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4 kids VANISH from locked cars Missing 411 (Part 10) - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: People are going missing all over North America under baffling conditions.
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Speaker 1: In some cases, there are people where someone's looking right
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Speaker 1: at them, they turn around and then you know, moments
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Speaker 1: later they're gone.
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Speaker 2: Or in some.
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Speaker 1: Cases, people will go missing and then are found again
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Speaker 1: in locations that are impossible to get to. And so
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Speaker 1: one man named David Politis, who's a former police detective,
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Speaker 1: began investigating these very strange disappearances because nobody else was,
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Speaker 1: and he started compiling what he was finding in an
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Speaker 1: absolutely fascinating book series called Missing four one one.
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Speaker 2: And so as I.
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Speaker 1: Read through all of his books, I've begun pulling some
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Speaker 1: of the more interesting cases that he details and highlighting
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Speaker 1: them on this channel. Today, I'm going to focus on
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Speaker 1: four instances of kids going missing after being in locked vehicles.
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Speaker 1: get into today's stories. On October sixteenth, nineteen thirty, John Sullivan,
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Speaker 1: who was with his nephew, Lawrence Sullivan, who was only
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Speaker 1: three years old. They were driving together in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the Nevada Desert. They were about one hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty miles away from Reno in this very remote area.
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Speaker 1: John was a gold prospector and he was heading to
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Speaker 1: an area that he wanted to scout out and see
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Speaker 1: if it was a proper place to prospect for gold.
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Speaker 1: This area, the roads didn't even go to it. You
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Speaker 1: had to drive down this road. We're just kind of
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Speaker 1: dead ends in the middle of the desert, right near
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Speaker 1: this huge steep mountain range, at which point you needed
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Speaker 1: to park your car, get out, and then walk over
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Speaker 1: this hill right in front of where the road ends.
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Speaker 1: And it was going to be over that hill looking
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Speaker 1: down into this valley where John wanted to prospect. So
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Speaker 1: he drives down the road, he parks the car and
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Speaker 1: he turns to Lawrence and he says, Hey, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: go over this hill for a minute and check the
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Speaker 1: area out. I'll be back in just a couple of minutes.
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Speaker 1: Stay in here, don't leave the car. I'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: John gets out, he locks the car. He walks up
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Speaker 1: to the top of the hill and he turns around,
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Speaker 1: looks at Lawrence and waves at him. Lawrence looks up
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Speaker 1: at his uncle and he waves back, and he's smiling,
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Speaker 1: so clear interaction. Lawrence knows where John is and where
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Speaker 1: John's going. John can clearly see Lawrence. There's no one
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Speaker 1: in the area too. I'm talking, this is remote as
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Speaker 1: remote can be. You're just right up against this mountain.
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Speaker 1: That's the only thing going on in this area. So
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Speaker 1: John turns his back on Lawrence. He goes over the hill.
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Speaker 1: He's now out of sight of the vehicle, and he
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Speaker 1: does a short inspection of this area that he wanted
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Speaker 1: to prospect. He goes back up over the hill and
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Speaker 1: he sees immediately.
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Speaker 2: That the door is now open and Lawrence is not
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Speaker 2: in the vehicle anymore.
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Speaker 1: John is not immediately concerned because it's only been a
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Speaker 1: couple of minutes. He can't have gone very far, and
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Speaker 1: there's nowhere to even go.
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Speaker 2: There's no trees.
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Speaker 1: I mean, basically, it's just this mountain right here. Beyond
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Speaker 1: the mountain there's really nowhere to go. So he goes down.
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Speaker 2: He looks in the car, he looks under the car.
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Speaker 2: He's yelling for Lawrence.
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Speaker 1: No response and sound carried really well in this area.
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Speaker 1: After a little while, and he can't hear anything. He
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Speaker 1: hasn't seen Lawrence. He's starting to get very desperate because
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Speaker 1: they are in the middle of nowhere and the temperatures
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Speaker 1: are going to drop well below freezing at night. So
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Speaker 1: John has to make this totally painful decision to get
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Speaker 1: in his car and drive and get help. And so
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Speaker 1: he leaves Lawrence because he can't find him.
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Speaker 2: He gets help.
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Speaker 1: The sheriff comes out there, and they start this massive
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Speaker 1: search for this child. This whole time, John is convinced
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Speaker 1: someone had to abduct him because Lawrence knew where John was.
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Speaker 2: If he was to get.
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Speaker 1: Out of the vehicle, Let's say he would have walked
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Speaker 1: over the hill to where John was. John was just
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Speaker 1: on the other side of the hill. It doesn't make
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Speaker 1: any sense that Lawrence would get out and wander in
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Speaker 1: a different direction. He would have gone to John. They
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Speaker 1: were very close. He might have wanted to see what
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Speaker 1: he was doing on the other side of the hill.
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Speaker 1: In the first few days of the search, they can't
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Speaker 1: find any tracks of the child or another person that
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Speaker 1: could have potentially abducted him, or even tracks of an
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Speaker 1: animal that could have potentially taken Lawrence away.
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Speaker 2: There's just nothing. They did find his hat, but that
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Speaker 2: was it.
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Speaker 1: There's no other evidence to go off of, and so
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Speaker 1: after four days of searching, the newspapers began running headlines
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Speaker 1: about potentially an eagle swooping down and taking Lawrence away,
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Speaker 1: because that's all anyone could speculate given the fact that
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Speaker 1: there was no tracks anywhere and that his hat had
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Speaker 1: fallen off. At this point, the police feel totally helpless.
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Speaker 1: They don't understand how this child has managed to evade capture.
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Speaker 1: They're not ready to accept that an eagle has taken
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Speaker 1: him away, and so the police bring in a Native
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Speaker 1: American tracker who was known in the area as an
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Speaker 1: exceptional tracker. So this tracker comes in and manages to
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Speaker 1: pick up a partial trail of this child, and he
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Speaker 1: starts following it, and they get seven miles away from
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Speaker 1: where this boy went missing, and the tracker begins going
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Speaker 1: up the side of this cliff. They have to actually
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Speaker 1: bring in climbing equipment to get up this cliff. They
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Speaker 1: go fourteen hundred feet up this cliff, so over four
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Speaker 1: hundred meters. They're going up this sheer cliff with climbing equipment.
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Speaker 1: And they get all the way up there and there's
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Speaker 1: this one little shelf, this one little rocky shelf that
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Speaker 1: this tracker has brought them to. And sure enough, on
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Speaker 1: this shelf is Lawrence. And he's more or less unharmed.
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Speaker 1: He's sleeping, but he's on this little shelf. He's tucked
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Speaker 1: up against this tree. But interestingly, the tree had this
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Speaker 1: bow that was fairly elastic, and it had clearly been
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Speaker 1: placed over his neck, basically trapping him tight up against
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Speaker 1: the mountain. It was like he had fallen into a trap,
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Speaker 1: because the police said that had he moved suddenly, he
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Speaker 1: would have broken his neck the way he was positioned.
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Speaker 1: So the police carefully undo the branch and they bring
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Speaker 1: the boy down, which was a total task considering how
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Speaker 1: far up they were.
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Speaker 2: And he's unharmed.
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Speaker 1: He's a couple scratches on his face, but that's about it.
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Speaker 1: They have no idea how he won got seven miles
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Speaker 1: away and then over four hundred meters up a sheer cliff,
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Speaker 1: so fourteen hundred feet up a sheer cliff the adults
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Speaker 1: needed climb the equipment to get to And then how
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Speaker 1: did you survive the below freezing temperatures you were out
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Speaker 1: here for nearly a week.
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Speaker 2: Nobody knows.
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Speaker 1: On October nineteenth, nineteen seventy three, James and Carol Duffy
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Speaker 1: decide they want to go camping. So they have this
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Speaker 1: big RV camper and they load up their two kids,
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Speaker 1: Jimmy who is two and.
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Speaker 2: Natalie, who was a little over one years old.
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Speaker 1: They load them in the RV along with their two cats,
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Speaker 1: and they take off for Lake Winachi, which is in
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Speaker 1: the state of Washington. It's this beautiful camp site where
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Speaker 1: lots of people with RBS would park right up against
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Speaker 1: this lake. So they make it to Lake Winachi, they
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Speaker 1: park their RV, they all get out. They're going on
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Speaker 1: a little walk, but the kids seem fussy and so
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Speaker 1: Carol and James decide to put them down for a nap.
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Speaker 1: Carol takes the kids inside the RV. She puts them
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Speaker 1: down for a nap. They're in there with the two cats.
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Speaker 1: She shuts and locks the RV and goes outside. At
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Speaker 1: this point, James says he wants to go scout for
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Speaker 1: a good hunting spot around where they were camping, and
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Speaker 1: so James takes off and he's looking for a place
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Speaker 1: to go hunting, and Carol decides she's gonna walk a
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Speaker 1: little ways around the lake, but keeping an eye on
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Speaker 1: the RV the whole time, and also James was within
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Speaker 1: eyesight of the camper as well. And after about fifteen minutes,
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Speaker 1: James goes back to the camper and checks on the kids.
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Speaker 1: Carol would say she saw James doing that and kind
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Speaker 1: of looked over to get the thumbs up from James
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Speaker 1: to make sure the kids are okay. James goes in.
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Speaker 1: The kids are sleeping, the cats are sleeping. James comes
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Speaker 1: out of the camper, he shuts and locks it. He
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Speaker 1: turns and he sees Carol. She's about one hundred meters away,
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Speaker 1: so a little over three hundred feet away. He gives
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Speaker 1: her thumbs up and then actually walks over to her.
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Speaker 1: So he's gonna go walk around with his wife now.
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Speaker 1: So he makes it over to Carol and they're walking
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Speaker 1: a little bit farther away, so there's still only about
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty meters away from their camper. When
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Speaker 1: they hear a scream coming from their camper. When they
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Speaker 1: both turned around, there was a big tree kind of
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Speaker 1: obscuring their view to the camper, so they kind of
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Speaker 1: ran back on the path to get a better look
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Speaker 1: at their camper, and all they can see is the
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Speaker 1: door to the camper is now open. So the two
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Speaker 1: of them sprint to the camper. James gets there first.
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Speaker 1: He goes inside and his son, Jimmy is gone. Their
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Speaker 1: youngest child, Natalie, was still sleeping, and their two cats
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Speaker 1: were still sleeping. Remember, Carol and James were on the
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Speaker 1: other side of this lake, about one hundred meters away
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Speaker 1: when they heard this screech coming from the RV. It
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Speaker 1: seems odd that the cats and Natalie wouldn't wake up
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Speaker 1: to that, but they didn't. After an initial frantic search
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Speaker 1: of the area where they can't find Jimmy or any
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Speaker 1: sign of Jimmy, they.
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Speaker 2: Call the police.
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Speaker 1: They show up and they begin doing a search themselves,
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Speaker 1: and after two hours of aggressively combing this whole camp
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Speaker 1: site and talking to all the other people that were there.
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Speaker 1: There wasn't that many people there, so they were able
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Speaker 1: to interview everyone, and everyone had an alibi. No one
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Speaker 1: was near their camper. The police start to feel really
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Speaker 1: suspicious about Carol and James, and in fact, they straight
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Speaker 1: up accuse James of hurting his child and trying to
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Speaker 1: cover it up. But James and Carol swear they were
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Speaker 1: on the other side of the lake there they heard
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Speaker 1: that that ran over. This is what we found. And
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Speaker 1: so for four days there's this massive search with canines, helicopters,
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Speaker 1: you name it. They're combing the area, they are interviewing
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Speaker 1: everyone they can. There is nothing, no sign of this child,
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Speaker 1: and so the suspicion that Carol or James had something
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Speaker 1: to do with the disappearance of the child only grew
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Speaker 1: and so eventually both parents were subjected to a polygraph
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Speaker 1: test and both stuck to their story and both passed.
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Speaker 1: They had nothing to do with the disappearance of their child.
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Speaker 1: They were telling the truth. The police still felt like
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Speaker 1: there's something off here about these parents. They must have
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Speaker 1: had something to do with this, and so they really
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Speaker 1: dug into their backgrounds and the family backgrounds, talking to
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Speaker 1: friends and family, and every single person in this family's
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Speaker 1: circle and even outer circle said no, they care about
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Speaker 1: their kids, they would never harm Jimmy.
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Speaker 2: But through their digging.
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Speaker 1: One thing that did come up is that Jimmy was
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Speaker 1: actually considered a very frail child that basically couldn't do
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Speaker 1: anything without assistance. So between the polygraph tests that rules
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Speaker 1: out the parents as being potentially responsible, and now this
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Speaker 1: information that Jimmy was this very frail child who's also two. Right,
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Speaker 1: he didn't get up open the camper, escape and then
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Speaker 1: evade this massive search effort, you know, that didn't happen either,
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Speaker 1: So all you're left with is abduction. But the police,
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Speaker 1: they basically cordoned off this whole site and were able
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Speaker 1: to account for every single person that was in the
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Speaker 1: park at any time while the adoptees were there, and
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Speaker 1: every single person had an alibi and completely checked out. Eventually,
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Speaker 1: the search for Jimmy was terminated, and to this day,
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Speaker 1: almost fifty years later, we still have no idea what
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Speaker 1: happened to Jimmy, where he went, and how he got there.
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Speaker 1: Late at night on March twenty sixth, nineteen sixty two,
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Speaker 1: the Crawford family, who lived in Tennessee, noticed their one
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Speaker 1: year old was sick, so they wanted to take her
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Speaker 1: to the doctor's office. Mister and Missus Crawford hop in
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Speaker 1: the car with their one year old and they bring
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Speaker 1: along their three year old named Fay. They drive to
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Speaker 1: the doctor's office. Turns out the one year old's going
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Speaker 1: to be just fine, and they give the kids some medication.
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Speaker 1: They head back to their house and when they pull
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Speaker 1: into the driveway, mister and missus Crawford turn around. The
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Speaker 1: one year old is awake, but the three year old, Fay,
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Speaker 1: is fast asleep. So the parents look at each other
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Speaker 1: and they say, okay, we'll get the baby inside. We'll
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Speaker 1: give Faye a couple more minutes to sleep inside the car,
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Speaker 1: and then we'll come out and we'll get her. So
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Speaker 1: mister and missus Crawford carefully get the one year old
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Speaker 1: out without waking Faye up. They shut the door, they
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Speaker 1: lock it, the windows are up.
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Speaker 2: They go into the.
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Speaker 1: House, they put their one year old down, and literally
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Speaker 1: maybe a couple of minutes goes by. They come out
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Speaker 1: and the doors are still shut, but Fay is gone
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Speaker 1: now because the vehicle was still shut, they're thinking, oh,
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Speaker 1: she must have gotten out of.
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Speaker 2: Her seat and maybe is tucked under the seats.
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Speaker 1: So they run over and they look inside and Fase
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Speaker 1: nowhere to be found. She's not in the vehicle, so
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Speaker 1: the vehicle itself had only two doors. There was two
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Speaker 1: rows of seating, but only two doors. If you were
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Speaker 1: in the back seat like Fay was, you would need
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Speaker 1: to push down, fold down one of the two front seats,
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Speaker 1: and then open that.
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Speaker 2: Door to get out. But both door handles on the
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Speaker 2: inside were broken off. They did not work.
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Speaker 1: You would have to manually roll down a window and
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Speaker 1: then reach outside the car and use the outside door
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Speaker 1: handle to open either door. So the parents are looking
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Speaker 1: at the vehicle and the doors are shut, the windows
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Speaker 1: are up, everything is still locked.
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Speaker 2: And while it is possible.
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Speaker 1: That Faye could have, in theory, got out of her
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Speaker 1: car seat, folded down one of the two front seats,
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Speaker 1: rolled down a window, reached out, opened the door, got outside,
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Speaker 1: rolled the window back up, pushed the lock down manually,
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Speaker 1: and then shut the door again.
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Speaker 2: That is possible, it's extremely unlikely and.
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Speaker 1: She had never done that. She'd never even gotten her
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Speaker 1: own seat undone, let alone. That complicated maneuver of getting
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Speaker 1: out and re shutting the door and locking it. So
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Speaker 1: obviously the police are called. They show up, they're searching
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Speaker 1: the area, they can't find this child. And then it
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Speaker 1: starts to snow and the temperatures start to drop, so
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Speaker 1: the police and volunteers stay out all night. There is
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Speaker 1: no sign of this child, and the Crawfords are bracing
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Speaker 1: for the worst. The next day, around eleven am, three
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Speaker 1: miles away from where Fay went missing, she walks onto
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Speaker 1: the property of someone's house. She was barefoot, but she
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Speaker 1: was more or less okay. Obviously, the parents are elated.
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Speaker 1: They're so happy their daughter's okay. Now, Normally, when somebody
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Speaker 1: goes missing, the investigation stays open until they're discovered. If
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Speaker 1: they're discovered alive, even if the circumstances are really weird.
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Speaker 2: Because they're alive, it more or.
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Speaker 1: Less ends the investigation, because what are you looking for
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Speaker 1: at this point, they're found, they're.
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Speaker 2: Alive, everything's okay.
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Speaker 1: It's rare that an investigation would continue after they'd been found,
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Speaker 1: and in this case, the police left the investigation open
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Speaker 1: because they couldn't understand how Faye could have gotten out
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Speaker 1: of that vehicle, considering how difficult that would have been,
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Speaker 1: and how did she get three miles away in less
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Speaker 1: than twelve hours, in the middle of the night walking
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Speaker 1: through a forest.
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Speaker 2: Not to mention, historically, kids are creatures of habit.
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Speaker 1: If they're missing and they're in the middle of the
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Speaker 1: woods but it's nighttime, they don't just keep walking. They
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Speaker 1: lay down and they go to sleep, and then when
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Speaker 1: the sun comes up, they get up and then they
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Speaker 1: keep moving. So for her to have gone three air
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Speaker 1: miles from where she went missing to this farmstead, that
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Speaker 1: means she did not lay down and go to sleep.
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Speaker 1: She kept walking all through the night, so none of
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Speaker 1: it added up. And then when they asked Fae what happened,
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Speaker 1: she would just smile and laugh. That's all they could
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Speaker 1: ever get.
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Speaker 2: Out of this child.
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Speaker 1: So despite leaving the investigation open, no one ever came
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Speaker 1: to any sort of conclusion about how she got out
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Speaker 1: of that car and how she covered that.
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Speaker 2: Distance or why. It's just a big.
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Speaker 1: Mystery like all of these missing four to one one cases.
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Speaker 1: In two thousand and one, Paul Weyman was thirty seven
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Speaker 1: years old. He was a construction worker living in Salt
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Speaker 1: Lake City and he was about to get divorced for
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Speaker 1: the second time in his first marriage. After the divorce,
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Speaker 1: he got sole custody of their four children.
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Speaker 2: He was a great father.
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Speaker 1: The judge saw it that way and said the kids
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Speaker 1: were better off with him, and following this second divorce,
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Speaker 1: he would file for sole custody of the child that
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Speaker 1: they had had together, who was a little boy two
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Speaker 1: years old named Gage, and he would win.
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Speaker 2: So, Paul is a single father of five children.
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Speaker 1: Gage was a lot younger than the other four kids,
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Speaker 1: and so he kind of became Paul's little buddy and
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Speaker 1: went everywhere with Paul.
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Speaker 2: They were very, very close.
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Speaker 1: On October twenty five, two thousand and one, Paul takes Gage,
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Speaker 1: puts him in the back of his truck. He buckles
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Speaker 1: him into his car seat, and the two of them
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Speaker 1: head off to this area where Paul would hunt for deer.
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Speaker 1: It was actually a private deer hunting area that was
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Speaker 1: totally enclosed by a fence. Now, in order to access
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Speaker 1: this private area, you needed to be a member, and
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Speaker 1: Paul was a member.
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Speaker 2: And once you become a member, they give you a
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Speaker 2: gate code. And so Paul and Gage drive up.
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Speaker 1: He gets to the gate, he punches in the code,
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Speaker 1: he opens up the gate, the two of them drive in,
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Speaker 1: he said. He shuts the gate and locks it, and
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Speaker 1: the two of them head up this path to this
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Speaker 1: area where he planned to look for some deer when
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Speaker 1: he parked the car, he saw that Gage was passed
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Speaker 1: out in his car seat and just did not look
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Speaker 1: like he was going to be psyched to get out
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Speaker 1: and go look for deer. About it for a minute,
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Speaker 1: and he decides, you know what, I'm gonna leave Gage
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Speaker 1: in the back seat. I'll just shut and lock the car.
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Speaker 1: He's warm, he's taken care of. I'm gonna go spend
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Speaker 1: just a couple of minutes looking for deer, and then
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Speaker 1: I'll come back and I'll get him. So he hops out,
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Speaker 1: he locks the car, and he walks a little ways
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Speaker 1: away from the truck where it's still right behind him.
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Speaker 1: But a couple of other hunters that were on this
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Speaker 1: area they saw Paul.
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Speaker 2: They flagged him down and they started talking.
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Speaker 1: He gets preoccupied, and after thirty minutes or so, he
16:26
Speaker 1: realizes he needs.
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Speaker 2: To go back and check on his son.
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Speaker 1: And when he goes back up, the front door on
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Speaker 1: Gage's side is open and Gage is gone. Paul runs
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Speaker 1: up to the vehicle. He can't believe that Gage is gone.
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Speaker 1: Paul screams for the other hunters to come over and
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Speaker 1: help him. He's like, I can't find my son. They
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Speaker 1: start looking in the area and apparently Paul was so
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Speaker 1: grief stricken and he began vomiting. He was totally hysterical,
16:48
Speaker 1: and he kept saying, it's my fault, it's my fault
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Speaker 1: I left him here. Police show up and this massive
16:53
Speaker 1: search is launched. But you got to remember that this
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Speaker 1: is a gated in area.
16:58
Speaker 2: Everything is locked. You need to have a code to
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Speaker 2: get in here.
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Speaker 1: And the only people that apparently were on this site
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Speaker 1: at the time were the other hunters that Paul was
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Speaker 1: talking to, and so obviously that casts a huge spotlight
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Speaker 1: on those hunters and Paul being responsible for whatever's happened
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Speaker 1: to Gauge. But initially they just focus on looking for
17:16
Speaker 1: this child. And after a little bit of searching and
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Speaker 1: there's absolutely no sign of this kid, they do turn
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Speaker 1: on Paul. He's like, you know what, if anything happened
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Speaker 1: to my son, it's my fault. I left him in
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Speaker 1: the vehicle. It's my fault. Like he's not being defensive
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Speaker 1: at all. He is one hundred percent saying it's my
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Speaker 1: fault I did this. He's not saying I harmed my child,
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Speaker 1: but he's taken full responsibility for whatever's happened. And the
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Speaker 1: police pick up on that, and they're like, you know what,
17:39
Speaker 1: I think he's telling the truth. And he's also saying
17:42
Speaker 1: that he was with those other hunters and they're the
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Speaker 1: only other ones here. So for four days, this massive
17:47
Speaker 1: search is launched all over this hunting area, even beyond
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Speaker 1: the hunting area, and there's no sign of this child.
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Speaker 2: He's just gone. And so they terminate the search.
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Speaker 1: But Paul's church offered to send another one hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty volunteers to continue the search, and one of those
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Speaker 1: volunteers was a man by the name of James Wilkes.
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Speaker 2: He was an abbod outdoorsman, and.
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Speaker 1: He brought along his dog, Dino, and over the course
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Speaker 1: of the search, James and his dog actually get lost,
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Speaker 1: which David Polidas says is very rare. There's so many
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Speaker 1: people doing the search at one time, it would be
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Speaker 1: hard to get lost, but it does happen, and so
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Speaker 1: James and his dog wind up miles away from where
18:24
Speaker 1: they were supposed to be searching.
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Speaker 2: They don't know where they are. They're lost, and so.
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Speaker 1: That night the temperatures are dropping, it's snowing, and James
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Speaker 1: and his dog ended up getting under a tree in
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Speaker 1: this little pocket, under a tree, and they huddled together
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Speaker 1: all night, and James said it was one of the
18:37
Speaker 1: worst nights of his life. He didn't sleep much, but
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Speaker 1: at some point in the morning when the sun started
18:41
Speaker 1: to come up, he was happy to be alive, you know,
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Speaker 1: he didn't die of hypothermia. And he and Dino start
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Speaker 1: walking and they've only walked a couple of minutes when
18:49
Speaker 1: the dog stops and he starts licking something on the
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Speaker 1: ground and he looks down and under a couple inches
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Speaker 1: of snow, it's the body of Gage. James scoops up
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Speaker 1: the body and for hours, they start walking back kind
18:59
Speaker 1: of generally towards where he thinks he needs to go.
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Speaker 1: He ends up finding a fence that he recognized, and
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Speaker 1: since he was exhausted from carrying the boy, he placed
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Speaker 1: the boy's body near a fence post that he knew
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Speaker 1: he'd be able to recognize, and he and Dino made
19:12
Speaker 1: their way up to the search and rescue headquarters, told
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Speaker 1: them where to find the boy's body, and they went
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Speaker 1: back and they collected the boy's body. Now, because James
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Speaker 1: is the one to find the boy, they immediately had
19:23
Speaker 1: to treat him like a suspect.
19:24
Speaker 2: They polygraphed him because you found the boy. No one
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Speaker 2: else has found him.
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Speaker 1: You were ways away from the search, but he passes
19:30
Speaker 1: his polygraph. James would say to police that when he
19:33
Speaker 1: found the body, there were all these tracks around the body.
19:38
Speaker 1: They looked like canine tracks, but they weren't dinos. And
19:41
Speaker 1: he knows they weren't dinos because he was holding onto
19:43
Speaker 1: dino all night and he hadn't been in this particular
19:46
Speaker 1: area the night before. So investigators are like, if there
19:49
Speaker 1: were other canine tracks all over that area, it means
19:52
Speaker 1: one we searched it. But if we searched it, why
19:54
Speaker 1: didn't they pick up on the boy who they're trained
19:57
Speaker 1: to smell?
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Speaker 2: Or what animal was?
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Speaker 1: This had anything to do with why gaugees here in
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Speaker 1: the first place. After the autopsy, it was determined that
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Speaker 1: Gage died from hypothermia.
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Speaker 2: His father was absolutely devastated.
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Speaker 1: You know, he spent all this time at the site
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Speaker 1: where his body was found.
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Speaker 2: He created a shrine for his son.
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Speaker 1: He was known to spend hours in his vehicle trying
20:18
Speaker 1: to figure out how his son got out of his
20:20
Speaker 1: seat and then made his way out that front door,
20:23
Speaker 1: something he had never seen his son do. He was
20:25
Speaker 1: just totally devastated, and he was ultimately charged with negligent
20:28
Speaker 1: homicide and he pled guilty to it and was given
20:31
Speaker 1: thirty days in jail, but before his sentence.
20:34
Speaker 2: Was carried out, he took his own life.
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Speaker 1: So, like all cases that David Polidaz covers in the
20:39
Speaker 1: Missing four one one series, were left with a lot
20:41
Speaker 1: of questions and unfortunately they may never get answered, but
20:44
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20:50
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20:52
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20:54
Speaker 2: That seem impossible to get to.
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