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11-year-old boy missing after stepmom says he went to a friend's. Where is Gannon Stauch? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. I'm landing highatt Gannon's mom,
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  Speaker 1: and I encourage you, guys, I know many of your
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  Speaker 1: mothers and fathers. I encourage you just to seek find him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so thankful for all the outpouring help that this
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  Speaker 1: case has brought. My son is a very loving kid.
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  Speaker 1: He wouldn't want harm on anybody at all, and it's
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  Speaker 1: so hard to just think, why is this happening to him?
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  Speaker 1: I have no clue, and my kid deserves to come home.
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  Speaker 1: My kid has a purpose. My kid has a life,
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  Speaker 1: and it's important to me and it support it to
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  Speaker 1: everybody that's standing in this room. Dannon, Baba, little man,
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  Speaker 1: Mommy's hero. Wherever you're at, Mommy and Daddy's here. We're
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  Speaker 1: begging and pleading for you to come home. I know
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  Speaker 1: that's your biggest wishes to see mommy and daddy standing here.
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  Speaker 1: Hearing her voice is breaking my heart. That as a
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  Speaker 1: presser at the Opasso County Sheriff's office, the mother of
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  Speaker 1: this little boy again and stars just eleven years old,
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  Speaker 1: begging for his safe return. That was the land and speaking.
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  Speaker 1: Where is eleven year old Gannon Stouch, the Colorado Boy
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  Speaker 1: vanishes after leaving home to visit a friend's house days ago.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: being with us, with me an all star panel to
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  Speaker 1: dot com. But right now to Ann Emerson WCIV, ABC four,
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  Speaker 1: joining us and tell me first about Gannon's disappearance. What happened.
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  Speaker 1: What they understand right now, Nancy, is that Gannon shouts
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  Speaker 1: see eleven year old disappear from his father's home. He
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  Speaker 1: lived there with his father and his stepmother, just a
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  Speaker 1: little suburb outside of Colorado Springs. And what we're understanding
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  Speaker 1: is that he was reported missing after he had left
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  Speaker 1: the house. He was wearing a blue jacket and sneakers
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  Speaker 1: in the jeans. He said he was going to go
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  Speaker 1: see a friend. It was on the afternoon, around three thirty.
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  Speaker 1: They think that he told his stepmomy's going to go
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  Speaker 1: out and see a friend, and that was the last
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  Speaker 1: time he saw Dan himself. Okay, wait a minute, Wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, Wait a minute. So he says, do we
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  Speaker 1: know what time of the day or nine it was
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  Speaker 1: that he went to go see the friend. We think
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  Speaker 1: it's about between three and four, is what they've narrowed
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  Speaker 1: it down to. The step mom said it was around
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  Speaker 1: three thirty is what they're going with. Okay, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. January twenty seven, that is a school day.
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  Speaker 1: That was he in school that day? Well, we've been
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  Speaker 1: told that. The stepmom says that he was not in
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  Speaker 1: school today. We don't want to have a clear answer
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  Speaker 1: why she said. We've heard a couple of things, one
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  Speaker 1: that he was sick and the one that he had
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  Speaker 1: a doctor's appointment so he had stayed home that day.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, No, no, no, no, I don't like it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like it one bit in Emerson, because number one,
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  Speaker 1: why can't we get a clear answer? Are you telling
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  Speaker 1: me an. We don't know if he was in school
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  Speaker 1: or he was not in school recording it. It's been
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  Speaker 1: reported already that he was not in school and that
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  Speaker 1: the sheriff saw As has said, Okay, right there. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't like it because if he was so ill
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  Speaker 1: he had to stay home from school, he would not
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  Speaker 1: be going out and visiting, walking around the neighborhood. If
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  Speaker 1: he had a doctor's appointment, he would have gone to
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  Speaker 1: the doctor's appointment and then gone to school if he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't ill. Okay, go ahead, Ann Emerson w c I
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  Speaker 1: V ABC four. Well, Nancy said, what we hear now
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  Speaker 1: is that at three fifteen, so that the child's gone
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  Speaker 1: to Um, wait a minute, Jason Oceans wants in and
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  Speaker 1: Emerson hold on. Jason Oceans fils he needs to be heard.
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  Speaker 1: Jason Otions, what do you do with conflicting statements? If
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  Speaker 1: all these statements come from your client, what do you do? Hey,
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  Speaker 1: You're trying to get hold of your client right away
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  Speaker 1: to stop talking. That's the first thing, Nancy. But but relative,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. You paid three years of law school
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  Speaker 1: tuition to tell me tell her to stop talking. You
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  Speaker 1: got to come up with something better than that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: isn't that The first thing is the h you know,
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  Speaker 1: the not to incriminate yourself. So clearly you'd rather have
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  Speaker 1: the evidence by the people be produced beyond the preponderance
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  Speaker 1: of reasonable doubt for a conviction rather than have your
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  Speaker 1: own client and get your own case, wouldn't you, Nancy, Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean the house the horses out of the barn. Jason, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: she's already said it all or else. I guess if
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  Speaker 1: I were thinking, you know, when you want to catch
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  Speaker 1: a varmaut, you got to think like a varmint. I'm
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  Speaker 1: referring specifically to defense lawyers as the varmint. What I'm saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you got to think like a varmint. And that's a
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  Speaker 1: quote I believe from Caddyshack. Wow. And what I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: is a defense lawyer will explain away all of the
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  Speaker 1: different statements and may say, well, no. What I said
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  Speaker 1: was we had been planning to take a hike that afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: but he wanted to go see a friend and that
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  Speaker 1: got twisted up and I was goodna get a doctor's appointment. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you come up with wily ways to explain
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  Speaker 1: everything all day. That's part of you know, but parsing
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  Speaker 1: through the story and what happened. He was home, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't feel well that day, but he felt better. He
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  Speaker 1: was going to go see his friend. That wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: uncommon too. Didn't feel well in the morning. Maybe he
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  Speaker 1: was playing hookie for an exam or something. That step
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  Speaker 1: mom was being nice about it. Let him go and
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  Speaker 1: now to the end of school time for the day. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: go see a friend. So all those things in your
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  Speaker 1: wily varmint way as you describe counsel, they're all certainly plausible.
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  Speaker 1: I know your spidy senses thing. Well, I hope you're
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  Speaker 1: sitting down, Jason Nations, I hope you're sitting down because
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  Speaker 1: now we're getting another claim from the stepmother. Take a
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  Speaker 1: listener for us at KKTVCBSLV. This is Spencer Wilson. You've
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  Speaker 1: been a part of the investigation since the very first time.
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  Speaker 1: You were the last person to see him. Is that
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  Speaker 1: right correct? What what did you see when you asked him? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to talk about anything with the case.
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  Speaker 1: I would more so be willing to talk about how
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  Speaker 1: the community needs to have faith and it's you to
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  Speaker 1: work together and not make these false accusations, like the
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  Speaker 1: things that have been said that I've disappeared from the community.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't been there to help. But there's lots of
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  Speaker 1: reasons behind that reason, like death threats right right, death
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  Speaker 1: threats are one of them. My family is getting lots
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  Speaker 1: of death threats. We counted over twenty some death threats
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  Speaker 1: already to my husband's ex wife is living in our home.
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  Speaker 1: And of course I'm not coming home to do these
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  Speaker 1: things and to help with the family when I was
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  Speaker 1: kind of like told I couldn't, And then many other
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  Speaker 1: things that happened with the Opasso County Police Department, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and in doing investigation, I was told I was a compliant.
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  Speaker 1: Time stories with Nancy Grace, it's so special together. I
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  Speaker 1: think many people could understand. My child was a one
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  Speaker 1: pound six el baby. He had a ten percent chance
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  Speaker 1: or survival. If he survived, he would be profoundly disabled.
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  Speaker 1: None of that is accurate. He's gifted and talented do
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  Speaker 1: anything for anybodybody. So I'm begging, I'm pleading, if anybody
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  Speaker 1: has any type of lead, put yourself in my situation,
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  Speaker 1: ask yourself, what would you do. My savior is a
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  Speaker 1: great savior, and I know I have hope, and then
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  Speaker 1: my son's going to be here. I'm thankful for the churches,
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  Speaker 1: the pastors, the outpoort and support from this community, from
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  Speaker 1: Albert's military family, everybody, the detectives I had. It was
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  Speaker 1: you that was sitting at the table and you told
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  Speaker 1: me that ninety percent success rate, and you told me
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  Speaker 1: that I'm gonna find Againning. I believe that. So first
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  Speaker 1: time I had hope since I got that call on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: You are the mom, the bio mom of Gannon starts
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  Speaker 1: age eleven, now missing over six days now, and what
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  Speaker 1: time I've got so many questions. I'm sorry, Ann Emerson,
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  Speaker 1: And what time is he reported missing? So he was
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  Speaker 1: reported missing to the El Paso Sheriff's office, that the
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  Speaker 1: County Sheriff's office there at six fifty five pm. They
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  Speaker 1: receive a call of a runaway child. By seven thirty two,
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  Speaker 1: they are already treating this as an active runaway situation,
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  Speaker 1: runaway situation based on what the stepmom has said. So
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  Speaker 1: this is what keeps bothering me about this too. The
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  Speaker 1: child doesn't take his cell phone, he doesn't tell the
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  Speaker 1: stepmom where he's going, and supposedly the dad even says
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  Speaker 1: at one point, you know, he would have said where
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  Speaker 1: he was going. So it's it's bothering people about that
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  Speaker 1: he's gone off several streets away to a friend that
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  Speaker 1: he's not saying who it is, just like a hoodie.
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  Speaker 1: He's wearing a hoodie in call Rato in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: which is scary because that's the cold weather just got
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  Speaker 1: way in, you know, last time she seized him. He's
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  Speaker 1: heading out for this friend's house. And remember at this
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  Speaker 1: point in time, this time of year, we're in the wintertime.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to start to turn dark, you know, towards
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  Speaker 1: four thirty five o'clock, this sort of thing. And to
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  Speaker 1: our reporter's comment earlier, you know, why does he leave
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  Speaker 1: the house and he's only wearing a hoodie. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: have a heavy jacket on. And Emerson, what about the
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  Speaker 1: step mom claiming that she's getting death threats and moved
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  Speaker 1: out of the house. That is her claim as far
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  Speaker 1: as moving out of the house, she said that she
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  Speaker 1: just she couldn't be there because I guess, Dolly, I
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  Speaker 1: mean reading between the lines to her, the biological mom
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  Speaker 1: just came from South Carolina to hear that her son
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  Speaker 1: is missing and is in the house. And now we
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  Speaker 1: hear from the stepmom that she doesn't feel welcome and
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  Speaker 1: she wants to know apology from her husband. When it's
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  Speaker 1: all over, take a listen to Gannon's dad, Albert Stock, Well, well,
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  Speaker 1: what an incredible community we have. I mean everybody eitherre
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  Speaker 1: in a team. Incredible team that. Um yeah, I came
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  Speaker 1: out my front door. I think it was Tuesday and
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  Speaker 1: there was three hundred people out there searching my neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: Let me get away. So thank you everyone, Thank you again.
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  Speaker 1: And daddy loaves so much. And with that, his dad
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  Speaker 1: breaks down in tears. The tip line seven one nine
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  Speaker 1: to reflect accurate information regarding timing of the Stock family hike.
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