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Teen Girl Vanishes from Walmart Parking Lot. HELP US! · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. We pour our whole life
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Speaker 1: into our children, our time, our energy, our love, our money,
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Speaker 1: our hopes, our dreams really are focused on them. Imagine
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Speaker 1: all the years, all the love you put in to
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Speaker 1: your teen girl, and then in one moment, she's gone.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about a beautiful young teen girl, Naomi Heirion vanished.
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace joining me right now not only her mother,
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Speaker 1: but her sister as well. I Nancy Grace, this is
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Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. First of all,
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Speaker 1: take a listen to the Lion County Sheriff's Department. Spread
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Speaker 1: the word about my sister as much as you can.
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Speaker 1: Because she this was on Saturday morning. We don't know
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Speaker 1: how fast that Trump is going. She could be anywhere
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Speaker 1: right now. We are out of time. It's this, It's
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Speaker 1: so critical right now. Just anything did you know or
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Speaker 1: or or thought it needs to be recorded. Truer words
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Speaker 1: never spoken. And when I hear the words, we are
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Speaker 1: out of time. That's not good. But there is hope
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Speaker 1: to bring Naomi home alive, Yes there is. We know
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Speaker 1: the statistics. Imagine being taken in a kidnappers vehicle every hour,
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Speaker 1: sixty miles every minute, another mile away from home. Again,
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Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grayson. This is Crime Stories. Thanks for being
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Speaker 1: with us. Now take a listen to the Lion County
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Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department press conference held late at night. Listen. When
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Speaker 1: I didn't hear I didn't see her on Saturday because
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Speaker 1: I went to bed super early and she got home
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Speaker 1: because she usually came home kind of later at night,
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Speaker 1: and so that wasn't weird. And then when I saw
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Speaker 1: that she didn't come home on Sunday, she worked early
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Speaker 1: in the morning, and she worked so early in the morning,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. She came she didn't come home on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: and I knew something was wrong. I immediately reached out
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Speaker 1: to family first, as if they've heard from her. I
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Speaker 1: reached out to all the jails and hospitals in the
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Speaker 1: nearby area, all the way from Churchill County to Washoe County, Sacramento,
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Speaker 1: Carson City, everywhere like that. It was at that point
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Speaker 1: that I knew something was wrong, and I make sure
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Speaker 1: to call it dispatch on Sunday. Have you ever had
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Speaker 1: that feeling where you don't know where your daughter, your
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Speaker 1: son is, or they lost in the mall, or they
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Speaker 1: lost in the store, they're not picking up their cell phone.
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Speaker 1: You were hearing her brother, Casey, who lives with her,
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Speaker 1: describing when he realized something was very wrong. This teen
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Speaker 1: girl has a job with Panasonic and works crazy hours
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Speaker 1: off and catching the bus to get to work. Where
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Speaker 1: is this girl with me? An all star panel to
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Speaker 1: make sense of what we know right now? Kirk Nurmi,
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Speaker 1: high pro fail lawyer. You'll remember him from the Jodi
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Speaker 1: Arias a sensational trial Jodi Arius legal commentator and CASS member,
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Speaker 1: Radical Body Transformation on Amazon Prime, and author of Trapped
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Speaker 1: with Missirius. Doctor Angela Arnold arenowned psychiatrists joining us from
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Jurisdiction at Angela Arnold MD dot com. Special
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Speaker 1: Deputy Sheriff, Johnson County Sheriff's Executive Director, Kelsey Smith Foundation
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Speaker 1: at Kelsey's Army dot com. Longtime friend and college Greg
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Speaker 1: Smith joining us special guest with us Diana Erion. Diana
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Speaker 1: is Naomi's mother and you can find Diana on Facebook
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Speaker 1: at Naomi Erion Dash, Missing Slash Abduction Dash Fernley, Nevada.
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Speaker 1: They are here begging for your help. Also with us
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow Cartwright. This is Nao Me's sister. Firmly is a
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Speaker 1: city in Nevada. Is part of the Reno Sparks metropolitan area,
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Speaker 1: so not too far from Reno. Now we know the
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Speaker 1: population is only about nineteen thousand people, and that is
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Speaker 1: very critical in a case like this. To Greg Smith's
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Speaker 1: Special Deputy Sheriff, the population and the terrain, the topography
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Speaker 1: of where Naomi has gone missing is very important. I mean,
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Speaker 1: think about it, Greg, With a population of about nineteen
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Speaker 1: thousand people, that really narrows the pool of people that
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Speaker 1: may have taken Naomi. Yeah, smaller towns sometimes make it easier,
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Speaker 1: although you never know if it was somebody that came
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Speaker 1: through that nobody knows, so it's kind of hit or
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Speaker 1: miss on that. But terrain, on topography, those those can
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Speaker 1: all have major effects on the search effort. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about what you just said because to my understanding,
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Speaker 1: and we've been researching firmly Nevada. It's very close to
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Speaker 1: Interstate eighty, US Route fifty, US Route ninety five five.
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Speaker 1: Now it's really critical that we're pointing that out to Greg,
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Speaker 1: because no one will ever forget Dylan a cheft to
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Speaker 1: grow knee out in Core Delaine, Idaho. When you ride
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Speaker 1: over where they were abducted, Greg, nothing but green. But
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Speaker 1: they were abducted from their home near an interstate. A
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Speaker 1: perv was driving by and saw them at a distance
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Speaker 1: at an above ground pool, pulled off the interstate late
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Speaker 1: and wait and kill the family and abducted the children.
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Speaker 1: So you're right, Greg, Even in a rural area population
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Speaker 1: nineteen thousand plus, strangers to the area can come into
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Speaker 1: the area and here are these interstate routes. Guys, you
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Speaker 1: were hearing the sound that we played for you various
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Speaker 1: people speaking at the sheriff's presser. Now take a listen
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Speaker 1: to this. Naomi Erion went missing around five in the
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Speaker 1: morning on March twelfth from the Walmart parking lot. Infernly,
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Speaker 1: her brother didn't realize she was gone until the next
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Speaker 1: day on Sunday night. I wanted to talk to her,
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Speaker 1: so I was waiting for her to come home from
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Speaker 1: work and she never came. Here's a photo of Naomi
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Speaker 1: in June when she graduated from high school. She now
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Speaker 1: lives with her brother, and she was last seen on
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Speaker 1: her way to work, and they confirmed that she had
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Speaker 1: missed her ships set bill Saturday and Sunday, which was
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Speaker 1: really unusual. My daughter was extremely reliable. Her brother, Casey Valley,
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Speaker 1: was worried when she didn't come home. He traced her
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Speaker 1: steps and went to the bus stop at the walmart
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Speaker 1: where Naomi usually hitched a ride to work in the
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Speaker 1: Reno Sparks area. You were just here. You're on forensic
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Speaker 1: at Kolo eight and now let's bring in the family
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Speaker 1: of missing Naomi, a gorgeous teen girl who, by all accounts,
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Speaker 1: if confronted with a scary situation, would not scream or fight,
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Speaker 1: but would freeze. That's very important as this story unfolds.
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Speaker 1: First to Diane, this is Naomi's mother, Diana, thank you
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Speaker 1: for being with us. When did you realize Naomi was missing?
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Speaker 1: I first realized Naomi was missing on Sunday when my
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Speaker 1: son messaged me. I was in South Africa in Pretoria,
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Speaker 1: South Africa at the time of my son messaged me
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Speaker 1: and said, have you heard from Naomi? And I said, no,
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Speaker 1: I just talked to her a couple of days ago.
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Speaker 1: I haven't heard from her today. And he said, well,
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Speaker 1: she didn't come home from work. And I said, you
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Speaker 1: must call the police right now, because that is not Naomi. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I mean you know too, doctor Angie Arnold, who knows
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Speaker 1: me very well. Angie a renowned psychiatrist in the Atlanta jurisdiction.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Angela, you know, it would take hell and high
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Speaker 1: water to keep me from, for example, picking up the
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Speaker 1: twins from school every day, I mean just picking them up.
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Speaker 1: I'd met on time, right there, front and center. If
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Speaker 1: they call their dad and go, Mom's not here, that
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Speaker 1: would set off alarms. Now, for some people, doctor Angela,
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Speaker 1: it may not mean anything if you miss an appointment,
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Speaker 1: or you show up late, or you you're not where
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Speaker 1: you're supposed to be right. But for people like Naomi,
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Speaker 1: just a teen girl but already incredibly responsible. Did you
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Speaker 1: hear her? She'd go to a bus route, take a
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Speaker 1: bus all the way to work to her job at Panasonic,
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Speaker 1: never late, never missed work. And when mom Diana, here's that, No,
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Speaker 1: she knew immediately something was very wrong. Well, and I
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Speaker 1: think what's scary is that very routine that she keeps. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: is that what got her in trouble? Explain what you're saying.
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Speaker 1: And I agree with you. By the way, Well, if
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Speaker 1: if she had this routine, this is her route that
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Speaker 1: she takes to work every morning, and possibly somebody's been
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Speaker 1: watching her and that made it easier for that person
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Speaker 1: to nab her, I don't know, well, you know, and
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Speaker 1: I write about that and my new book, Don't Be
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Speaker 1: a Victim that very thing. And as an example, I
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Speaker 1: use a gorgeous young girl that would run ten miles
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Speaker 1: at least a day, same route, and she was shot
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Speaker 1: on that route the furthermost point from her parents home
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Speaker 1: where she lived. Someone knew her routine. And buzzes weren't
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Speaker 1: run on schedule. They leave from parking lots, they leave
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Speaker 1: from areas that are publicly death signated. You can find
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Speaker 1: them easily, you know. Kirk Nermi, high profile defense attorney
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Speaker 1: joining us. Kirk She's absolutely right, Yeah, you bet. I
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Speaker 1: mean Naomi was clearly a creature of habit. Right, So
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Speaker 1: this leaves us with two something wrong with it? Not
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Speaker 1: at all, not at all, where all creatures that had
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Speaker 1: it to some degree. But this, this habitual behavior, her
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Speaker 1: on time, everything else made it easier for this predator
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Speaker 1: to either act on the opportunity the obsession to perhaps kidnapping,
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Speaker 1: or maybe the obsession was personal. The flip side of
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Speaker 1: this to me, nasty as I see it, is that
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Speaker 1: means that this perpetrator was likely in her world at
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Speaker 1: least enough to know her routine, or he had some
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Speaker 1: sort of personal obsession with her. So that leads me
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Speaker 1: to the somebody out there knows something crime stories with
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Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. I want to go now to a special
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Speaker 1: guest joining us. This is Naomi's sister, her mother and
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Speaker 1: sister joining us right now, Tamara Cartwright. Tamara, question, tell
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Speaker 1: me about her job at Panasonic. What I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: find out is I'm basing this off doctor Angel Arnold
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Speaker 1: and Kurt Nermie what they've just said. Did she work
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Speaker 1: with the public or was she like me? All the
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Speaker 1: way through college? I worked in the library, but in
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Speaker 1: the back processing books. I never saw a soul beside
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Speaker 1: sister Mary, a little nun that worked with me in
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Speaker 1: the back processing books. So tell me what was her
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Speaker 1: job at Panasonic? Tamara? Naomi works with electronics, building batteries
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Speaker 1: and she works in the factory there and she has
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Speaker 1: it's a really close knit group of friends that she
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Speaker 1: works with. See a lot of people that know that
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Speaker 1: Naomi is missing. Guys with you, you're just joining us.
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Speaker 1: Naomi is missing. She is a teen girl, sweet, kind, loving, fastidious,
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Speaker 1: hard worker, never missed work already at this young age,
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Speaker 1: holding down a big job. Teen girl works at Panasonic.
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Speaker 1: Many people think tomorrow that she worked at a Panasonic store,
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Speaker 1: like she sold Panasonic goods to people, like a best
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Speaker 1: Buy something like that. But that's not the case at all.
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Speaker 1: Describe again. So she would go into work and she
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Speaker 1: would it was a factory situation, not going with a
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Speaker 1: public Is that right, correct? It was a factory situation.
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Speaker 1: She would put on my brother called it a bunny
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Speaker 1: suit every day over her clothes, and she would work
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Speaker 1: hard at making the batteries for Panasonic Electronics. What do
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Speaker 1: you mean by a bunny suits? It's a protective suit
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Speaker 1: that goes over her clothes. Got it, got it? Got it.
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Speaker 1: I wonder how many people work there tomorrow. I'm not sure,
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Speaker 1: but it's a huge factory. Well, I can tell you
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Speaker 1: this much. Greg Smith, Greg Smith joining me special Deputy Sheriff,
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Speaker 1: Johnson County. I'm sure that police have already vetted every
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Speaker 1: single male at the factory. Yes, I know women have
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Speaker 1: committed crimes kidnaps before, but it's really rare. Wouldn't that
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Speaker 1: be number one? And to look for any love interest
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Speaker 1: those two things, Greg Smith. Yeah, you're looking for people
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Speaker 1: that have daily contact with her at work. All of
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Speaker 1: those people in the standard investigation, you'd go in and
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Speaker 1: talk to them, try to get as much information as
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Speaker 1: you can, especially information like we were talking about earlier,
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Speaker 1: those patterns of life. What do people do on a
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Speaker 1: daily basis where they add at certain times of the day, Um,
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Speaker 1: when was the last time that you saw her head
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Speaker 1: contact with her? All of those things are done in
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Speaker 1: another situation like this. In a deduction, you're going to
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Speaker 1: look at, um, sexual predators that are in the area.
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Speaker 1: In check check those registry lists and see who's quoted
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Speaker 1: sat Greg Smith. The only sex predators we can look
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Speaker 1: up in the area are the ones we know about
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Speaker 1: that have been convicted and put on the sex predator
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Speaker 1: roster registered as a sex offender. About all the ones
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Speaker 1: we don't know about. But yes, of course you're right,
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Speaker 1: you only got to Nami's mother, Diana, tell me about
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Speaker 1: her route to work. Well, she didn't. She doesn't live
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Speaker 1: too far from the walmart. It's it's about a mile
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Speaker 1: and a half away. So she would get up early
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Speaker 1: in the morning and she would be on her social
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Speaker 1: media while she was getting ready. She would be snapchutting
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Speaker 1: into Okay, that's so funny because my twins I have
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Speaker 1: a boy girl twins set and they're fourteen. When they're
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Speaker 1: brushing their teeth, they're laughing because they're laughing at a
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Speaker 1: cat in a swimming pool. I don't know what they're
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Speaker 1: looking at, but I think sometimes and it's some crazy thing,
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Speaker 1: like somebody busting a watermelon, and they think it's just hilarious,
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Speaker 1: and they're doing it while they're getting ready. And this
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Speaker 1: my daughter was late getting in the car, and I think, Lucy,
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Speaker 1: you have to not look at your phone when you're
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Speaker 1: getting ready, honey and eating breakfast. And she says I wasn't.
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Speaker 1: And I said, Lucy, so I believe you are my
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Speaker 1: lying eyes. I saw you, Okay, she said, but Mom,
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Speaker 1: I was just looking up filling the blank. I don't
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Speaker 1: know what she was looking. I was checking grades at school.
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Speaker 1: That chance I know she was looking at videos on
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Speaker 1: TikTok because she was laughing. She was laughing. But that's
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Speaker 1: not unusual, and it just warms my heart to think
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Speaker 1: of Naomi getting ready and doing her social media. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, go ahead. Well, because Naomi's lived all over
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Speaker 1: the world, because our family is a diplomatic family and
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Speaker 1: my husband works for the Department of State, and so
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Speaker 1: she's you know, we've lived in Russia and Germany, and
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Speaker 1: we've been in France and all over Europe and Africa,
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Speaker 1: and so she has friends everywhere, and so she was
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Speaker 1: used the time in the early morning when it's later
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Speaker 1: there to the east to talk to her friends. And
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Speaker 1: so she would do that while she was getting ready
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Speaker 1: early in the morning. Then she would get in her
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Speaker 1: car and she usually stopped buy at a local convenience store.
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Speaker 1: That's where some of the security camera footage is of
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Speaker 1: her buying an energy drink. And that's where we you
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Speaker 1: got me drinking out of the fire hydrant. For those
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Speaker 1: of you just joining us, help us, fine, Naomi, think
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Speaker 1: about your teen girl or teen boy just missing either bloo.
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Speaker 1: The mother is beside herself. Help us. Let me give
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Speaker 1: you the tip line seven seven five four sixty three
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Speaker 1: sixty six twenty repeat seven seven five four six three
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Speaker 1: sixty six twenty Diana, could you just tell me that
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Speaker 1: routine one more time? So she would get up very
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Speaker 1: early in the morning while it was still dark, because
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Speaker 1: she had to catch her Pennasonic shuttle bus at between
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Speaker 1: five thirty and five forty, oh my goodness, very early,
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Speaker 1: and she would be snapping, snapchatting and dming with her
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Speaker 1: friends while she was getting ready, because she has friends everywhere.
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Speaker 1: And then she would usually stop at a convenience store
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Speaker 1: on the way to the Walmart, parking lints only about
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Speaker 1: a mile and a half away from the house where
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Speaker 1: she lives in Fernley, and she would usually pick up
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Speaker 1: snacks or drinks or something at the convenience store, and
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Speaker 1: then she would drive to the Walmart. It was just
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Speaker 1: a couple of blocks from the convenience store, and she
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Speaker 1: would park meet near a light pole that has a
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Speaker 1: security camera because it was dark and she thought she
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Speaker 1: would be safe with the light pole and the security
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Speaker 1: camera right on her cloth. And but she would get
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Speaker 1: there early so that she could spend her time talking
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Speaker 1: to her friends because when she got to work, you know,
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Speaker 1: she she had to wear the protective suits and she
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Speaker 1: couldn't be on her phone and have it out all
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Speaker 1: day long. And she worked in twelve thirteen hours shifts
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Speaker 1: at the Panasonic factory. Diana Arion, this is Naomi's mother,
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Speaker 1: in tears, describe me how her teen girl would park
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Speaker 1: next to the lightpole in the parking lot thinking that
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Speaker 1: would protect her. And you know, Diana, I do the
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Speaker 1: very same thing tomorrow. Cart right with me. This is
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Speaker 1: Naomi's sister. Explain to me how Walmart fits into this
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Speaker 1: scenario because she worked at Panasonic. Right, so, my sister
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Speaker 1: would go to the Walmart every day in Fernley, Nevada
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Speaker 1: to take a shuttle bus to her job at Panasonic,
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Speaker 1: which is near Reno. Though Walmart is only about a
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Speaker 1: mile and a half away from the house and Reno's
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, a thirty minute drive, so it's
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Speaker 1: like a park and ride type of situation. So Walmart
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Speaker 1: lets them would let her and others park in their
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Speaker 1: parking lot and then they would catch a shuttle bus
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Speaker 1: to the Panasonic location. Right right. The Walmart is one
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Speaker 1: of the largest parking lots around here other than the
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Speaker 1: Flying Jay, which is mostly for you know Semitrucks got it. Guys,
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Speaker 1: take a listen to our cut fifteen. This is the
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Speaker 1: Lion County Schiff's Department. My girlfriend and I went to
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Speaker 1: Walmart and we tried to security down at Walmart, and
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Speaker 1: they were very helpful, and I'm very thankful to them
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Speaker 1: for letting us bargain on the moment and showing us
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Speaker 1: that footage. And as soon as we saw that, I
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Speaker 1: reported it as a kid proper. I mean, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess no one knows what they
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Speaker 1: expect to see. You just need to go look and
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Speaker 1: see it. What went through your mind, like you saw.
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Speaker 1: I was mortified, you know it was. I didn't expect
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Speaker 1: to see that, you know, I expected to I was
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Speaker 1: just trying to verify that she made it to moment,
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Speaker 1: you know, and or or whether or not she got
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Speaker 1: on the bus. But I had heard from HR at
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Speaker 1: Panasonic because I've heard Murgacy content. So on Monday I
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Speaker 1: got in touch with them before I went to Walmart
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Speaker 1: even and they verified that she had bill called in
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Speaker 1: a show on Saturday and Sunday, which is very unusual
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Speaker 1: for she's never been on You were hearing NAMMY's brother.
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Speaker 1: Speaking at the press, her, now, what does the video show?
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Speaker 1: Take a listen to our cut number two from Kolo.
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Speaker 1: Walmart had surveillance video and shared it with Casey. Here's
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Speaker 1: a snapshot of that video showing the suspect. Casey says,
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Speaker 1: the video shows this man getting into Naomi's car and
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Speaker 1: driving off with her in the passenger seat. Once we
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Speaker 1: found the footage, which appears to be nondescript mail average
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Speaker 1: average build, completely covered up with a mask in the hood,
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Speaker 1: and Casey says, no one recognizes the man in the video.
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Speaker 1: Had some monster takes them. You don't know what's happened,
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Speaker 1: You don't know where they are, and nobody had been
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Speaker 1: noticed she was missing. Naomi's mom feels helpless. She lives
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Speaker 1: in South Africa and can only sit on the sidelines
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Speaker 1: waiting for her son to call with any information. Just
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Speaker 1: he tells me everything that he knows as soon as
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Speaker 1: he knows it too. Audrey Conklin's joining us from Fox
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Speaker 1: and he is digital. Describe what is on the video, Audrey, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: a monster is pretty much the perfect way I think
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Speaker 1: to describe this kidnapping suspect. He's wearing a gray hooded
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Speaker 1: sweatshirt and jeans. You can't see a space at all.
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Speaker 1: It's just a black circle. And police say he walked
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Speaker 1: from the area of a homeless encampment into the parking
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Speaker 1: lot and he's standing in front of cars, looking in windshields,
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Speaker 1: into headlights before he eventually approaches Naomi. It's deeply and suspicious.
23:40
Speaker 1: It's telling me a lot Kirk Nurmi. He had a mask,
23:46
Speaker 1: a hood. He's there at five a m. That's a
23:50
Speaker 1: very unusual time for a kidnapping, right, yeah, are you bet?
23:55
Speaker 1: And it goes back to what we said earlier about
23:57
Speaker 1: opportunity and have it. You know, we can narrow The
24:00
Speaker 1: good news is about this is we could narrow in
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Speaker 1: to really find this predator. We want to be looking
24:05
Speaker 1: not just at Walmart, but also at the convenience store.
24:08
Speaker 1: Did they have some interaction with her at the convenience store.
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Speaker 1: I think police should be looking at everyone who worked
24:13
Speaker 1: at the convenience and frequent assimist because this opportunity just
24:18
Speaker 1: wasn't happenstance. This was a guy who was prepared for
24:21
Speaker 1: it and knew her habits and probably had some interaction
24:24
Speaker 1: with her around this time of day. But then we
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Speaker 1: find out about more video take a list of our
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Speaker 1: cut three k h o U eleven not shared according
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Speaker 1: to the family in a local TV interview, is video
24:38
Speaker 1: of him forcing his way into her car. This person
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Speaker 1: did say or do something to Naomi to make her
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Speaker 1: move over from the driver's side to the passenger's side.
24:50
Speaker 1: This wasn't chance. This was something that he was thinking about,
24:54
Speaker 1: and he was very suspicious looking. Irion's four door sedan
24:58
Speaker 1: was later found in this industrial area where it was
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Speaker 1: processed and from where authorities believed the suspect may have
25:05
Speaker 1: driven away in this dark Chevy pickup. We have no
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Speaker 1: idea where she is. She's been missing for almost a week. Cartwright,
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Speaker 1: who flew to Nevada to help in the search, believes
25:15
Speaker 1: someone may have betrayed Naomi's trusting nature. I can't think
25:19
Speaker 1: about how it will end other than us finding my sister.
25:23
Speaker 1: I'll trying to think about what we just heard. Her
25:26
Speaker 1: trusting nature, What do you mean by that? To Naomi's mother, Dianna.
25:33
Speaker 1: Her trusting nature, explain Naomi as she loves people. She's
25:40
Speaker 1: an extrovert. She loves people, and she wants to help people,
25:46
Speaker 1: and she connects with people immediately when she meets them,
25:51
Speaker 1: and she immediately trusts everyone and believes what they say
25:55
Speaker 1: to her. And it's something I've had to caution her
25:58
Speaker 1: over for their very long time because I'm not like that.
26:04
Speaker 1: And um, it's she's been hurt by some friends in
26:08
Speaker 1: the past because she trusts what they say to her
26:10
Speaker 1: and it turns up to not be true and then
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Speaker 1: she she gets hurt by it. But um, it's who
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Speaker 1: she is. She loves everyone. I find it very interesting.
26:21
Speaker 1: Um Actually, take a listen to Naomi's dad speaking in
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Speaker 1: our cut twelve at the Lion County Sheriff's Department press conference.
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Speaker 1: Naomi's not a fighter, meaning the guy who pushed her
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Speaker 1: Joe call, she froze, she knew anything that she just froze.
26:38
Speaker 1: And we can clarify really quick and detective Detective correct
26:43
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. We're not saying that this person
26:46
Speaker 1: was necessarily a homeless person who came from that direction,
26:51
Speaker 1: like but but it's enough of something that to state
26:54
Speaker 1: that it's worth noting. This person did say or do
26:58
Speaker 1: something to Naomi to make her move over from the
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Speaker 1: driver's side to the passengers session as far as I know,
27:07
Speaker 1: but we know so far he could have said anything
27:09
Speaker 1: like I'll shoot you or I'll kill you. Move over.
27:12
Speaker 1: But with her personality being I perceive a little timid
27:18
Speaker 1: quote not a fighter, she would have done it. Rule
27:22
Speaker 1: number one, never go in the car with a perp,
27:28
Speaker 1: no matter what they threatened. Do not leave in the car.
27:34
Speaker 1: So what can't we tell you about what Naomi was wearing?
27:37
Speaker 1: What does she look like that morning? Take a listen
27:39
Speaker 1: to our cut twenty one again from the press conference.
27:43
Speaker 1: We're also looking for her purse. It's a black in
27:49
Speaker 1: any of her clothing. She was wearing a blue Panasonic
27:53
Speaker 1: T shirt and she was wearing a gray cardigan. And
27:58
Speaker 1: I think she was wearing gray sweatpants and blue ug boots.
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Speaker 1: They were either gray black or brown gray black brown.
28:06
Speaker 1: I think they were like a faded black. Yes, they're
28:10
Speaker 1: like they're knockoff us. Yes. So if you find any
28:16
Speaker 1: of that just laying out, please call. It could be
28:20
Speaker 1: vital to saving her life. And that's our number one
28:24
Speaker 1: goal right now. Please save my daughter. Please, anything, any
28:31
Speaker 1: little tiny bit of information, please call. And it is possible.
28:36
Speaker 1: I know the hours are tacking by, but it is
28:39
Speaker 1: possible to bring Naomi home. A line we know what
28:43
Speaker 1: she was wearing. We know where she went missing, We
28:47
Speaker 1: know she was taken by a mail we know they
28:50
Speaker 1: switched cars. What about the timeline? Can we nail that down?
28:56
Speaker 1: Take a listen to cut seventeen from the presser. In
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Speaker 1: March twelve, twenty twenty two, at approximy zero five zero
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Speaker 1: nine hours, Nami parts at the Fermi Walmart. It's located
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Speaker 1: off fifteen fifty s naily drive in firmly at the
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Speaker 1: proximity between zero five zero nine hours is zero five
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Speaker 1: twenty three hours. Nami is active on social media, which
29:16
Speaker 1: is common according to her family. At zero five twenty
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Speaker 1: three hours is their last snapchat pain. We know that
29:26
Speaker 1: she was active on social media up until that point
29:28
Speaker 1: and active on her cell phone. At zero five twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours, the suspect approaches Nami's vehicle and at zero
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Speaker 1: five twenty five hours, namily vehicle leaves the Walmart parking
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Speaker 1: lot with the suspect driving the vehicle. On March fifteen,
29:43
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Nami's vehicles recovered and we're currently processing
29:48
Speaker 1: all evidence with that. What does that mean, Greg Smith?
29:52
Speaker 1: To process the vehicle? That's where you have at team
29:55
Speaker 1: of technicians, come in and they're going to do They're
29:59
Speaker 1: gonna look for touch DNA that that they can take
30:02
Speaker 1: from the vehicle. Uh. All the DNA processing will be
30:06
Speaker 1: done first, and then they'll go after fingerprints. Fingerprints are
30:09
Speaker 1: much more destructive to the crime scene when you start
30:12
Speaker 1: spread and powder and that to try to get those
30:14
Speaker 1: those prints lifted. Um. Um. You know, first of all,
30:20
Speaker 1: let me say to the family house. Sorry, I am
30:22
Speaker 1: um for the situations. If you're in. My daughter was kidnapped,
30:25
Speaker 1: So I understand exactly what you're going through, um, and
30:29
Speaker 1: and exactly what all of this stuff means, the processing
30:31
Speaker 1: of the car and all of that, And it's just
30:34
Speaker 1: heartwrenching to hear this. Um. But know that that that
30:38
Speaker 1: all of these things are being done that and that
30:41
Speaker 1: the law enforcement authorities are doing everything they can to
30:43
Speaker 1: try to bring Naimi home. Prime stories with me. It's
30:59
Speaker 1: a great you know, what's another interesting fact, Diana, this
31:08
Speaker 1: is Naomi's mother joining us. Diana. Do you believe that
31:12
Speaker 1: she was like looking down at her phone on snapchat
31:16
Speaker 1: or texting on social media and did not see this
31:21
Speaker 1: guy first approach her car. Yes, I think that's true,
31:25
Speaker 1: and he didn't you know, he was in the parking
31:27
Speaker 1: lot for a while, circling the parking lot, and he
31:30
Speaker 1: stood in front of her car, staring at her for
31:34
Speaker 1: a few moments before he approached the driver's side of
31:37
Speaker 1: her car where she was sitting. You're you're exactly correct, Diana.
31:41
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the video right now. The footage that
31:44
Speaker 1: was obtained from Walmart, which is incredible footage shows the
31:49
Speaker 1: purp that pacing back and forth in the parking lot.
31:55
Speaker 1: Tell me about what was Tell me about her car again, Diana.
31:58
Speaker 1: Her car is uh maamy car is a nineteen ninety
32:04
Speaker 1: two Mercury Sable. Mercury Sable. What color is gray? Light blue? Yeah?
32:15
Speaker 1: I think in the video I can actually see a
32:20
Speaker 1: light a light blue car park I think. Wanted to
32:24
Speaker 1: clarify her car is cropped out of that video. It's
32:30
Speaker 1: not not visible in the video. Darn Okay. I thought
32:33
Speaker 1: that I could spot her car because I see a
32:34
Speaker 1: blue vehicle. But I'm also noticing that this parking lot
32:38
Speaker 1: where the guy is pacing back and forth, it is
32:40
Speaker 1: largely empty. I want to see one car in that
32:45
Speaker 1: particular spot. But for Pete's sake, is five twenty four
32:47
Speaker 1: in the morning and he is pacing back and forth
32:51
Speaker 1: as if he is waiting on her, then stands. According
32:55
Speaker 1: to mom Diana Erion, he stands in front of her
32:59
Speaker 1: car and stares at her for several moments and shebnowing,
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Speaker 1: is you know, snapchatting and having fun online? Then he
33:10
Speaker 1: approaches her says something to her that must scare her
33:14
Speaker 1: so much she moves over and they drive away. Now
33:18
Speaker 1: the car is found, her car is found. Take a
33:22
Speaker 1: listen to our cut seven Our friends at Kolo eight.
33:25
Speaker 1: Two days after Naomi disappeared, Lion County deputies found her
33:30
Speaker 1: car in the industrial park and friendly. The Sheriff's office
33:34
Speaker 1: says evidence found in the car indicates criminal activity. Her
33:39
Speaker 1: family assumes that because of what Naomi is not doing.
33:43
Speaker 1: So she's eighteen, she's always on social media constantly, and
33:47
Speaker 1: she has not been on social media since Saturday morning.
33:52
Speaker 1: We can't lose sight of what's really important, and that's
33:56
Speaker 1: Naomi's life and times ticket we're out of time. And
34:04
Speaker 1: what about that phone? We know now that cell phone
34:09
Speaker 1: data can try be triangulated to pinpoint where the cell
34:13
Speaker 1: phone is. Tackle us an hour cut eighteen from the
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Speaker 1: press conference. Here's the map provided to us from the
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Speaker 1: FBI of Naomi's cell phone mapping images basically just showing
34:25
Speaker 1: that she was active at the Walmart parking lot between
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Speaker 1: zero five zero nine am and zero five twenty five am.
34:31
Speaker 1: Lion County, with the assistance the Washing County Sheriff's Office
34:34
Speaker 1: Search and Rescue Lion County Sheriffs Office Search and Rescuers
34:37
Speaker 1: can conducted multiple searches through the air and on the
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Speaker 1: ground looking for Naomi. The prior image, I'll back up
34:46
Speaker 1: to that road, but the cell phone mapping led us
34:48
Speaker 1: to an area off of Highway four twenty seven and
34:51
Speaker 1: Hill Ranch Road in Wadsworth. That's why we're out there searching.
34:56
Speaker 1: In the previous days, Lion County citizens of also done
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Speaker 1: a search. Everybody's doing everything they can right now to
35:04
Speaker 1: look for Naomi. Where is Naomi Erion? A teen girl
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Speaker 1: who works at the local Panasonic factory, takes a bus
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Speaker 1: from the Walmart parking lot, or was supposed to, but
35:20
Speaker 1: that never happens. She was a no show at work
35:23
Speaker 1: that day. She never made it on the bus. Great
35:27
Speaker 1: new surveillance video shows a mail approaching her. They drive
35:32
Speaker 1: away in the car. Audrey Conklin, joining us from Fox
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Speaker 1: News Digital could you make out the perps hands, I
35:40
Speaker 1: could not. Is he white black? His face is covered,
35:44
Speaker 1: so the only clue would be his hands. I couldn't
35:46
Speaker 1: make out his hands either. But we do know that
35:52
Speaker 1: authorities believe, you know, her disappearance was criminal in nature
35:56
Speaker 1: based on the evidence they found in her abandoned car.
36:00
Speaker 1: So you know, whoever he is, wherever he came from,
36:04
Speaker 1: we know that what he has done is criminal. Guys,
36:08
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find out more about this perp um
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Speaker 1: last paying on four Highway four twenty seven tomorrow. Cartwright,
36:17
Speaker 1: this is Naomi's sister. Do you can you understand how
36:22
Speaker 1: they have an idea on the second car. They think
36:26
Speaker 1: that the perp left with Naomi and a second car.
36:29
Speaker 1: Is that correct? The police have said that this is
36:33
Speaker 1: a vehicle of interest. They have not released whether Naomi
36:36
Speaker 1: left in that car. They have not released any other
36:40
Speaker 1: information than that this is a vehicle of interest for
36:44
Speaker 1: the kise. Okay, you're you're very right to Audrey Conklin.
36:48
Speaker 1: What is the description of the vehicle we're searching for
36:51
Speaker 1: right now? The vehicle we're searching for is a new
36:55
Speaker 1: heavy truck. What I'm sorry you cut out on me.
36:58
Speaker 1: What sorry, it's it's a large new Chevy truck. I
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Speaker 1: believe it's a Chevy twenty five hundred and it dart.
37:08
Speaker 1: Did somebody jampan? But yeah, that was me. It's a
37:11
Speaker 1: it's a Silverado twenty five or thirty five hundred, Silverado
37:15
Speaker 1: twenty five or thirty five hundred. Go ahead, Audrey. We
37:19
Speaker 1: don't know anything else about really the interior of the vehicle.
37:23
Speaker 1: Police have released a photo of it. It's just a
37:26
Speaker 1: dark blue truck. Basically, this is tomorrow. I would also
37:30
Speaker 1: like to specify that the police are saying that it's
37:33
Speaker 1: dark blue or black, Dark blue or black. They've got
37:37
Speaker 1: a really good mock up of it dark blue or black?
37:40
Speaker 1: Any chance of a partial tag number tomorrow? So far,
37:44
Speaker 1: nothing about a license plate or tag number has been
37:47
Speaker 1: released tomorrow. Do you know why they're interested in a
37:50
Speaker 1: dark blue or black large Chevy Silverado twenty five hundred
37:55
Speaker 1: or thirty five hundred. Why Why is that think their interest?
37:59
Speaker 1: The police have not released that information. I understand there's
38:03
Speaker 1: some reason they are giving us that Bolo be on
38:08
Speaker 1: the lookout. Take a listen to our cut twenty. I
38:13
Speaker 1: just flew in from South Africa last night. My husband
38:16
Speaker 1: and I are in the Foreign Service serving at the
38:18
Speaker 1: US Mission in Victoria, South Africa. I want to ask
38:22
Speaker 1: everyone in the public if you have seen this truck,
38:27
Speaker 1: even in the corner of your eye, Oh, that's a
38:29
Speaker 1: big Colone truck. Please call Secret Witness or the Lion
38:33
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's department. If you know of somebody who has
38:37
Speaker 1: a big new truck with the chrome and all this
38:40
Speaker 1: details women that's in the picture, please call the Secret
38:45
Speaker 1: Witness or the Lions County Sheriff's office. If you're out
38:48
Speaker 1: and about and you see a cell phone on the ground,
38:50
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, that's where it's a cellphone, Please call
38:53
Speaker 1: Secret Witness or the Lion County Sheriff. Please it's an iPhone, yes,
38:58
Speaker 1: or pieces of it orient in pieces of us. It
39:01
Speaker 1: looks like a broken cell phone. You are hearing Naomi's mother, Diane,
39:06
Speaker 1: Diana Erion begging for your help. Diana, if you could
39:13
Speaker 1: speak to Naomi right now, what is your message? My
39:20
Speaker 1: message to my booboo bunny, I love you beyond life
39:29
Speaker 1: and I want you to know that we are looking
39:34
Speaker 1: for you. Everyone is looking for you and we will
39:40
Speaker 1: find you. You have to hold on, do not give
39:45
Speaker 1: up everything you can to make a signal to someone anyone.
39:53
Speaker 1: Hold on, baby, we're coming. If you can help nam family,
40:00
Speaker 1: if you know anything, if you think you know anything,
40:04
Speaker 1: please call seven seven five four six three six six
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Speaker 1: two zero repeat seven seven five four six three six
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Speaker 1: six two zero. Nancy Grace Crime Story signing off, Goodbye friend,