he can't catch her, but yet
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Speaker 1: he knows which direction she ran. Hold no, Bobby, she
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Speaker 1: doesn't look every white to me in any pictures. She
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Speaker 1: looks normal. Hey, I've got a question for you. So
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Speaker 1: her four year old little girl asked him was in
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Speaker 1: the car with them? What does the four year old
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Speaker 1: say happened? The four year old she has been really
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Speaker 1: guarded over the years. You know, of course she was,
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Speaker 1: she was very young, but she says that. And it's
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Speaker 1: clearly documented that they quote they had mom in the
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Speaker 1: back of the suv. It was a four door suv
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Speaker 1: vehicle and in the cargo part and backed by the
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Speaker 1: tailgate door. They had her in the back and that
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Speaker 1: mom wanted to get out and they wouldn't let her out. That's,
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Speaker 1: you know, really about all that she remembers. They purposely
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Speaker 1: not tried to. You know, they've were they've were had her,
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Speaker 1: you know with different you know, clinical people trying to
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Speaker 1: see if she's holding stuff back in her mind, and
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Speaker 1: you know how it's affecting her and God bless her.
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Speaker 1: You know, now she's ten eleven years old. Now at
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Speaker 1: any event, there's no way that Mindy ran away and
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Speaker 1: that she could not have been caught by this person
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Speaker 1: if it happened the way they said, it's impossible. So
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Speaker 1: I understand Bobby, what you're saying that then four year
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Speaker 1: old during or Amber said not a lot. For all
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Speaker 1: I know, she has suppressed what she knows, or maybe
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Speaker 1: I didn't understand what was really going on. But tell
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Speaker 1: me about the discovery of Mindy Lee's body. Let's figure
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Speaker 1: out what we can discern from that. When we start
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Speaker 1: to talk about what could be a possible motive, it
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Speaker 1: gets really convoluted because of the fact that, in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: the entire the entire investigation was it's just a debacle.
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Speaker 1: It was a very very poor investigation from the minute
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Speaker 1: that the Woodland Park Police Department got involved. Why do
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Speaker 1: you say that? Why because of the fact that number
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Speaker 1: one when the police department met with Vicky White, the mother,
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Speaker 1: for the police to talk to her and explain to
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Speaker 1: her that her daughter was missing, and to go through
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Speaker 1: the fact that she supposedly that they had gone to
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Speaker 1: the medical facility, which they know, we know they didn't,
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Speaker 1: and the police knew that they didn't because they couldn't
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Speaker 1: when they went there. Prior to talking to Vicky, they
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Speaker 1: already knew that that they nobody there could verify that
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Speaker 1: they had in there. So what But instead of saying,
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Speaker 1: and I am a former I was a lieutenant in
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Speaker 1: charge of our homicide bureau at the Sheriff's office, you know,
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Speaker 1: instead of saying, you know, calling her up, sending somebody
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Speaker 1: to her house, they call her on the phone, called
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Speaker 1: Vicky on the phone, and they have her meet the
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Speaker 1: driver and his wife and the and the police department
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Speaker 1: from the Woodland Park Police Department at Loafing Jug in
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Speaker 1: Woodland Park. And it's only a couple of more blocks
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Speaker 1: over to the police department where you could sit down
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Speaker 1: and intelligently discuss it with the mother instead of at
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Speaker 1: a damn convenience store where people are walking in and
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Speaker 1: out and you're trying to tell this lady that her
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Speaker 1: daughter jumped out of a vehicle and freezing weather and
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Speaker 1: she's missing. Well, when they came into when they walked,
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Speaker 1: when she walked into the Loaf and Jug, there's a
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Speaker 1: pair of white canvas tennis shoes on the table in
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Speaker 1: sitting in the loafing jug. The police officer from Woodland
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Speaker 1: Park is the police officer, and the driver's the driver
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Speaker 1: and his wife of the vehicle, and there's a pair
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Speaker 1: of tennis shoes. The minute, that minute Vicky looks at
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Speaker 1: these tennis shoes, she immediately tells the cop and the
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Speaker 1: other two people those are not Mendy's. I know my daughter.
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Speaker 1: My daughter would never wear something like that, and those
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Speaker 1: are absolutely I know what she wears. I see her
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Speaker 1: every day. She does not own a pair of tennis
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Speaker 1: shoes like that. And the worst part is when I
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Speaker 1: say it was just bungled. After they have their meeting
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Speaker 1: at the the Loaf and Jug, they leave the tennis
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Speaker 1: shoes on the table at Loaf and Jug. So I mean,
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Speaker 1: wouldn't they be evidence? Of course they would be evidence.
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Speaker 1: And so all of a sudden that Mindy is there
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Speaker 1: and or I mean Vicky is there, and all she
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Speaker 1: knows is that her daughter is missing. They Park Police
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Speaker 1: Department had during that time, same time three had their
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Speaker 1: Search and Rescues come with a dog to search the
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Speaker 1: area to see if the dog could pick up on
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Speaker 1: a scent. There was a house for St Edge. The
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Speaker 1: police dog went to the door and hit on the door.
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Speaker 1: And this is this is their words, that the dog
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Speaker 1: hit on the door of that address ten separate times.
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Speaker 1: And that's in the police report. That police report that
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Speaker 1: described that was withheld from us coincidentally until just less
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Speaker 1: than a year ago. But nonetheless the dog hit on
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Speaker 1: that Then the dog went through the area described by
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Speaker 1: the driver of the vehicle, the man that was driving
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Speaker 1: where Mindy supposedly ran down the Woodland Park High School
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Speaker 1: football field. The dog went down that direction, didn't go
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Speaker 1: to the field, which was about several hundred yards away,
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Speaker 1: turned around and went back to eleven thirty one Forest
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Speaker 1: Edge and hit on that door. Again. If you go
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Speaker 1: through the pain of having a dog, well, Ben, wouldn't
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Speaker 1: that house that was vacant at that time, wouldn't that
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Speaker 1: have been something that well, hey, this is of interest
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Speaker 1: to us. It is of huge interest because I can
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Speaker 1: tell you this, Bobby, every time I brought a dog
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Speaker 1: on is evidence. The Jerry loved it. They I have
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Speaker 1: said many times, and I said it in open court.
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Speaker 1: The best witness I ever put on the stand was
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Speaker 1: a dog, okay, And I just stunned that this evidence
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Speaker 1: wasn't passed down, passed on. I want to get to
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Speaker 1: the discovery of the body. What can you tell me
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Speaker 1: about that, Bobby. The discovery of Mindy Lee's body one
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Speaker 1: of the first real things that really sent me into
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Speaker 1: the mode that there's a real problem with this. Because
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Speaker 1: her body was discovered on December one, five days after
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Speaker 1: she had been reported missing, and she was found at
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Speaker 1: the football field Woodland Park High School by the Woodland
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Speaker 1: Park Police Department high school resource officer. So they knew
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Speaker 1: from the night that she was reported missing that she
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Speaker 1: ran towards that football field. This guy has a job
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Speaker 1: that he's the high school resource officer. But if there's
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Speaker 1: a missing person that has gone towards your football field,
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Speaker 1: then wouldn't that have been a focus for five days
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Speaker 1: that you know, hey, we have to we we have
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Speaker 1: to calm this. Well. Supposedly they had searched it a
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Speaker 1: number of times and they never found Mindy Lee. On
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Speaker 1: December one. There was a search party that was put together.
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Speaker 1: There was a very organized search that was to begin
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Speaker 1: at eight thirty am on December one. There was over
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Speaker 1: a hundred people that had volunteered and were there for
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Speaker 1: the search at seven fifty a m. December one, these
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Speaker 1: high school school resource officer said that in his report
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Speaker 1: that he went to the high school and that he conducted,
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Speaker 1: in his own words in writing, a grid search of
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Speaker 1: the football field in less than fifteen minutes. He says
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Speaker 1: that he was walking towards a wooden shed, that the
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Speaker 1: gate was open. The football field is as a six
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Speaker 1: ft gate the offense around it. That the gate was open.
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Speaker 1: He walked over by this wooden shed and as he
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Speaker 1: moved several fifty five gallon barrels. He's moving these barrels
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Speaker 1: around and he says he spots a piece of red
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Speaker 1: fabric and as he had snowed that night, and as
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Speaker 1: he was pushing this removing the sweeping the snow off
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Speaker 1: of the red fabric, quote he was able to determine
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Speaker 1: that it was a body. And then he says in
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Speaker 1: his report that there were ten pieces of six foot
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Speaker 1: fence that were stacked up against the fence, so that
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Speaker 1: that was preventing between the barrels and the fence that
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Speaker 1: you it was Mindy was hidden. Okay, let me ask
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Speaker 1: a question to Alan, Alan, are you getting a good
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Speaker 1: picture of where her body was? And I'm still not
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Speaker 1: sure how it was discovered exactly, Alan. It baffles me
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Speaker 1: how her body could have been there covered with snow.
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Speaker 1: How would she possibly have gotten there? Twenty five degree temperature,
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Speaker 1: no shoes, where her bobby, where her feet cut up?
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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't walk in that area without getting
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Speaker 1: sticks sticking in your the soles of your feet. The
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Speaker 1: very first thing that when I got the went to
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Speaker 1: the coroner's office and I requested the crime scene photographs
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Speaker 1: from the crime scene and from the autopsy. The first thing,
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Speaker 1: the very first thing that I wanted to see was
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Speaker 1: the bottoms of both of her feet. I have eight
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Speaker 1: my ten photographs. There is not a cut or a
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Speaker 1: scratch on the bottom of either one of her feet.
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Speaker 1: So I know that the autopsy had to be delayed
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Speaker 1: for several days because she was actually frozen. Okay, And
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Speaker 1: I think the bottoms of her feet speak volumes. Were
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Speaker 1: there any obvious signs of trauma like a gunshot or stabbing,
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Speaker 1: And I'm wondering if there were a an asphyxiation, if
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Speaker 1: that would have been if that evidence would have been
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Speaker 1: destroyed by her being out in the elements for so long.
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Speaker 1: Let me explain to how bizarre their investigations says that
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Speaker 1: Mindy Lee climbed over with Chaine Lee fence with no
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Speaker 1: shoes or socks and freezing weather. According to Woodland Park
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Speaker 1: Police Department, she climbed back over the six foot fence,
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Speaker 1: walked almost a mile in freezing weather, much later at night,
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Speaker 1: and no shoes, no socks. She went to McDonald's in
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Speaker 1: Woodland Park and ordered to cheeseburgers. Again absolutely no video,
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Speaker 1: there's video footage, no Mendelee at McDonald's ordering two cheeseburgers
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Speaker 1: that she then supposedly he walks back, climbs back over
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Speaker 1: the fence, puts these barrels round, he eats too cheeseburgers
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Speaker 1: and sits there and freezes to death and the cause
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Speaker 1: of death is hypothermia. Where do we stand now? What
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Speaker 1: has become of the two people that were in the
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Speaker 1: car with her when she allegedly jumped out without shoes
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Speaker 1: on ran across a snowy terrain and died without a
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Speaker 1: single mark on her feet. Where are these two people?
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Speaker 1: They were allowed to leave, They were allowed to go home. No,
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Speaker 1: I mean where are they now? Do we know where
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Speaker 1: they are now? Yes? We do, Bobby? What could possibly
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Speaker 1: have been a motive for them? I thought they were
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Speaker 1: all friends. Supposedly they were all friends. But when we
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Speaker 1: when we start to think about a motive, Mindy was
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Speaker 1: not a drug addict by any means. They try to
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Speaker 1: portray her that she may have been involved in a
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Speaker 1: lot of math amphetamines. I've co founded the very first
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Speaker 1: narcotics Bureau for al Passo County, Colorado in ninety two.
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Speaker 1: I've worked around narcotics, a lot of knowledge in the
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Speaker 1: narcotics business, and I can tell you right now that
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Speaker 1: she showed absolutely no signs of being a mathematic by
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Speaker 1: any means. I mean, she had beautiful teeth. Uh, she
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Speaker 1: was you know, she was not skinny. She did not
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Speaker 1: show any signs of that. With us as a special
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Speaker 1: guest today, it is former homicide detective Bobby Brown joining
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Speaker 1: us from Colorado now a private investigator. So, Bobby, is
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Speaker 1: there any chance, is there any way that the death
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Speaker 1: of Mendy Lee can be solved, and absolutely that heard
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Speaker 1: that it will be solved. Absolutely, But how you picked
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Speaker 1: a really appropriate time to ask this question, because after
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Speaker 1: all these years, less than two weeks ago, I received
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Speaker 1: a tip from an individual that was in jail with
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Speaker 1: another individual in the state of Texas, there was discussion
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Speaker 1: about another person that died of hypothermia almost exactly two
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Speaker 1: years and four days from the Mindyvie was found that
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Speaker 1: was almost exact same age as Mindy Lee. She was
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Speaker 1: found in freezing temperatures, frozen death in the driveway at
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Speaker 1: the same street. Everything that it's absolutely scary to compare
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Speaker 1: the two of these cases. I am pursuing the Texas
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Speaker 1: vengeance as well as other leads that we have discovered
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Speaker 1: recently with a bloodhound, and just the investigation just h
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Speaker 1: never stopped, and it doesn't slow down, and we keep
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Speaker 1: getting closer and guys, we are trying our best to
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Speaker 1: shed light on and help solve the death, the mysterious
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Speaker 1: death of a young mother, Mindy Lee in Colorado. None
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Speaker 1: of the facts scenario given by the two witnesses make
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Speaker 1: any sense to me, nor can it be corroborated. In fact,
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Speaker 1: if anything, it can be disproven from what we know
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Speaker 1: right now. I want to thank our special guest, former
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Speaker 1: homicide and investigator Bobby Brown and of course Alan, do
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Speaker 1: you thank you for being with us As always, I
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace Crime Stories, signing off, goodbye friend,