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Missing Sarah Dunsey: Teen’s last text ‘If I die tonight…’ · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Jan daughter Sarah Dunze, was abducted from Las Vegas, Nevada.
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  Speaker 1: She's being held against her will and Sarah is a
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  Speaker 1: victim of sex trafficking. The mother shares the painful reality
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  Speaker 1: she's been facing for the past month. Her precious daughter.
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  Speaker 1: Take it. This is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. This
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  Speaker 1: is my absolute worst night Mary. We need Sarah home.
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  Speaker 1: We have to have her home. I cannot wonder where
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  Speaker 1: she is and if she's safe. Please help us find her.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Barra, this message is for you. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to fight because I need you, all of us needs you.
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  Speaker 1: The world needs you. So fight. Okay, We're coming to
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  Speaker 1: get you. This is my absolute worst nightmare. We need
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  Speaker 1: Sarah home. A mysterious text sent by her teen girl
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  Speaker 1: has one mother begging you now to help her find
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  Speaker 1: her daughter. This Utah mom sends a message to her
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  Speaker 1: little girl. I want you to fight. Sarah Duncy's family says,
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  Speaker 1: this teen who lives in Logan has been stolen by
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  Speaker 1: sex traffickers. It's happening now. We need your help now.
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  Speaker 1: This is Nancy Grace with Crime Stories. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: being with us. Our tip lines are email tip lines
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  Speaker 1: as well. At crime online dot Com. Right now, a
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  Speaker 1: girl is missing. She has been abducted from Las Vegas, Nevada.
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  Speaker 1: We believe she is being held against her will. Her
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  Speaker 1: mother says she is a victim of sex trafficking and
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  Speaker 1: as past did this terrible plea on YouTube. Listen Jan
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  Speaker 1: daughter Sarah Dunz was abducted from Las Vegas, Nevada. She's
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  Speaker 1: being held against her will and Sarah is a victim
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  Speaker 1: of sex trafficking. This is my absolute worst night. Mary.
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  Speaker 1: We need Sarah home. We have to have her home.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot wonder where she is and if she's safe,
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  Speaker 1: Please help us find her. Sarah Barra, this message is
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  Speaker 1: for you. I want you to fight because I need you.
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  Speaker 1: All of us meet you. The world needs you, so fight. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: We're coming to get you. The mom says Sarah Bera.
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  Speaker 1: This message is for you. I want you to fight
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  Speaker 1: because I need you. All of us need you, so fight. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we are coming to get you. At this point, the
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  Speaker 1: family is in a spot where that they can't give
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  Speaker 1: out a lot of details. They don't want to jeopardize
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  Speaker 1: the few thin leads they have. They're trying to piece
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  Speaker 1: everything together with detectives. We're talking about a little girl,
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  Speaker 1: a teen girl, Sarah Duncie. Sarah is just five ft
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  Speaker 1: two inches, She only weighs a hundred and thirty pounds,
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  Speaker 1: brown hair, brown eyes. She's just absolutely beautiful and when
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  Speaker 1: you look at her, you just see the life, the
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  Speaker 1: happiness of joy shining out of her eyes. What I
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  Speaker 1: wanna do is help find this girl. I want to
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  Speaker 1: help this mom bring her daughter home alive. I want
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  Speaker 1: to change what is happening right now. The girl has
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  Speaker 1: been taken in we believe Mormon country. With me is Alan, Alan,
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  Speaker 1: What more do we know? Sarah dunci seventeen, five ft,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty pounds, brown eyes. Plenty of pictures
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  Speaker 1: so you could look online and recognize her from the
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  Speaker 1: find Sarah dunc Facebook page. She was last seen at
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  Speaker 1: the MGM that's a casino hotel on the Strip in
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas, on the fifteenth of January. That's a month ago,
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  Speaker 1: and her family and investigators believe she's being held against
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  Speaker 1: her will and is a victim of sex trafficking. Oh man,
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  Speaker 1: hold on, let me take this in just a moment. Alan,
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  Speaker 1: We hear about sex trafficking all the time. The number
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  Speaker 1: one location. Believe it or not, it's not Bangkok her
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  Speaker 1: in Thailand. It's actually the Atlanta Jackson Hartsfield Airport. More
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  Speaker 1: children are trafficked through that airport than anywhere else in
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  Speaker 1: the world, according to reports. Now St. George News is
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  Speaker 1: reporting that Sarah Duncie disappears in Vegas in January. The
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  Speaker 1: end of January, with no phone, no I D no
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  Speaker 1: extra money, no extra clothing. She wasn't packed to go anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: She's believed to be being held as a sex traffic victim.
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  Speaker 1: This team girl in l A, Vegas or in Utah
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  Speaker 1: tipline four three five seven five three seven five five five.
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  Speaker 1: She has a tiny little tattoo on her rib cage.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tiny, tiny lotus flower. I'm trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out the leads that they've gotten that make them think,
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  Speaker 1: including police, that this American team girl has been stolen
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  Speaker 1: and put into sex trafficking. What can you tell me
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  Speaker 1: in a nutshell, Alan emphasis nutshell about a mysterious text
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  Speaker 1: she sent. It's the last text from Sarah and if
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  Speaker 1: you watch that video you'll see it. If I die tonight,
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  Speaker 1: it's a guy named and then it has a guy's
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  Speaker 1: name that is blurred out. They featured this in this
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  Speaker 1: video because it was the last communication from Sarah Duncie
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  Speaker 1: to her family on the fifteenth of January. So she
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  Speaker 1: texted her mom. But why then do we believe that
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  Speaker 1: she's without our phone? If she texted her mom, how
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  Speaker 1: can that be? There's a lot we don't know about
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  Speaker 1: the case. I believe that the police are onto something.
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  Speaker 1: I think they've got to lead, but I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what that lead is. Listen to what Sarah's aunt has
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  Speaker 1: to say with me with me right now? Is Sarah's aunt,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Hollinger, thank you so much for being with us everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Leah Hollinger, Sarah's aunt is with us now answering questions
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  Speaker 1: hoping to lead to the discovery of this team girl,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Hollinger. When did Sarah go missing? And what were
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  Speaker 1: the circumstances surrounding her going missing? So unfortunately, right now
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  Speaker 1: we can't disclose very much information just because we are
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  Speaker 1: we have gathered some information. We do have some movies
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  Speaker 1: and we don't want to tip anyone off. We want
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  Speaker 1: to we want to be able to continue to uh
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  Speaker 1: look at these things and so um. But Sarah, she
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  Speaker 1: did go down to Las Vegas with a with several
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  Speaker 1: friends and UM. She was last seen at the MGM
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  Speaker 1: on January and then there was some correspondents. There were
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  Speaker 1: texts UM between friends UM, and she did reach out
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  Speaker 1: to Amy UM once Uh up until the eighteenth, but NOE.
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  Speaker 1: Between the fifteenth and eighteenth, nobody knew where she was. UM.
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  Speaker 1: And then the twenty five is when we lost all
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  Speaker 1: contacts and so we haven't heard anything since then. When
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  Speaker 1: did her parents realize she was gone? UM? Some friends
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  Speaker 1: contacted her on the eighteenth, so it had been several
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  Speaker 1: days before before Amy knew. Why do her parents believe
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  Speaker 1: that she has been forced into sex trafficking? What makes
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  Speaker 1: him think that? UM? You know. Unfortunately we can't share
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those details because UH that would alert
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  Speaker 1: or kip off some people. UM. But UH, within text
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  Speaker 1: messages and and a different several other things, UM, everything
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  Speaker 1: is pointing to that. And then we have been working
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  Speaker 1: with UM a sex trafficking an organization that fights sex traffickings. UM.
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  Speaker 1: They've been doing an amazing job. But and consulting with
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  Speaker 1: with front experts presenting what we have and UH all
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  Speaker 1: of them have come to the conclusion that that Sarah
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  Speaker 1: was trafficked. Leo Hollander with us. This is Sarah's aunt,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Hollander. What can you tell me about the last
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  Speaker 1: text that Sarah sent her family before she went missing. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that is the text that really alerted Amy to the
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  Speaker 1: seriousness of what was going on. UM. And I can't share.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we don't have like a like a specific
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  Speaker 1: name where we could just go and pick that person
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  Speaker 1: up right now. But I can't tell you any more
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  Speaker 1: about what you know what the last part of that
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  Speaker 1: text was. Um, But that's when we knew that things
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  Speaker 1: were really serious. Leo. Why was Sarah in the casino
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  Speaker 1: because you can't get into a casino to gamble or
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  Speaker 1: anywhere were there's alcohol at her young age, So why
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  Speaker 1: was she there? Was she meeting friends trying to piece
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  Speaker 1: this together? Um? I mean I think a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the kids go to Vegas, kids do things
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  Speaker 1: with friends. Um. And so that's that's really all I
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  Speaker 1: can say about that. But UM, there have been rumors
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  Speaker 1: flying around, or there was from the very beginning, there
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  Speaker 1: was an assumption that Sarah was was planning to run away,
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  Speaker 1: that she was a runaway, and those Um, those claims
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  Speaker 1: are unfounded. Which is unfortunate because from the very beginning, um,
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  Speaker 1: when when the word runaway is attached it, it makes
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  Speaker 1: it very difficult police. You know, different authorities, they don't
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  Speaker 1: want to get involved and and pursue anything if it's
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  Speaker 1: if it's a runaway case versus a trafficking case. So
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  Speaker 1: we so we've really been uh having a difficult time. Um,
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  Speaker 1: the family, we've all banned together, and we have been
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  Speaker 1: working around the clock too to piece together everything and
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  Speaker 1: then working with this organization. So um, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: to be totally honest, you know, we're not trying to hide.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Sarah did have some some trouble. She may
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  Speaker 1: have gone to Vegas with with a group of friends,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at seventeen. But she is a loving, kind,
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  Speaker 1: wonderful girl who loved her family, who especially loved her
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  Speaker 1: siblings so much. So she definitely we do not believe
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  Speaker 1: she has a runaway She everything points to her being abducted,
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  Speaker 1: her being held against her will, and her being a
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  Speaker 1: victim of sex trafficking. So I'm trying to get a
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  Speaker 1: mental image of Sarah Duncie, a teen girl having dinner
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  Speaker 1: or going to see one of the mini shows. There's
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  Speaker 1: Brittany there, Elton John has been there, Selene has been there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of what would appeal to a
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  Speaker 1: seventeen year old girl. Well, there's David Copperfield is there
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  Speaker 1: at the MGM Okay, Allen, it's a family show. I
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  Speaker 1: disagree that a seventeen year old girl wants to go
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  Speaker 1: see David Copperfield, but that's you know, your worldview. But
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  Speaker 1: regardless of what she was seeing, regardless of what restaurants
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  Speaker 1: she was at, I'm trying to imagine allan sex traffickers
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  Speaker 1: lurking there that could nab her and get her. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if the casino video has been reviewed. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you go into a casino in Vegas, it's like NASA
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  Speaker 1: is on you. They have some of the best surveillance
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  Speaker 1: in the world. And I mean every square inch of
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  Speaker 1: every casino is covered with surveillance. What, if anything, can
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  Speaker 1: we learn what went down on a Sunday night at
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  Speaker 1: a casino with a teen girl there for dinner or
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  Speaker 1: a show. That's what I want to know. Well, from
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  Speaker 1: the text message, something caused her to feel year for
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  Speaker 1: herself in her life while she was at the casino.
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  Speaker 1: I mean look at the text message, and she seemed
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  Speaker 1: to know who was the threat. But why couldn't she
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  Speaker 1: get away? She could send a text message. Well, it's
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  Speaker 1: just the simple. It could be as simple as she
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  Speaker 1: gets in the car, and then it's all over. Once
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  Speaker 1: you're in the car, it's done. It's over. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have a chance once you're in the car. Allen, what
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  Speaker 1: do we know about her hometown? I mean, her going
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  Speaker 1: to Vegas for dinner or to see a show with
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  Speaker 1: France really would not be out of the ordinary for her. St. George,
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  Speaker 1: Utah's in the southern part of its southeastern corner, right
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  Speaker 1: near Arizona and Nevada. It's just a short skip and
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  Speaker 1: a hop to get down to Las Vegas, so that's
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  Speaker 1: not unusual that somebody from there would go down there.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, it's St. George's heavily Mormon area. It's oil
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  Speaker 1: fields around there. Kind of a small town, and Vegas
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  Speaker 1: is the nearest big town. The mom says the quote
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  Speaker 1: what if surrounding her disappear arrants is almost too much
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  Speaker 1: to bear. I can't imagine what the mother and the father,
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  Speaker 1: the family is going through right now. To believe your
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  Speaker 1: daughter is out there right now. Being beaten, being forced
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  Speaker 1: into sex trafficking within your reach and you can't find
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  Speaker 1: her is the proverbial needle in a haystack. And at
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  Speaker 1: any minute, I mean, to sex traffickers, these young girls
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  Speaker 1: mean nothing. They're like a paper cup. You just dispose
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  Speaker 1: of it when you're done with it. It's over. Killing
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  Speaker 1: them will mean nothing to them. That's why it's so
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  Speaker 1: urgent we help find this girl. I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: they think this, but the family and the searchers believe
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  Speaker 1: there's a chance she was brought to Los Angeles and
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  Speaker 1: there is a Los Angeles group out here working with her.
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  Speaker 1: They also have a tipline that I could share. Go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: if you are in the Los Angeles area and you
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  Speaker 1: think you have some information, if you're anywhere credible information
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  Speaker 1: called this number. It's through one oh three one oh
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  Speaker 1: seven zero one three one oh three one oh nine
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  Speaker 1: seven zero one. And that's the Suanta Monica based group
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  Speaker 1: that helps find missing teenagers. Yeah, they're saying l A
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  Speaker 1: Vegas or Utah, but you are saying that from your understanding,
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  Speaker 1: they're focusing on l A. L A is a prime target.
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  Speaker 1: As you said, Las Vegas, that's where she was last
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  Speaker 1: seen Utah. That's where she's from, and Los Angeles is
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  Speaker 1: the other area that they're focusing on. But we don't
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  Speaker 1: know exactly why they are. There may be some information
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  Speaker 1: that they're not telling us. I want to just pause
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  Speaker 1: want to hear the mother again. I want to hear
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  Speaker 1: her words again. Could you please play her message again?
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  Speaker 1: Janu daughter Sarah Dunzi was abducted from Las Vegas, Nevada.
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  Speaker 1: She's being held against her will and Sarah is a
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  Speaker 1: victim of sex trafficking. This is my absolute worst nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: We need there home. We have to have her home.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot wonder where she is and if she's safe.
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  Speaker 1: Please help us find her. Sarah Barra, this message is
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  Speaker 1: for you. I want you to fight because I need you.
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  Speaker 1: All of us meet you. The world needs you, so fight. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Sarah home. Nancy Grace signing off from Crime Stories. Goodbye friend,