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Finding Chase Massner Ep. 8: Wife suffers cyberbullying & 'horrible gossip' · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Finding Chase Master Episode eight. This week marks three years
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  Speaker 1: since her son, Chase Massner vanished in Cobb County. Living
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  Speaker 1: the last three years with the not knowing and without
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  Speaker 1: him here is pure hell. Chase Massner isn't a rock
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  Speaker 1: War veteran, a husband, a father. His wife told us
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  Speaker 1: she dropped them off at a quickstrip in Cobb County,
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  Speaker 1: where he works. His family says he was last seen
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  Speaker 1: at a friend's house in Kennesaw three years ago on
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  Speaker 1: March and it's like he vanished from that home, not
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  Speaker 1: to be seen or heard from again. If he was
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  Speaker 1: able to reach out to any one of us, he would,
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  Speaker 1: he would. Despite some intense searching, few clues have been found.
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  Speaker 1: She tells me that as a mother, in her heart,
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  Speaker 1: she feels her son Chase is dead. We have absolutely
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  Speaker 1: no answers at all, not even the slightest clue in
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  Speaker 1: three years. Imagine your son that you've loved his whole life,
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  Speaker 1: that you have raised, that you have poured all your
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  Speaker 1: love into, takes off and fights in Iraq. Imagine the
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  Speaker 1: suffering that you go through every day, every night, wondering
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  Speaker 1: he's going to make it home. And then he does,
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  Speaker 1: and you're on top of the world. You are back
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  Speaker 1: with your baby, and then he disappears. You never hear
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  Speaker 1: from him again. Ever, you don't know whether he's dead
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  Speaker 1: or alive. Is there a chance he just took a
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  Speaker 1: powder and never bothered to call you, didn't bother to text,
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  Speaker 1: just left, just dropped off the grid. Could that happen?
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be able to believe that. That is what
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  Speaker 1: the mother of Chase Master lives through every day of
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  Speaker 1: her life. I Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for being with us. Where is Chase Master? At
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  Speaker 1: the time he mysteriously disappeared, he was married, with beautiful children,
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful wife. He and the wife, Amanda fault like
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  Speaker 1: a cat and a dog. He had a hard time
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  Speaker 1: getting back into the groove with quote regular people once
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  Speaker 1: he came back from Iraq. It's hard. They had money problems,
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  Speaker 1: they had a new baby. Nothing was working. So a
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  Speaker 1: lot of suspicion turned toward her when he went missing.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people pointed the finger at her. Was
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  Speaker 1: she the last one with him? Did they have an
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  Speaker 1: incredible row? Did she pull a gun on him? Did
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  Speaker 1: she throw him out of the car? What what happened? Finally,
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  Speaker 1: She reveals to me her feelings, where she was that day,
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  Speaker 1: what happened that day, and how it feels for people
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  Speaker 1: to blame you, how it feels for the victim to
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  Speaker 1: somehow turn into the bad guy. Here is Amanda Master.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of things in my path, but
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  Speaker 1: I am not proud of doing me too. I think
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  Speaker 1: there's nobody around here that hasn't done something in their
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  Speaker 1: past that they will be mortified if the world found
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  Speaker 1: out about. And there are a lot of mistakes that
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  Speaker 1: have made I'm not trying to hide them. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: trying to lie about them. But I love my husband
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  Speaker 1: very much and I love my children very much. And
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  Speaker 1: four months after my husband disappeared, God came into my
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  Speaker 1: life and change who are You? And with me things
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  Speaker 1: that I didn't think we're possible for me and I
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  Speaker 1: didn't even think we're real. Brought me to a place
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  Speaker 1: that was safe and took me away from so much.
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  Speaker 1: And I might not I have talked to media or
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  Speaker 1: seemed like I was looking or cared about answers, but
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  Speaker 1: turning it over to God and raising my children the
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  Speaker 1: right way with godly people and just focusing on then,
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  Speaker 1: to me is doing so much more to honor my husband,
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  Speaker 1: then obsessing and going crazy like I did the first
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  Speaker 1: couple of months over details and over all these little things.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason that I'm sitting here three years later,
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  Speaker 1: finally talking to you is because I can with peace
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  Speaker 1: without going crazy, knowing that God does know exactly or
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  Speaker 1: chases I don't need to know. And I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: to you because I have to know. I'm talking to
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  Speaker 1: you because there's so many lies, there's so many things
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  Speaker 1: that are false out there, so many people have it
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  Speaker 1: so wrong. I'm glad you said that. What what do
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  Speaker 1: you like to clear up for the record anything. I
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  Speaker 1: think that so many people are focused on They're not
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  Speaker 1: focused on the fact that mental illness is part of this.
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  Speaker 1: They're not focused on the fact that I just feel like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like some of it's just sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm speaking on an episode of Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Springer when I talked about some of this. To be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you, but like we were not like pot farmers, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Like that's just ridiculous weird, Okay, And Chase was he wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't owe money to like crazy dope dealers, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And we were not in our front yard screaming at
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  Speaker 1: each other every day. Okay, we did not have a
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  Speaker 1: horrible marriage. These are not facts. These are It's just cossip.
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  Speaker 1: It's horrible cossip, and cyber bullying is a horrible Do
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you are and have been a victim
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  Speaker 1: of online believing? Absolutely and horrible slander. You know what
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  Speaker 1: people do, Amanda what she already know. People want to
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  Speaker 1: help find Chase. They think you may be alive, they
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  Speaker 1: think he may have been murdered. So they take every
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  Speaker 1: perceived inconsistency and like Amanda had Chase his phone, how
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  Speaker 1: did she get Chase his phone? Did she get it
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  Speaker 1: after he was killed? There in their minds helping and
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  Speaker 1: they are looking for inconsistencies, They are looking for answers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think people do it maliciously. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they do. But what happens is you read it and
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  Speaker 1: it hurts. But I do feel like there are certain
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  Speaker 1: people that are after you. I know there are because
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  Speaker 1: there are certain people that slept outside my home, who
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  Speaker 1: slept out your home, that followed me to work. There
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  Speaker 1: are certain people that came to Iowa and slept outside
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  Speaker 1: my home. You saw them, saw them. My neighbors chased
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  Speaker 1: them away, that you had answers or thank you that
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  Speaker 1: you did it. Let's just put it out there. They
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  Speaker 1: think you had a hand in Chase's disappearance for murder.
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  Speaker 1: And there are certain people that have threatened me. Certainly
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  Speaker 1: people followed you all the way, No I know they did.
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  Speaker 1: They talked to my neighbors, they asked about me. And
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  Speaker 1: this is not the polace. These are just they are
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  Speaker 1: not the police. They wrote their names and numbers down
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  Speaker 1: on pieces of paper and gave them to my neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: Certain people came to Iowa and told my neighbors that
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  Speaker 1: I was a horrible drug dealer from from Georgia running
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  Speaker 1: away from the cops. This is the type of stuff
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  Speaker 1: that people have done. And what they might not get
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  Speaker 1: is that it's not just about me. The girls, these
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  Speaker 1: are my children. It's not about me. These are chess children.
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  Speaker 1: I have a question about something you said. You said
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  Speaker 1: that God has shown you things that you didn't even
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  Speaker 1: think a real Like what like the power that God
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  Speaker 1: has to change things in your life, Like the power
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  Speaker 1: that God has to transform not only how I see things,
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  Speaker 1: but how I feel about things. In an instant, I
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  Speaker 1: went from obsessing over needing to know everything to have
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  Speaker 1: total peace and not needing to know, and it was
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  Speaker 1: it's incredible for me letting you out of prison, which
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  Speaker 1: your mind. Do you think you will ever know what
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  Speaker 1: happened on this earth if God wants you to? But
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  Speaker 1: it would be for his gluelory. Wow. You know. After
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  Speaker 1: I talked to Amanda Alan Duke, I believe completely that
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  Speaker 1: although I don't agree with some of her choices, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think she had anything to do with Chase's disappearance. Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: I have the same feeling the pain that she suffers
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  Speaker 1: because she is the victim in this and her two daughters.
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  Speaker 1: Yet people who are well intentioned, who are really wanting
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  Speaker 1: to find what happened to Chase Master look towards her
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  Speaker 1: and she becomes the suspect. But it got really bizarre
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  Speaker 1: in her case and unfortunately other cases too. There's actually
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  Speaker 1: a guy doing I'm in a Georgia prison right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give his name. He was convicted Paul Liebrey. We've
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  Speaker 1: talked about him in our previous episodes. He's doing time
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  Speaker 1: in prison now because he was convicted of impersonating a
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  Speaker 1: police officer and pretending like he was a detective to
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  Speaker 1: help the families of missing children or people in Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: in Cobb County where Chase disappeared, and in Douglas County, Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: So what does that have to do with Amanda. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he actually tried, He befriended Amanda, he became close to Amanda.
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  Speaker 1: He actually, according to Amanda and others, tried to put
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  Speaker 1: a camera in her home to spy on her under
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  Speaker 1: the guise of he was watching over her. It's really bizarre.
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  Speaker 1: Another she talks about a stalker, there was actually this
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  Speaker 1: person who wanted to solve the case who followed her
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  Speaker 1: out to Iowa and showed up at her home in
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  Speaker 1: that small town in Iowa telling people that he was
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  Speaker 1: investigating Chase Master's disappearance. And he was asking questions about
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  Speaker 1: what she was doing. Now, that's pretty scary. So Amanda,
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  Speaker 1: because of that and a lot more harassment, leaves town.
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  Speaker 1: She packs up and leaves, takes her children because she's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of scared. Do you know people follow her
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  Speaker 1: to her new location. They go around asking people in
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  Speaker 1: her new neighborhood what do you know about Amanda? Do
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  Speaker 1: you know her husband disappear? And we believe he's dead.
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  Speaker 1: She may be the last one with him. What do
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  Speaker 1: you know, what do you mean going around to her
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  Speaker 1: new neighbors and acting like she's the suspect. Alan, The
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  Speaker 1: lesson from this, for me and I hope for others, is, yes,
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  Speaker 1: help us solve these crimes, help us find these clues,
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  Speaker 1: help us draw attention to these cases. But let's be careful.
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  Speaker 1: Let's be careful about turning the true victim into the
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  Speaker 1: victim of another time. Ho ho ho, hold on, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Alan, that drastically statistics show did the person
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  Speaker 1: most likely to commit a homicide is your partner. It's
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  Speaker 1: your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your husband, your wife, your ex.
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  Speaker 1: So of course people are going to look at Amanda.
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  Speaker 1: So so don't suggest that that is not real. It
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  Speaker 1: is real. Yes, it's real, but in this case, in
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  Speaker 1: this case, and just be careful that. What I'm saying is,
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  Speaker 1: ask yourself if you're being fair to that person in
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  Speaker 1: what you post on social media, what you're saying in
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  Speaker 1: chat rooms, that sort of. It was brutal. It was brutal,
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  Speaker 1: and just remember that, because well, there's only one thing
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  Speaker 1: to do, Alan, and what is that. We've got a
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  Speaker 1: Fine Chase Master. That's what we're working on. I feel
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  Speaker 1: good about it. Nancy Grace Crime Stories, signing off, goodbye friend,