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• 2:43
  Hello everybody, and welcome to Into the Weeds podcast here on
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  Military Broadcast Radio. I'm Amber.
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  And I'm Alora. And thank you very much for
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  being here tonight. It has been a very busy couple
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  of weeks for me. I don't know about you.
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  Yeah. Well, yeah.
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  I went to Eureka Springs, and actually before we went to
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  Eureka Springs, we went up to Chillicothe and we went to see
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  my cousin who's in prison there, and it was a really good visit.
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  Shelly was doing really good. Yeah, she was doing real good.
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  She does ask for prayer that God moves in the heart of the
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  chaplain that's there. Really.
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  Yeah. He was actually a security guard
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  for like 18 years. OK at Chillicothe.
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  Yeah, at Chillicothe. And then he became the chaplain
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  and I think he's a little jaded. OK, so it could probably create
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  some hard feelings. Yeah, on.
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  Both sides because I mean, there's probably a lot of for
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  lifers in there that have already had dealings with him,
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  positive or negative. Exactly.
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  OK. Yeah, so everybody keeps the
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  women at Chillicothe in your prayers and good thoughts.
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  If you don't pray, you know that something happens there.
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  And thank you too much, Mom, for becoming a member.
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  We thank you very much. We don't have a lot of member
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  perks right now, but. We're getting there.
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  Eventually, we've only been doing this for a year, but yeah,
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  so thank you everyone for being here.
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  And Eureka Springs was actually really cool.
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  We went to the Crescent Hotel and I've been there several
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  times or at least four times, and this would make it the fifth
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  time. I've never been, but it's
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  supposed to be a haunted hotel. You.
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  Yes, it's supposed to be. The Haunted in America.
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  Well, they bought the copyright for.
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  They bought the copyright, so they are the most haunted, but
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  if you have a copyright for it, it kind of makes it seem a
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  little more gimmicky to be. I mean, it's not gimmicky at
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  all. I've never.
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  Been so. I don't know, it's really cute.
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  So sound off in the comments of the chat if you've ever been to
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  Eureka Springs. Yeah, Crescent Hotel, I have.
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  Thought and I did not have well I had one experience.
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  Well, it happened multiple times, but it was just one thing
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  that happened was every time I would go to the bathroom on the
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  4th floor next to the lounge. How long were you there?
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  I don't know, the first day we were there for like 4 hours.
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  Just wondering at a hotel is it? Like no hanging out.
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  We were hanging out just there's a bar with the lounge.
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  OK, she's out at the bar. There was food and everything
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  and we were talking to all the people sitting at the bar and
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  you know how Dad talks so. Yeah, sometimes, yeah.
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  So we were there for a while, and then we came back the next
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  day and spent probably 2 1/2 hours or so.
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  So yeah, but the only thing that happened was is when I would go
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  into the bathroom, you have to step up and then you step up
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  again into the bathroom. And as you're stepping up into
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  the bathroom, there's this odd smell.
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  And I went in there like 4 times before I figured out what it
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  was. An odd smell in the bathroom,
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  yes, Never ever heard of that, sorry.
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  It was a different smell than what you would normally smell in
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  the bathroom. Was it musty or?
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  No, so no, it wasn't. But so it took me like 4-4 times
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  going in there and trying to figure out what that smell was,
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  but it smelled like a man's breath.
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  A. Man's breath.
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  A man's breath. OK.
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  I don't know how to describe it other than that that's what it
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  smelled like. And every time you would walk
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  up, not whiskey, just just a man's breath.
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  I don't know how to describe it anyway, other than that.
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  And so, yeah, as soon as you would walk up and then walk up,
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  you would just get hit in the face with the smell.
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  Did he have halitosis? No halitosis, so MB says.
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  I don't think I would ever dare go to to hotel that's rumored to
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  be haunted. I don't think she stayed.
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  There, Yeah. No, I didn't stay there.
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  They didn't have any openings. I did try to.
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  My husband did not want to stay. There, there's a place that we
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  were talking about potentially renting out eventually, maybe
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  not right now, but it's a little closer to home.
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  There's an Airbnb. You might know a little bit more
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  about that than. I do though.
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  Death breath? Yes, probably.
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  Me when I first wake up in the morning.
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  So you're talking about Hobo Hill House in Jefferson City?
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  I guess. Yeah, it's Hobo Hill House and I
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  I watched something a while back about it and I don't know, it's
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  worth checking out. I don't know how much I want to
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  invite and play with spirits and.
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  Stuff like that. You were talking a big game
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  before, but now? I still want to go there, I just
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  don't know if I want to like play around or anything like
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  that. We're not going to.
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  Bring a Ouija board. No, no, we're definitely not
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  doing that. OK, Yeah.
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  So today is a very special show. And before we forget, I want you
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  guys to remember that. Shannon Lafleur Actually, I
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  forgot to bring this up. So Shannon Lafleur and Jonda Lor
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  Sanders are still missing, and I'm just going to bring up my
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  community post so you guys can see it.
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  There. We go sorry about this.
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  Yeah, they're still missing. We still need to bring attention
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  to it. We can't just let yes, can't
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  just let this fade into the background.
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  So Shannon Lafleur and she went missing in LA so.
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  January 18th, 2025. So she's been gone for a good
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  six months almost. Yeah, and her family hasn't seen
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  her for quite a while. And then we've got Chanda La
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  Laura Sanders. Sorry, Chanda Laura Sanders.
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  And she's been missing for, well, since 2022.
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  But there may have been a sighting of her in Oklahoma City
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  last year at the Smokeapalooza that was.
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  Alleged it wasn't confirmed. Well, her family thinks it's
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  her, but, you know, it's just a picture that somebody took and
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  sent to her. There's hope, There's hope.
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  There's hope. And you know, if these women are
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  just missing because they want to be, you know, then please
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  just reach out to your family or to authorities and just say,
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  hey, tell my family to quit looking for me.
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  But make sure you can identify yourself so.
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  Absolutely. And these are indigenous women,
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  so their cases are often overlooked.
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  There are so many missing indigenous women, so many
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  missing black women. Any minorities are just I
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  honestly swept under the rug by police and we're going to kind
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  of delve into that a little bit today.
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  Yeah, and Shannon is missing from the Choctaw tribe and
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  Shanda is missing from the Cheyenne Arapaho tribes.
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  So that's them. And I just want to make sure
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  that we keep them in mind. And so now we're actually going
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  to talk about another person who has passed away.
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  He went missing at 1st and then he was found passed away.
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  And there's a lot of controversy and a lot of mystery surrounding
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  what happened to him. But just like who we covered a
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  while back to Ron Evans Junior Jelani's case, we're going to be
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  talking about Jelani Day. Jelani's case is also ruled may
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  potentially a a suicide. And so, you know, his family
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  doesn't believe it. I probably I yeah, I yeah.
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  But we're going to go through all of the records and
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  everything tonight and just look at it and thank you so much, MB
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  Thank you so much. You're very kind and.
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  It seems like there's a lot of police and even coroner
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  interference or at least negligence in the very least.
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  I'm not accusing anybody of anything, and I don't think that
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  Jelani's family is either. But there's definitely a lot of
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  overlooking of some details. And even with the way that the
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  body was handled after, you know, during autopsies and
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  stuff, leaves a lot of questions.
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  And yeah, he went missing and he was found in a sundown town.
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  And to anybody who doesn't know what that is, you know.
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  This is Jelani. This is.
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  Jelani Basically, sundown towns can really be anywhere in the
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  country. I know they're a lot more
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  prevalent in the South, but this is actually in the Midwest, in
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  Illinois. But if you're a black or brown
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  person of color, it's just a place that you definitely don't
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  want to be at any time, but especially not after sundown
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  because Lord knows what can happen to you.
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  And, you know, while we definitely don't know what
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  happened Jelani, it seems like there might be a correlation to
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  where he's found and what happened to him.
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  Yeah, we have. We have no idea, honestly.
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  We're just going to go through the facts and come to our own
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  conclusions. You know, we are going to have
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  Carmen Bolden Day and possibly her daughter Takara, sorry,
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  joining us next week. They will actually do a
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  recording on Monday with me and then we'll play it for you guys
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  and talk to you live while we're doing that.
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  Oh, what time is it on Monday? We'll talk about it later, but.
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  Oh, gotcha. OK.
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  Yeah, but anyways on. Monday, that's where's.
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  My eye, it's a, it's a, it's a later on in the day, so it's in
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  the evening. When we're supposed to be at the
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  competition. Well, I've already scheduled
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  this, so it was already scheduled, so OK, we'll figure
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  it out. Don't worry about it, We'll
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  figure it out. So yeah, so my nephew is doing a
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  skating competition. He's been competing the last few
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  days so. And I haven't gone to be able to
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  support him yet, so that's why I was wondering.
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  But we'll figure something out. Yeah, we'll figure it out.
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  Don't worry about it right now. So I.
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  Was just asking. My bad, my bad.
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  OK, so yeah, this is Jelani, and I feel like I know him just from
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  all of the media that I have consumed on his case and
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  everything. I actually started following
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  this case from the beginning, 2021.
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  Yeah, when it first happened, I, I guess because we live in
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  Missouri, it caught my attention because it wasn't too far from
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  where we live. And so I started following it.
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  And I remember listening to Carmen, you know, talk about her
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  son and, and what a great person Jelani was and, and what she was
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  going through when I was cleaning, you know, and stuff
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  back then. And so, yeah, I've just been
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  following this since the beginning, but I kind of lost
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  track after there was no more traction on the case.
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  And that's why it's so important for us to bring everyone here
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  today because even though our reach is small, every single eye
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  that we can have on something like that matters.
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  Every single voice that can speak out and potentially, you
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  know, call the Police Department, call, you know,
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  we'll ask. We'll ask his family what they
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  believe that the best calls of action are.
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  But that being said, we can't just let him be forgotten.
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  It's been, what, years of 2025? Yeah, no, I, I'm looking at the
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  year, but yeah, I know it's been, it's been years.
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  And it can't just be something that can fade into the
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  background, because if this is something that can happen to
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  them, it's something that can happen to you.
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  And we all have loved ones. And as I said before, any kind
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  of minority is often cast aside and not their, their cases
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  aren't treated the same. And so, yeah, we, we have some
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  interesting stuff. Well, which has some stuff to
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  get into, and our hearts are definitely with Jelani's entire
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  family, and I think it's quite beautiful the way that they
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  speak about his life. Yeah, that's actually one thing
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  I do want to say is, is that his mom?
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  She seems like a really great mother.
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  She both. Jelani and the rest of her
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  children. She has five children if I
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  remember correctly. Yeah, I believe so.
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  And. Every single one of them, except
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  for one of one of Jelani's siblings, all of them went to
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  grad school, including Jelani. And they're just very smart,
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  very driven. Jelani was going to school to be
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  a speech pathologist. It's said by his mother that he
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  went to school for this because in elementary school he had a
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  friend that had some intellectual disabilities and he
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  often failed to be able to express himself in the way that
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  a lot of other people deemed to be normal or appropriate.
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  And he just went in and he would help him anytime that he was not
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  being taken seriously, unfortunately, because of his
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  disabilities. And he just wanted to help other
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  people. So of course, it's an absolute
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  tragedy anytime that somebody's missing or God forbid, passes
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  away way, especially in such a well, you'll hear what happened
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  to him a little bit, but we still don't really know what
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  happened to him. But we just know how he was
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  found and see that it was somebody that had such a
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  promising future and somebody that was so loved.
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  It's just really heartbreaking so.
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  Yeah, it really is. And you can tell that he would
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  have really done a lot in this world.
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  And I still think he is going to do a lot through his foundation.
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  They're actually helping other people of color and people who
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  can't afford, you know, P is and helping them organize search
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  teams and different things like that.
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  You know, I mean, they're not paying for it for it, but
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  they're trying to organize it and, you know, help people.
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  And if you do donate, I think they do pay something.
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  But, you know, they're just starting out.
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  So the more you can help, the better.
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  And they're not just, you know, collecting money for their
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  family. They're collecting money to help
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  people. So yeah.
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  So please, you know, go look at the the Jelani Day Foundation.
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  And it's LinkedIn in our description in the video.
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  So we're just going to going to, we're just going to go over a
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  short timeline of events and then we'll get into the actual
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  documents and stuff like that. So, and I do want to thank
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  somebody over on Reddit who sent me the FOIA's.
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  Thank you very much for that. It was very helpful.
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  I have not gone over them all. Excuse me.
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  And so we're going to go over them together.
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  OK. So Monday the 23rd of August, he
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  was a grad program director, car boaster, exchanges coursework
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  text with Jelani and expects to meet him the next morning at
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  7:20 AM. On Tuesday the 24th, he's at
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  Boone Student Center on camera with a blue dress shirt.
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  At 9:12 AM he goes to Beyond Hello Dispensary, he's on
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  camera. He's in a Detroit Lions cap.
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  Jimi Hendrix T no sightings after 9:25 AM because that's
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  when he pulls off from the dispensary and we have the
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  videos of that. Wednesday the 25th of August
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  family and ISU faculty file missing persons report with
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  Bloomington PD. Thursday the 26th of August,
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  Peru PD finds Jelani's white Chrysler 300 hidden in the woods
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  just South of the Illinois Valley.
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  YMCA wallet, keys and phone were absent.
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  Friday the 27th of August Peru PD label circumstances
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  unexplained and suspicious. Saturday the 4th of September
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  kayakers discover a male body on the South Bank of the Illinois
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  River, one mile east of Illinois 125 sorry one mile east of the
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  Illinois 251 bridge. Thursday the 23rd of September
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  DNA and dental ID the remains as Jelani Jelani Day caused
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  drowning. Manor undetermined.
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  A little trouble. Puffs.
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  Yeah. The car was hidden in the woods
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  in a little area behind the Y, and we're going to look at it.
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  I don't know if I found the exact place or not, but we'll
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  try and look at that. So then let's see.
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  October 2021 LaSalle Corner releases autopsy, debunks
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  missing organs. Rumor notes severe
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  decomposition. Monday the 15th of November,
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  LaSalle County Sheriff confirms Jelani's iPhone has been found
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  and sent to the FBI for deep forensic work.
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  Monday the 13th of December FBI announces a $10,000 reward and a
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  new multi agency Task force push for tips.
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  Sorry about the Fly guys 2022 through 2025 ongoing FOIA
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  trickle theme. I don't know what AAR is photo
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  packs second autopsy witness reports, phone data screenshots,
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  no final manner of death ruling yet OK, so that was just a a
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  quick overview. His phone was found, I believe
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  in 2023. I can't remember right now,
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  we'll get into it, but so that's that's what happened so far.
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  Found on the side of a highway, I.
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  Believe yes, it was. It was.
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  The man that found it, I think he stated that he was like
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  bringing a mattress to his sister's house or something like
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  that. And he stopped on the side of
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  the road just for a break to figure out what was going on or
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  something. And he got out of the car and he
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  walked around and he just found a cell phone and he turned it
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  in. And I mean, I could buy it, but
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  it's it is a little odd. But I mean, stranger things have
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  happened. I don't think the man was
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  necessarily responsible for anything.
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  But it's like, how did it get there on the side of the road?
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  Yeah, that's definitely the question and by.
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  His wallet was somewhere else. His wallet was found like in a
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  Was it in somebody's yard or am I?
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  Yeah, yeah, somebody's yard. But there's been different
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  reports about it. So I'm not sure we're going to
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  get into the actual reports and see what it actually says.
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  But online, there's been a lot of misinformation from what I
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  understand. And so we're going to try and
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  not further that. We're going to try and just look
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  at the documents that are out there.
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  And I encourage everybody to go to Reddit's and look at what
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  they've got there, Facebook, what they've got there, and.
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  His mom's done quite a few interviews.
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  She's done a lot. She's really putting her boots
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  on the ground and trying to make sure that her son gets justice.
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  And yeah, she really cares not just about her son, but about so
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  many different people and hence why she started the Jelani Day
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  Foundation. And I think they can really do
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  some good things out of this. It's really an unfortunate,
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  unfortunate circumstance, but they are doing the best and
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  making the best out of it that they can so.
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  So we are going to look at the McLean County Incident Summary
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  or Summary report and this is dated 10/10/2023, but the
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  incident narrative happened on 8/25/2021.
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  So that's when they got the FOIA request.
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  Oh gotcha that you're saying that's when it was booked?
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  Sorry guys. OK.
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  Are you just going through and reading it because?
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  It's yeah, we're just. The whole thing.
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  Yeah, OK. I mean, that's what we're here
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  to do is to learn. Oh yeah, sure.
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  I didn't know if you had like a Never mind.
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  I just didn't know if we had a. OK, yeah, I don't have a
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  synopsis of it. I just wanted to go through
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  everything because I think that's the best way to do it is
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  to just go through it and if you guys think that's boring, you
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  can tell me, but otherwise I'm just going to do it like this.
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  Let's see if it was some kind of accident, his belongings
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  wouldn't be spread in different areas.
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  Car would probably be parked in the open nut hidden, correct?
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  Yeah, if he wanted to take his own life, then I find walking
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  into river, especially when he is known to be a swimmer.
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  He was an athlete his whole entire life and swimming was a
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  big thing that he did. And his mom and brother just
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  don't think that that's at all possible.
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  And then on top of the fact that it's so hard to literally drown
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  yourself, especially if you are someone who is comfortable in
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  the water, you're not going to just spread all of your
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  belongings everywhere and then just kind of run off, not tell
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  anybody after keeping consistent contact with your mom.
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  And something else is a huge thing is he was actually going
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  through with giving his father a stem cell or some, I guess not
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  him giving his father a stem cell transplant.
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  So I can't talk but. He was using.
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  Yeah, he was a donor. Sorry.
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  That's what I meant to say. He was going to be a donor for
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  his for his father. Sorry, I almost said husband.
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  I don't know what I'm talking about.
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  Sorry. I anyway OK.
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  No, you're good. Laura But he was going to be a
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  donor and it turns out in order to be a donor for stem cells,
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  you have to go through I think like 3 or 4 different operations
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  before they can even do the the transfer of stem cells.
• 26:37
  And from what I understand, I think he went through at least
• 26:41
  two or three of the surgeries or procedures or whatever they are,
• 26:45
  and he was getting ready to go in with the final steps.
• 26:49
  And his family firmly believes that because he wanted to help
• 26:54
  his father out so much, you know, along with plenty of other
• 26:58
  reasons why they believe he wouldn't take his own life.
• 27:00
  But just that alone makes it damn near impossible in their
• 27:04
  minds. And I I believe it as well.
• 27:08
  And then, unfortunately, his father did pass away.
• 27:11
  Yeah, he did. He had, I think they said, heart
• 27:15
  failure and leukemia. Yeah, I believe so.
• 27:17
  I can't remember at the moment but yeah his his father say they
• 27:22
  was sick and. And he passed away.
• 27:27
  What what do you recall what year it was?
• 27:29
  I believe it was. 2023 but I can't remember at the moment.
• 27:32
  So a little bit after. We'll get, we'll get more into
• 27:36
  that in our interview with Carmen.
• 27:39
  But yeah, no, I and so I know people say that it's hard to
• 27:46
  drown and that it's hard to drown yourself.
• 27:51
  But I I do have an experience where there was a woman that I
• 27:56
  went to church with who unfortunately took her life,
• 28:01
  drown in a drowning and she actually walked out on the beach
• 28:08
  and just walked out into the water.
• 28:11
  That's all I know. I definitely don't want to
• 28:14
  question anybody's pain, and I definitely don't.
• 28:17
  Well, what I'm going to say is because there's a big butt
• 28:19
  there, but I don't want to question somebody's pain that
• 28:22
  they're going through or invalidate their experience if
• 28:24
  they really did take their own life because that's a really
• 28:27
  hard place to be in. And you know, I also don't want
• 28:31
  to accuse anybody in her family. But also like, do we have any
• 28:35
  proof that that's actually what happened?
• 28:37
  Do we know that's actually what happened 'cause I mean, it is
• 28:40
  really hard to drown yourself to anybody that's tuning in now.
• 28:43
  We're not talking about Jelani, we're just.
• 28:44
  Talking about yeah, no, I, I am not going to go ask the family,
• 28:49
  you know, and I tried and I tried looking up information on
• 28:53
  it and I couldn't find anything on it.
• 28:56
  I just remember it happening. So yeah, I don't know.
• 29:02
  And then I did, my husband and I were actually married on the
• 29:09
  Illinois River, but it was in northwestern Oklahoma.
• 29:14
  No, northeastern Oklahoma. My bad.
• 29:18
  And so, you know, I, I think that this story caught my
• 29:24
  attention as well because it happened, you know, on the
• 29:26
  Illinois River. And so, yeah, we're just going
• 29:31
  to get into it. And please just bear with us.
• 29:34
  I have been sick. I was sick.
• 29:36
  And I also if anybody doesn't know, I broke my sacrum in a
• 29:43
  small motorcycle accident which. Is part of her tailbone.
• 29:46
  Yeah, part of my tailbone. I wouldn't.
• 29:47
  Have known that I didn't even know that.
• 29:50
  And so I was really, I've been in a lot of pain the last few
• 29:55
  days. But you're doing good here,
• 29:57
  true. So anyways, OK, so here we go.
• 30:02
  Incident narrative 182521. And to anybody who's just tuning
• 30:07
  in, we're just going to start going right into the docs just
• 30:10
  to try. And there's no speculation, it's
• 30:13
  just facts. Yep, reporting patrol officer.
• 30:17
  I can't even speak today. Would you like from?
• 30:18
  Yes, please reporting. Patrol Officer Jeffrey Widmer,
• 30:24
  BPDID Oh, I don't. I don't need to read all that.
• 30:26
  OK, on Wednesday 8/25/21 at 2057 hours I was dispatched to
• 30:32
  Brookridge Heights Apartments located at 3 One O 2 E Hamilton
• 30:36
  Road to check the whale check on the welfare of an individual.
• 30:40
  During this call I was equipped with body worn camera and the
• 30:43
  BWC video was flagged and my BWC camera was later placed in a
• 30:48
  docking station to be uploaded to evidence.com.
• 30:51
  Prior to completing this report, I have not reviewed portions of
• 30:54
  my BWC video. When I arrived in the scene, I
• 30:57
  met with the apartment maintenance manager.
• 31:00
  He stated that ISUPD called to request that we check on
• 31:03
  graduate student Jelani Day. I went with blank to Jelani's
• 31:07
  apartment. I entered the apartment and did
• 31:10
  not locate Jelani. There were school books.
• 31:13
  There were school books, clothes, luggage, toiletry
• 31:16
  items, and kitchenware that all appeared to be normal.
• 31:19
  Nothing appeared out of the ordinary in his apt.
• 31:22
  I spoke on the phone with Jelani's someone in relationship
• 31:26
  to Jelani. Oh to her.
• 31:28
  Sorry, I should have read a second.
• 31:30
  His mother. She said her son was in route to
• 31:33
  Bloomington to check on Jelani. She said Jelani usually calls
• 31:37
  her or one of his brothers every single day.
• 31:39
  No one has heard from him in two days.
• 31:42
  She said that they were made aware of this because an ISU
• 31:45
  professor contacted them asking about Jelani, which just decide
• 31:50
  now. I don't know the full context of
• 31:52
  this, but it seems as if Jelani's mother is no longer in
• 31:56
  contact with this professor because she started exhibiting
• 31:59
  some odd behaviors and I don't know if it was attributed to Oh,
• 32:02
  did you not call that? I don't know if it's attributed.
• 32:05
  Anything to his disappearance specifically, but in the way
• 32:11
  that she was talking about him or talking about her in the in
• 32:16
  the video that I watched earlier today while I was working, I was
• 32:18
  listening to it and it seemed as if she was implying that there
• 32:22
  might be a story there. But I don't know.
• 32:24
  I'm not accusing anybody of anything.
• 32:25
  Yeah, we don't want to. No, I was just just talking as I
• 32:29
  go along. No, you're good.
• 32:32
  I met with Blank at Jelani's apartment.
• 32:34
  Blank stated he wanted to list Jelani as a missing person.
• 32:37
  He stated that the last time they talked to Jelani was 2 days
• 32:40
  ago. His phone is going straight to
• 32:42
  voicemail. There's nothing to indicate that
• 32:44
  Jelani is endangered in any way. Jelani's vehicle was not located
• 32:48
  his apartment. His vehicle was a white Chrysler
• 32:50
  300 with a blacktop Illinois license plate number Blank.
• 32:55
  I checked with the hospitals and wrecker companies, they did not
• 32:57
  have any information on Jelani or his vehicle.
• 33:00
  BTBPDTCM Vanessa M entered the information into leads at
• 33:05
  approximately 2300 hours. I have no further information to
• 33:09
  add at this time. And then he asked for him to be
• 33:14
  assigned to the case for the follow up.
• 33:15
  OK. Sorry, I was grilling earlier
• 33:18
  and the supply is just all over the place.
• 33:20
  Oh, he got in because you had the doors open.
• 33:22
  The flies out here are crazy this year.
• 33:23
  But anyway, on Thursday 8/26/2021 at about 13-16 hours,
• 33:30
  I was asked to assist in locating Jelani J Day.
• 33:33
  It was reported missing by his family on Wednesday evening
• 33:38
  after reviews. After reviewing Officer Widmer's
• 33:40
  report at about O 952 hours, I contacted Jelani's mom to
• 33:45
  introduce myself and check for any updates.
• 33:48
  She indicated that she last spoke with Jelani at about 6:23
• 33:51
  PM on Monday, 8/23/2021. Further, Jelani's brother spoke
• 33:57
  with him at 9:40 PM that same evening.
• 34:00
  According to her, everything seemed normal with Jelani when
• 34:03
  they spoke with him that evening.
• 34:05
  She also mentioned that Jelani's instructor at ISU where Jelani
• 34:08
  and it where Jelani is in graduate program studying speech
• 34:12
  pathology, spoke with him at about 9:00 PM that evening.
• 34:16
  She identified Jelani's instructor.
• 34:19
  She told me that she and her family checked Jelani's bank
• 34:22
  statements. She said that she believes
• 34:24
  Jelani's bank card was last used at 4:56 AM on Tuesday,
• 34:29
  8/24/2021. From viewing ISU Lieutenant
• 34:32
  Klepic's report, Jelani's red bird card was last wiped on
• 34:35
  Tuesday, August 24th, 2021 at about 650 hours.
• 34:40
  A little bit of clarification. That was at a Starbucks and it
• 34:44
  is believed to be something that he ordered online and that he
• 34:46
  was not physically present in the Starbucks at that time.
• 34:48
  I believe although so if I'm quoting correctly what I
• 34:53
  remember hearing, but I also feel like I also remember her
• 34:57
  saying something about how they did check a Starbucks.
• 35:00
  Yeah, I. Remember that, But I'll try and
• 35:03
  look into that and we'll clarify it a little more whenever we
• 35:05
  speak to his family. But I just thought of that.
• 35:09
  So anyway, at about 1032 hours I drove to Jelani's apartment at
• 35:14
  Eighteen O 5 Pier Way and met with Jelani's older brother and
• 35:18
  his father. He was allowed into Jelani's
• 35:22
  apartment by Brookridge Heights apartment maintenance.
• 35:25
  In short, he was hoping. He was hoping that something in
• 35:28
  Jelani's apartment would give some direction to his
• 35:29
  whereabouts. I drove to the Starbucks located
• 35:33
  at Starbucks St. Anyway, I don't know, I said
• 35:36
  Starbucks St. Sorry, I just I'm skipping some
• 35:39
  of the addresses. Anyway.
• 35:40
  Jelani Stanley believe that his debit card was used at Starbucks
• 35:43
  on Tuesday morning. Initially, they believe the card
• 35:45
  was swiped at Starbucks ISU's campus.
• 35:48
  However, the employees at that particular store believe the
• 35:50
  store was not even open when his card was used.
• 35:53
  I made contact with Blank who manages to Starbucks.
• 35:56
  I showed her a picture of Jelani.
• 35:58
  They told me that she has seen Jelani before saying he was a
• 36:02
  sweet kid but had no idea when she last saw him.
• 36:05
  She told me that Jelani likely uses Starbucks app to pay for
• 36:07
  his order before the store opened.
• 36:09
  So there we go, about 12 O 8 hours.
• 36:13
  I spoke with Jelani's instructor at ISU by phone.
• 36:16
  She confirmed that she last spoke with Jelani at about 9 PMI
• 36:19
  asked how Jelani was doing in the speech pathology program and
• 36:23
  if he had ever made any concerning statements to her.
• 36:25
  She told me that Jelani is the only male in the program, not to
• 36:28
  mention the fact that he is the only black individual in the
• 36:30
  program as Jelani seemed to be a bit of a loner.
• 36:35
  She told me when she spoke with Jelani, she made a point to ask
• 36:38
  him how he was doing as he struggled a bit in the program.
• 36:40
  Jelani is sure that he was great.
• 36:42
  He told me that though she is only known Jelani for a short
• 36:46
  period of time, she believes is not normal for him to be out of
• 36:48
  contact with everybody. So I just want to make a quick
• 36:51
  comment on that as well. Again, obviously I don't know
• 36:54
  Jelani. I can't speak as to the kind of
• 36:56
  person that he was and you know, his day-to-day activities in the
• 36:59
  way he acted. That being said, from listening
• 37:01
  to everything that his mother said, calling him a loner
• 37:05
  doesn't seem to be quite the right word.
• 37:08
  Maybe he was a loner in this class, but she talks about how
• 37:11
  he was super sociable, he was making friends, he was out and
• 37:14
  about all the time, traveling, hanging out.
• 37:16
  And obviously you could be more of a loner in like 1 class or
• 37:19
  one area of your life and not in another.
• 37:21
  But you know, maybe I'm just biased thinking about how I
• 37:25
  think I recall her saying there's something weird going on
• 37:27
  with the teacher. So I'm just noting, sorry, my
• 37:31
  little conspiracy brand I guess, but I'm just noting that she
• 37:35
  calls him a loner and then also says that he was struggling a
• 37:38
  little bit in the class. And again, I don't know what his
• 37:40
  grades are, but it seems like his neighbor is implying that he
• 37:43
  was doing well. And that doesn't really sound
• 37:45
  like struggling to me. But maybe when you're a grad
• 37:47
  student, if it's not high A is on everything, maybe that's
• 37:50
  considered struggling? I'm not really sure.
• 37:53
  But it seems like he was doing well in the classes and her just
• 37:57
  noting that just stuck out to me just from.
• 38:00
  But I think he missed some assignments.
• 38:03
  Yeah, I think he missed some assignments.
• 38:05
  I think he showed up late to a few meetings or something like
• 38:09
  that. I know he missed a meeting,
• 38:11
  which was the one they were supposed to have the day that he
• 38:12
  was missing. I don't remember hearing about
• 38:15
  it, but it doesn't mean it didn't.
• 38:16
  Happen from my understanding he missed a few meetings or was
• 38:20
  late to a few meetings or something like that and missed
• 38:24
  an assignment or two and I think he was just getting back into
• 38:29
  the groove of going back to school he.
• 38:32
  COVID time so we all know how that was.
• 38:34
  Well, yeah, but he was also, he went to Alabama.
• 38:42
  I can't remember where it's at now.
• 38:44
  I don't recall. Sorry, guys.
• 38:45
  I have cognitive problems. So if you're here to actually
• 38:48
  get like fluid information, that's not going to happen.
• 38:55
  Don't put yourself down. So anyways, he I think he was
• 38:59
  off for like 3 years of school and so he was volunteering at at
• 39:07
  church. I think he was substituting or
• 39:10
  something like that. He was doing quite a few things.
• 39:13
  He was very heavily involved in his church and hello.
• 39:15
  Fron. Hello.
• 39:17
  He was super involved in his church, and that's something
• 39:19
  that his family wants him to be remembered for.
• 39:24
  His mother says that, you know, she took him to church every
• 39:28
  Sunday whenever he was growing up.
• 39:30
  And she was really happy to find that he would just go on his
• 39:34
  own. Even when the church kind of
• 39:38
  moved to Zoom during the pandemic, he would go on to the
• 39:41
  Bible studies and such on the Zoom calls and would sometimes
• 39:44
  even call her out for not showing up to them when she was
• 39:46
  out of town or busy with other things.
• 39:48
  And they would talk about, you know, just his faith and
• 39:51
  everything and that, you know, I think that's beautiful.
• 39:53
  And so, you know, whether you believe in God or not, I think
• 39:57
  it's very lovely to think about him being with his Creator right
• 40:01
  now. And that can be the very
• 40:04
  smallest bit of hope and happiness that we can have.
• 40:07
  Yeah, I heard, I heard Carmen talking once about how after he
• 40:15
  passed, his birthday came up and, you know, she wanted to go
• 40:19
  to the grave and be with them. And, you know, that's a hard,
• 40:26
  hard feeling. But I believe that Jelani is not
• 40:30
  there. And I believe that he is
• 40:33
  somewhere much better than in the ground.
• 40:36
  And so I I take hope and in the fact that he is somewhere, I
• 40:42
  believe in a good place now, even though we would much rather
• 40:46
  him be here. Yes, definitely, but it's
• 40:49
  something that brings his family comfort and hope, and I hope
• 40:52
  that to those that it can provide the same, it can provide
• 40:55
  the same. That being said, I'm going to
• 40:57
  continue with a little bit more of that.
• 40:59
  I just had, you know, some side points to make as normal.
• 41:03
  OK? Later in the afternoon, I spoke
• 41:05
  again with Jelani's mom. I asked if she would be OK with
• 41:08
  us posting Jelani as missing on our City of Bloomington Police
• 41:11
  Facebook page. I requested that we do
• 41:14
  everything or she requested that we do everything possible to
• 41:17
  help locate her son. She told me that she would have
• 41:21
  to send me a picture of Jelani. I obtained the pictures a few
• 41:25
  minutes later and asked Public Information Officer John Furman
• 41:29
  to post Jelani as a missing person on the Facebook page.
• 41:33
  On Thursday, August 26th, 2021, at approximately 730 hours, I
• 41:38
  went or I read a notification from a faculty member who
• 41:41
  expressed concern for a graduate student.
• 41:43
  But oh, this is the same exact thing I think, or very similar.
• 41:48
  I'm just reading through real quick to see, OK, it's a little
• 41:51
  bit different, but I'm just going to go ahead and read
• 41:54
  through even though some of it's the same, so bear with us.
• 41:58
  I who expressed concern for a graduate student by the name of
• 42:01
  Jelani Day. According to her, Day had not
• 42:04
  shown up for his class and was unable to be reached by phone.
• 42:07
  Next, I searched for Day in EJS and learn BPD officer Jeff
• 42:12
  Widmer generated a missing person, a missing person report
• 42:15
  for Day last night. Based on Officer Windermer's
• 42:19
  report, his mother, his ISU emergency contact, spoke to
• 42:23
  Officer Windermere and indicated a concern for her son's
• 42:28
  well-being. But the vehicle with the vehicle
• 42:31
  information provided an Officer Windmere's report.
• 42:35
  I contacted ISU Parking and Transportation Services and
• 42:39
  inquired if they had contact with Day's vehicle.
• 42:41
  According to the records, his vehicle was cited for parking
• 42:44
  violations on Wednesday, August 18th, Alamo 2 lot and Friday,
• 42:48
  August 20th South University Parking Garage.
• 42:52
  The South University Parking garage was checked by ISUPD
• 42:55
  officers and negative or with negative results.
• 42:59
  Day's red bird card was last swiped on Tuesday, August 24th,
• 43:02
  2021 at 650 hours to gain access to room Three O 9 in Fairchild
• 43:07
  Hall. Fairchild Hall.
• 43:10
  It was learned this room was a computer lab.
• 43:12
  ISUPD Officer Ericsson checked into the room and met with the
• 43:16
  students present. All new of day and were aware of
• 43:19
  his missing status but had not seen him since Tuesday morning.
• 43:22
  At approximately 11 O five hours I searched the parking lots at
• 43:26
  Brookridge Heights Apartments in Bloomington where he resides for
• 43:29
  his vehicle, however I was unsuccessful in locating it.
• 43:32
  This concludes my involvement. So now moving on.
• 43:36
  On 8/26/2021 at about 1550 hours, I spoke with Jelani's ISU
• 43:41
  instructor. She advised me that another
• 43:43
  student spoke with Jelani after class on Monday.
• 43:45
  After about two PMI spoke briefly with them by by phone,
• 43:49
  who told me that Jelani was having difficulty finding his
• 43:52
  car that afternoon and that she drove him around to help locate
• 43:55
  the vehicle. When she and Jelani couldn't
• 43:57
  find the vehicle, she dropped Jelani back off By Fairchild
• 44:00
  Hall, The ISUPD Officer Lulo's report For more information.
• 44:04
  At about 4:35 PMI received a call back from Blank.
• 44:09
  She advised me that ISU was able to look up his computer logs.
• 44:13
  From the logs, they believe that Jelani was last logged in at
• 44:16
  6:59 AM on Tuesday morning. She also mentioned that Jelani
• 44:20
  was supposed to go over to health services that morning.
• 44:23
  Later in the afternoon at 1654 hours, Bloomington PD dispatch
• 44:28
  received a call from Officer Mark Credi of Peru in Peru being
• 44:33
  that quote, UN quote, sundown town, allegedly that he was
• 44:37
  found in Police Department after Officer Creddy.
• 44:42
  I feel like I'm saying all these people's names wrong, but it's
• 44:44
  fine. It seems like they're not very
• 44:47
  helpful people anyway so they can deal with it.
• 44:49
  Officer Creddy advised me that someone from the YMCA called in
• 44:54
  suspicious vehicle at about 1621 hours.
• 44:57
  According to Officer Creddy, White 2010 Chrysler 300 with no
• 45:00
  license plates was was located in the woods South of YMCA.
• 45:05
  That's another thing, there were no license plates.
• 45:07
  If he's going to go take his life, he's going to take off the
• 45:10
  license plates. And there was a loose license
• 45:13
  plate in the in the car, in the trunk, but it wasn't.
• 45:17
  It wasn't his. Did they identify whose it was I
• 45:20
  had? No idea.
• 45:21
  OK, Officer Cruddy explained the vehicle was not in the normal
• 45:25
  parking lot area, but rather was down the hill in the brushwoods.
• 45:29
  Officer Cruddy mentioned that someone at the YMCA noticed the
• 45:32
  vehicle there the previous day but did not call the vehicle.
• 45:35
  And at the time, Officer Cruddy told me that the license plate
• 45:39
  had been stripped off the vehicle, but they were able to
• 45:42
  run the VIN number and determine that the vehicle was associated
• 45:44
  with missing person Jelani Day. Officer Cruddy advised me that
• 45:48
  they located some luggage in the backseat of the vehicle.
• 45:51
  Outside the vehicle. Officers located a face mask, a
• 45:54
  lighter, and a coin next to the driver's door.
• 45:57
  Officer Cruddy advised me that the detective Brad Jones was
• 46:00
  responsible was responding to the scene to determine if there
• 46:03
  was any foul play. After about 17-11 hours, I
• 46:07
  requested that BPD dispatch contact Verizon.
• 46:10
  Sorry. OK, so let's just from what fell
• 46:16
  out of the door when he opened the door, a face mask, a lighter
• 46:22
  and a coin next to the driver's door.
• 46:25
  So he went and bought a blunt at Hello Beyond Hello Dispensary
• 46:33
  before he actually that's the last place he was seen.
• 46:37
  So it makes sense a lighter. Yeah, but I was thinking.
• 46:40
  So I guess he had to actually walk quite away.
• 46:43
  If he was the one who parked the car there, he would have had to
• 46:47
  have walked, you know, like over a mile.
• 46:50
  And it was like in a kind of deserted area, from my
• 46:56
  understanding from that. He was found or where the.
• 46:59
  Where the So from where the car was found to where he was found,
• 47:05
  he would have had to walk quite a a while.
• 47:10
  So you think if he was actually going to go down there and
• 47:13
  purposely take his life or purposely go down there and he
• 47:17
  accidentally falls into the river, OK, wouldn't he be
• 47:21
  smoking the blunt down there instead of smoking the blunt in
• 47:24
  the car on the way? Up there.
• 47:27
  Yeah. Well, it didn't say that they
• 47:28
  found the blunt. It was in the car though.
• 47:30
  Oh, the blunt was in the car. Yeah.
• 47:31
  OK. Because I was thinking like
• 47:33
  hypothetically, OK, I go out and I go to the woods and I smoke
• 47:36
  blunt sometimes and I'm a girl so it's extra unsafe.
• 47:42
  But that being said, you know, I'm just thinking, OK, well I
• 47:45
  have multiple lighters, so I was thinking, OK, one lighter being.
• 47:47
  Found, you know, and he ended up.
• 47:48
  Another one he ended up this. Was an hour away from the
• 47:52
  dispensary. An hour away from the
• 47:54
  dispensary. And again, I don't know why he
• 47:55
  was in this town, but again, I was thinking, well, maybe he
• 47:58
  went down, he parked at the Y, he's like, OK, I'm going to go
• 48:01
  smoke this blunt real quick. And then maybe something
• 48:03
  happened there. But if he didn't even have the
• 48:05
  blunt, then I don't even know what he'd be doing out there,
• 48:07
  period. OK.
• 48:08
  Just a second. OK, we see beyond.
• 48:12
  Hello, the Illinois State University.
• 48:16
  Oh, oh, my bad. It wasn't on the screen yet.
• 48:18
  OK, so this is right here is Illinois State University.
• 48:26
  So he starts out there and he goes over here to beyond Hello
• 48:31
  and. How far are those away from each
• 48:34
  other? I think they're like 8 minutes
• 48:35
  away. So what I think the map.
• 48:40
  So then he leaves. He he sits in the parking lot
• 48:46
  for 5 minutes at beyond Hello and then he leaves and then he
• 48:51
  comes out this way and goes down here and this is where his phone
• 48:55
  is found is down here and then he goes all the way up here.
• 49:03
  Sorry, goes all the way up here and drives and an hour and 37
• 49:12
  minutes basically to the YMCYMC. A and he had a YMCMYMCA
• 49:21
  membership, do you remember? You know, I don't know if he had
• 49:25
  a YMCA membership, but I wouldn't.
• 49:27
  I wouldn't doubt it if he did because he was a swimmer and an
• 49:31
  athlete. Yeah.
• 49:33
  So that wouldn't surprise me at all.
• 49:35
  But that's kind of random that he would go over here and then
• 49:40
  down here and then back up and then up in all the way up here.
• 49:48
  It's a little odd, yeah. Yeah, and his family says that
• 49:51
  he doesn't know anybody up here. And as you said, it's supposedly
• 49:57
  a sundown town. And which?
• 50:00
  Is not friendly and. The place.
• 50:02
  That you would expect him to be at all.
• 50:04
  Yeah. And my husband actually he, he
• 50:08
  lived outside of Detroit, MI. He grew up around there and at a
• 50:16
  Detroit beach and it was predominantly, I think he said
• 50:21
  it was predominantly black. It was he was more of the
• 50:26
  minority in, in that area. And so when he moved to
• 50:33
  Missouri, we're not going to tell talk about the town, but
• 50:36
  when he moved to Missouri, he moved to this very small town.
• 50:41
  And it was a huge culture shock to him for one thing.
• 50:46
  And then for another, he found out that it was a sun downtown
• 50:50
  and he had no idea what that was.
• 50:52
  They didn't know what that was. They just had moved there
• 50:55
  because I believe his, his dad's friend lived in the area and so
• 51:01
  they wanted to be around each other.
• 51:02
  So, yeah, so he has a little bit of of experience with that and
• 51:10
  he said it can be pretty bad. And actually, Mariah, we do know
• 51:14
  who Dave Politis is. I have actually reached out to
• 51:17
  Dave Politis and asked him to be on his media manager I believe,
• 51:23
  or one of his guys has gotten back to me and they asked me for
• 51:30
  for my information and my stats and stuff.
• 51:32
  They're numbers guys, but that's OK.
• 51:34
  Yeah, and it's fine because he says he only does a couple of
• 51:38
  interviews a year. And so hopefully, you know, hey,
• 51:43
  get our numbers up and maybe we can get Dave Politis on here.
• 51:46
  See what we. Can do.
• 51:47
  But yeah, she definitely talks about them a decent bit.
• 51:49
  So we know who, we know who that.
• 51:51
  Is yes, I I love Dave Politis. So.
• 51:55
  So yeah, I just, I thought that that was just an interesting way
• 51:59
  to drive, you know? Especially when you don't know
• 52:02
  anybody in the area, at least nobody that anybody that you
• 52:06
  know knows about. And from what I understand, I
• 52:10
  don't think there's really any text messages that really
• 52:13
  indicated him going over there. Yeah, that's what I want to
• 52:17
  know. I want to know.
• 52:18
  What? They're really weird with the
• 52:19
  phone. I know I want to know what the
• 52:21
  GPS on the phone said because a kid like him, I'm going to call
• 52:27
  him a kid because he's a kid to me.
• 52:30
  You know, a kid like him leaving a university that he's not
• 52:34
  familiar with is going to put his GPS on to find out where
• 52:38
  he's going, unless he just decides to drive aimlessly.
• 52:43
  But as far as I know, that's not the type of person that that he
• 52:49
  was, you know, but we all do things randomly from time to
• 52:53
  time. So we can't say that it's out of
• 52:55
  the realm of possibility. But to go to a place that is a
• 53:01
  sun downtown now I did, I was wondering if he was walking
• 53:07
  around there, would he be noticed?
• 53:12
  And from all the research I did, it said that no, he wouldn't
• 53:16
  necessarily be noticed, especially if it was during the
• 53:20
  day. But the people that live there,
• 53:24
  like it's not like when they, it's not like, it's not like,
• 53:27
  you know, what do they call people like with dementia when
• 53:31
  they have like the sundowner thing?
• 53:32
  Like it's not like they like like a switch flips or something
• 53:36
  like, you know what I'm saying? Like it's not like a switch
• 53:38
  flips in their mind. As soon as like the phone goes
• 53:40
  down, if people are shitting in the area and they're prejudice,
• 53:43
  they're going to be prejudice day or night.
• 53:45
  They just might not act in the day.
• 53:47
  So I don't know how accurate that would be.
• 53:49
  No, no, I was just, yeah, I just did some research and it was
• 53:53
  just talking about that. There is quite a bit of traffic
• 53:56
  in that area. I think there's the university
• 53:58
  or something over there as well. So just even like in Dad's
• 54:03
  situation, you know, it was a small town next to an area with
• 54:08
  the university, but there's like so many universities in this
• 54:12
  area. It's we're really crazy.
• 54:15
  So but yeah, I, I just, I just wonder if the he was using his
• 54:20
  GPS, what he was doing. Hey, Cobb.
• 54:24
  And yeah. So that was just one thing that.
• 54:28
  Oh oh. Yeah, I got it.
• 54:31
  OK, you gotta keep. Talking.
• 54:33
  You're talking already. OK, so yeah, anyways, I was just
• 54:40
  wondering. I wouldn't go anywhere without
• 54:42
  Agps and you're going to have to find the.
• 54:45
  Yeah, his brother. Also over there on the side.
• 54:50
  OK, it's more confusing anyway, but his brother said I don't
• 54:55
  know what this is at. All.
• 54:57
  There you go. Am I even in the right spot?
• 55:01
  Just figure it. Out.
• 55:03
  Just keep talking. So yeah, I can't remember I was
• 55:09
  talking about, but yeah, from what I understand, at least in
• 55:14
  the 90s it was still very much happening as they were actually
• 55:21
  chasing people out of towns. So it was something that my
• 55:26
  husband had never experienced before.
• 55:29
  And yeah, we won't even talk about it 'cause it was crazy.
• 55:34
  OK. I think I found kind of where I
• 55:37
  was at. This might be a little bit
• 55:42
  inaccurate as to where I'm at, but it's at least like one page
• 55:45
  over and they generally have very similar information.
• 55:47
  So I'm just going to pick up where I think I left off about
• 55:52
  1515 hours or 1550 hours. I spoke with Jelani's ISU
• 55:56
  instructor. She advised me that another
• 55:58
  student spoke with Jelani after class on Monday.
• 56:00
  After about two PMI spoke briefly by phone who told me
• 56:04
  that Jelani was having difficulty finding his car that
• 56:07
  afternoon and that she had drove him around to help locate the
• 56:10
  vehicle. When she had.
• 56:11
  Jelani couldn't find the vehicle she dropped.
• 56:14
  She dropped Jelani back off by Fairchild Hall about 435 PMI
• 56:20
  received a call back from blank. She advised me that ISU was able
• 56:24
  to look up his computer logs. From the logs, it's believed
• 56:27
  that Jelani was last logged in at 6:59 AM on Tuesday morning.
• 56:32
  She also mentioned that Jelani was supposed to go over to
• 56:34
  health services that morning. So do you find it odd that he
• 56:38
  couldn't find his car? Yeah.
• 56:43
  That is a little odd, don't know why.
• 56:48
  I mean, he'd only been there for a few weeks I think.
• 56:53
  Yeah, I mean, I get lost all the time, but I don't know, maybe it
• 56:56
  was. I don't know, I don't know.
• 56:58
  I don't know, but later in the afternoon at 1654 hours,
• 57:03
  Bloomington PD dispatch received a call from Officer Mark Credit,
• 57:07
  Peru Police Department after Credit advised me that someone
• 57:11
  from the YMCA called in suspicious vehicle in about 1621
• 57:15
  hours. According to Officer Credit,
• 57:17
  White 2010 Chrysler 300 with no license plates is located in the
• 57:21
  woods South of the YMCA. Officer Credit explained that
• 57:25
  the vehicle was not in a normal parking lot area, but rather was
• 57:28
  down a hill in the brushwoods. Officer Cruddy mentioned that
• 57:32
  someone at the YMCA noticed the vehicle there the previous day
• 57:35
  but did not call in the vehicle at the time.
• 57:37
  Officer Cruddy told me that though the license plates had
• 57:40
  been stripped off the vehicle, they were able to run the VIN
• 57:42
  number to determine the vehicle was associated with missing
• 57:45
  person Jelani Day. Officer Cruddy advised me that
• 57:48
  they locate some luggage in the back, see the vehicle outside
• 57:52
  the vehicles. Officers located a face mask, a
• 57:54
  lighter, and a coin next to the driver's door.
• 57:57
  Officer Officer Cuddy advised me that Detective Brad Jones was
• 58:01
  responding to the scene to determine if there was any foul
• 58:04
  play. In about 17-11 hours I requested
• 58:08
  BPD Dispatch to contact Verizon requesting that they ping
• 58:11
  Jelani's phone or provide us the last known location of Jelani's
• 58:16
  cell phone. At about 1748 hours.
• 58:20
  TC Barb Pinkaman advised me that his last location for Blank was
• 58:24
  about one point or was about .19 miles north northeast of the
• 58:28
  following GPS coordinates. The last ping was about O 921
• 58:33
  hours on 8/24/21. It's a place the device near the
• 58:36
  intersection of Veterans Parkway and GE Rd. at 09/21 hours on O
• 58:42
  8/24/2021. Later in the night at about two
• 58:46
  or 2120 hours I responded to 300 Walnut St.
• 58:49
  Peru, IL with Detective Schwarzen Truber, OK Schwarzen
• 58:56
  Truber and a crime scene detective Tim Marble.
• 59:01
  Upon our arrival, we met with the with Detective Brad Jones
• 59:05
  who showed us a scene where the vehicle was located.
• 59:09
  Detective Brad Jones advised us that they conducted A canine
• 59:12
  track from the vehicle to attempt the location of to
• 59:15
  attempt location of Jelani Day. Detective Jones also mentioned
• 59:19
  that the Utica Oglesby Ground Search team responded and
• 59:22
  conducted the ground search of the area.
• 59:25
  Further, they completed drone aerial searches with Peru and
• 59:28
  Utica Utica fire drones. Ultimately, Jelani Day was not
• 59:32
  located in the area. Detective Brad Jones told me
• 59:35
  that he was advised by responding officers at the YMCA.
• 59:38
  Cameras did not capture the area where Jelani's vehicle was
• 59:42
  found. I think that his mom implied
• 59:46
  that they said that they just didn't work at all the cameras,
• 59:49
  Not just that they didn't pick up Jelani, but that they just
• 59:51
  didn't work, which is a little odd.
• 59:53
  Why would a business, especially a business that has so many
• 59:57
  families, so many people coming in and out?
• 1:00:00
  It was farther behind in a wooded area behind the YMCA.
• 1:00:05
  But I thought she would imply that the cameras just didn't
• 1:00:07
  work at all. I could be wrong, don't quote me
• 1:00:11
  that or quote me on that as like the word of God, but I think I
• 1:00:13
  recall her saying that the cameras just weren't working
• 1:00:15
  period. So I could be wrong again.
• 1:00:18
  But that's what I feel like I remember anyway.
• 1:00:24
  The top. OK, gotcha.
• 1:00:27
  BPD Crime scene Detective Marvel processed the area surrounding
• 1:00:30
  the vehicle. We determined that that as
• 1:00:33
  Jolani was still missing, we Bloomington PD would have the
• 1:00:36
  vehicle towed to the Sally Port of the Bloomington Police
• 1:00:40
  Department and would apply for a search warrant to search the
• 1:00:42
  vehicle. I contacted Bloomington dispatch
• 1:00:45
  and requested they send Joe's Towing to our location to have
• 1:00:48
  the vehicle towed back to the Sally port.
• 1:00:50
  It should be noted that while we are waiting for Joe's Towing to
• 1:00:53
  arrive, I learned that a news article had surfaced linking
• 1:00:56
  this missing person case to the ground search that was conducted
• 1:00:59
  in the Peru, IL area. As I did not wish to lose
• 1:01:02
  credibility with Jelani's family, I contacted Jelani's mom
• 1:01:07
  to inform her that Jelani's vehicle had been located in
• 1:01:09
  Peru. She advised me that she and
• 1:01:12
  several family members were already already on their way up
• 1:01:15
  to Peru at about 2315 hours and several of her family members
• 1:01:20
  arrived at the YMCA just north of Blank.
• 1:01:23
  I was wearing a department issue body worn camera when I spoke
• 1:01:27
  with Jelani's family. The BWC footage was later
• 1:01:31
  uploaded to evidence.com. It just tells you how to view
• 1:01:35
  the video footage. While speaking with Jelani's
• 1:01:38
  family, she reminded me that Jelani took a trip to Houston
• 1:01:42
  over his past weekend. I later learned that the trip
• 1:01:45
  was from Friday 8/20/21 to Sunday 8/22/21.
• 1:01:50
  I she mentioned that before Jelani went on his trip to
• 1:01:53
  Houston, he mentioned feeling weird vibes from two of his best
• 1:01:56
  friends. I don't remember hearing about
• 1:01:58
  that. That's weird.
• 1:02:00
  Jelani, according to his mother, I believe, felt like they were
• 1:02:04
  plotting against him. I don't know why I don't
• 1:02:07
  remember. Hearing about that, I think it
• 1:02:08
  was his sister. I think he told his sister this.
• 1:02:11
  Oh, I'm not sure. Said that OK one of his family
• 1:02:15
  members. Regardless, when I asked why he
• 1:02:17
  thought that, she told me that Jelani had dreamt about it.
• 1:02:21
  OK. She later identified these
• 1:02:25
  friends as Blank and Blank, who was known as a bunch of redacted
• 1:02:31
  stuff in Danville, IL told me she asked Jelani if he had a
• 1:02:35
  falling out with them. Jelani allegedly responding by
• 1:02:38
  telling Blank that no, they did not have a falling out.
• 1:02:42
  Blank also wanted me to know that she spoke with one of her
• 1:02:45
  cousins since Jelani was missing.
• 1:02:49
  Was allegedly. I don't see what that says.
• 1:02:51
  Oh oh gotcha. Allegedly told by 1 of Jelani's
• 1:02:54
  friends that he and Jelani had purchased more weed than usual
• 1:02:58
  either this last Sunday or the Sunday before.
• 1:03:01
  From speaking with Jelani's family, I learned that the large
• 1:03:03
  amount of weed for Jelani is still a fairly insignificant
• 1:03:06
  amount and that he was not selling the cannabis.
• 1:03:08
  As far as they are aware, it's a legal state.
• 1:03:10
  That would be dumb. Anyway, I asked Jelani's family
• 1:03:13
  if he went to Houston for the purpose of picking up a large
• 1:03:16
  amount of weed. I was advised that Jelani did
• 1:03:18
  not pick up any weed while in Houston.
• 1:03:20
  Also I just want to state the fact that it was a black man
• 1:03:23
  picking up weed might have a lot to do with why they're not
• 1:03:26
  taking it seriously. Obviously we want to totally say
• 1:03:30
  that it doesn't matter what substances you take or anything.
• 1:03:34
  And especially weed in a weed legal state.
• 1:03:37
  Completely recreational. People in Illinois smoke the
• 1:03:39
  hell out of weed, and people in Missouri smoke the hell out of
• 1:03:42
  weed too. OK.
• 1:03:43
  So I mean, I'm just, I am coming up.
• 1:03:48
  I'm putting that on somebody. You know, I don't know for sure,
• 1:03:52
  but I'm willing to bet that him being a black man that had some
• 1:03:56
  weed on him made them think a certain type of way about him,
• 1:04:00
  which smoking weed doesn't make you any different.
• 1:04:04
  It's fucking ridiculous. I'm sorry for using language on
• 1:04:07
  your stream, but it's it's ridiculous.
• 1:04:09
  And again, I'm kind of projecting here.
• 1:04:12
  I don't know if this is really what's going on, but I just see
• 1:04:14
  it as something that would be a potential and we all know how
• 1:04:18
  police can be. I'm not saying every single
• 1:04:19
  person that has ever been a police officer is the worst
• 1:04:21
  person in the world, but systematically.
• 1:04:25
  Even when it comes to white people, if they have a mental
• 1:04:33
  illness or they have any kind of drugs on them or, or anything
• 1:04:40
  like that, they will just ignore it or do as little as possible.
• 1:04:46
  And so, yeah, it's unfortunate. It's like your life doesn't
• 1:04:51
  matter. Yeah, it's it's ridiculous.
• 1:04:53
  Yeah, tattoos and piercings. Tattoos and piercings?
• 1:04:56
  Oop, I'm screwed anyway. So Detective Brad Jones asked
• 1:05:04
  Jelani's family if he was having any mental health challenges or
• 1:05:07
  if he had had any mental health challenges in the past.
• 1:05:10
  The family did not believe so, but commented on his large
• 1:05:12
  workload, clinical schedule, and the fact that he recently picked
• 1:05:16
  up a part time job at Outback Steakhouse.
• 1:05:19
  Jelani's family did mention that he was hired at Outback, but he
• 1:05:22
  didn't show up twice. As he failed to show up, he did
• 1:05:25
  not keep the job. I later learned from the
• 1:05:27
  Bloomington YMCA Director of Operations that Jelani was also
• 1:05:31
  hired at the YMCA in Bloomington, IL back in April
• 1:05:35
  when Jelani did not show up for training on his first day of
• 1:05:37
  work, he and Jelani agree that the job would likely not be a
• 1:05:40
  good fit for him. So it seems like he might have
• 1:05:43
  actually been going through some stuff.
• 1:05:44
  But regardless, that doesn't mean you're necessarily going to
• 1:05:48
  take your life, especially in such a random place, in such a
• 1:05:52
  weird way. I don't think that Jelani seemed
• 1:05:54
  like the type of person to be like, you know what?
• 1:05:57
  I'm going to take my own life and on top of that I'm going to
• 1:06:00
  leave a little trail of bread crumbs to confuse people.
• 1:06:03
  Well, yeah. And on top of that, he loved his
• 1:06:05
  family so much that I genuine, I genuinely don't unless I see
• 1:06:11
  something different. As of right now, I, I, I see
• 1:06:14
  that he's having issues and it could just be issues settling in
• 1:06:19
  because, you know, he's moving to a new town, a new apt, a new
• 1:06:24
  school, and his dad sick. So, yeah, I mean, there's a lot
• 1:06:32
  going on, but some of us have gone through a lot and still
• 1:06:38
  keep on trucking. So I can't say that, you know,
• 1:06:43
  that would all of that would cause him to take his life.
• 1:06:48
  And the fact that he his dad was depending on him and his family
• 1:06:52
  was depending on him leads me to believe that he wouldn't do
• 1:06:58
  that. But unless I see something
• 1:07:00
  different. Again, I don't believe that he
• 1:07:02
  would do it just by the way that it seems he cared about his
• 1:07:04
  family and not to say that somebody that takes their own
• 1:07:07
  life doesn't care about their family.
• 1:07:09
  That being said, again, worst case scenario that he was going
• 1:07:13
  to take his life. It doesn't strike me.
• 1:07:15
  He doesn't strike me as the kind of person that again, would RIP
• 1:07:18
  off his license plate, drive, you know, an hour and a half
• 1:07:22
  north of where he was at. And then, you know, throw his
• 1:07:27
  phone on the side of the highway all the way back past where the
• 1:07:32
  dispensary even was and then throw his wallet, I think
• 1:07:36
  potentially in somebody's yard. Like I I think he would at least
• 1:07:41
  leave a note or make it very obvious what had happened.
• 1:07:45
  If very worst case scenario, it just it sounds absolutely.
• 1:07:48
  Ridiculous. Well, and the fact that his the
• 1:07:51
  car that he was driving was his grandfather's car and it was
• 1:07:55
  really special to him. And so I believe that if he were
• 1:08:00
  going to take his life, he would make sure that that car would be
• 1:08:05
  able to be found so that somebody in his family would be
• 1:08:09
  able to. Take care of it not in the
• 1:08:11
  middle of the woods with license plates ripped off and a random
• 1:08:15
  license plate in the trunk. Yeah, it is weird.
• 1:08:17
  Do they know whose license plate it?
• 1:08:18
  Is but no, but some people say that it may have been from the
• 1:08:23
  person who owned it before, you know when he took off the.
• 1:08:27
  I have had actually a previous license plate in my car before.
• 1:08:32
  Yeah. OK, so again, I'm not saying,
• 1:08:35
  yeah, anyway, we're already an hour in.
• 1:08:39
  I don't even think we're going to get to a lot of the stuff.
• 1:08:41
  But I do want to say that's the only reason why I asked earlier
• 1:08:44
  about if we were going to read through page by page instead of,
• 1:08:47
  you know, certain things. But that being said, maybe we'll
• 1:08:51
  get a little bit more to it next week whenever we talk to his
• 1:08:54
  family. But it seems like there was a
• 1:08:57
  lot of weird stuff happening with the coroner.
• 1:09:01
  They, I actually think he was a forensic pathologist and then
• 1:09:06
  there was a coroner and then there was somebody else.
• 1:09:07
  But they got three different autopsies on his body.
• 1:09:11
  And the difference between the first one and the last two are
• 1:09:18
  night and day differences. And it seems like the first
• 1:09:21
  autopsy, the guy who performed that is really the only person
• 1:09:26
  who seems to imply drowning or suicide.
• 1:09:30
  It seems that there was no water found in his lungs, his body was
• 1:09:35
  completely attacked, teeth were knocked out of his skull and
• 1:09:41
  even whenever they transferred to the second and third people
• 1:09:46
  that would do the autopsy his I think they said his pancreas was
• 1:09:50
  missing or maybe it was a spleen and his like head was cut open
• 1:09:55
  in a weird way. And it seems like a lot of the
• 1:09:59
  ways that he was operated on post mortem were completely
• 1:10:02
  contradictory to any other way that anybody else would
• 1:10:06
  traditionally be operated on or looked into.
• 1:10:12
  So it's just some weird stuff. And then also, it seems, and I
• 1:10:15
  think there are actually some documents on this, but it looks
• 1:10:19
  like there might have been a group chat between different
• 1:10:24
  coroners and people of that nature in the area.
• 1:10:26
  And I think they had some sort of an association.
• 1:10:29
  I wish I remember exactly what it was off the top of my head,
• 1:10:31
  but the president of that group requested that they do like AI
• 1:10:39
  guess a peer review or just a giant review between all of them
• 1:10:43
  to look into Jelani specifically because things just seem so
• 1:10:48
  weird. And he was actually denied.
• 1:10:51
  They said no. And this guy was the president
• 1:10:53
  of whatever organization it was. And then on top of that, he
• 1:10:57
  actually ended up resigning from his position and saying that the
• 1:11:00
  reason why he resigned from his position was because he felt
• 1:11:03
  like there was foul play involved with Jelani Day's case
• 1:11:06
  and felt like the police officers and everybody that are
• 1:11:10
  supposed to be investigating and helping the family were up to no
• 1:11:13
  good. Yeah.
• 1:11:14
  And we want to make sure that, you know, we don't blame people,
• 1:11:19
  but at the same time, we want to hold them accountable.
• 1:11:22
  I'm not. Saying anyone specifically did
• 1:11:24
  anything. I'm not saying they're involved
• 1:11:26
  in it, but they're definitely being negligent.
• 1:11:29
  Yeah, at the very least. OK, So Joy, I think this, I
• 1:11:33
  think this is the area where his car was found.
• 1:11:37
  So it's just this area that's behind the YMCA is up here, so
• 1:11:46
  kind. OF looks like a little parking
• 1:11:48
  spot if someone might want to go on a little hike and smoke.
• 1:11:52
  And so I think he had to like walk that way or something like
• 1:11:58
  that to get to it. But so, yeah, the the YMCA is up
• 1:12:03
  this road and then you turn and then you turn right back into
• 1:12:08
  the YMCA. Potentially he was thinking
• 1:12:10
  about getting out smoking. Someone stopped.
• 1:12:12
  Him, yeah, but why would he drive an hour and a half and
• 1:12:17
  then smoke is blunt there, not take it with him and then walk
• 1:12:23
  off? Was it partially smoked?
• 1:12:25
  Yeah, it, it had been smoked. Yeah, it had been smoked.
• 1:12:29
  Also, I don't know if there's any like, hard evidence on this,
• 1:12:33
  but Jelani's mother, in reviewing the security camera
• 1:12:37
  footage from the dispensary. Hello.
• 1:12:41
  What was it beyond the hello? Gotcha.
• 1:12:46
  So anyway, she said that at least to her, it looked like
• 1:12:50
  there could have been sorry. My dog's moving around on me and
• 1:12:55
  he's hurting me. I don't have anything you can
• 1:12:57
  crawl underneath anyway. But it seems, what was I even
• 1:13:02
  saying? Sorry, he distracted me.
• 1:13:05
  Oh yeah, she said that she thought that he had some.
• 1:13:09
  Got it. Sorry.
• 1:13:12
  It looked like there might have been a shadow in the car in the
• 1:13:14
  passenger seat. So there's no evidence to prove
• 1:13:18
  that there definitively was somebody in the passenger seat
• 1:13:20
  or not. It seems like everybody else
• 1:13:22
  didn't really think that, but she definitely thought that.
• 1:13:24
  Let's look like that. I'm gonna find that video.
• 1:13:30
  Hold on. I had it pulled up earlier but
• 1:13:33
  it looks looks like here it is. How was the foot this footage?
• 1:13:41
  I guess we'll decide for ourselves.
• 1:13:44
  OK. This is the footage from Beyond
• 1:13:47
  Hello, Which again was the the dispensary that he was at.
• 1:14:00
  Yeah, that's his car. OK, that's one.
• 1:14:12
  It's coming.
• 1:14:36
  Yes. So he doesn't like park off, you
• 1:14:51
  know, off away from anybody because those are two handicap
• 1:14:55
  spots. Yeah, so.
• 1:14:57
  And he's parked at an angle to where I don't know if I'd be
• 1:15:01
  able to see if there's a shadow on that car.
• 1:15:05
  God, it's really sad seeing some of these last moments.
• 1:15:07
  I know. My heart really goes out to his
• 1:15:10
  loved one. Kind of reminds me of Phil, the
• 1:15:12
  way he's dressed and walking that way.
• 1:15:14
  Anyway, OK. Is this inside the dispenser?
• 1:15:25
  Yep. They got a lot of rules and
• 1:15:46
  dispensaries. You have to look at the cameras.
• 1:15:49
  That's why the video footage of him or the still of him looking
• 1:15:54
  up at the camera that was released and everybody thought
• 1:15:58
  he looked like he was in distress, No.
• 1:16:00
  How it is in Illinois because I don't do that in Missouri with
• 1:16:04
  the camera. They do it at different ones, it
• 1:16:07
  all depends. So at the beyond, how low it
• 1:16:10
  does it, there's some in Springfield that do it.
• 1:16:14
  So it it just all depends on on the place you go.
• 1:16:21
  So he was browsing, he was shopping, he wasn't in a hurry.
• 1:16:27
  He was. Yeah, he wasn't like, OK, get
• 1:16:30
  this for me and let's get out of here.
• 1:16:31
  Yeah, he wasn't like, oh, just give me whatever is the best you
• 1:16:37
  think it is. That's.
• 1:16:37
  Kind of what I do surprise me. And he's just casually standing
• 1:16:44
  there. He's not agitated.
• 1:16:46
  He's not. Doesn't look anxious.
• 1:16:48
  No, nothing, He looks. I mean, obviously you can hide
• 1:16:52
  some things, but it just seems like he's.
• 1:16:54
  Yeah, but a normal day if if you have a plan to this is going to
• 1:16:58
  be your last hurrah first, I would think you would get
• 1:17:01
  edibles if you're if this was going to be your last hurrah
• 1:17:04
  instead of, you know, just a, a blunt, you know, But hey, that's
• 1:17:10
  just me speaking. So.
• 1:17:12
  But you never know how someone's going to look at their final
• 1:17:14
  moments. Yeah, I know my best friend.
• 1:17:16
  Posted pictures of him smiling and stuff you know.
• 1:17:19
  No, I know, I know, I know too well.
• 1:17:27
  And this was during COVID, so he had his mask on.
• 1:17:38
  But yeah, he just gets 1, you know, he pays cash for it, if I
• 1:17:43
  remember correctly. So.
• 1:17:58
  I don't know, it just doesn't seem it.
• 1:18:01
  Seems like a normal interaction. Yeah, but then again, you never
• 1:18:09
  know. I didn't see him do a little
• 1:18:18
  look up with the camera, but that's probably because there's
• 1:18:20
  like normally 2. Normally if anybody hasn't been
• 1:18:23
  to a dispensary, I haven't been to any in Illinois, but just
• 1:18:26
  speaking from experience, normally you'll go into like 1
• 1:18:28
  little room, you'll kind of get checked in or whatever and then
• 1:18:31
  they'll send you back to the room where they actually have
• 1:18:33
  the goods. And then they have to do like
• 1:18:35
  double checks and stuff. And they're very, they're very,
• 1:18:39
  there's a lot of, there's a lot of different rules to it.
• 1:18:50
  So this is a 6 minute and 15 yeah, 6 minute and 15 second
• 1:18:54
  video. And supposedly this where he
• 1:18:59
  gets into his car is where he wipes his phone or or shuts his
• 1:19:04
  phone off or whatever it seems. But I think he even like wiped
• 1:19:09
  his phone, like erase stuff off of his phone or something like
• 1:19:12
  that. He did.
• 1:19:14
  Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what can felons buy in a
• 1:19:21
  recreational state. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:19:25
  They're big customers, yeah. I think guns and sometimes
• 1:19:33
  voting, I think those are pretty much the only things that are
• 1:19:36
  off limits. Off.
• 1:19:36
  Yeah, and they're trying to change the voting, I think.
• 1:19:39
  They should. I think they should change the
• 1:19:41
  voting. I think they should too.
• 1:19:44
  I still think the gun should be off limits, especially for
• 1:19:47
  violent crimes, or at least for violent crimes.
• 1:19:50
  But I think if you're a citizen of the United States, it did
• 1:19:54
  your crime, it did your time. Yeah, but so he just sits here
• 1:19:59
  this whole time and they say that's when he's wiping his
• 1:20:02
  phone or he's doing whatever, you know, but.
• 1:20:08
  Why would he do that? Why would he I?
• 1:20:10
  Saw him reach over, I see like a shadow of some sort but it looks
• 1:20:14
  like he's just maybe grabbing something.
• 1:20:16
  I don't know if I see somebody leaning over the other way
• 1:20:19
  though. Yeah, he had stuff in his.
• 1:20:22
  Yeah, I know. I'm just looking that's.
• 1:20:23
  Yeah, no. Looking at observing because his
• 1:20:26
  mom had said that she thought that she saw something in the
• 1:20:28
  passenger side. But I don't know if it
• 1:20:31
  necessarily looks like his hands up to somebody or if he's
• 1:20:33
  getting some out of the glove box or putting it in the seat
• 1:20:36
  beside him, or anybody at home sees anything that stands out.
• 1:20:44
  Please let us know. Yeah, Joy, the Google data, I'm
• 1:20:49
  not even sure about the phone. I don't think that they he had
• 1:20:52
  an iPhone and so I don't know, they can't, they weren't able to
• 1:20:58
  get into the phone. His mom actually was watching a
• 1:21:02
  video of him at the university when he was going into a
• 1:21:09
  building or something. I think it wasn't a Starbucks.
• 1:21:11
  Yeah, it was in a Starbucks at the university or something like
• 1:21:14
  that. And he was putting in his code,
• 1:21:19
  but no one realized it. And his mom, you know, realized
• 1:21:23
  that and sent that over to the FBI.
• 1:21:25
  And then it took like 11 days for them to open the the phone
• 1:21:29
  and see what was in there. So I'm not sure, I'm not sure
• 1:21:35
  what they know about the phone and what's on the phone because
• 1:21:39
  I think. Well, the way it seemed, I, I
• 1:21:42
  don't know much about technology, so I'm not going to
• 1:21:45
  explain this, right. I, I never really explained
• 1:21:47
  anything, right. But anyway, but it seemed like
• 1:21:51
  they were saying that there was some kind of a program that they
• 1:21:53
  might have used to get the data off the phone and they're not
• 1:21:56
  actually physically on the phone and they were looking at stuff.
• 1:21:59
  Yeah, because it was. Destroyed.
• 1:22:01
  Destroyed. Gotcha.
• 1:22:03
  But I mean, it seems like there was a little bit in the phone
• 1:22:06
  that you could gain access to. And his brother said, or
• 1:22:10
  Jelani's brother had said that he used Google Maps a lot.
• 1:22:14
  And he's like, hey, check his Google Maps, check his Google
• 1:22:17
  Maps, see if you know where the last few places he had put in
• 1:22:19
  there were. And, you know, the guy ended up
• 1:22:25
  having a conversation with his mother and was like, there's
• 1:22:27
  nothing on the phone. There's nothing on the phone.
• 1:22:28
  And you know, according to her, she said that he literally
• 1:22:32
  screamed at her and said there's nothing on the fucking phone,
• 1:22:36
  which, I'm sorry, nothing on the phone or not.
• 1:22:39
  Even if every single concern that she has is invalid, that is
• 1:22:42
  not how you speak to, well, 1A member of the public, but two.
• 1:22:49
  Oh, just a concerned mother who's trying to figure out why
• 1:22:52
  her son was washed up in the Illinois River.
• 1:22:54
  Yeah, she's. A victim.
• 1:22:56
  Yeah, when dad heard that last night, he's like, that's normal
• 1:22:59
  for small towns. Yeah, well, that's the.
• 1:23:02
  Reason why, you know, that's the reason why a lot of people don't
• 1:23:08
  like the police. So you know, we need reform for
• 1:23:13
  sure in the very least. I don't know what the answer is,
• 1:23:16
  but not that not. That OK, so he's leaving.
• 1:23:19
  Leaving now. Do we see anything in the?
• 1:23:22
  It doesn't look like there's anybody in there.
• 1:23:24
  Well, there's something there. Maybe something was a little.
• 1:23:30
  I kind of look if I'm reaching, grasping for straws, it looks
• 1:23:34
  like if you look like someone might have put their head back.
• 1:23:38
  But there's nobody like sitting up like this.
• 1:23:41
  But that's just play devil's advocate.
• 1:23:43
  I don't know. OK, so we're looking, I don't
• 1:23:46
  know if it's a week ago frame by frame, but you don't really see
• 1:23:48
  anything. Of course, the glare.
• 1:23:51
  And then a little bit more right there, you see there's a little
• 1:23:57
  black thing right there. I don't know if that black dot
• 1:24:01
  shadow is like like I don't know if that's a head.
• 1:24:05
  That could just be Jelani. He would.
• 1:24:08
  He was a little bit more over here, though he was leaning a
• 1:24:11
  little more forward. So you can like, see, look
• 1:24:13
  around and then back here. Yeah.
• 1:24:15
  Yeah. You see.
• 1:24:17
  Right. So sorry, I'm off camera kind of
• 1:24:21
  pointing with my literal finger. But you see right here, like
• 1:24:25
  hold up right there. There's like a little black dot.
• 1:24:28
  And I think Jelani's more over here because he's kind of
• 1:24:32
  leaning forward. And again, I'm not saying this
• 1:24:34
  is anything but if that, you know, if the mother thinks she
• 1:24:37
  saw something like right here, maybe, maybe it could just be
• 1:24:47
  grasping for straws. But can't wait to see.
• 1:24:52
  It's hard to tell. There really is no definitive.
• 1:24:55
  Doesn't look like anybody's in the passenger seat, but.
• 1:25:00
  I'm thinking probably not, but I wanted to give it at least a
• 1:25:05
  look. Is that about all?
• 1:25:09
  Yeah. Not going to show anything else
• 1:25:11
  because he won't come back. OK.
• 1:25:14
  Oh, is this just kind of similar, showing his vehicle or
• 1:25:18
  is this leaving? OK, make it a little.
• 1:25:31
  Yeah, I don't really see anything.
• 1:25:33
  There at all. Nobody's there.
• 1:25:35
  It doesn't doesn't seem like that to me, but right there you
• 1:25:44
  see like maybe it's just the just the but it kinda yeah, I
• 1:25:53
  don't know. Now, we do need to mention that
• 1:26:02
  there was unknown male DNA found in Joanni's waistband of the his
• 1:26:09
  pants. Really.
• 1:26:12
  Yeah. I didn't realize that.
• 1:26:15
  Yeah. I somehow missed that.
• 1:26:19
  That seems suspicious, not to speculate doing no Jelani's
• 1:26:29
  orientation or hasn't been identified doesn't really
• 1:26:34
  matter. No, I have no idea.
• 1:26:36
  OK. We got lost again.
• 1:26:38
  Yeah, it changes every time you get off of there.
• 1:26:41
  We're looking for our documents. Sorry guys, but yeah, I'm not
• 1:26:45
  trying to speculate on that whatsoever whatsoever.
• 1:26:48
  I would imagine. He but I'm it doesn't give me
• 1:26:51
  that vibe, but regardless, it seems suspicious to me.
• 1:26:57
  He didn't have any roommates or anything, did he?
• 1:27:00
  You said it was unknown DNA, right?
• 1:27:02
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:27:03
  So it didn't bring up when you put it into oh, not CODIS.
• 1:27:06
  What's the other one? Gedmatch.
• 1:27:09
  Well, I don't know if they put it in Gedmatch.
• 1:27:12
  Probably not, because it doesn't seem like they're really doing
• 1:27:14
  anything, but they said it's unidentified, so maybe they
• 1:27:17
  tried identified. I don't know.
• 1:27:19
  Again, not to speculate too much.
• 1:27:21
  OK, you're a little pause scratch me and it hurts.
• 1:27:23
  OK, Did we read about the Starbucks?
• 1:27:28
  No. I.
• 1:27:32
  Know just update for everybody. We are on military broadcast
• 1:27:36
  radio, so we are only able to stream at least on a regular
• 1:27:41
  time on the radio station for two hour increments.
• 1:27:45
  We are at the about 1 1/2 hour mark, so there's a lot of
• 1:27:48
  information we're not going to be able to cover.
• 1:27:50
  But we will be speaking to Jelani's family next week, and
• 1:27:55
  if we can't cover all the bases between this episode and the
• 1:27:59
  next episode, we will probably do a follow up episode and
• 1:28:02
  actually get you guys all up to speed on exactly everything
• 1:28:04
  that's going on. Clearly, you know, we're only
• 1:28:08
  going to get so far in like a 206 page document and a two hour
• 1:28:13
  time frame, especially when I'm trying to add a little bit of
• 1:28:15
  context. But I feel like the context
• 1:28:17
  we've added is important. It's stuff you need to know.
• 1:28:19
  Yeah, no, I think it's going well.
• 1:28:21
  And you know, like I said, don't, don't expect, you know, a
• 1:28:27
  fluid. I can't even speak.
• 1:28:29
  Presentation. You manifest it.
• 1:28:34
  That being said, though, yeah, so we're just trying to get a
• 1:28:39
  base of kind of what happened. And I just want to very.
• 1:28:42
  I just really want to make sure that Jelani's story and Jelani
• 1:28:47
  as a person does not get lost in all of the court documents.
• 1:28:52
  Because so often, you know, we especially people that pay
• 1:28:56
  attention to true crime, it's kind of salacious, you know, we
• 1:29:00
  get up caught up in The Dirty details and you know, the mind
• 1:29:04
  of a killer and all this stuff. And that just doesn't apply
• 1:29:08
  here. We're not going to let him just
• 1:29:10
  be another person that, you know, that.
• 1:29:14
  I mean, there's so many people that, you know, pass away, go
• 1:29:17
  missing, have horrible things happen to them everyday.
• 1:29:20
  And, you know, people do mukbangs and talk about their
• 1:29:27
  deaths and talk about the brutal things and they laugh and I'm
• 1:29:31
  sorry. Well, I laugh when I'm nervous.
• 1:29:33
  Well, yeah. So it's OK for that, but you
• 1:29:36
  know what I'm saying? Like people just kind of treat
• 1:29:38
  things like a joke. And I'm not here trying to like,
• 1:29:39
  you know, morally grandstand or anything like that, But we just
• 1:29:43
  want to make sure that to our best, the best of our ability,
• 1:29:49
  that we try and do Jelani's case justice.
• 1:29:51
  Again, this is a small channel and you know, our reach isn't
• 1:29:54
  that far, but every single eye that we can get on this case or
• 1:29:58
  any case really is very helpful. So we appreciate everybody for
• 1:30:03
  watching this. We OK, let's get a little bit
• 1:30:08
  more back into this. Again, I just wanted to clarify
• 1:30:10
  that we will be having more information come out.
• 1:30:13
  We will be speaking more about, you know, just everything,
• 1:30:17
  whether it be Jelani as a person, some more of the details
• 1:30:20
  of the crime scene, stuff like that.
• 1:30:22
  But you know, we're kind of got to make our way through.
• 1:30:25
  Oh, you're presenting it again. Gotcha.
• 1:30:30
  Does that say Limewire? Yes.
• 1:30:33
  I'm sorry, I was just saying something about laughing and I'm
• 1:30:36
  laughing. Sorry I haven't seen Limewire in
• 1:30:37
  a while. I know I laughed when I saw it.
• 1:30:39
  I was like. OK, you don't have any hope.
• 1:30:43
  You don't get any viruses from this Limewire, Notorious or
• 1:30:46
  viruses. Scan it's scanned it, I don't
• 1:30:49
  know. All right, Not saying anything
• 1:30:51
  about these documents in particular, just Limewire.
• 1:30:53
  If you know, you know, right? OK.
• 1:30:56
  I hope this is kind of where we're at.
• 1:31:04
  I met with Assistant State's Attorney Aaron Hornsby, who
• 1:31:07
  assisted me in drafting A complaint for a search warrant
• 1:31:10
  to search Jelani Days White 2010 Chrysler 300 bearing the
• 1:31:15
  following VIN number. ASA Hornsby also assisted me in
• 1:31:19
  drafting A complaint for search warrant for cellular records
• 1:31:22
  from Verizon corresponding to Jelani's Verizon number.
• 1:31:27
  ASA Hornsby and I met with the Honorable Judge Sarah Duffy who
• 1:31:31
  reviewed the complaint and search warrant.
• 1:31:33
  Judge Jaffe. Judge Duffy.
• 1:31:35
  Sorry, Judge Duffy signed both complaints and search warrants
• 1:31:40
  at about at about 14 O 3 hours. Upon returning to the Police
• 1:31:44
  Department, I scanned the complaint and search warrant for
• 1:31:46
  Jelani's vehicle as APDF document.
• 1:31:49
  I uploaded the PDF copy of the documents to evidence.com and
• 1:31:53
  associated the PDF with case number to view the PDF and it
• 1:32:00
  just shows you how to look at it.
• 1:32:03
  I provided a copy copy of the search warrant to Detective
• 1:32:06
  Marvel. You're going to be going to do
• 1:32:08
  that, sorry. In the forensic lab prior to the
• 1:32:11
  execution of the warrant, I packaged original documents as
• 1:32:14
  evidence and submitted the evidence to CID locker number
• 1:32:17
  45. I scanned the complaint search
• 1:32:19
  warrant for Verizon records as the PDF document.
• 1:32:24
  It's just a bunch of technical speak and details and addresses.
• 1:32:29
  OK, let's see. On Thursday, 8/26/21, at
• 1:32:32
  approximately 1933 hours, I was contacted off duty via telephone
• 1:32:36
  by Sergeant Todd McCluskey. McCluskey.
• 1:32:41
  By Todd. Sergeant Todd, I'm not trying
• 1:32:46
  to, I'm not trying to be funny, I promise, I promise.
• 1:32:49
  In regards to my assistance in responding to Peru, IL to assist
• 1:32:55
  in photographing and processing a vehicle related to a missing
• 1:32:59
  person investigation. Also, according to Jelani's
• 1:33:02
  family, it seems like they weren't bagging things or
• 1:33:05
  marking things properly in this vehicle whenever they did take
• 1:33:07
  pictures and did collect evidence, and it seems like they
• 1:33:13
  were more so checking a lot of stuff that he would have touched
• 1:33:16
  rather than if a passenger would have touched.
• 1:33:18
  Again, from the video that we saw, it doesn't look like he had
• 1:33:22
  a passenger in the car, but anything can happen within that
• 1:33:25
  hour and a half drive. That's assuming it was even a
• 1:33:28
  straight drive right there, you know, no stops or anything, so
• 1:33:32
  who knows. Again, I'm not saying you know
• 1:33:34
  one thing happened or another, but I just thought it was
• 1:33:36
  something worth noting. Sorry, we're.
• 1:33:38
  Pumping chairs anyway. OK, so upon my arrival at the
• 1:33:44
  Bloomington Police Department, I met with Detective Paul Jones
• 1:33:47
  and Detective Josh Schwartz and Truber.
• 1:33:50
  They're really not making this easy on me.
• 1:33:52
  OK, who briefed me on circumstances known to this
• 1:33:54
  point? I was advised in Peru, IL
• 1:33:57
  police. I was advised that Peru, IL
• 1:33:59
  Police Department had located a vehicle which belongs to the
• 1:34:03
  missing person, Jelani Day, in a secluded wooded area near the
• 1:34:06
  Peru YMCA. The vehicle was unoccupied and
• 1:34:10
  the license plates had been removed.
• 1:34:12
  I drove to the YMCA at 300 Walnut, Peru, IL.
• 1:34:15
  The address of 300 Walnut, Peru, IL is a YMCA with a full size
• 1:34:19
  building, parking lot and surrounding property.
• 1:34:22
  To the South of the building and parking lot is a steep and
• 1:34:24
  grassy hill. Beyond that hill is a secluded
• 1:34:27
  wooded area with thick trees and brush To the South.
• 1:34:29
  Southeast of the YMCA property is a roadway intersection.
• 1:34:33
  That intersection is 12th St. and West Clocks Ave.
• 1:34:38
  There's a small gravel parking lot stopping lot at the
• 1:34:41
  northwest portion of that intersection.
• 1:34:43
  There is then a dirt path that leads to the north northwest
• 1:34:46
  from the intersection into a wooded area.
• 1:34:49
  The car was located approximately 218 feet northwest
• 1:34:52
  of the intersection of 12th St. and West Clocks Ave.
• 1:34:56
  The weather conditions at the time of my arrival were cloudy
• 1:34:59
  nighttime skies with an approximate air temperature of
• 1:35:02
  79°. The ground surface around the
• 1:35:04
  vehicle was damp as there had been heavy rainfall in the
• 1:35:06
  previous days. The car was facing northwest and
• 1:35:09
  was unoccupied. There was some slight damage,
• 1:35:12
  scratches, dents and scrapes as it appeared the car had been
• 1:35:15
  driven on the path through heavy and thick brush to its final
• 1:35:19
  rusting point. So that might not even been in
• 1:35:22
  the same place. Yeah, the car was unlocked and I
• 1:35:25
  was informed by Peru Police Department Detective Jim
• 1:35:30
  Department Detective Jones that he had entered the vehicle,
• 1:35:34
  including the trunk, and completed a cursory search of
• 1:35:37
  the car. I took photographs of the scene
• 1:35:39
  and with the use of a Nikon D 7200 digital camera, I later
• 1:35:45
  upload the photos and it's showing you how you can access
• 1:35:48
  the photos. The photo log was completed and
• 1:35:53
  placed into a red evidence tape on all doors of the car before
• 1:35:56
  it being towed towed by Joe's Wrecker Service from 300 Walnut,
• 1:36:02
  Peru, IL to the Bloomington Police Department at
• 1:36:09
  approximately 1545 hours. I assisted Detective Jones the
• 1:36:12
  execution of a search warrant on the Chrysler 300 which was
• 1:36:16
  currently secured in the Sallyport Garage of the
• 1:36:18
  Bloomington Police Department. I saw red evidence tape seals on
• 1:36:22
  the vehicles entry doors. During the search of the
• 1:36:24
  vehicle, I located a notebook of paper with handwritten journal
• 1:36:27
  entries on each page. I then used new and sterile swab
• 1:36:31
  allocators to swap three separate areas of the car,
• 1:36:34
  including the steering wheel, front driver side door interior
• 1:36:38
  handle, and the front passenger side door interior handle.
• 1:36:42
  After collection, the applicators were placed in the
• 1:36:45
  new swab carton and into a Manila envelope labeled as
• 1:36:48
  follows. Why didn't they swab all of it?
• 1:36:51
  Yeah, so that's what it's like. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:36:54
  Like what she was talking about. So I'm, I'm going to go over
• 1:36:58
  that again. They use new and sterile swab
• 1:37:02
  applicators for three separate areas of the car.
• 1:37:06
  The steering wheel, something that he's obviously going to
• 1:37:09
  touch. So of course it's going to have
• 1:37:10
  his DNA on it. The front driver side door
• 1:37:14
  interior handle again, even if anyway we saw him drive away,
• 1:37:22
  it's going to have his freaking and it's like, did you do the
• 1:37:25
  entire steering wheel or did you just do this one little part or
• 1:37:28
  this one little part? You know what I'm saying like,
• 1:37:30
  sorry, I'm just thinking too much into well, no, you're not
• 1:37:33
  thinking too much into it. You have to think about this so
• 1:37:35
  anyway in the front passenger side door interior interior
• 1:37:40
  handle. So I mean, yeah, if there was a
• 1:37:42
  passenger, you got it. But you know, regardless,
• 1:37:46
  there's there's probably been a passenger in there before.
• 1:37:49
  So you're going to get somebody's DNA probably, right?
• 1:37:52
  I'm just thinking when logistically it's smarter to, if
• 1:37:58
  you're carjacking somebody to get in behind them, if you've
• 1:38:05
  got a gun or something like that to get in behind them, you know,
• 1:38:09
  it's smarter to do it that way, that way, yeah.
• 1:38:12
  Or like, did you guys swab the like license plate holder, like
• 1:38:18
  where the license plate was? Right.
• 1:38:20
  Since I took it off, I I haven't gone to any kind of schooling.
• 1:38:25
  I almost did for criminal investigation, but it didn't
• 1:38:29
  work out anyway. So yeah, so like, you know, that
• 1:38:33
  was something that was unusual. Just food for thought I guess.
• 1:38:38
  Anyway, it's just about securing and swabbing the supplement,
• 1:38:48
  Sorry. For.
• 1:38:51
  The wording OK, the supplemental report was generate.
• 1:38:56
  Sorry. The supplemental report was
• 1:38:59
  generated to document follow up regarding this investigation.
• 1:39:03
  On Friday 8/27/21, Sergeant Lynn assigned me to conduct a follow
• 1:39:08
  up to speak with Blank so it was possible that they had seen day.
• 1:39:12
  On Monday 8/23/21, I was able to get in contact with Blank via
• 1:39:18
  cell phone and she agreed to come to ISUPD for an interview.
• 1:39:23
  At approximately 1758 hours, Blank arrived and I spoke with
• 1:39:26
  her in the soft interview room. She provided the following
• 1:39:30
  summarized information. I'm sorry this is totally
• 1:39:33
  unrelated. I saw them say soft interviews
• 1:39:35
  are hard. Interview room, anyway.
• 1:39:39
  So Nicholas would have been so Nicholas go to Joan would have
• 1:39:43
  been a hard interview room and Gypsy would have been a soft
• 1:39:46
  interview. Because it had the couch.
• 1:39:48
  Yeah, yeah, I'm assuming that's what is it different.
• 1:39:54
  Have you been in a hard interview room or a soft one?
• 1:39:56
  I've. Been in a hard interview room?
• 1:39:58
  No soft couches to sit on and like it's to.
• 1:40:02
  I'm sorry, I'm not going to diss Gypsy unless it's not important
• 1:40:04
  right now anyway, OK? She's a second year graduate
• 1:40:07
  student and is a peer of days. On Monday, 8/23/21, she left her
• 1:40:12
  class at approximately 2:00 PM from Fairchild Hall.
• 1:40:16
  As she was driving near Dale and Maine, she saw Day walking.
• 1:40:19
  She described him as looking dazed and confused.
• 1:40:22
  She pulled up next to Day and asked if something was wrong.
• 1:40:25
  He stated he misplaced his vehicle in one of the nearby
• 1:40:28
  parking lots. She gave Day a ride to Fairchild
• 1:40:30
  Hall. During the short drive.
• 1:40:32
  She stated that he seemed like his mind was somewhere else and
• 1:40:34
  not very talkative. That was the last time she spoke
• 1:40:38
  with her SAW Day. Didn't we read this earlier?
• 1:40:42
  As I said before, there's a lot of stuff that are just repeats,
• 1:40:46
  retellings, people talking to the same people.
• 1:40:48
  So that's part of the reason why I was asking you earlier if you
• 1:40:51
  could kind of made like, you know, we're going to talk about
• 1:40:53
  this and that. So maybe this week we'll kind of
• 1:40:55
  go through some stuff and pick some stuff out so that we have
• 1:40:58
  more of a cohesive. Yeah, I actually.
• 1:41:00
  Need to follow. I actually got all of these
• 1:41:03
  FOIA's that we're looking at right now today.
• 1:41:07
  I had gotten some off of Reddit, but this is a much lengthier
• 1:41:13
  that. It seems like it's a complex.
• 1:41:15
  So that's why I wanted to go over these instead of the other.
• 1:41:18
  Stuff. No, definitely good, good stuff
• 1:41:19
  to go through. But yeah, we'll go through some
• 1:41:22
  of this and see what we actually have and we'll try and put
• 1:41:28
  together something a little more comprehensive.
• 1:41:31
  OK so I asked Blank if she was certain that it was Monday.
• 1:41:37
  She said that she was positive as on Wednesdays they have group
• 1:41:41
  meeting together and Dane did not attend the meeting.
• 1:41:44
  Speaking with Blank, I learned that day was supposed to meet
• 1:41:47
  with a client on Tuesday at some point but unsure of the time.
• 1:41:50
  You said Blank from their department would know of the
• 1:41:53
  exact time in the meeting. She also stated that Blank would
• 1:41:57
  be another individual to speak with.
• 1:41:59
  And I'm wondering if the person with the meeting that they're
• 1:42:01
  talking about is the teacher, because the teacher and him,
• 1:42:03
  we're supposed to have a meeting that day.
• 1:42:06
  Yeah, so are the. She's the one that filed the
• 1:42:09
  missing. Filed the missing police report
• 1:42:12
  again. Don't know anything about the
• 1:42:13
  lady but it seems like she's got some weird stuff going on.
• 1:42:16
  Anyway, I don't know. Either way, anyway, after
• 1:42:20
  speaking with Blank, I made contact with Blank via phone.
• 1:42:23
  She stated day he was supposed to meet with his client on
• 1:42:25
  Tuesday 8/24/21. It's weird that it says client,
• 1:42:30
  unless there's somebody else I know he.
• 1:42:31
  Had a clinical, yeah, a clinical clinical, yeah, OK.
• 1:42:35
  He had a clinical and he had a meeting.
• 1:42:38
  Yeah, OK. Just making sure I'm following.
• 1:42:40
  And he was supposed to get his TB test done.
• 1:42:44
  TB test. Yeah.
• 1:42:46
  TB what's that? Tuberculosis.
• 1:42:48
  Oh, like a literal? Yeah, so he could see patients.
• 1:42:50
  Oh, I see it here now. OK, my bad.
• 1:42:52
  We're getting there, OK. She stated that Dane was
• 1:42:55
  supposed to meet with his client on Tuesday 8/24/21.
• 1:42:59
  She further stated but she saw the missing photo of him dressed
• 1:43:02
  up and say that he was wearing his clinical meeting clothes.
• 1:43:05
  She further stated that she last spoke with Day on Monday night
• 1:43:08
  in regards to the requirement Day needed to complete prior to
• 1:43:11
  his meeting with his client. She stated that he needed to get
• 1:43:15
  a tuberculosis test. She last spoke with him via text
• 1:43:18
  at approximately 9:00 PM on Monday night.
• 1:43:21
  On Tuesday at approximately 12:00 PM, she sent him a text,
• 1:43:24
  but according to iMessage, the message was sent in green.
• 1:43:29
  It should be noted the iPhones use iMessage to communicate.
• 1:43:33
  When someone with an iphone's message is another individual
• 1:43:35
  with an iPhone, the message will appear blue on the screen.
• 1:43:39
  If the message appears green, it usually means iMessage is turned
• 1:43:42
  off if the phone is powered off or the phone is in airplane
• 1:43:45
  mode. Essentially, it's possible
• 1:43:46
  Dave's phone was turned off at 12:00 PM on Tuesday or earlier.
• 1:43:50
  So I don't know this definitively, but I'm just going
• 1:43:53
  to speak from my experience. I feel like the iPhone thing
• 1:43:59
  happens if you blocked somebody or if the phone is just out of
• 1:44:03
  service. I haven't heard about it just
• 1:44:06
  being offering airplane mode, it going to green, but I don't know
• 1:44:11
  that definitively. I'd think that the police should
• 1:44:14
  know that. So maybe I'm totally wrong, you
• 1:44:18
  know, but I've text people on airplanes before and you know,
• 1:44:21
  they, you know, it never changed colors.
• 1:44:24
  I'm an Android person so I have no idea.
• 1:44:26
  She has no clue but. I have no clue.
• 1:44:29
  I'm not speaking definitively on this at all.
• 1:44:31
  Holy crap, dude, your nails are sharp.
• 1:44:34
  Sorry, Yeah, I'm not going to speak definitively on that.
• 1:44:37
  That's just how I see it. I don't know.
• 1:44:42
  His phone was still on though. Like or like as far as like like
• 1:44:47
  a service was still being paid for or whatever.
• 1:44:50
  It's not like a service one out of service.
• 1:44:52
  Here you go to your grandma who has pants.
• 1:44:54
  Sorry, my legs are all scratched.
• 1:44:55
  Up, big boy. Anyway, someone who hasn't seen
• 1:45:00
  in a while, Oatsy came back. But yeah, that's not really
• 1:45:05
  important. Well, you are important, but
• 1:45:07
  we're not going to talk about that at the moment.
• 1:45:10
  But yeah, OK, so Blake also stated that she learned, I'm so
• 1:45:19
  sorry. She learned date logged into
• 1:45:21
  their online medical charting system on Tuesday from six from
• 1:45:25
  6:50 AM to 6:59 AM. She stated that Dave made
• 1:45:29
  changes to his client's chart who he was supposed to meet
• 1:45:32
  later that day. After speaking with Blank, I
• 1:45:35
  made eye contact with Blank via phone.
• 1:45:37
  She provided the following summarized information.
• 1:45:40
  She lasts all day. On Monday, they have class from
• 1:45:42
  1:00 PM to 2:15 PM. She noticed that Day arrived
• 1:45:46
  class late. On Monday.
• 1:45:47
  Day came into class almost 30 minutes after class started,
• 1:45:50
  which was not like him. After class, they usually walk
• 1:45:54
  to Fairchild to do homework, but he did not join them.
• 1:45:57
  She also believes this is unlike him.
• 1:45:58
  She described Day as being very reserved and quiet.
• 1:46:01
  This concludes my involvement with this investigation.
• 1:46:04
  The case is still currently pending, so it really seems
• 1:46:07
  maybe he really was going through something.
• 1:46:08
  But again, I want to stress this enough.
• 1:46:10
  I can't stress this enough. Just because he was going
• 1:46:14
  through something, even if you were depressed and anxious and
• 1:46:18
  all the works, that doesn't mean that he took his own life.
• 1:46:22
  And furthermore, if he were to take his own life, the way in
• 1:46:27
  which he would have gone about it was very odd.
• 1:46:29
  And the fact that he drowned without having any water in his
• 1:46:33
  lungs also is very odd. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:46:38
  Yeah, so again, I'm not making any definitive statements.
• 1:46:42
  I personally don't believe that it was a suicide, but stranger
• 1:46:51
  things have happened. It does seem like he was going
• 1:46:53
  through a lot, but it's also possible that the a lot that he
• 1:46:57
  was going through wasn't him getting ready to take his own
• 1:47:00
  life. Could have been anything.
• 1:47:03
  He was in transition, his dad was sick and you know.
• 1:47:08
  That I can't stress that enough. Also, he wanted to help his dad.
• 1:47:11
  He had already gone through two or three surgeries, procedures,
• 1:47:14
  whatever procedures, which I can't imagine that they were.
• 1:47:19
  Yeah, I'm so sorry. I think I need water or
• 1:47:23
  something, but it's OK, I'll get water in a second.
• 1:47:28
  But yeah. So, yeah, he had gone through
• 1:47:30
  like two or three procedures to help his dad so that they could
• 1:47:35
  have a stem cell transplant. And, you know, I'm sure they
• 1:47:39
  weren't enjoyable procedures. I don't know what they entailed.
• 1:47:42
  But, you know, I doubt that he would go through all that stuff
• 1:47:44
  just to be like, you know what, never mind.
• 1:47:47
  Was it stem? Cell or was it bone marrow?
• 1:47:50
  Stem cell, Yeah. And I mean, Speaking of cells,
• 1:47:55
  his body was so mangled that by the time he did the third
• 1:47:57
  autopsy, they weren't even fully sure that it was Jelani.
• 1:48:01
  There's no way to actually prove it.
• 1:48:02
  You couldn't even tell what his ethnicity was because he was so
• 1:48:06
  mangled. And I don't, again, I'm not a
• 1:48:10
  scientist, I'm not going to explain this well, but it seems
• 1:48:14
  that they took some of his skin and did kind of something where
• 1:48:19
  they re grew some cells or re grew.
• 1:48:21
  Some. Skin or something.
• 1:48:24
  Hopefully we can get a little bit more information on that and
• 1:48:26
  explain a lot better in the future.
• 1:48:29
  But yeah, they literally had to do some weird like biology,
• 1:48:32
  science fictiony kind of experiment to even figure out a
• 1:48:37
  definitive fact that it was Jelani.
• 1:48:41
  And yeah, his his older brother saw him.
• 1:48:46
  Which I can't even imagine and I am so sorry that he had to go
• 1:48:50
  through that. I'm so sorry.
• 1:48:52
  And on top of that though, I do think it is a good thing that
• 1:48:55
  one person was able. To see.
• 1:48:56
  Yeah, definitely. Just to make sure because of how
• 1:48:59
  shady it seems things were were, that's the only way you can know
• 1:49:04
  for sure. Yeah, no, but I agree.
• 1:49:08
  As far as the details, it was very brutal.
• 1:49:12
  Again, they don't, they can't definitively place the manner of
• 1:49:15
  death. And it seems that there were
• 1:49:20
  some activity with some of the fish and the turtles and algae
• 1:49:30
  and different things in the water and it just was not, it
• 1:49:32
  was not a pretty sight. I don't think I'm going to get
• 1:49:36
  into that too much at the moment, but it was, it was, it
• 1:49:38
  was brutal. Again, like I said, you couldn't
• 1:49:40
  even tell that it was him. And how long, how many days did
• 1:49:43
  it take for them to find him? I think it was like 9 days or 9
• 1:49:47
  days, something like that. It might have.
• 1:49:50
  I can't remember. Yeah, I'm really bad at
• 1:49:52
  remembering, guys. I have to have it right in front
• 1:49:54
  of me usually. No, I'm unless I go.
• 1:49:56
  Over it, over and over and over again.
• 1:49:58
  Yeah, I'm pretty bad with remembering too.
• 1:50:00
  So I'm I'm trying my best here, but I think we've gotten a good
• 1:50:03
  a good basis. But regardless, it's.
• 1:50:06
  We're just kind of setting the foundation for Carmen to come in
• 1:50:10
  and tell you more. And then if you guys want us to
• 1:50:14
  go through the rest of the foyers, we'll definitely do that
• 1:50:17
  and we'll definitely just kind of work this case.
• 1:50:22
  And one day I also hope to get more information on the Taron
• 1:50:28
  Evans junior case as well, so. To anyone who hasn't seen that
• 1:50:33
  video, it's a different case. There's a lot of details that
• 1:50:37
  are different, but there's also some things that are similar.
• 1:50:40
  Someone that was accused of taking his own life when it
• 1:50:42
  truly seems that he did not. It's another black man that was
• 1:50:47
  completely disregarded and not like, like like I said, a lot of
• 1:50:52
  police departments just don't really care to do that much
• 1:50:57
  research or investigation. Well, you got to think, I mean,
• 1:51:05
  this was a smaller town, right? So in both situations they were
• 1:51:12
  both smaller towns, predominantly white.
• 1:51:16
  So you've already got small town cops who are probably overworked
• 1:51:23
  already, and then you throw something like this in their lap
• 1:51:29
  who probably don't care enough to do everything necessary
• 1:51:35
  because. Because there are cops who are
• 1:51:38
  cops because of a pay a paycheck, and then there are
• 1:51:41
  cops who are cops because they want to serve.
• 1:51:44
  No, there's there are people who want to serve.
• 1:51:47
  There are people few and far between.
• 1:51:49
  The people who want paychecks are usually the ones who want
• 1:51:52
  power. And you know, but there are a
• 1:51:55
  lot of people out there. This is this is a channel that
• 1:51:58
  supports first responders and there are a lot of people that
• 1:52:04
  we know who, you know, are are are great people and so we can't
• 1:52:12
  paint that brush, you know, on everybody.
• 1:52:14
  I. Think that there are individuals
• 1:52:16
  that are police officers that can be good people, but I think
• 1:52:19
  overall it's a bastardized system.
• 1:52:21
  And I think that there's a lot that needs to change.
• 1:52:24
  And obviously, I'm not saying that we need to completely
• 1:52:26
  abolish everything 'cause at the point that America's in, if we
• 1:52:30
  just didn't have any sort of policing one day, that would be
• 1:52:34
  a really harsh whatever and a lot of bad things that come out
• 1:52:39
  of that. That being said, I don't support
• 1:52:43
  a lot. I don't support a lot, and
• 1:52:44
  that's where I'm kind of going to leave that.
• 1:52:45
  But regardless. Well, I do, I support a lot.
• 1:52:50
  And that being said, I I know that there's corruption out
• 1:52:56
  there, so. But I know good people that are
• 1:52:58
  cops too. But we need good people to
• 1:53:00
  outweigh all the bad. But I think as a system it's
• 1:53:04
  corrupt, and the way that it operates is entirely corrupt,
• 1:53:08
  and there's no way that can convince me otherwise.
• 1:53:11
  Yeah, no, no, most definitely, especially when we have private
• 1:53:14
  prisons who are created that are created all the time to house
• 1:53:20
  more people. And policing, you know, it only
• 1:53:25
  ever really started to just try and control, you know, try and
• 1:53:30
  control like people of color. And that's why things kind of
• 1:53:34
  started, OK, we're not going to get into it, but it's fine
• 1:53:37
  anyway. Historically in America, yes.
• 1:53:40
  Anyway, we're not going to get into it.
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  Thank you. But I love you.
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  But regardless, I'm just saying a lot of people are overlooked.
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  And we're not going to let, we're not going to let this be
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  overlooked. We're not going to let people.
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  Yeah, we're not going to let it. Happen.
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  If anybody's ever watched me, they know that I, I, I stand for
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  truth and I stand for justice. And it doesn't matter what color
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  you are or what you've done, you know, unless you're like a
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  pedophile or something like that, then I might let it slide
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  a little bit. But yeah, yeah, it definitely
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  all needs fixed. But we can't throw, you know,
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  everything out as well. You know, it's a, it's a
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  balance. We need to just find good people
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  to to do good things for our country and our world.
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  Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of people stepping up that
• 1:54:29
  are good people. It's all the people who are
• 1:54:31
  money hungry and powerful are power hungry, you know, so
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  they're few and far between anymore.
• 1:54:38
  So, you know, it is what it is. And it, you know, we could sit
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  and sit here and talk forever about the injustices of the
• 1:54:47
  system, you know, but I, I think it, at the very least, we're
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  doing something, you know, to just bring light to the
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  injustices. And hopefully our viewers will
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  then take this and what they've learned and go and learn even
• 1:55:07
  more and share it, you know, and make the change.
• 1:55:13
  You know, it starts one person at a time.
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  You know, I'm just here to present everything, every,
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  everybody, the information and whatever, whatever God decides
• 1:55:25
  to do with it, it is what it is, you know?
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  Thank you everybody for joining us here today.
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  This is a really important one. It is.
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  And, you know, we've had a good turn out tonight and that we
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  very much appreciate it. Yes.
• 1:55:41
  This is if there was any episode of TuneIn.
• 1:55:44
  This is definitely a good one. And also we want to encourage
• 1:55:47
  all of you guys who are interested in the Jelani Day
• 1:55:50
  case to also check out our video about Taron Evans, his mother.
• 1:55:56
  Do we have two videos of it or do we just have one?
• 1:55:59
  No, we just have one on Taron because I was.
• 1:56:02
  I actually reached out to Nick Hillary and to Detective John
• 1:56:09
  Jones, I believe to see if they would come on to talk about it,
• 1:56:14
  but unfortunately they have not. So I was waiting to see if they
• 1:56:17
  reached out. But we are definitely going to
• 1:56:21
  present Terron's case at Crime Con while we're there.
• 1:56:25
  And we will include Jelani's and all the other people that we
• 1:56:30
  have talked about. We're going to try and, and make
• 1:56:34
  some stuff for him and present it to people so that people know
• 1:56:40
  more about what's going on. So this is, we're going to call
• 1:56:45
  it for a call it today. Sorry, I can't even talk right
• 1:56:48
  now. It's been, it's been a very
• 1:56:50
  long, long couple of weeks. And I'm thankful, Laura, that
• 1:56:54
  you held down the Fort last week for me.
• 1:56:56
  Not very well. I did like a 30 minute show
• 1:56:59
  where I just gave you silly little updates but but one of
• 1:57:04
  them was that my OT we found him so.
• 1:57:08
  So, Mariah said I have a question about your photo.
• 1:57:11
  Do y'all ever get into that topic?
• 1:57:13
  Are you talking about? I think.
• 1:57:14
  She's talking about like paranormal.
• 1:57:15
  Yeah, I mean. Whenever we first started.
• 1:57:19
  Oh, the paintings. Well, I think they're both.
• 1:57:24
  They're talking about two different things.
• 1:57:26
  Yeah, I was. I wonder if we first started,
• 1:57:27
  you always ask people if they had any paranormal experiences.
• 1:57:29
  But I feel like there's probably a better way that we can kind of
• 1:57:31
  work it in. And also maybe it would make it
• 1:57:35
  make more sense with some of the people that we talked to.
• 1:57:37
  But yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:57:38
  I try to ask people if they've had any paranormal or alien
• 1:57:42
  experiences or Cryptid experiences.
• 1:57:45
  But then the way that we kind of went, like it just didn't really
• 1:57:48
  make sense to ask everyone. Yeah.
• 1:57:50
  Something like this? Like it's not.
• 1:57:52
  We did have an archaeologist come on.
• 1:57:54
  He was a Christian archaeologist and I asked him some interesting
• 1:57:58
  questions and he didn't. Have answers for some of the
• 1:58:01
  questions we wanted answer. Them, that's all right.
• 1:58:05
  He was a good sport to come on and and let us ask him.
• 1:58:08
  So I, like I said, I do want to talk to Dave Politis and I've
• 1:58:12
  reached out to Jeremy Corbell, I've reached out to George
• 1:58:16
  Knapp, I've reached out to a lot of people, guys, it's just a
• 1:58:21
  matter of them actually wanting to come on or not.
• 1:58:25
  That's OK. But I'm building my channel and,
• 1:58:27
  you know, I'm a disabled veteran just doing this for cognitive
• 1:58:30
  therapy. And I just want to talk about
• 1:58:33
  things that I find interesting or that I find people need to
• 1:58:37
  know more about. And so that's what this channel
• 1:58:39
  is all about. And so I thank everybody for
• 1:58:41
  joining us. And next week we will have
• 1:58:45
  Carmen Bolden Day and possibly the car as well, Johnny's sister
• 1:58:50
  and Johnny's mother. So please join us again next
• 1:58:55
  week and we hope that you guys have a wonderful day and I know
• 1:59:00
  you can barely see me back here, but that's fine.
• 1:59:02
  I'm I'm good with that. I've got oats sleeping in my lap
• 1:59:06
  underneath my shirt trying. To get underneath mine, but it's
• 1:59:09
  a lot tighter. So I I hope that everybody has a
• 1:59:13
  wonderful evening and that you do something great to change the
• 1:59:17
  world for the better. Absolutely.
• 1:59:19
  And check our the link in our description to the Taron Evans
• 1:59:23
  Foundation. No art Jelani.
• 1:59:26
  Oh my God, I'm so sorry. I'm so.
• 1:59:28
  Sorry, Jelani J The Jelani Day Foundation.
• 1:59:31
  No, you're good that. Was just 'cause we were just
• 1:59:33
  talking about them. But yeah, the Jelani Day.
• 1:59:35
  Foundation and we have Kawana back here.
• 1:59:37
  So which 1980 did spectacularly awesome.
• 1:59:40
  Have a blessed day everybody. Have a good one.
• 1:59:44
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