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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. In twenty eighteen, a twenty
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Speaker 1: one year old brand new police officer named Derek was
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Speaker 1: dumped by his longtime girlfriend. This breakup caught him by
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Speaker 1: surprise because he had actually just recently moved to Colorado
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Speaker 1: in order to be closer to his girlfriend. So naturally,
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Speaker 1: he was devastated. After a few weeks of being so
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Speaker 1: depressed and kind of just moping around and going through
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Speaker 1: the motions in his life. At this point, one of
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Speaker 1: his very close friends suggested to him, like, hey, man, look,
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Speaker 1: why don't you just make a proile on Tinder, the
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Speaker 1: online dating service, and just put yourself out there again.
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Speaker 1: You have no idea who's out there? Clearly your ex
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Speaker 1: girlfriend was not the one. Derek had met his ex
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Speaker 1: girlfriend in a bar, and every other girlfriend he had
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Speaker 1: ever had he had met in person, so online dating
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Speaker 1: was definitely not on his radar. But he was so
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Speaker 1: lonely and sad he figured, you know what, I got
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Speaker 1: nothing to lose, and so he made himself a tender profile.
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Speaker 1: Derek quickly matched with a woman on Tinder named Leah
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Speaker 1: that he said was way out of his league, but
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Speaker 1: he wasn't complaining. They chatted for a couple of weeks
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Speaker 1: and they got on great, and so they wanted to
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Speaker 1: get together and actually meet each other in person, but
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Speaker 1: Leah lived well over an hour away from Derek's there
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Speaker 1: wasn't a natural meeting place, and they're going back and
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Speaker 1: forth about where they want to go, and finally Leah
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Speaker 1: just says, Hey, why don't you just come to my town.
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Speaker 1: There's this great park that I go running in all
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Speaker 1: the time. And they had this awesome field that's on
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Speaker 1: a slope and you can lay on it and look
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Speaker 1: up through the trees and you can see the stars,
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Speaker 1: and so that would be a cool thing to do
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Speaker 1: on our first date, go stargazing together. So the date
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Speaker 1: night finally came, and Derek was really excited. He was
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Speaker 1: nervous too, because even though they'd talked in the phones,
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Speaker 1: the first time they're going to see each other. And
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Speaker 1: so the plan was he was going to drive out
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Speaker 1: to her town and actually pick her up from her work.
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Speaker 1: She worked at a hair salon, and from there they
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Speaker 1: would make their way over to this park. And so
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Speaker 1: Derek pulls up to the hair salon right as Leah's
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Speaker 1: coming outside, and she's all excited, she's waving to him.
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Speaker 1: She runs over and she gets in the car, and
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Speaker 1: they hug and kiss on the cheek, and it's like
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Speaker 1: they knew each other, but they didn't know each other
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Speaker 1: because their entire relationship was online or via textinger or
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Speaker 1: a phone call, and so it's like they had history
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Speaker 1: but they didn't. But either way, Derek was really happy,
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Speaker 1: and it seemed like Lea was too. From the hair salon,
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Speaker 1: it was a pretty short drive to this access road
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Speaker 1: that was going to bring them into this park. And
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Speaker 1: when Leah told him to make this turn, it didn't
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Speaker 1: look like a very well marked trail or even a
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Speaker 1: marked park. It looked like this kind of random access
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Speaker 1: road that Derek would not have associated with a big
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Speaker 1: public park, but he doesn't know the area, and so
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Speaker 1: he turns and he starts heading down this road and
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Speaker 1: the road went from cement to dirt pretty quickly. And
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Speaker 1: this whole time he's thinking to himself, like, did I
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Speaker 1: think a long turn? Does she know like where she's going?
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Speaker 1: This does not feel like the way you drive into
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Speaker 1: a big park the way she was describing. Finally, they
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Speaker 1: land back on cement and they're actually on this road
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Speaker 1: that's right up against this huge field. And so right
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Speaker 1: away Derek stress is gone because now it's confirmed in
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Speaker 1: his mind that Okay, that's a weird way to get
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Speaker 1: into this park. But here's this huge, amazing field and
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Speaker 1: we're back on a real road and everything's good again.
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Speaker 1: Derek ass layout, you know, where should I park? Because
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Speaker 1: they're on this really narrow road and there didn't appear
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Speaker 1: to be a parking lot. There also didn't appear to
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Speaker 1: be anybody else on this field or on this road.
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Speaker 1: It's this huge, open, beautiful space, but it did not
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Speaker 1: look well populated or like it was well traveled. But
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Speaker 1: she said, just go right up there, there's a small
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Speaker 1: lot you can pull into, and so Derek starts going
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Speaker 1: up this road and he sees, maybe three hundred feet
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Speaker 1: ahead of him are dim headlights of another car making
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Speaker 1: their way down the road towards him. And now it
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Speaker 1: was dark enough that he couldn't really make out what
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Speaker 1: kind of vehicle it was, and so he didn't know
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Speaker 1: if it was going to be some big truck or
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Speaker 1: something like that. And so what he did is he
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Speaker 1: just pulled over as far to the side out of
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Speaker 1: the road as he could to allow this vehicle to pass.
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Speaker 1: Even though there was a fair amount of distance they
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Speaker 1: would need to cover before they were passing him, he figured,
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Speaker 1: just give them the right of the road. And so
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Speaker 1: as they start moving forward, he can see that it's
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Speaker 1: actually this big van and they're moving pretty slowly, and
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Speaker 1: he's just kind of waiting for them to pass, and
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Speaker 1: he's not thinking anything of this. He's thinking that this
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Speaker 1: is just another person at the park. And this van,
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Speaker 1: instead of passing him, actually turns at the last second
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Speaker 1: and almost goes bumper to bumper with Derek's car. He
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Speaker 1: doesn't crash into it, but he stops just in front
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Speaker 1: of Derek's car. And so Derek is a cop. He's
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Speaker 1: a brand new cop and he's super aggressive, you know,
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Speaker 1: he really believes in his training. And so as soon
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Speaker 1: as this guy stopped in front of him and blocked
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Speaker 1: the path for him, red flags are going up for Derek,
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Speaker 1: and he knows something's wrong with this van, and instinctively
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Speaker 1: he says, lea, stay here. He grabs his flashlight that
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Speaker 1: he kept right in the center console and he jumped
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Speaker 1: out of the car and went right to the driver's
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Speaker 1: side door of this van to confront this guy. And
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Speaker 1: when he got up to the driver's side door, it
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Speaker 1: was this really big guy who looked pretty startled to
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Speaker 1: hear come charging up to him with his flashlight, and
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Speaker 1: Derek's like, what are you doing, man, what do you
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Speaker 1: block me in for? And the guy's like, oh, hey, sorry,
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Speaker 1: I'm the caretaker here of this whole property and we've
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Speaker 1: had an issue with poachers in the area and I
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Speaker 1: was concerned you guys were poachers. It doesn't look like
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Speaker 1: you're poachers though, and Derek' said no, we're not poachers.
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Speaker 1: We're going stargazing. I'm on my first daiate here and
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Speaker 1: the Caretaker's like, I am so sorry. Please get back
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Speaker 1: in your car or go and enjoy your night. And
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Speaker 1: at that he backed up to a three point turn
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Speaker 1: and he drove right back up that road where he
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Speaker 1: came from and disappeared down on the other side of
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Speaker 1: the hill. Derek stood in front of his car for
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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, making sure this guy was gone,
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Speaker 1: and then he turned around and he got back in
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Speaker 1: the car, and he kind of joked with Leah and
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Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, he thought we were poachers. I guess
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Speaker 1: you will have poacher to him, and that's why he
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Speaker 1: stopped us. But when he looked over at Leah to
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Speaker 1: react to his hilarious joke, she wasn't paying attention to him.
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Speaker 1: She was just furiously typing away on her phone, which
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Speaker 1: Derek did think was a little bit odd. You'd think
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Speaker 1: that she'd be more interested in this strange thing that
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Speaker 1: just happened. Some weird guy just blocked us in and
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Speaker 1: I'm confronting him. You'd think she'd be interested, and on
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Speaker 1: some level she might want to know what I said
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Speaker 1: to the guy and what he said to me, But
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Speaker 1: she didn't seem to care. She was just really invested
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Speaker 1: in whoever she was typing on her phone. And so
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Speaker 1: Derek thinks whatever and just throws the car back and
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Speaker 1: drive and continues up the trail the way they were
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Speaker 1: going before they were stopped. So Derek continues down the
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Speaker 1: road just a little ways until he sees a little
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Speaker 1: dirt lot that's butted up against this huge field they're
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Speaker 1: going to be hanging out on for the night, and
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Speaker 1: so he pulls into the lot, backs into his space,
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Speaker 1: and he and Leah get out and they put a
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Speaker 1: blanket out right next to the car, but on the
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Speaker 1: grass on the hill, and they get their food out
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Speaker 1: and their wine out, and they sit down and very
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Speaker 1: quickly they start swapping stories and they're laughing, and they're
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Speaker 1: stargazing and they're having some wine and everything's really great.
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Speaker 1: After about an hour, it's totally dark outside, and Derek
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Speaker 1: is laying on the hill, facing back towards his car
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Speaker 1: and towards the road they were on, and he notices
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Speaker 1: to his left up at the top of the hill,
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Speaker 1: so the same area where the van had come from
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Speaker 1: originally and where it went back to after they spoke
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Speaker 1: that one time. Derek is looking out there and he
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Speaker 1: sees headlights and the van, and now the van is
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Speaker 1: driving down the road, not leisurely like it was before,
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Speaker 1: but they are flying down the hill, and before Derek
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Speaker 1: or Leah have a chance to react to this van
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Speaker 1: barreling down on them, it comes flying into the parking
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Speaker 1: lot and practically hits his car and comes to a
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Speaker 1: stop where it's boxed his car in, so even if
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Speaker 1: he got in his car, he couldn't drive away. And
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Speaker 1: so Derek jumps up, Lea jumps up, and the guy,
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Speaker 1: the caretaker, the nice caretaker he talked to before he
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Speaker 1: hops out of the driver's seat and he walks around
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Speaker 1: the front of the van. He's got this pipe in
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Speaker 1: his hand and he looks at Derek and he's like,
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Speaker 1: give me your keys and your wallet. And again, Derek
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Speaker 1: is this brand new cop. You know, he's twenty one
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Speaker 1: years old. He's not about to let this guy push
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Speaker 1: him around. And so he doesn't do anything at first.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't know what he's gonna do, but he doesn't
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Speaker 1: do anything at first. He just looks at this guy
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Speaker 1: and he shows him that I'm not just gonna fall
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Speaker 1: over because he told me to. But then Derek has
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Speaker 1: given a huge curve ball when Leah, his date, stands
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Speaker 1: up and runs over to the sky and stands next
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Speaker 1: to him and turns around and looks at Derek and goes,
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Speaker 1: come on, give us your keys and wallet, and like, great,
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Speaker 1: I'm getting set up by my date who I've spent
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Speaker 1: the past two hours with him. I was I had
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Speaker 1: a connection with this girl. And so now Derek is
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Speaker 1: just standing there doing nothing, not to be tough, but
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Speaker 1: because he's in shock. He feels so betrayed by Leah
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Speaker 1: and he just feels like, how could this have happened?
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Speaker 1: And in that moment, Leo walks to the back of
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Speaker 1: the van and she gets a metal pipe. She comes
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Speaker 1: back around and she goes, Derek, give us your keys
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Speaker 1: and your wallet. We don't want to have to hurt you.
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Speaker 1: And this is when Derek looks at them both and
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Speaker 1: he goes no. And as soon as he said that,
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Speaker 1: the big guy tackles him. He gets thrown to the ground,
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Speaker 1: but Derek could handle himself and very quickly he was
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Speaker 1: able to get up, and he drew his concealed carry
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Speaker 1: pistol and he's aiming it at the big guy and
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Speaker 1: then back at Leah and he's like, yeah, I'm a cop,
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Speaker 1: go ahead and put your hands up now. As soon
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Speaker 1: as they saw the gun, they both dropped their pipes
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Speaker 1: and put their hands up, and so as he's holding
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Speaker 1: them both at gunpoint, and he's looking over at Leah like, really,
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Speaker 1: you did this to me? Are you kidding me? Right now?
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Speaker 1: As he's doing that, he has to get his cell
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Speaker 1: phone out of his pocket type in nine to one
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Speaker 1: one and then called dispatch and had to say who
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Speaker 1: he was, his badge number was, what happened and where
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Speaker 1: he is and where he is was difficult to describe,
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Speaker 1: and so as he's trying to explain these directions and
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Speaker 1: he's saying, yo, yep, go left at the light and
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Speaker 1: then there's a gas station there. You're gonna go up
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Speaker 1: this field. You're gonna see me it at these two
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Speaker 1: people at gunpoint. As he's doing that, Leah and the
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Speaker 1: caretaker look at each other and they just turn around
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Speaker 1: and bolt. They figure he's distracted, we can at least
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Speaker 1: get behind the van and run into the forest before
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Speaker 1: he's gonna catch us, and so instinctively he takes off
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Speaker 1: running after them, and he chases them for about thirty
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Speaker 1: seconds into the tree line before he starts hearing gunshots
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Speaker 1: and they weren't his someone's shooting at him, and he
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Speaker 1: sees the muscle flash out in the middle of the
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Speaker 1: forest and he's like, yeah, I'm not doing this. He
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Speaker 1: turns around, runs back to his vehicle, he starts it up,
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Speaker 1: and he has to basically smash into the van back
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Speaker 1: into the fence, over and over again like Austin Powers,
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Speaker 1: like a twenty five point turn before he was barely
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Speaker 1: able to grind his way out and peel out out
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Speaker 1: of this park. And so Derek pulls into the nearest
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Speaker 1: gas station. He calls up dispatch and he says, hey,
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Speaker 1: I just called nine one one like five ten minutes ago,
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Speaker 1: and I dropped the call because I was chasing somebody.
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Speaker 1: Here's my name, here's my badge number. I'm now at
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Speaker 1: this gas station. Can you send a couple of police
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Speaker 1: officers over to my location now? And they said, yep,
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Speaker 1: we'll send some to you. And so a police cruiser
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Speaker 1: shows up with two officers inside that Derek recognized they
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Speaker 1: were senior to him, and they got out and he
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Speaker 1: explained again what happened, and they kind of gave him
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Speaker 1: a hard time for getting catfish and it's very pro state,
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Speaker 1: but at the same time they knew it could have
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Speaker 1: gone really badly, and so they decide they're gonna load
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Speaker 1: up in the police cruiser together, all three of them,
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Speaker 1: and drive back up to the park. And so they
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Speaker 1: get up to the park and Derek points ahead and
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Speaker 1: he goes, that's the van. It's still here. And so
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Speaker 1: they drive up and they stop short of the van,
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Speaker 1: and the two uniformed officers they turned to Derek and
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Speaker 1: they're like, just staying here, we're gonna go check the
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Speaker 1: span out. And so Derek's sitting in the car watching
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Speaker 1: these guys go up to the vehicle, you know, guns drawn.
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Speaker 1: They're looking all around, they're clearing behind the vehicle, they're
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Speaker 1: looking in the woodline. There's nobody there. And at some
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Speaker 1: point he sees them put their pistols away and they
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Speaker 1: go in the van. They're kind of shining with their
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Speaker 1: flashlights all around. They're looking in the back, looking in
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Speaker 1: the front. And then after a few minutes they walked
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Speaker 1: back to the cruiser, and as soon as they got in,
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Speaker 1: Derek could tell there was just something off about how
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Speaker 1: they were acting. When they were down at the gas station,
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Speaker 1: they were kind of joking around with him. Now, whatever
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Speaker 1: they had seen in the van was definitely not something
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Speaker 1: they were going to joke about and they turned to
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Speaker 1: him and they're like, the back of the van, it
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Speaker 1: was just knives and saws and pistols and rifles and
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Speaker 1: lighter fluid and chains and handcuffs and duct tape. It
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Speaker 1: was just awful and it looks like there might even
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Speaker 1: be blood on the ground. The two officers immediately called
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Speaker 1: in additional backup, and before long it was a full
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Speaker 1: fledged circus around the van of a crime scene investigation
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Speaker 1: unit and other police officers. Spotlights set up and they
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Speaker 1: went out looking in the woods for these people. But
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Speaker 1: they never found the guy. They never found the girl,
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Speaker 1: and Derek would tell the other investigators, Hey, she works
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Speaker 1: at this hair salon, like right down the road. I
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Speaker 1: picked her up there. And so they went over to
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Speaker 1: the hair salon and they wound up talking to the
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Speaker 1: people there and they said, we've never heard of Leah,
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Speaker 1: And when they showed them a picture of Leah, they
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Speaker 1: were like, we've never seen her before. And so they
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Speaker 1: came back and they told Derek, look, she's a con
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Speaker 1: artist and this whole thing, your whole relationship with her
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Speaker 1: has been her setting you up in some way, shape
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Speaker 1: or form. The entire thing, that's all It ever was,
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Speaker 1: and so for Derek that was crushing, and he swore
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Speaker 1: off Tender immediately. He did not want to do any
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Speaker 1: more online dating. But what really haunts him more than
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Speaker 1: just being taken advantage of is what would have happened
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Speaker 1: if I wasn't concealed carrying? Would I have wound up
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Speaker 1: in the back of that van. In the summer of
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, a grandmother named Barbara was looking after her
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Speaker 1: grandkids for the weekend while her daughter and her husband
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Speaker 1: were out of town. Her daughter had three kids, two
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Speaker 1: that were under the age of six and one who
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Speaker 1: was fifteen years old, and her name was Alyssa, And
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Speaker 1: so anytime Barbara was looking after her grandkids for longer
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Speaker 1: than just a single day, like if she was taking
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Speaker 1: care of them overnight, she would just stay at their
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Speaker 1: house so as not to disrupt their lives more than
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Speaker 1: she needed to. And so their house was a modest,
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Speaker 1: single story home in a nice suburb of Dallas, Texas,
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Speaker 1: where the crime rate is basically zero and everybody in
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Speaker 1: the neighborhood knows each other, and so this particular night
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Speaker 1: that she's over there looking after them was like any other.
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Speaker 1: She put the two young ones to bed first, and
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Speaker 1: then she and Alissa stayed up a little bit later
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Speaker 1: in the kitchen chatting, talking about school, before ultimately both
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Speaker 1: of them went to bed. So, because their house is
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Speaker 1: a single story home, all the bedrooms are on the
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Speaker 1: only floor of the house, and so Barbara and Alissa's
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Speaker 1: room were right next to each other, looking out to
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Speaker 1: the side of the property. And so as soon as
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Speaker 1: Barbara got in her room, she opened up the window
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Speaker 1: that was right next to her bed because as a kid,
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Speaker 1: she always slept with the window open, and even though
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Speaker 1: her daughter's house had air conditioning, she preferred to keep
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Speaker 1: the window open. So windows open. She has a screen
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Speaker 1: that's in her window, and Barbara crawls into bed and
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Speaker 1: she falls asleep. At about three am, Barbara wakes up
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Speaker 1: to the sound of rustling coming from outside of her window,
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Speaker 1: and so she hears it, but it sounds an awful
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Speaker 1: lot like it's probably just a dog or a cat
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Speaker 1: or some other animal that's in the area. It did
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Speaker 1: not seem like a big deal to her, and she
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Speaker 1: was just going to forget about it, but then she
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Speaker 1: heard it again and it sounded much more like footsteps,
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Speaker 1: and they sounded heavy enough that it probably couldn't be
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Speaker 1: a dog or a cat, And so she rolled over
14:55
Speaker 1: onto her elbows and she pulled the curtain aside just
14:58
Speaker 1: enough to look out the screen door. So the moon
15:00
Speaker 1: was out, so there was pretty good illumination, and so
15:02
Speaker 1: she could clearly see the side of the house. She
15:05
Speaker 1: can see the side of the house. She can see
15:06
Speaker 1: the fence that separated their property and their neighbors, and
15:09
Speaker 1: then she could see the neighbor's house and all their
15:11
Speaker 1: lights are off, and she noticed propped up against the
15:14
Speaker 1: fence on their side of the fence, so on their
15:16
Speaker 1: property was this bike that she didn't recognize, and she's
15:19
Speaker 1: looking at it, thinking, is that Alissa's bike? It's too
15:22
Speaker 1: big to be either of the six year old's bikes.
15:24
Speaker 1: Whose bike is that? And as she's looking at the bike,
15:27
Speaker 1: she hears more rustling coming from the left, which is
15:29
Speaker 1: closer to Alyssa's room. Barbara presses her face up against
15:33
Speaker 1: the screen to try to look out the window towards
15:35
Speaker 1: the left, because whatever's making the sound is now out
15:38
Speaker 1: of her view. And as she's got her face pressed
15:40
Speaker 1: up against the screen trying to look, she sees a
15:43
Speaker 1: boy emerged from the bushes from right underneath Alyssa's room.
15:46
Speaker 1: He's got that high school letterman jacket, like the classic,
15:49
Speaker 1: you know, football jacket that high school kids wear. He
15:51
Speaker 1: comes out of the bushes wearing that, and he's got
15:53
Speaker 1: his hood pulled up and he doesn't look over at her,
15:55
Speaker 1: and he's just backing up away from Alyssa's room, and
15:57
Speaker 1: he's looking up into Alyssa's room, and Barbara immediately thinks, Okay,
16:01
Speaker 1: this guy is probably one of Melissa's friends, maybe a boyfriend,
16:04
Speaker 1: I don't know, and Alyssa must have invited him over.
16:07
Speaker 1: Maybe she invited him when she knew her parents were
16:09
Speaker 1: going to be out of town, but before I said
16:11
Speaker 1: I was going to be here to look after them,
16:13
Speaker 1: and that message didn't get past to him, and so
16:15
Speaker 1: he's here. All these scenarios are going through Barbara's head,
16:18
Speaker 1: but all she knew was is she's not going to
16:20
Speaker 1: call the cops on some teenage kid that's coming to
16:22
Speaker 1: say hi to Alyssa. Instead, she's going to confront him.
16:24
Speaker 1: Because Barbara was actually a high school teacher and had
16:27
Speaker 1: been for decades, and so she'd had lots of run
16:30
Speaker 1: ins with badly behaved teenagers and she was pretty good
16:33
Speaker 1: at standing her ground and being firm and kind of
16:36
Speaker 1: getting teenagers to listen to her. So she figured she
16:38
Speaker 1: would just go out there and be stern with him
16:40
Speaker 1: and he'd get the message. And so she quietly gets
16:42
Speaker 1: off of her bed, she walks out of her room
16:44
Speaker 1: to the front of the house. So he's over here
16:46
Speaker 1: side of the house. She's going to the front of
16:48
Speaker 1: the house. She flips on the lights as soon as
16:49
Speaker 1: she's outside, and she quickly walks around to the edge
16:52
Speaker 1: of the porch where she can poke her head over
16:54
Speaker 1: and see right down the side of the house where
16:56
Speaker 1: this kid's going to be. So she pokes her head
16:58
Speaker 1: over and she goes, can I help you? And this
17:00
Speaker 1: kid turns and looks at her for the first time,
17:03
Speaker 1: and immediately Barbara's like, oh, whoa, he is not a teenager.
17:07
Speaker 1: He looks like he's in his twenties, if not thirties.
17:10
Speaker 1: No matter what, he is a lot older than Alyssa.
17:13
Speaker 1: And it caught her so off guard. She didn't really
17:14
Speaker 1: know how to react to it. She was just looking
17:16
Speaker 1: at this guy who looks so much older. But he's
17:19
Speaker 1: got a bike and he's wearing a letterman jacket and
17:22
Speaker 1: so Barbara's a little bit confused, and so she's thinking
17:24
Speaker 1: to herself, Okay, you know, it's possible that he could
17:26
Speaker 1: just be one of those kids that looks a lot
17:28
Speaker 1: older than he really is. But somewhere in the back
17:30
Speaker 1: of her mind, she's thinking, this doesn't feel right. This
17:33
Speaker 1: feels like a grown man is trying to get into
17:36
Speaker 1: the house. And so as she's thinking about this, she's
17:38
Speaker 1: also registering that this guy, he seems completely unfazed. He's
17:42
Speaker 1: just looking up at her, and he actually starts taking
17:44
Speaker 1: steps towards her, to the point where Barbara says, stop,
17:47
Speaker 1: stop where you are, and he does, and he looks
17:49
Speaker 1: up at her and he says, I'm looking for Alissa.
17:51
Speaker 1: Is she home? And so as Barbara is just glaring
17:54
Speaker 1: at this guy, hoping that will be enough to get
17:56
Speaker 1: him to leave, but he's not leaving, it occurs to
17:58
Speaker 1: her that this could be in understanding, and so, thinking
18:01
Speaker 1: on her feet, she says to him, who did you
18:04
Speaker 1: say you're looking for Lisa? Without any hesitation, he goes, no,
18:07
Speaker 1: I'm looking for Alyssa mccaren, she lives here. Barbara went
18:10
Speaker 1: silent for a second because he was right. That was
18:12
Speaker 1: her name, and she certainly was here, but she did
18:15
Speaker 1: not want him coming anywhere near the house until she
18:18
Speaker 1: had a chance to talk to Alyssa and confirm that
18:21
Speaker 1: she had invited him here, or at the very minimum,
18:24
Speaker 1: that she knew who he was. And so Barbara says
18:26
Speaker 1: to the guy, I need to stay right there. It's
18:28
Speaker 1: three in the morning. I don't know you give me
18:30
Speaker 1: a minute. I'll be right back, and he appears to
18:32
Speaker 1: get the message, and so Barbara went back inside the house.
18:35
Speaker 1: She shut and locked the door behind her, and then
18:38
Speaker 1: she went into Alyssa's room and she shook her foot
18:40
Speaker 1: to wake her up, and so Alissa kind of sits
18:42
Speaker 1: up and she's looking around. She's like, what's going on?
18:44
Speaker 1: And Barbara looks at her, and she's kind of annoyed
18:46
Speaker 1: with how the night's gone. And at this point, she's
18:48
Speaker 1: kind of blaming Alyssa for probably having invited this strange
18:52
Speaker 1: creep over to their house in the middle of the night.
18:54
Speaker 1: And she says to Alyssa, did you invite a boy
18:56
Speaker 1: here tonight? And Alyssa's like, no, what are you talking about.
19:00
Speaker 1: Barbara narrowed her eyes and she said, well, there's a
19:02
Speaker 1: boy outside that clearly knows you. He asked for you
19:05
Speaker 1: by name, and he knows you live here, and he's
19:07
Speaker 1: outside right now. Can you please go out there and
19:09
Speaker 1: tell him that coming over unannounced at three in the
19:12
Speaker 1: morning is not very polite and he shouldn't do it again.
19:14
Speaker 1: Alyssa's confused, and she's looking at her grandmother, like, what
19:17
Speaker 1: are you talking about? And so she leans back and
19:19
Speaker 1: she opens the curtain of her window and she looks outside,
19:22
Speaker 1: and immediately she pulls her head back in and she says, Grandma,
19:26
Speaker 1: he asked for me by name. And Barbara's like, yeah,
19:28
Speaker 1: he said, Alyssa mccaren lives here. And Alyssa's like, we
19:31
Speaker 1: have to call ninety one one. I've never seen him
19:34
Speaker 1: before in my life. Suddenly everything made sense for Barbara.
19:38
Speaker 1: This was a stranger, This is not a friend. This
19:40
Speaker 1: is probably a grown man, and he was probably trying
19:43
Speaker 1: to break into Alyssa's room. And so as she's having
19:45
Speaker 1: this realization, they both hear footsteps out on the front
19:48
Speaker 1: porch and at this Barbara goes into full protective grandmother
19:52
Speaker 1: mode and she tells Alissa, stay in your bed, do
19:54
Speaker 1: not move, and Barbara runs out of her room. She
19:57
Speaker 1: goes into her bedroom and she shuts that window and
20:00
Speaker 1: and then runs to the front of the house to
20:02
Speaker 1: make sure that door was locked, because she thought she
20:05
Speaker 1: locked it when she came in, but she wasn't one
20:07
Speaker 1: hundred percent sure. She gets right in front of it
20:09
Speaker 1: and she can see that it's locked, and now she's
20:11
Speaker 1: standing right on the other side of the door, kind
20:13
Speaker 1: of waiting to see what's going to happen. And this
20:15
Speaker 1: guy is standing on the porch but obscured. She can't
20:18
Speaker 1: see him because he's on the other side of the door,
20:20
Speaker 1: and it's silent for a second, and as she's standing
20:22
Speaker 1: there just waiting for something to happen, she hears knocking
20:25
Speaker 1: on the door, and it startled her when she heard it,
20:27
Speaker 1: and she yelled out, there's no Alissa McCarron here. You
20:29
Speaker 1: have the wrong house. You need to leave or I'm
20:31
Speaker 1: calling the police. And the knocking stops for a second,
20:34
Speaker 1: and he says, I know Alyssa lives here, tell it
20:37
Speaker 1: her come outside. He goes back to knocking, and Barbara
20:39
Speaker 1: picks up her phone and she calls nine to one
20:41
Speaker 1: one and she intentionally talks really loudly into the phone,
20:45
Speaker 1: making it very obvious she is calling the police, and
20:48
Speaker 1: very clearly this guy picked up on what Barbara was doing,
20:50
Speaker 1: because the knocking stopped and she saw him to the
20:53
Speaker 1: little slit of glass next to the door, run to
20:55
Speaker 1: the left of the house, back towards the side where
20:58
Speaker 1: his bike was, and so Barbara wall on the phone,
21:00
Speaker 1: runs into the bedroom where she was sleeping, and she
21:02
Speaker 1: looks out the side window, and the last she sees
21:05
Speaker 1: this guy is riding his bike across the street and
21:08
Speaker 1: then he stops next to an suv and he opens
21:10
Speaker 1: a trunk and he throws the bike in the trunk
21:12
Speaker 1: and he gets in the passenger side of the car
21:14
Speaker 1: and they drive off, which means whatever he had planned
21:17
Speaker 1: to do with Alyssa or whatever he was doing this night,
21:20
Speaker 1: he had an accomplice. The police show up a couple
21:23
Speaker 1: minutes later, and at this point this creep and whoever
21:25
Speaker 1: he was with are long gone, but Barbara still gives
21:28
Speaker 1: her description of the vehicle and description of the night
21:31
Speaker 1: and what happened, and the police told her that over
21:33
Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks they've gotten very similar reports
21:35
Speaker 1: from other households where there are young girls inside of
21:38
Speaker 1: the house. Apparently this boy was actually a grown man
21:41
Speaker 1: that would use social media to figure out where kids lived,
21:44
Speaker 1: and then he would dress up like a teenager and
21:46
Speaker 1: then he would go stalk them. And so whatever Alissa
21:49
Speaker 1: had listed online, he had been able to deduce that
21:51
Speaker 1: she lived there, and who knows how long he had
21:54
Speaker 1: been looking in the window at her at night. In
22:00
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, an up and coming Instagram influencer named Wendy
22:03
Speaker 1: was contacted by a hotel in Miami, Florida that wanted
22:06
Speaker 1: to see if she'd be willing to stay at their
22:08
Speaker 1: property over Memorial Day weekend. They said they were willing
22:11
Speaker 1: to cover all of her expenses as long as she
22:13
Speaker 1: was willing to post a couple of times while she
22:15
Speaker 1: was at the hotel showing off how great the hotel was.
22:17
Speaker 1: They also told her to bring along a female friend
22:20
Speaker 1: and that that friend they would cover all of her
22:22
Speaker 1: expenses as well. Even though Wendy didn't know if she
22:25
Speaker 1: had any girl friends that would want to do this
22:27
Speaker 1: with her, she was so eager to take them up
22:29
Speaker 1: on this opportunity because she was trying to make being
22:32
Speaker 1: an influencer be her full time job and so opportunities
22:36
Speaker 1: like this were huge for her, and so she said yes,
22:38
Speaker 1: even before she knew if she could bring along a
22:41
Speaker 1: friend like they asked her to, and so, sure enough,
22:43
Speaker 1: over the next couple of days, as she reached out
22:45
Speaker 1: to her network to see if there's any females that
22:47
Speaker 1: wanted to come with her, everybody was either busy or
22:50
Speaker 1: wasn't that interested, or they had plans, and so since
22:53
Speaker 1: she did not want to cancel, she thought, well, it
22:55
Speaker 1: can't be that big of a deal if I bring
22:57
Speaker 1: along a male friend, and she reached out to her
23:00
Speaker 1: good friend Mitch, who's this six foot four athletic guy
23:04
Speaker 1: who was just one of her close friends, and she said, hey,
23:06
Speaker 1: would you mind coming along with me to this thing
23:08
Speaker 1: in Miami over a Memorial Day weekend? I just I
23:11
Speaker 1: need someone to go with me. They ask for a female,
23:13
Speaker 1: but you know you're gonna have to do and so
23:15
Speaker 1: Mitch agreed to do it, and Wendy thought to herself, well,
23:17
Speaker 1: worst case scenario is they're not willing to pay for
23:21
Speaker 1: Mitch's you know, expenses, and that she would pay for them.
23:23
Speaker 1: And she told Mitch as much, and so they thought
23:25
Speaker 1: that was just fine. They figured that was a good solution,
23:28
Speaker 1: and so the day arrives and Wendy and Mitch are
23:30
Speaker 1: really excited about this trip. You know, they don't often
23:33
Speaker 1: get to go travel around as influencers, and so they
23:36
Speaker 1: hop on a plane. They fly first class to Miami.
23:38
Speaker 1: When they get there, they go down, they get their
23:40
Speaker 1: bags at a baggage claim, and then they go out
23:42
Speaker 1: to the curb, and right away, Wendy sees there's this
23:45
Speaker 1: really well dressed guy with dark sunglasses on, and he's
23:48
Speaker 1: holding up a sign that has her last name on
23:51
Speaker 1: it and the logo of the hotel on it, and
23:53
Speaker 1: so she waves to him and walks over, and Mitch's
23:55
Speaker 1: following right behind, and this guy looks there and he says, okay, well,
23:58
Speaker 1: where's your friend? When she says, oh, well, actually, you know,
24:01
Speaker 1: I brought Mitch because none of my girlfriends wanted to go,
24:04
Speaker 1: so I brought Mitch along. And so this guy lowers
24:06
Speaker 1: the sunglasses and he looks at Mitch. He kind of
24:08
Speaker 1: looks up and down, and then he puts his sunglasses
24:11
Speaker 1: back and he turns and he walks towards this beautiful
24:14
Speaker 1: black suv that's parked right up against the curb, and
24:16
Speaker 1: so Wendy and Mitch follow him, and this guy opens
24:19
Speaker 1: up the back door and Wendy and Mitch get in.
24:21
Speaker 1: The guy takes the luggage and puts it in the
24:23
Speaker 1: back of the vehicle and shuts it. And as soon
24:25
Speaker 1: as Wendy and Mitch sit inside of this car, the
24:29
Speaker 1: driver is visibly upset. He's kind of ranting and raving,
24:32
Speaker 1: and the front passenger window was down, and so Wendy
24:36
Speaker 1: and Mitch assumed he must be yelling at someone outside
24:39
Speaker 1: of the vehicle, like this guy that had just picked
24:41
Speaker 1: him up. He must be communicating with him somehow. He
24:44
Speaker 1: can't possibly be yelling at us. We just got here,
24:46
Speaker 1: we don't know him, but sure enough, as they kind
24:48
Speaker 1: of are tuning in to what he's saying, he has
24:51
Speaker 1: a very thick accent, and he's saying, where is the
24:54
Speaker 1: other girl? You're not supposed to have a guy. It's
24:57
Speaker 1: two girls, not one girl, one guy. It's two girls.
25:02
Speaker 1: Where is the other girl? As Wendy is hearing this,
25:04
Speaker 1: she feels so uncomfortable, not just for herself but for
25:07
Speaker 1: Mitch too, because she asked him to come along and
25:09
Speaker 1: had said, oh, it won't be a big deal, they
25:11
Speaker 1: won't mind. But I mean, clearly they do mind. And
25:14
Speaker 1: so Wendy's trying to explain to the driver that I
25:16
Speaker 1: know you asked for a female friend, but I didn't
25:19
Speaker 1: have a female friend, and so I brought him along.
25:21
Speaker 1: I will pay for him. I'm not asking you guys
25:23
Speaker 1: to pay for him. I'll pay for everything that he touches.
25:25
Speaker 1: I'll payer his hotel, his flight, everything. But the driver
25:28
Speaker 1: didn't seem that upset about who was paying for Mitch.
25:31
Speaker 1: His frustration came from a place of being frustrated, like
25:35
Speaker 1: they weren't going to be able to do whatever they
25:38
Speaker 1: had planned to do because now Mitch is in the mix,
25:41
Speaker 1: and so as Wendy and the driver are kind of
25:43
Speaker 1: going back and forth, and the driver's getting more and
25:45
Speaker 1: more frustrated. The guy that had originally greeted Wendy and
25:48
Speaker 1: Mitch hopped in the front seat and he and the
25:51
Speaker 1: driver started arguing with each other in Portuguese. And so
25:54
Speaker 1: for about a minute, Wendy and Mitch are looking at
25:55
Speaker 1: each other like what is going on here? And these
25:57
Speaker 1: guys are yelling at each other. And then they stop
26:00
Speaker 1: and the driver turns around again and one more time
26:02
Speaker 1: he says to Wendy, where is the other girl? And
26:06
Speaker 1: Wendy says, there is no other girl. It is Mitch
26:10
Speaker 1: and I. That is it. At this point, the driver
26:13
Speaker 1: makes a sound like he was disgusted with both of them,
26:16
Speaker 1: and he raises his hand up like this, and he
26:18
Speaker 1: turns to face the road in front of him and
26:20
Speaker 1: the guy that had originally greeted Wendy and Mitch. He
26:23
Speaker 1: gets out of the passenger seat, goes around to the back,
26:25
Speaker 1: opens the back of the truck, takes their luggage out,
26:28
Speaker 1: throws it onto the curb, goes to the door that
26:30
Speaker 1: is closest to Mitch, opens it up, and he tells
26:33
Speaker 1: them to get out, and so Wendy and Mitch climb
26:35
Speaker 1: back out onto the curb. The guy shuts the door
26:37
Speaker 1: behind them, he hops back in the front seat, and
26:39
Speaker 1: that car peels away. That was it. At this point,
26:41
Speaker 1: Wendy's thinking to herself, I bet those two guys have
26:44
Speaker 1: nothing to do with the hotel and the people that
26:47
Speaker 1: I have been communicating with to set this whole thing up.
26:49
Speaker 1: I bet they are just the drivers. And they were
26:51
Speaker 1: told to pick up two girls, and we showed up
26:54
Speaker 1: with a girl and a guy, and it screwed them up,
26:55
Speaker 1: and they got mad, and he got really mad. I guess,
26:57
Speaker 1: and then they left, and so I bet if I
26:59
Speaker 1: can just get in touch with the people at the hotel,
27:02
Speaker 1: the people I had spoken to, that they can clear
27:04
Speaker 1: this whole thing up. And so she opens up her
27:06
Speaker 1: email and she sends a message to Marissa, who was
27:08
Speaker 1: one of the people at the hotel that she had
27:10
Speaker 1: been going back and forth with when she was buying
27:12
Speaker 1: her plane ticket, and then she sent another message to
27:14
Speaker 1: the Instagram account that had over ten thousand followers that
27:17
Speaker 1: she had been going back and forth with quite a
27:19
Speaker 1: bit that had actually originally reached out to her. And
27:21
Speaker 1: so for a couple of minutes, Wendy is watching her
27:23
Speaker 1: phone waiting for her response, and at some point Mitch
27:26
Speaker 1: says to her, you know, by the time we get
27:27
Speaker 1: a response to either your Instagram DM or your email,
27:31
Speaker 1: we probably could have just taken an uber over to
27:33
Speaker 1: the hotel and spoken to them directly. So why don't
27:35
Speaker 1: we just go do that? And so they agree, they
27:37
Speaker 1: hop in an Uber and they drive these short distance
27:40
Speaker 1: to this hotel, and as soon as they get out,
27:42
Speaker 1: Wendy notices something that at the time did not seem
27:45
Speaker 1: like a big deal, which was the logo of the hotel,
27:48
Speaker 1: the one in real life, right in front of her.
27:51
Speaker 1: It was a little bit different than the one that
27:52
Speaker 1: is on the Instagram page, the one she'd been talking
27:55
Speaker 1: back and forth with that was their profile picture. It's
27:58
Speaker 1: different than the one in real life, and so that's
28:00
Speaker 1: out to her, just because she had looked at that
28:01
Speaker 1: page a number of times. But it was definitely the
28:04
Speaker 1: same hotel, and so she didn't think much of it,
28:06
Speaker 1: and she and Mitch walked inside, right up to the
28:08
Speaker 1: front desk, and Wendy asked to speak with a manager,
28:11
Speaker 1: and shortly thereafter, a manager comes out and she asks
28:13
Speaker 1: Wendy and Mitch to come into her office to go inside,
28:16
Speaker 1: and she says, okay, guys, what's going on? What do
28:18
Speaker 1: you need? And so Wendy explains the framework of the
28:20
Speaker 1: deal she had negotiated with Marissa, and she said, look,
28:23
Speaker 1: you know, when I got to the airport, the guys
28:24
Speaker 1: that picked us up were incredibly rude and they wouldn't
28:27
Speaker 1: give us a ride here, and I just want to
28:29
Speaker 1: let you know what happened. You know, we don't care
28:31
Speaker 1: we got to ride here, but we just figured you
28:32
Speaker 1: should know. And the woman looks at her kind of puzzled,
28:34
Speaker 1: and she says, who is the person you talked to?
28:36
Speaker 1: You said, Marissa, and Wendy's like, yeah, Marissa, she's the
28:39
Speaker 1: marketing person here. And the manager looks at her and
28:41
Speaker 1: she says, no, I'm the marketing person and my name's Kelly.
28:44
Speaker 1: I think you're at the wrong hotel because we don't
28:46
Speaker 1: have any influencers that are here right now, and I
28:48
Speaker 1: would have known about this. Wendy can't believe it, and
28:51
Speaker 1: she pulls up the Instagram page she's been talking to
28:53
Speaker 1: and she shows it to the manager and the manager
28:55
Speaker 1: takes it and she's pretty surprised by what she's looking at,
28:58
Speaker 1: and she's like, this is our old account. We deleted this,
29:01
Speaker 1: or I thought we deleted this. We have a new
29:03
Speaker 1: one because we rebranded. We have a brand new logo,
29:06
Speaker 1: everything's new, and we just felt like we'd start fresh.
29:08
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I don't know who owns this
29:10
Speaker 1: account now, but that is our account. It's just we
29:14
Speaker 1: don't use it anymore. I don't know how anyone got
29:16
Speaker 1: a hold of it. At this point, it clicked for
29:18
Speaker 1: Wendy that this whole thing was a facade, that this
29:20
Speaker 1: whole time she was being conned, and what really scared
29:23
Speaker 1: her is to what end? What were they trying to
29:27
Speaker 1: do with her? Had she shown up with the other
29:29
Speaker 1: female friend, what would they have done with her? But
29:32
Speaker 1: at this moment, Wendy just feels totally overwhelmed by the
29:35
Speaker 1: entire moment. She's so embarrassed that she thought this was
29:38
Speaker 1: real and she dragged Mitch along and this whole thing
29:41
Speaker 1: was just fake. She's so embarrassed that she just approached
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Speaker 1: this manager who basically said that's all fake, and so
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Speaker 1: she just wanted to leave, and so she stands up
29:49
Speaker 1: and she says, you know, I'm really sorry for wasting
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Speaker 1: your time to the manager, and she and Mitch leave.
29:54
Speaker 1: She goes outside and she just sits down and she's crying,
29:57
Speaker 1: and Mitch says, hey, you know, you really ought to
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Speaker 1: call the police and let them know this happened, because
30:02
Speaker 1: you know, clearly there were plans for you, and you
30:05
Speaker 1: know had you brought a female friend, and they can't
30:08
Speaker 1: have been good plans. I think you need to let
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Speaker 1: the police know that this scam exists. And so Wendy
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Speaker 1: does call the police and she explains what happened, and
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Speaker 1: she's surprised when they say Hey, where are you right now?
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Speaker 1: We'd love to send a detective over to you to
30:19
Speaker 1: talk to you a little bit more about what happened.
30:21
Speaker 1: And so Wendy tells them where they are, and you know,
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Speaker 1: she's a little bit surprised that they want to send
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Speaker 1: a detective over to talk about this because in her mind,
30:28
Speaker 1: this isn't that big of a deal. I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: a big deal to her into Mitch, but nothing really happened.
30:32
Speaker 1: But either way, they go sit on the bench right
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Speaker 1: outside the hotel and they wait for the detective to
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Speaker 1: show up, and just a couple of minutes later he does.
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Speaker 1: He walks up, he introduces himself, and he says, hey,
30:41
Speaker 1: let's go inside and grab a table and we can chat.
30:43
Speaker 1: And so they go inside and they sit down and
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Speaker 1: Wendy and Mitch go over their story one more time,
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Speaker 1: and after they're done, the detective says, look, I don't
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Speaker 1: mean to scare you, but I do want you to
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Speaker 1: understand just how serious of a situation you guys were
30:55
Speaker 1: just in. So in Miami, human traffickers use these phony
31:00
Speaker 1: hotel Instagram accounts to attract young women like yourself to
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Speaker 1: Miami in order to be trafficked, and so they will
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Speaker 1: buy these old business Instagram accounts from companies that have
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Speaker 1: pay top dollar to acquire those Instagram accounts, and then
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Speaker 1: they will use them in order to get people like
31:20
Speaker 1: you to come to Miami. And so probably the only
31:22
Speaker 1: reason they didn't follow through on their operation is because
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Speaker 1: you brought Mitchelong, who posed a threat to them, and
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Speaker 1: so that's why they were upset with you, and that's
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31:32
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31:35
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