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INJUSTICE with NANCY GRACE: Young dad Mike Williams goes duck hunting on Lake Seminole, then vanishes without a trace. Tragic accident or something sinister? · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. I have been a felony
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  Speaker 1: prosecutor in inner city Atlanta for over a decade. I
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  Speaker 1: have been a journalist over twenty years. I've handled and
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  Speaker 1: covered literally thousands of cases. Of all of those cases,
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  Speaker 1: the injustice of some just stick with me. Wrongful accusations.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. These good sentences that don't fit the crime,
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  Speaker 1: victims cries for help ignored. Many cases may have been
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  Speaker 1: resolved in courts, but not resolved in my mind. Hi, guys,
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Grace here, and before I say another word about
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  Speaker 1: our upcoming series Injustice with Nancy Grace on Oxygen, listen
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  Speaker 1: to this. With every minute that passes, you're losing the
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  Speaker 1: chance of finding the person much less alive. They're out
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  Speaker 1: there all night, all lake, seminole, a law enforcement They're thinking,
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  Speaker 1: how could he survive through the night? Not a trace?
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  Speaker 1: Everything runs through your head everything. Could he have been
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  Speaker 1: the victim of a burglary? I mean, we didn't really
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  Speaker 1: know what had happened to Mike. So if he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: in the lake, where could he be? Oh that horrible,
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  Speaker 1: horrible feeling trying to figure out what happened. You're hearing
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  Speaker 1: Mike's friend Clay catch him a young dad, a husband,
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  Speaker 1: a loving husband, I might add, says he's going out
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  Speaker 1: duck hunting and he never comes home. I've been to
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  Speaker 1: Lake Seminole many, many times. Dark, dark waters. If you
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  Speaker 1: look out on it, it's very eerie looking. Even in
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  Speaker 1: the daytime. When you drive by, you'll look out and
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  Speaker 1: it's vast. You can't even see the other side to
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  Speaker 1: it at some points, and the water looks black even
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  Speaker 1: in the daytime. And what makes it so eerie looking
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  Speaker 1: to me stumps, dark stumps jutting out of the water,
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  Speaker 1: and they're sharp. They're sharp on the edges, like spikes
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  Speaker 1: in there throughout Lake Seminole. I don't know how anybody
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  Speaker 1: boats on it or fishes on it, or hunts on
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  Speaker 1: it with all those stumps, and what's under the water
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  Speaker 1: is scarier. They are gators there for real gaiters. So
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  Speaker 1: how this is a sportsman's paradise, I really don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But I do know that this young dad, Mike Williams,
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  Speaker 1: goes out duck hunting. He loved hunting. Early early on
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  Speaker 1: a morning. He promises to come back because very important,
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  Speaker 1: it's his anniversary. He and his wife already have one
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  Speaker 1: baby girl named Annesley. Love Love, Love Annesley. They want
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  Speaker 1: to add to their family. And that evening after he
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  Speaker 1: gets back from duck hunting and she does what she
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  Speaker 1: has to do. That day, they're heading for an anniversary
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  Speaker 1: celebration at a bed and breakfast and they're going to
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  Speaker 1: start on a baby. Okay, I can't really think a
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  Speaker 1: happier time, So I'm circling back to what Mike's friend,
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  Speaker 1: Clay catch Him said. They have no idea. Every theory
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  Speaker 1: running through family's head, his wife's head. What could have
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  Speaker 1: happened to him, had there been some attack, had there
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  Speaker 1: been a burglary of some sort they didn't know about.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to figure out because they don't find his body.
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  Speaker 1: They can't find any evidence of a struggle, nothing, It's
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  Speaker 1: like he disappears off the face of the earth. Days, weeks,
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  Speaker 1: and months go by, and suddenly the case goes cold.
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  Speaker 1: The wife is struggling financially to support the house and
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  Speaker 1: the daughter all on her own, keep it all going,
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  Speaker 1: all the balls in the air, and they say the
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  Speaker 1: case goes cold. Cold cases are tough because you continually
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  Speaker 1: have your regular workload and then you've got this case
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  Speaker 1: over here that you continue to look at, but you
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  Speaker 1: know it's a cold case. So there's times when there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing going on. It's just sitting there and you're waiting
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  Speaker 1: for flair. You're hearing our friend Telly Sparkman, investigator in
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  Speaker 1: the State's Attorney's office there in Leon County, Florida. And
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  Speaker 1: it's not that the cops are the investigators don't want
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  Speaker 1: to solve the case. They want to I've been in
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  Speaker 1: the same boat they're in. You know, you get a
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  Speaker 1: one hundred new cases a week, brandy felonies to investigate,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll work to solve them. You work to take
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  Speaker 1: them to trial, to investigate them. Then there are the
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  Speaker 1: ones that stump you. You don't want to ignore them,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want them to go cold, but they're just
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  Speaker 1: not fitting together. They started requestioning everyone, nailing down alibis
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  Speaker 1: yet again, trying to get a better timeline of what
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  Speaker 1: happened that early early morning December sixteen, when Mike Williams
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  Speaker 1: seemingly vanished off the face of the earth. They went
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  Speaker 1: to everybody, They went to friends, they went to bosses,
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  Speaker 1: they spoke to Denise. They did it all, and they
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  Speaker 1: did it over and over and over again, and still
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  Speaker 1: nothing until evidence seemingly resurfaces that offers a crack in
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  Speaker 1: the case. But was it. This is a case that
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  Speaker 1: needs a spotlight. This case stands for so much, the
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  Speaker 1: injustice heaped on Mike Williams and his family. I can't
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  Speaker 1: get it out of my mind. Join us July twenty
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  Speaker 1: six five Central Injustice with Nancy Grace on Oxygen The
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  Speaker 1: True Network for Crime. Nancy Grace signing off, Goodbye friend.