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Amber Hagerman: Epilogue · Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

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  Speaker 1: If you have any information about the abduction and murder
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  Speaker 1: of Amber Renee Hackerman, please call the Arlington Police at
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  Speaker 1: eight one seven four five nine five seven seven to two.
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  Speaker 1: To remain anonymous and to be eligible for a reward,
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  Speaker 1: you can provide a tip at Terrant County Crime Stoppers
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  Speaker 1: at eight one seven four six' nine eight four seven.
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  Speaker 1: Seven The Gone cold podcasts may contain violent or graphics subject.
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  Speaker 1: Matter listener discretion is. Advised though often referred to as
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  Speaker 1: the first time The Amber plan was ever, implemented even
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  Speaker 1: by some major news, outlets the emergency alert had been
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  Speaker 1: used several times before The november nineteen ninety eight abduction
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  Speaker 1: Of rayleigh And. Bradbury it, was, however the first time
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  Speaker 1: the law enforcement agency who was in charge of investigating
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  Speaker 1: The amber planan's, namesake The Arlington, police had used. It more,
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  Speaker 1: importantly it was the first time it had been. Successful in,
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  Speaker 1: fact it was a monumental. Success at about six thirty
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  Speaker 1: pm On Monday november, ninth nineteen ninety, Eight patricia And
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  Speaker 1: Stephen bradbury both arrived home to their apartment Off Randall
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  Speaker 1: Mill road In, arlington not too far from the, ballpark
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  Speaker 1: home of The Texas. Rangers they got off from, work
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  Speaker 1: expecting to see their two month old daughter and her
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  Speaker 1: babysitter at any. Minute the parents trusted forty two year
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  Speaker 1: Old Sandra Joyce. Fallis not only had she come highly
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  Speaker 1: recommended by other tenants in The waterford apartment, complex but
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  Speaker 1: she also seemed to adore little Ray. Lee stephen And
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  Speaker 1: patricia became increasingly, worried, however as the continued to make its,
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  Speaker 1: rounds and when it was approaching TEN, pm the worry
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  Speaker 1: had turned to sheer. Panic they called The Arlington, police
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  Speaker 1: who quickly arrived at the couple's. Apartment before, long a
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  Speaker 1: FEW fbi agents showed up and The bradbury home turned
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  Speaker 1: into a command. Post loathe to prematurely label the case and,
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  Speaker 1: abduction detectives and agents investigated until around three, am when
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  Speaker 1: they officially determined Ray lee's case a. Kidnapping at six thirty,
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  Speaker 1: am detectives met with their, Chief David, cunkel who gave
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  Speaker 1: the go ahead to implement The Amber, plan as it
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  Speaker 1: was known at the. Time the alert was broadcast over
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  Speaker 1: the local radio airwaves at seven twenty six. Am it
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  Speaker 1: included a description of Ray Lee Anne, bradbury an eight
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  Speaker 1: week old baby with blonde, hair blue, eyes and wearing all.
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  Speaker 1: WHITE a description of Babysitter Sandra Fallis's Ford ranger splash
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  Speaker 1: with a distinctive wooden flatbed were also, given along with
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  Speaker 1: the license plate. Number in less than thirty, minutes a
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  Speaker 1: call came in to nine one one To.
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  Speaker 2: Bright nine, one what is your? Emergency that? Abe the
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  Speaker 2: lady's try in front of ME ef three nine four
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  Speaker 2: nights flash pickups with the wood fayd on. It i'm
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  Speaker 2: on Their saint twenty fiction of trow in thirteen eighty
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  Speaker 2: two join web fail good baby sitting in the front of.
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  Speaker 1: It nitara came. From the driver followed the truck to
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  Speaker 1: keep a close eye on it while officers made their
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  Speaker 1: way to the. Scene about three and a half miles
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  Speaker 1: southeast of The bradbury home On Texas highway three, Sixty
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  Speaker 1: Arlington police pulled over the, vehicle identified two month old
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  Speaker 1: Ray lee and took her, Babysitter Sandra fallis into custom
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  Speaker 1: with no incident besides sitting in a dirty diaper and quite.
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  Speaker 1: Hungry the child was. Unharmed after about thirteen, Hours patricia
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  Speaker 1: And Stephen bradbury were reunited with their. Baby, later it
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  Speaker 1: was determined That Sandra Joyce fallis had Taken rayleigh to
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  Speaker 1: an apartment in Southwest, dallas where she scored and smoked
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  Speaker 1: cracked cocaine all. Night the house had no electricity or running.
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  Speaker 1: Water the baby soiled, herself missed several, feedings and was left.
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  Speaker 1: Unattended sanderfallis was given ten years. Probation nearly a year
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  Speaker 1: and a half Before Rayleigh bradbury's. Kidnapping The Amber Hagerman
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  Speaker 1: Task force disbanded after seventeen. Months their, motto which might
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  Speaker 1: be seen next to a sketch drawn while an investigator
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  Speaker 1: made calls or on a computer screensaver constantly, scrolling Was
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  Speaker 1: amber Hagermann homicide Task force in search of The facts
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  Speaker 1: and one low life. Killer during the task force's, lifespan
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  Speaker 1: detectives followed more than six thousand, tips collected forty eight
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  Speaker 1: boxes of, evidence, which with, reports interview, transcripts and suspect,
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  Speaker 1: information among other, things brought the total number of banker
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  Speaker 1: style boxes in the case to well over one. Hundred
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  Speaker 1: most of those were moved to a separate facility when
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  Speaker 1: the task force disbanded the result of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: tips had become few and far in. Between at least
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  Speaker 1: twelve folks confessed To amber's abduction and murder in that.
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  Speaker 1: Time all were. Cleared the task force investigated so many
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  Speaker 1: rumors it was almost impossible to keep track of them.
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  Speaker 1: All many of the detective have spent so much time
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  Speaker 1: With amber's, family visited her grave and the crime scenes
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  Speaker 1: again and, again and had watched the documentary video footage
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  Speaker 1: so many times that the case was personal to. Detectives
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  Speaker 1: The hagerman And whits and families felt like. Relatives. None
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  Speaker 1: perhaps it felt this way as much As Detective Jim.
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  Speaker 1: Ford he told a reporter for The Fort Worth Star,
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  Speaker 1: Telegram we've all gone to all of those scenes a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of times and just stared and hoped that some
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  Speaker 1: vision would come to. Us though the task forces time
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  Speaker 1: together had come to an, end the search for ambers
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  Speaker 1: killer was far from. Over Arlington Police Sergeant Mark, simpson
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  Speaker 1: who headed The Amber Hagerman Task, force continued to work
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  Speaker 1: the case after the nineteen ninety seven. Disbandment Detective Jim
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  Speaker 1: ford also continued to investigate. Leads the lawmen were all
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  Speaker 1: but certain of one. Thing amber's abduction and murder was
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  Speaker 1: not their suspect's first depraved. Act in nineteen ninety, Eight
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  Speaker 1: Sergent simpson read about two out of state cases that
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  Speaker 1: became a high investigative. Priority the first Was Sarah. Pryor On,
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday october, ninth nineteen eighty, five nine year Old Sarah
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth pryor made herself some jello and devoured it while
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  Speaker 1: catching A tv. Show she was a, happy, active normal
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  Speaker 1: child who made good, grades was family, oriented and shy around,
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  Speaker 1: strangers her mother told a reporter For The Boston. Globe
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  Speaker 1: at FOUR, pm when her television program, Ended sarah told
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  Speaker 1: her Dad, andy she was going for a. Walk she
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  Speaker 1: left Her, Wayland massachusetts home and headed north On Concord.
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  Speaker 1: Road judging by the several folks who saw, Her sarah
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  Speaker 1: made it about one and a half miles and then
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  Speaker 1: vanished into thin. Air there was no trace of the
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  Speaker 1: nine year old, girl no, evidence and no one who
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  Speaker 1: saw anything other Than sarah. Herself, wayland situated fifteen miles
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  Speaker 1: west Of, boston had about twelve thousand residents at the
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  Speaker 1: time and was a, peaceful low crime. Community residents struggled
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  Speaker 1: to make sense of the. Disappearance Wayland Police Chief Gerald, galvan,
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  Speaker 1: however knew from the get go that he was dealing
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  Speaker 1: with an, abduction but since there was no evidence no
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  Speaker 1: scene of the, crime the department struggled with the, investigation
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  Speaker 1: which of eventually took them through several, states Into Puerto,
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  Speaker 1: rico and even as far away As, Berlin. Germany sometime
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  Speaker 1: between nineteen eighty five and nineteen eighty, seven police In, Wayland,
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  Speaker 1: massachusetts were sent snapshots of graffiti on The Berlin wall
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  Speaker 1: that Read Sandra, Pryor wherever you, are we love, you age, nine,
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  Speaker 1: Missing october, ninth nineteen eighty, Five whalan M Usa God love.
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  Speaker 1: You almost two years After Sarah Elizabeth pryor vanished in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty, Seven Martin, yant a journalist From, Columbus, ohio
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  Speaker 1: visited The Berlin wall as he was traveling Through germany
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  Speaker 1: and wrote down the message as, well but of course
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  Speaker 1: police were already. Aware the note was quite. Peculiar not
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  Speaker 1: only had no one in the missing girl's family been
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  Speaker 1: To West, berlin but also the town from which she
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  Speaker 1: disappeared was misspelled on the, graffiti wha L n instead
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  Speaker 1: of Way la AND. D perhaps the oddest thing was
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  Speaker 1: that it was the only incorrect detail the writing was
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  Speaker 1: about ten feet high above most of all the other,
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  Speaker 1: graffiti art and. Writing to this, day no one knows
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  Speaker 1: who put it. There as if that unsolved mystery hadn't
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  Speaker 1: confused the case, Enough the next year would take detectives
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  Speaker 1: and state police to a sandpit in a tiny town
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  Speaker 1: In massachusetts Named. BERLIN a state prisoner had drawn authorities
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  Speaker 1: a detailed map of where to Find Sarah pryor's. Body
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't. THERE a suspect In sarah's disappearance had emerged
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  Speaker 1: about a month after she went. Missing Arlington Police Sergeant
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  Speaker 1: Mark simpson was likely interested in this Man's texas. Ties
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  Speaker 1: when he was twenty one years old in nineteen sixty,
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  Speaker 1: Six John Robert wordy fled To texas From massachusetts before
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  Speaker 1: he could be tried for charges related to the attack
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  Speaker 1: of a twelve year old. Girl the following, year he
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  Speaker 1: raped and strangled fifteen year Old Rose Marie martin in
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  Speaker 1: a remote wooded area Near White Rock lake In. DALLAS
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  Speaker 1: a jury Sentenced wordy to life in, prison but he
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  Speaker 1: was released on parole in nineteen eighty. Four he made
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  Speaker 1: his way back To massachusetts the month After Sarah pryor
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  Speaker 1: was last, seen just ten miles east of The Missing girls.
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  Speaker 1: Home In, Newton wordy abducted a twenty year old woman
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  Speaker 1: at knife. Point he was, apprehended, tried and sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: five years in prison for that, crime after which he
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  Speaker 1: was transferred To texas to serve the remainder of his
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  Speaker 1: life sentence in An amarillo. Prison in nineteen ninety, five
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  Speaker 1: a young man walking his dog in a wooded area In, Weston,
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  Speaker 1: massachusetts the town Adjoining wayland to the, east found a
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  Speaker 1: human skull. Fragment the fragment was examined by a forensic
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  Speaker 1: anthropologist in nineteen ninety, seven who determined the remains belonged
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  Speaker 1: to a girl Around Sarah pryor's age and had been
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  Speaker 1: in the woods for three to fifteen. Years Sarah pryor
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  Speaker 1: was laid to rest on what would have been her
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  Speaker 1: twenty second, Birthday january, thirteenth nineteen ninety, eight two years
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  Speaker 1: to the day After Amber hagerman was snatched off her
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  Speaker 1: bicycle In East, Arlington. Texas sarah's case remains officially. Unsought
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  Speaker 1: John Robert wordy died in A texas prison in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two at seventy seven years. Old because of the
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  Speaker 1: primary suspect In Sarah pryor's disappearance was in prison at
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  Speaker 1: the time Of Amber hagerman's nineteen ninety six abduction and.
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  Speaker 1: Murder Arlington Police Sergeant Mark simpson's hopes that he'd found
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  Speaker 1: a connection were at least somewhat. Dashed, however the policeman
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  Speaker 1: was keeping an open mind and was interested in the
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  Speaker 1: case's other suspects as he was another case out Of
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  Speaker 1: North carolina that was unfolding As Sarah Elizabeth pryor was being.
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  Speaker 1: Eulogized Britney Lynn locklear was a member of The Lumbee
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  Speaker 1: Tribe Native americans who largely reside In North carolina and
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  Speaker 1: who are still seeking full federal recognition to the day
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  Speaker 1: of this recording In july of twenty twenty. Three brittany
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  Speaker 1: was incredibly. Intelligent though she was a lot smaller than
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  Speaker 1: her kindergarten classmates At west Hok Elementary, school the girl
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  Speaker 1: was much more. Mature the five year old's dream was
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  Speaker 1: to drive, airplanes as she herself put. It she was
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  Speaker 1: also the girl that hugged every single teacher she saw
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  Speaker 1: on her way to. Class the morning Of, Wednesday january,
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  Speaker 1: seventh nineteen ninety, eight was dark As Britney Lynn locklear
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  Speaker 1: waited alone at the end of her driveway for the
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  Speaker 1: school bus in the western part of Hok, County North.
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  Speaker 1: Carolina then the area was, remote with sporadic cotton fields
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  Speaker 1: and narrow roads the only things separating the woods of
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  Speaker 1: shrub pines and white. Oaks brittany was only waiting alone
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  Speaker 1: because her, Mother, connie had to go inside to use the.
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  Speaker 1: Bathroom When connie began to make her way back, out
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  Speaker 1: she noticed her daughter was no longer, there and she
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  Speaker 1: had not heard the school bus come. By she Called
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  Speaker 1: britney's school right away and then. Police the following, day
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  Speaker 1: the body of five year Old Britney Lynn locklear was
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  Speaker 1: found about three miles from her home by. Searchers she was,
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  Speaker 1: unclothed floating face down in a rain drainage. Ditch brittany
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  Speaker 1: had been, raped she had. Drowned there were witnesses to
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  Speaker 1: what happened To. Brittany neighbors told police that a pickup
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  Speaker 1: truck had slammed on its brakes just in front of
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  Speaker 1: The locklear home and then pulled into the. DRIVEWAY a
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  Speaker 1: white male exited the driver's side grabbed the five year old,
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  Speaker 1: girl and be off with. Her the truck had a
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  Speaker 1: camper show and running. Lights the color was described quite
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  Speaker 1: differently by each, neighbor from cream colored to dark. Brown
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  Speaker 1: detectives eventually determined that the pickup was full sized and
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  Speaker 1: of unknown. Color The North Carolina bureau Of investigation primarily
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  Speaker 1: handled the, case but the hundreds of leads they were
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  Speaker 1: receiving were too much for the force to, handle considering
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  Speaker 1: both resources and. Manpower after about a year of detectives
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  Speaker 1: assigned solely To brittany's case chasing down what leads they,
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  Speaker 1: could their duties again included other, cases and the investigation,
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  Speaker 1: stalled but physical evidence was processed FOR dna At State.
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  Speaker 1: Labs in two thousand and, three forty four year Old
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  Speaker 1: Fort bragg Firefighter Keith Douglas laundry was a rested the
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  Speaker 1: day he robbed a Carthage North carolina, bank wearing a
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  Speaker 1: full hazmat. Suit during their investigation of the, robbery coworkers
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  Speaker 1: Of laundry expressed concerns to investigators about the. Man he
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  Speaker 1: had photos Of Britney Lynn locklear in his work, locker
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  Speaker 1: though it appeared they were never one hundred Percent certain
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  Speaker 1: detectives also uncovered evidence Suggesting laundry had been involved in
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  Speaker 1: the searches for the five year old as, well alongside
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  Speaker 1: the Other Fort bragg firefighters who. Volunteered he was subsequently, tried,
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  Speaker 1: convicted and sentenced to eighteen months in prison for the bank. Robbery, eventually,
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  Speaker 1: HOWEVER dna Cleared Keith Douglas laundry of raping and murdering
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  Speaker 1: five year Old Britney Lynn, locklear and her case remains.
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  Speaker 1: Unsolved Sergeant Mark simpson of the The Arlington police was
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  Speaker 1: interested In brittany's case because he explained both she And
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  Speaker 1: Amber hagerman were kidnapped in high risk situations and because
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  Speaker 1: their bodies were discarded similarly and both discovered unclothed in.
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  Speaker 1: Water but there were cases closer to home that were
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  Speaker 1: of great interest as. Well In march of nineteen ninety,
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  Speaker 1: nine nine year Old Felicia moore and a classmate were
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  Speaker 1: walking home from school in their Southeast dallas, Neighborhood Pleasant.
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  Speaker 1: Grove as they cut through a church parking lot on
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  Speaker 1: the sixteen hundred block Of SunView, drive a man approached
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  Speaker 1: the girls and offered them a. Kitten the, man later
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  Speaker 1: described as a white in his, thirties about six feet
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  Speaker 1: tall and one hundred and seventy five to two hundred,
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  Speaker 1: pounds with brown, hair brown, eyes a, mustache and. FRECKLES
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  Speaker 1: a scar on his left cheek was standing outside his
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  Speaker 1: late model maroon or, red darkly Tented chevy truck smoking a.
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  Speaker 1: CIGARETTE a yellow air compressor sat in the pickup's. Bed
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  Speaker 1: although her friend, Refused felicia made her way toward the,
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  Speaker 1: stranger who forced her inside his. Vehicle, soon The Amber
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  Speaker 1: plan alert tone was blasting from car radio speakers around
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  Speaker 1: The Dallas Fort Worth, metroplex followed by a description Of,
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  Speaker 1: felicia the, man and the. Truck, meanwhile The Dallas police
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  Speaker 1: went door to door in the. Neighborhood cruisers crept the,
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  Speaker 1: streets and a helicopter shined a spotlight down after the sun.
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  Speaker 1: Fell about six hours After felicia was, kidnapped and approximately
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  Speaker 1: thirty five miles to the south In Navarro, county An
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  Speaker 1: interstate forty five traveler phoned nine to one one and
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  Speaker 1: reported seeing a young girl walking on the highway. MEDIAN A,
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  Speaker 1: Rice Texas patrol officer picked the girl up shortly. Thereafter
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  Speaker 1: it Was Felicia. Moore the girl was traumatized and there
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  Speaker 1: were scratches on her. Body police believed she'd been. Assaulted
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  Speaker 1: felicia told officers that as they drove down a back
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  Speaker 1: highway In, rice her abductor heard The amber alert over the,
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  Speaker 1: radio pulled over, abruptly told her to get, out and sped.
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  Speaker 1: Off she walked through the field To interstate forty. Five
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  Speaker 1: felicia's was another life saved by The Amber. Plan Amber hagerman's,
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  Speaker 1: Mother Donna, whitson struggled to come to terms with their.
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  Speaker 1: Loss ricky was faced with a constant reminder Of amber
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  Speaker 1: every time he walked Into Bury, elementary where she had.
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  Speaker 1: Gone normal fights with friends might end, brutally as sometimes
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  Speaker 1: said things like your sister's. Dead to come out on,
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  Speaker 1: Top ricky naturally began acting. Out he and his mother
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  Speaker 1: both got counseling At The Warm, place a nonprofit organization
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  Speaker 1: In Fort worth devoted to helping parents and siblings cope
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  Speaker 1: with a loved one's. Loss, finally by two thousand and,
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  Speaker 1: One donna moved them to an apartment in Nearby, hurst
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  Speaker 1: Where ricky could at least avoid such hurtful. Encounters at
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  Speaker 1: a new school where the kids didn't Know, amber his
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  Speaker 1: grades and behavior quickly. Improved it was a big step
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  Speaker 1: in moving forward For donna as. Well she no longer
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  Speaker 1: looked At amber's room and all her things every. Day
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  Speaker 1: donna's visits to the site of the abduction lessened. Significantly
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  Speaker 1: she had to allow herself to, heal but there was
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  Speaker 1: no removing the. Scar some days she'd sit, crying debilitated by.
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  Speaker 1: Depression ricky sometimes still blamed himself For amber's kidnapping and.
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  Speaker 1: Murder for, Years amber's, Father Richard, hagerman received prank calls
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  Speaker 1: About amber's. Murder perhaps he often thought it was the
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  Speaker 1: killer taunting. Him he refused to change his phone number
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  Speaker 1: in case it, was and in the hope that someday
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  Speaker 1: the phone would ring and the caller would provide the
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  Speaker 1: information needed to break the. Case in two thousand and,
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  Speaker 1: six even as some in government and law enforcement debated
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  Speaker 1: the necessity and usefulness of The Amber alert, system The
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  Speaker 1: United States Post office released The Amber alert. Stamp that same,
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  Speaker 1: year The Lifetime channel released the Movie Amber's, story which
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  Speaker 1: was broadcast. Nationally Amber haggerman should have graduated high school
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  Speaker 1: the year. Before in twenty, Thirteen arlington police Detective Jim ford.
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  Speaker 1: Died he'd Worked ambers case for fourteen years until he
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  Speaker 1: retired in twenty. Ten ambers case remained active the entire,
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  Speaker 1: time as one hundred and twenty days had not gone
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  Speaker 1: by in a row without the department receiving a. Tip
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  Speaker 1: her abduction and murder was still talked about regularly in the,
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  Speaker 1: press but was generally relegated to brief blurbs and articles
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  Speaker 1: or television news segments about The amber. Alert also in twenty,
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  Speaker 1: thirteen local Artist patch painted a large memorial To Amber
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  Speaker 1: hagerman on a concrete wall adjacent to the spot where
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  Speaker 1: she was, taken behind the Abandoned Win dixie's supermarket that
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  Speaker 1: is now A La micha A kanna meat. Market in
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  Speaker 1: the beautifully painted, Mural amber blows a dandelion and the
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  Speaker 1: floating seeds transform into. Butterflies every day since we started
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: working on the, mural actual butterflies were coming and landing
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  Speaker 1: on her, portrait landing on her. Name all of the,
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  Speaker 1: sudden they were all over the, Place patch said in
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen when he and his Friend Michelle fagenbaum were
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  Speaker 1: repainting the. Memorial since, Then arlington Firefighter Mitch carey restored
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  Speaker 1: and installed a steel angel sculpture just above the. Mural
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  Speaker 1: folks from all around have left everything from, notes to
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  Speaker 1: teddy bears to toy cars around the, angel which is
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  Speaker 1: enclosed inside a, black wrought iron. Fence Jimmy, kevell the
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  Speaker 1: only known witness To amber's of, dayuction died in twenty
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  Speaker 1: sixteen at age ninety. Eight though many news articles Have amber's,
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  Speaker 1: Father Richard, hagerman passing away in two thousand and, seven
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  Speaker 1: records indicate he died in twenty, nineteen exactly twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years After amber was. Taken On january, thirteenth twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: one The Arlington Police department held a press conference in
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  Speaker 1: an effort to renew the public's interest and plead for
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  Speaker 1: someone who saw the abduction Of Amber hagerman or has
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  Speaker 1: information to come. Forward during the press, conference it was
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  Speaker 1: announced for the first time that genetic forensic evidence exists
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  Speaker 1: In amber's, case and after a quarter, century the department
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  Speaker 1: was finally submitting items for. Testing police refused to comment
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  Speaker 1: on what the evidence. Was they also showed never before released,
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  Speaker 1: photos including one of the Bike amber was riding when
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  Speaker 1: she was taken more than two years. Later it's unclear
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  Speaker 1: if the evidence provided A dna. Profile just this, year
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  Speaker 1: another little girl's unfortunate death resulted in a legacy that
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  Speaker 1: would add onto. Ambers On, Wednesday november, thirtieth twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: Two North texan's mobile devices did not light up with
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  Speaker 1: An amber. Alert seven year Old Athena Presley Monroe strand's
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  Speaker 1: disappearance didn't meet the required criteria for police to order.
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  Speaker 1: It athena had gone missing in the small community Of, Paradise,
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  Speaker 1: texas In Wise, county at approximately five point THIRTY pm that.
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  Speaker 1: Evening the missing girl's parents were in a, panic of,
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  Speaker 1: course and that was only exacerbated by law enforcement's refusal
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  Speaker 1: to issue An amber. Alert athena's mother later said it
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  Speaker 1: was a helpless. Feeling to their, credit The Wise County
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff's office sprang into action fast as far as search
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  Speaker 1: efforts were, concerned having quickly enlisted the help of The
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  Speaker 1: Texas department Of Public, safety The Fort Worth police, area fire,
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  Speaker 1: departments and a canine rescue. Team area, residents as well
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  Speaker 1: as some folks from surrounding, counties also rushed To paradise to. Help,
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  Speaker 1: finally the following, day an amberreller was. Issued On, Friday december,
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  Speaker 1: two twenty twenty, two the third day of the, searches
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  Speaker 1: the body of seven year Old Athena strand was found
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  Speaker 1: at the edge of the waters of The Trinity River's West,
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  Speaker 1: fork about nine miles southwest of her home near the
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  Speaker 1: town Of. Boyd after being arrested earlier in the day
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  Speaker 1: and confessing thirty one year old FedEx contracted Driver Tanner
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  Speaker 1: Lynn horn Of Lake worth led police To athena's. Body
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  Speaker 1: in his, Confession horner claims to have accidentally Hit athena
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  Speaker 1: with his box truck after delivering a package to The strand,
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  Speaker 1: home which was later revealed to be a set Of
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  Speaker 1: You Can Be Anything barbie. Dolls the seven year old
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  Speaker 1: was to be given For christmas because he didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to get in trouble for the claimed, Accident horner tried
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  Speaker 1: snapping her neck but, couldn't he, says so he strangled
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  Speaker 1: her to death instead with his bare. Hands the case
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  Speaker 1: has yet to go to, trial but there are strong
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  Speaker 1: reasons to Doubt horner's. Story reports By Wise County Sheriff
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  Speaker 1: Lane aiken suggest the injuries to the seven year old's
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  Speaker 1: body are inconsistent with being hit by a. Vehicle, also
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  Speaker 1: within weeks of his, arrest media outlets discovered That horner
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  Speaker 1: had also been charged with three camp ounts of the
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  Speaker 1: sexual assault of a child under seventeen years old In Tarrett,
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  Speaker 1: county all separate and apparently unrelated incidents that took place
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  Speaker 1: in twenty. Thirteen Tanner lynnhorn was charged with the capital
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  Speaker 1: murder and aggravated kidnapping of seven year Old Athena Presley Monroe.
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  Speaker 1: Strand In may of twenty twenty, Three Texas House bill
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  Speaker 1: thirty five fifty six was signed into state, law otherwise
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  Speaker 1: known as The Athena. Alert the bill was fast tracked
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  Speaker 1: through State. Congress it allows law enforcement agencies Across texas
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  Speaker 1: to immediately report a child missing to the public via
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  Speaker 1: The Amber alert system and in a one hundred mile
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  Speaker 1: radius of their last known location and or home, county
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  Speaker 1: no longer requiring that there be evidence of an. Abduction
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  Speaker 1: even before it was signed by the, governor at least
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  Speaker 1: in some parts of the, state police were already utilizing
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  Speaker 1: The Athena, alert resulting in a noticeable increase in the
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  Speaker 1: Familiar amber alert tone buzzing out abruptly from mobile. Devices
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  Speaker 1: athena's legacy provides a long overdue change to The Amber
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  Speaker 1: alert system and should police agencies across the state Of
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  Speaker 1: texas decide to do the right thing and issue alerts
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  Speaker 1: for every reported missing, child including, runaways the lives of
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  Speaker 1: even more children will be. Saved Arlington Police Chief David,
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  Speaker 1: kunkle who was one of the many folks instrumental in
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  Speaker 1: helping get The amber plan off the, ground died of
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