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Washington State Mom Mikayla VANISHES After Frantic 911 Call · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, A gorgeous twenty five year
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Speaker 1: old Mikaela goes missing a chilling final message from her.
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Speaker 1: Does it supply any clues left behind? I'm Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us
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Speaker 1: here at Fox Nation in series x SEM one eleven.
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Speaker 1: First of all, take a listen to this. Mikayla.
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Speaker 2: If you see this and you're out there, we just
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Speaker 2: want you to know that you are loved very very much.
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Speaker 3: It's been almost a week since anyone has seen or
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Speaker 3: heard from twenty five year old Mikayla Standry.
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Speaker 4: This is just a.
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Speaker 1: Horrible name of our family's going through.
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Speaker 2: You don't think that this is going to happen to
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Speaker 2: your family, and then when it does, it's it's a
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Speaker 2: night Eric.
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Speaker 3: Now friends and family are taking it upon themselves to
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Speaker 3: search for her, called me the area she was last
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Speaker 3: seeing it, even handing out these flyers with their own
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Speaker 3: personal numbers on them.
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Speaker 1: You're hearing our friends at k I R and the
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Speaker 1: voice Michaela's aunt Marty Marton, Miss Martin, thank you for
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Speaker 1: being with us. When did you first suspect something was wrong?
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Speaker 5: The day did she went missing? April twenty first.
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Speaker 1: Was she supposed to see you? Did she not text
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Speaker 1: you or call you as you expected? What happened?
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Speaker 6: My brother got a hold of me and he said
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Speaker 6: that his daughter was missing and that she was supposed
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Speaker 6: to call him. He was supposed to go pick her
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Speaker 6: up from the house she was at, and he didn't
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Speaker 6: hear from her.
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Speaker 1: In addition to a very disturbing message, there is also
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Speaker 1: a nine to one one call. Guys, take a look
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Speaker 1: and now to our friends at Fox thirteen the schedule.
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Speaker 7: County Sheriff Foflis wants you're help finding a missing woman.
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Speaker 7: This is twenty five year old Michayla Standridge. Detective save
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Speaker 7: that someone called nine to one one from her phone
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Speaker 7: on April twenty first, and dispatch heard a woman scream
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Speaker 7: and ask for help. Her phone was found near the
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Speaker 7: Scadget River, but Standridge was nowhere to be found. Deputy
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Speaker 7: searched the area using boats, drones, even a helicopter, but
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Speaker 7: they haven't been able to find her. If you know
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Speaker 7: anything that might help, or if you see MICHAELA, You're
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Speaker 7: asked to call crime Stoppers or submitted tip through the
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Speaker 7: p three tips app.
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Speaker 1: Guys, and that tip number is three six zero four
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Speaker 1: one six one nine one one repeat three six zero
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Speaker 1: four one six nine one one straight out to crime
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Speaker 1: online dot Com investigative reporter Nicole Parton, Nicole, what happened
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Speaker 1: on April twenty one.
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Speaker 8: So the nine one one call comes in and the
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Speaker 8: dispatcher can hear screaming in the background, and they can
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Speaker 8: hear Michayla screaming for help, screaming for help. Once that
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Speaker 8: dispatcher is connected, that call immediately goes dead.
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Speaker 9: That's it.
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Speaker 8: Communication is lost. Now we know that we're being told
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Speaker 8: that someone inside the home said that Mikayla was screaming.
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Speaker 8: There's also a neighbor that said they heard screaming her
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Speaker 8: crying for help. Someone in the home said she ran
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Speaker 8: out barefooted, screaming for help. And then that call comes
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Speaker 8: in to nine one one, disconnected and that's it.
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Speaker 1: That's very odd to me, joining me high profile lawyer
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Speaker 1: IRV Miller with the Miller Firm, Legal anlyss CBS two,
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Speaker 1: wbb MTV and legal advisor to The Good Wife and
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Speaker 1: The Good Fight or Miller, thank you for being with us.
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Speaker 1: That sounds like a lot of evidence. And I mean,
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Speaker 1: people hear her screaming, someone saw enough to say that
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Speaker 1: she ran out of the home and she was screaming.
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Speaker 1: We know she called nine one one. It's really hard
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Speaker 1: for me to get my head around why this woman
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Speaker 1: hasn't been found.
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Speaker 10: Well, this is more than a missing person case. Based
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Speaker 10: on all the information you just provided. There's something nefary
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Speaker 10: is going on that happened to this young lady, and
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Speaker 10: I think it's incumbent upon the police department involved to
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Speaker 10: be a little bit more transparent. I don't know if
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Speaker 10: they've released at the copy or recording of that nine
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Speaker 10: to one one tape, but certainly it should be released
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Speaker 10: to let the public actually know what's going on, because
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Speaker 10: I think what the ant in this case and bringing
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Speaker 10: this case to the public's attention is outstanding investigative work
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Speaker 10: that should have been done by the local police department,
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Speaker 10: not by her.
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Speaker 1: Jason Gison joining us Salt Lake City, Utah, private investigator,
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Speaker 1: owner of Jensen Private Investigations, and the co founder of
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Speaker 1: Cold Case Coalition. Jason, thank you for being with us
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Speaker 1: when I will want call is made. Isn't it true
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Speaker 1: that there is call a ID on the other end
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Speaker 1: and that that call can also be pinged and traced?
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Speaker 4: Oh? Absolutely, they know exactly the IP location where that
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Speaker 4: call was played, so for them to be checking in
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Speaker 4: the vicinity of the home makes sense because they're realizing
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Speaker 4: that was her last known location.
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Speaker 1: Can I tell you something, Jason Jensen. The other night,
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Speaker 1: You know, my twins are now fifteen. So we John
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Speaker 1: David my son wanted to practice drive at night, so
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Speaker 1: out we went at about a quarter of nine. So
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Speaker 1: we drove all through the neighborhood and he said, let's
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Speaker 1: cross the highway and drive over to the church. So
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Speaker 1: I said, okay, it's right there, resigning, we crossed over
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Speaker 1: and we went to the parking lot of the church,
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Speaker 1: and we're driving around and lo and behold, right there
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Speaker 1: in the back parking lot where the big Boy Scout
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Speaker 1: camper van is parked, there was a guy. Of course,
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Speaker 1: I got his description, hunched down in the driver's seat
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Speaker 1: of what appeared to be a gray Silver Tacoma at
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Speaker 1: nine point thirty at night, hiding behind a Boy Scout
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Speaker 1: camper van, so when you drove by the church you
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Speaker 1: couldn't see him. Well, of course, I call a nine
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Speaker 1: one one. This is what I'm circuitously working up to
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Speaker 1: appoint Jason within about five minutes, I got a call
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Speaker 1: back on my cell phone and they said, why were
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Speaker 1: you suspicial said, I know, I've never seen that car
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Speaker 1: in that parking lot before. The guy was hunched down
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Speaker 1: in his car seat like he didn't want me to
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Speaker 1: see him. And he's parked about a foot away from
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Speaker 1: a boy scout camper. That's not normal. Why is he
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Speaker 1: in our church parking lot? Anyway? They say, can you
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Speaker 1: give us a description because we're looking for a white
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Speaker 1: male right now in that area. Anyway, My point is
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Speaker 1: you darn too, and they've got your phone number even
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Speaker 1: if you punched Star six, I'm going to try to
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Speaker 1: block it if they will find you. And I don't
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Speaker 1: understand why this woman calls nine to one one from
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Speaker 1: this area, why they didn't go immediately to the area.
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Speaker 1: Help me, Jason.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's bewildering because according to what reports have claimed
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Speaker 4: is that she was literally.
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Speaker 11: Yelling for nine to one one, help me, help me,
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Speaker 11: help me.
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Speaker 4: So she's obviously in distress, she knows she is, so
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Speaker 4: something's afoot.
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Speaker 1: Okay, how would that happen, though, er Miil, or how
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Speaker 1: would they actually go about getting her a location? They
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Speaker 1: obviously had her phone number and did nothing well.
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Speaker 10: The technology that the police departments have these days is
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Speaker 10: just amazing. I'm not sure how advanced this particular department
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Speaker 10: is that received this nine to one one call. Every
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Speaker 10: department that I've either been associated with or having subpoened
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Speaker 10: their records for a case, they managed to have unbelievable
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Speaker 10: information as far as the actual towers that the phone
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Speaker 10: calls are connected to. The phone is connected to, they
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Speaker 10: can track your location within a matter of feet. And
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Speaker 10: I can't explain why this police department didn't do the
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Speaker 10: type of work that they were supposed to do when
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Speaker 10: a nine one one call comes in, I know they
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Speaker 10: prioritize the various cases that come in. There's a difference
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Speaker 10: between some a call and a shoplifting case and a
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Speaker 10: woman screaming for help, and to me, that's priority number one.
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Speaker 1: I guess everybody on this panel has heard the name
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Speaker 1: Kitty Genevici, a woman was stambed multiple times, screaming and
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Speaker 1: begging for help when people were looking out their windows
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Speaker 1: just watching her get murdered. That was in nineteen sixty four,
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Speaker 1: and the so called bystander effect has been a point
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Speaker 1: of discussion ever since. What liability if any do the
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Speaker 1: people have that stand by and watch what's the ones
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Speaker 1: that video record everything that's happening. Nicole Parton, joining us
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Speaker 1: investigative reporter with Crime online dot Com. You said that
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Speaker 1: people observed her running out, screaming, and nobody did a thing.
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Speaker 8: That's right, Nancy. So, her boyfriend in the home where
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Speaker 8: she was last seen, his story is that he saw
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Speaker 8: her run out, he heard her screaming, Yet to my knowledge,
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Speaker 8: he made no nine to one one call himself. He
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Speaker 8: admits that he didn't go out to see what the
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Speaker 8: screaming was or if she was okay. He didn't follow
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Speaker 8: up on that. But there is that witness who says, yes,
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Speaker 8: I saw her leave the home, and yet I did
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Speaker 8: hear screaming.
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Speaker 9: Outside time stories with Nancy Grease.
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Speaker 1: Guys, this is just a woman that you know, we
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Speaker 1: can't find that she's quote run off with her boyfriend.
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Speaker 1: I'll never get over Drewa. Peterson saying that over and
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Speaker 1: over and over about his wife, Stacy, his fourth wife, Stacy.
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Speaker 1: She's dead. He killed her, but he kept saying, oh,
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Speaker 1: she just left, She left behind her children, her car,
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Speaker 1: her clothes, She just ran off with her her knee
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Speaker 1: boyfriend there is no nee boyfriend. He killed her. This
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Speaker 1: woman ran from the home. This she's a girl as
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Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned. She's twenty five years old, and
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Speaker 1: she's beautiful. She's got the bluest blue eyes I have
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Speaker 1: ever seen. She's gorgeous. She didn't just run off with
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Speaker 1: a new boyfriend. Foul play has befallen her again. The
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Speaker 1: tip line is three six zero four one six one one.
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Speaker 1: Now take a listen to our friend Jake Chapman.
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Speaker 3: Her aunt tells us she'd been staying in this neighborhood
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Speaker 3: recently and was trying to call for help last Friday,
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Speaker 3: but sadly that call never went through. The Skedgy County
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Speaker 3: Sheriff's office confirming that information as they continue their search,
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Speaker 3: Deputy showing us where they've been looking the past week,
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Speaker 3: hoping to find anything that can lead to Machayla. Even
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Speaker 3: though this has been a tough time for the family.
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Speaker 2: You know, what may seem like we're not understanding what
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Speaker 2: they're doing, is it not? You know, we don't think
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Speaker 2: it's happening fast enough. But this is our kid that's missing. Okay,
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Speaker 2: we keep hearing the call didn't go through, The call
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Speaker 2: didn't go through. The call did go through. She was
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Speaker 2: started screaming into the phone to nine one one. Now
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Speaker 2: why nothing was done with that, I don't know, but
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Speaker 2: that call did go through. I'm following up on what
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Speaker 2: you just heard from Jake Chapman at Cairo seven. Mike
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Speaker 2: is with us, president founder of Peace River Canine Search
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Speaker 2: and Rescue. You can find at p r sa R
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Speaker 2: Peace River Search and Canine Rescue dot org.
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Speaker 1: Mike, thank you for being with us. Sure, I find
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Speaker 1: it very curious that the family is having to go
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Speaker 1: out and search for Mikaela. I don't understand what's happening
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Speaker 1: with law enforcement in this area of Concrete, Washington, But
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Speaker 1: the family is out and even handing out flyers with
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Speaker 1: their personal names on the flyers. What should be happening
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Speaker 1: in the search right now? What should LA law enforcement
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Speaker 1: be doing?
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Speaker 4: Well?
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Speaker 12: Speaking from my experience, generally, when a call like this
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Speaker 12: comes in, we are dispatched within three to four hours
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Speaker 12: after that call comes in. There's going to be an
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Speaker 12: initial deputy that goes out there. He's going to make
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Speaker 12: the call, and then they're going to start calling resources
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Speaker 12: in and we're all going to be out in the
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Speaker 12: river of the Woods everything within three to four hours
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Speaker 12: after that call comes in. I do not understand why
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Speaker 12: it took so long to get star teams. I think
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Speaker 12: it was three days before the actual search and rescue
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Speaker 12: teams got out there. Now, in the state of Washington,
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Speaker 12: they are excellent star teams there, I mean, they have
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Speaker 12: some of the best in the country in that state.
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Speaker 12: And why they're not out there, I don't know why
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Speaker 12: they're not out there. The law enforcement appears to have
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Speaker 12: dropped the ball on this one.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I really do.
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Speaker 12: But it happens, especially in some of these smaller law
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Speaker 12: enforcement agencies. The report comes in, it gets put on
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Speaker 12: the missing person detective's desk. He's not back in until
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Speaker 12: Monday morning, so nothing happens until Monday morning, and so
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Speaker 12: it should have been those areas should have been come
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Speaker 12: within three to four hours after the call came in.
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Speaker 1: We also know that upon her running from the home
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Speaker 1: screaming calling nine one one, witnesses heard a car scratch off,
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Speaker 1: leading authorities she may have been in the car, which
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Speaker 1: completely alters the search. Joining us again Michaela's aunt, Marty Marteau.
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Speaker 1: Again this Martina, thank you for being with us. How
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Speaker 1: long did it take authorities to start looking for her.
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Speaker 13: Well.
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Speaker 5: First off, Mikayla's now twenty six.
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Speaker 6: She had a birthday on June nineteenth. And first off,
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Speaker 6: when she made the nine one one call, authorities knew
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Speaker 6: Mikayla and they knew her boyfriend very well. They knew
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Speaker 6: that she was staying in that house. And when after
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Speaker 6: the nine one one call, they went out and they
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Speaker 6: did search the area of the nine to one one call,
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Speaker 6: just up and down the road right there, but.
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Speaker 5: They didn't go knock on the door.
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Speaker 9: And that to me is.
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Speaker 6: That's heartbreaking right there, because if they would have went
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Speaker 6: and knocked on that door and asked if Mikayla was okay,
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Speaker 6: they may have found her right there because they knew
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Speaker 6: and they just left the area. And after we called
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Speaker 6: nine to one one that evening, uh, they said that
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Speaker 6: she she'll probably come back.
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Speaker 5: Don't worry about it, it's only been twelve hours.
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Speaker 6: Deputy was you know, the couple deputies went out kind
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Speaker 6: of just looked around and we told them we were
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Speaker 6: going to knock on doors, and you know, they said
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Speaker 6: we could do that.
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Speaker 5: They went knocked on a couple doors.
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Speaker 6: Detective was assigned Monday she went missing Friday, the detective
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Speaker 6: was assigned Monday. A small search and rescue team, not
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Speaker 6: not the actual Star team, just a small foot team
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Speaker 6: was assigned on Tuesday and they just kind of looked around,
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Speaker 6: and I believe her phone was found two or three
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Speaker 6: days after that, So like Wednesday or Thursday, her phone
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Speaker 6: was found and it was down the river. It was
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Speaker 6: in some bushes, and it was in an area that
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Speaker 6: we had already searched. We had already been all along
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Speaker 6: the banks of the river. That was the first place
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Speaker 6: the family searched was all along the river. As matter
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Speaker 6: of fact, it was where we did the Cairo the
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Speaker 6: Kiro interview. We were standing right there where they found
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Speaker 6: the blanket. There was a blanket there in her phone.
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Speaker 6: We were already there. That phone was planted there. I
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Speaker 6: guarantee that phone was planted there.
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Speaker 5: I put my life on it.
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Speaker 6: And we searched all along that area.
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Speaker 14: And then.
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Speaker 6: Two weeks after Mikayla went missing, the family hired our
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Speaker 6: own search dog team. The family did and we searched
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Speaker 6: all along the river banks up along the boyfriend's property
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Speaker 6: and we didn't find anything. And then three weeks after
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Speaker 6: Mikayla went missing. That's when the Sheriff's office finally deployed
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Speaker 6: the actual Stars team with the dogs, quads, boats, all
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Speaker 6: of that.
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Speaker 5: They did have like that.
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Speaker 6: Before that, they put some boats in the river. They
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Speaker 6: had a helicopter up after. That's after they found her phone.
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Speaker 6: After they found her phone, which was probably within five
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Speaker 6: to seven days after she went missing, that's when they
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Speaker 6: put the boats in the water in a helicopter and
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Speaker 6: a couple of them walked around. That's that's when they
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Speaker 6: That's when there was nothing done. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
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Speaker 6: there was a couple of detectives assigned and we were
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Speaker 6: told that if we went up there, we'd be impeding
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Speaker 6: an investigation. I've been threatened with charges.
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Speaker 1: You were actually threatened with being charged with impeding.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I've been threatened with impeding an investigation. I've been
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Speaker 6: threatened with burglary because I've knocked on people's doors and said, hey,
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Speaker 6: you know, Michayla could be hiding in an outshd or a.
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Speaker 1: Trade or why would she be hiding in a shed.
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Speaker 6: She she was running, She was running, screaming, trying to
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Speaker 6: get away from somebody we think would not now, but
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Speaker 6: this was like the first couple of days.
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Speaker 5: She could be hiding.
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Speaker 6: It was a very violent situation that she was in.
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Speaker 5: She was that night she was.
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Speaker 6: Calling for a ride to get out of that house.
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Speaker 6: She was trying to get out of that house. That's
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Speaker 6: what was going on, and then that's why she was afraid.
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Speaker 6: She was afraid of something that There was the phone
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Speaker 6: call that she made to her dad at two thirty
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Speaker 6: in the morning. This was going on from two thirty
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Speaker 6: in the morning on she was she was trying to
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Speaker 6: call for ride home. Her brother's car was broke down.
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Speaker 6: She called her dad and he said that he was
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Speaker 6: going to get up and get ready for work and
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Speaker 6: come get her. Another thing that hasn't been mentioned much
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Speaker 6: is after the nine to one one phone call about
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Speaker 6: it was thirteen minutes or seventeen minutes later she made
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Speaker 6: another phone call. She made that phone call to her
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Speaker 6: dad and he was in the shower getting ready for work,
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Speaker 6: and he didn't get the phone call. So there was
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Speaker 6: another phone call made.
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Speaker 5: After nine one one.
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Speaker 1: What does she say to her dad.
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Speaker 6: He didn't answer the phone, he was in the shower.
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Speaker 6: Does she leave a message, No, huh, she just made
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Speaker 6: a phone call or her phone made a phone call.
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Speaker 5: We're not even sure if it was her or her phone.
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Speaker 6: Made a phone call. So after nine one one, the
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Speaker 6: phone wasn't dead, it was it was. We don't know
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Speaker 6: if what was taken from her and stopped or what,
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Speaker 6: but on his phone log, we've all seen it, and
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Speaker 6: the police has seen it too. So about fifteen minutes
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Speaker 6: after nine one one, she made another phone call to
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Speaker 6: her dad, and the boyfriend has three different stories. She
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Speaker 6: went running out of the house barefoot and he'd let
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Speaker 6: her go, and then the second story is he ran
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Speaker 6: out after her and he hears a car taking off.
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Speaker 6: And now there's another story that he supposedly saw silver
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Speaker 6: car take off. So that's you know, there's a lot
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Speaker 6: of stories coming from.
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Speaker 1: It's never good when someone changes their story or Miller,
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Speaker 1: would you agree with that. You're a veteran trial lawyer.
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Speaker 1: It's one thing if you embellish or add to your
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Speaker 1: story upon questioning, but when you actually change the facts,
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Speaker 1: your original facts, that's not good.
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Speaker 11: That's not good.
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Speaker 10: And that's why law enforcement would consider witness testimony as
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Speaker 10: the least powerful testimony there could be. I prefer fight
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Speaker 10: forensic testimony. I prefer expert testimony. I prefer cell phone videos,
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Speaker 10: the recordings and nine.
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Speaker 11: To one on recordings.
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Speaker 10: But witnesses lie and other types of evidence, you don't
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Speaker 10: have to worry about credibility issues like you have to
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Speaker 10: do with a witness. Certainly, the boyfriend in this case,
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Speaker 10: I think his credibility is probably down to zero at
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Speaker 10: this point in time.
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Speaker 1: Well, the first time he changed his story, actually the
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Speaker 1: first time he reportedly did nothing when she ran from
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Speaker 1: the home screaming and calling nine one one, he lost
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Speaker 1: all credibility right there. But then when he changed your
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Speaker 1: story the first time, no, completely incredible. Karen Start is
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Speaker 1: joining me renowned psychologists out of the Manhattan jurisdiction. You
21:13
Speaker 1: can find her at karenst dot com Karen with Us.
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Speaker 1: See Karen, how many times have you and I heard
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Speaker 1: that police first reaction when a woman goes missing is
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Speaker 1: she'll be back and nanty.
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Speaker 5: They don't just do that.
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Speaker 14: They do that all the time with missing kids.
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Speaker 8: Don't worry, they'll be back.
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Speaker 14: The thing that you mentioned before about the boyfriend is
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Speaker 14: what's most disturbing to me, because he's changed his story
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Speaker 14: so many times, and supposedly she was fighting with him
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Speaker 14: and that was the reason that she left so there's
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Speaker 14: something up there that there's something the farious it seems
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Speaker 14: to me and not credible about him, and I just
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Speaker 14: wonder what was really going on between the two of
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Speaker 14: them and what was it that he witnessed. This is
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Speaker 14: such a bizarre story and so unfair to the family.
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Speaker 1: Another issue is, of course, no one has been charged,
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Speaker 1: no one has been named a POI person of interest.
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Speaker 1: Another issue, to Nicole parton joining us Crime online dot
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Speaker 1: Com investigative reporter, is a very disturbing post that Mikiela
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Speaker 1: made just days before she seemingly vanished into thin air
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Speaker 1: after screaming into the phone to nine one one. That
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Speaker 1: post says something to the effect, if I ever go missing,
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Speaker 1: just know I didn't leave. What can you tell me?
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Speaker 1: Nicole Partner about this post?
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Speaker 8: Absolutely so. She had posted that on her social media
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Speaker 8: and those were the exact words. If I ever go missing,
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Speaker 8: I didn't leave. I think it's also important to note
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Speaker 8: Nancy this Mikayla is a mother. I'm a mother, You're
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Speaker 8: a mother. We just don't leave our children. Mikayla has
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Speaker 8: a beautiful two year old child. She's not just going
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Speaker 8: to run away and leave this child that she adores.
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Speaker 8: That message as though she was telling the world, if
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Speaker 8: I ever go missing, I didn't just leave. It's very
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Speaker 8: haunting at this point.
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Speaker 1: Well, it also goes without saying that no one within
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Speaker 1: that home reported her missing, no one followed up on
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Speaker 1: the nine one one call, and left behind is a
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Speaker 1: three year old little boy that you're talking about, Nicole parton,
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Speaker 1: a three year old taught boy that she would never
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Speaker 1: have left behind. Nicole. Also, can you tell me about Concrete, Washington?
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Speaker 1: What do we know about it?
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Speaker 8: One of the most disturbing things that I found about
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Speaker 8: this area is I was shocked to see how much
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Speaker 8: human trafficking is happening in this very small area of Concrete, Washington,
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Speaker 8: to the point that this small town has detective that
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Speaker 8: just work these human trafficking cases, and I believe one
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Speaker 8: of those detectives has been assigned to this case. Also
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Speaker 8: in that area, without going into too much detail, that
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Speaker 8: we can't discuss in that community, in that area where
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Speaker 8: she went missing, detectives have in prior time toned in
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Speaker 8: because there have been cases of human trafficking out of
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Speaker 8: that very community where she went missing.
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Speaker 1: Concrete is in north central Skagga County in Washington. Its
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Speaker 1: population is seven hundred and five, not seven hundred five thousand,
24:53
Speaker 1: not seven hundred and five thousand, seven hundred and five
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Speaker 1: people concrete. Okay, let that soak in. That greatly reduces
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Speaker 1: a potential suspect pool. Would you agree, Jason Jensen.
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Speaker 11: Well, yes, that's a very small finite number to work with.
25:16
Speaker 11: I mean, it's almost reminiscent of one of the first
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Speaker 11: DNA cases in England where they were able to test
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Speaker 11: the entire community. Because there's such a small population here.
25:30
Speaker 11: I'm sure law enforcements are very familiar with who are
25:34
Speaker 11: the good people, who are the criminals, and they can
25:38
Speaker 11: definitely start from a smaller group and work wider tearing
25:44
Speaker 11: down different suspects. But I find interesting about this post
25:48
Speaker 11: about if something happens to me, it really is reminiscent
25:53
Speaker 11: to the Susan coxs Pall case that I worked on,
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Speaker 11: where clearly, as we all know power Josh Powell her
26:03
Speaker 11: husband had something to do with it. That the number
26:07
Speaker 11: one reason why a woman goes miseners and distresses, usually
26:13
Speaker 11: from domestic violence, somebody that she's familiar with, the family
26:18
Speaker 11: member or boyfriend, husband thinks of that nature. Those are
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Speaker 11: typically the first people that law enforcement needs to rule out.
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Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about the human traffic angle, the aspect
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Speaker 1: that Nicole Parton brought up. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: the county is so concerned about human trafficking and the
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Speaker 1: numbers there that the Skaggat County Coalition Against Trafficking Turning
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Speaker 1: Off the Red Light has been formed. Now you've got
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Speaker 1: the human trafficking problem that is, for some reason, heavily
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Speaker 1: heavily evident there in concrete, Washington. But you also have
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Speaker 1: this bizarre post. If anything happens to me, I didn't leave.
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Speaker 1: Marty Marteau is with us. This is Mikhaiela's aunt, Miss Marteau.
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Speaker 1: What did that mean?
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Speaker 6: MICHAELA knew about she. She talked about human trafficking to
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Speaker 6: myself and her mother.
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Speaker 1: Miss Marteau. When you say she discussed human trafficking, was
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Speaker 1: she afraid of being human trafficked?
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Speaker 5: She she was afraid.
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Speaker 4: She was?
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Speaker 5: She was afraid.
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Speaker 4: She she was.
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Speaker 6: She had spoke to her brother about all the missing girls,
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Speaker 6: and she actually wanted to help find missing girls. That
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Speaker 6: was one of her That was one of her goals. Actually,
27:44
Speaker 6: she wanted to help people. And you know we told
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Speaker 6: her that her brothers told her that it was dangerous
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Speaker 6: and that she you know, she asked him to take
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Speaker 6: her up there and to help look for missing girls,
27:57
Speaker 6: and she didn't.
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Speaker 5: Want to He didn't want her to do that.
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Speaker 1: Of course, the reality is Jason Jensen that once someone
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Speaker 1: is kidnapped and put into sex trafficking, they're gone. They're
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Speaker 1: typically taken from the area.
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Speaker 5: Would you agree with that, Oh, yes, one hundred percent.
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Speaker 4: I would agree with that. The biggest problem, the piece
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Speaker 4: of this puzzle that throws me into the different direction,
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Speaker 4: is the fact that her cell phone was found near
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Speaker 4: her residence in a bush.
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Speaker 11: That seems to be staged there.
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Speaker 4: And if she's being trafficked, why go back to the
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Speaker 4: scene of her last known location.
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Speaker 11: It seems to be too convenient to find the phone
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Speaker 11: near the house.
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Speaker 1: And thrown in a bush, in my mind, indicating that
28:47
Speaker 1: she had somehow ended up in that river. Guys, the
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Speaker 1: search did commence, maybe too late. Take a listen to
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Speaker 1: our friends at k I R. Seven.
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Speaker 3: Chapman Police have wrapped up their search efforts for the day,
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Speaker 3: but they plan to be back out here tomorrow. But
29:05
Speaker 3: they've combed this entire area we're standing in right now.
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Speaker 3: They've even taken their search to the Scadget River, which
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Speaker 3: is right over my shoulder here.
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Speaker 1: They've had boats going up and down.
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Speaker 3: They've even taken their search to the skies with drones,
29:16
Speaker 3: and they had a helicopter fly over here just this afternoon.
29:19
Speaker 3: But right now, family of friends who've traveled near and
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Speaker 3: far to search for Mikayless say they're going to be
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Speaker 3: out here for as long.
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Speaker 1: As it takes. Prime stories with Nancy Grace, Thank to you,
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Speaker 1: Mike Hansell, President founder Peace River Canine Search and Rescue.
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Speaker 1: It sounds like they did get into the search, but
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Speaker 1: was it too late. She goes missing on Friday and
29:54
Speaker 1: it's Tuesday before they really get in motion.
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Speaker 12: Well, at that stage, they're going to run two different
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Speaker 12: types of dogs. They're going to run the live find
30:03
Speaker 12: dogs and the cadaver dogs, both they should be anyway.
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Speaker 12: And then they're going to have the grid teams out
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Speaker 12: checking the wooded areas looking for anything that they can.
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Speaker 12: I agree with the other gentleman that the cell phone
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Speaker 12: is staged. That's pretty common that they go back and
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Speaker 12: drop something like that.
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Speaker 1: Well, who is they?
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Speaker 12: Well, the criminal elements, and I'll offer my theory that
30:28
Speaker 12: crime is dumb. And a lot of times they do
30:30
Speaker 12: things that they don't seem to make sense, but to
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Speaker 12: them it does. And you know, trying to indicate that
30:36
Speaker 12: she's somehow in the river, but that river is it moves,
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Speaker 12: but it's fairly shallow. It wouldn't be hard to find
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Speaker 12: her remains if they were in there.
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Speaker 1: So she's not in the river. Would you agree, Mike Hatsel,
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Speaker 1: she's not in the river. If the river is affect shallow,
30:49
Speaker 1: they would have found her by.
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Speaker 12: Now, Yes, I would agree with that. And I also think,
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Speaker 12: as far as I can tell, no one's ever searched
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Speaker 12: the boyfriend's home.
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Speaker 1: That is one of my questions. Was the home ever searched?
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Speaker 1: Because we know this woman twenty five years old now
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Speaker 1: twenty six is just before twenty six birthday missing since
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Speaker 1: she ran out of that house and call nine one one,
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Speaker 1: only for her phone line to suddenly go dead, rendering
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Speaker 1: local cops unable to find her. According to them, what
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Speaker 1: do you know, Nicole Parton, was the home ever searched?
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Speaker 8: The home was not searched, and even when the search
31:27
Speaker 8: dogs came out, a gentleman in the home refused to
31:31
Speaker 8: allow those to come in. The detective did not pursue
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Speaker 8: searching inside the home early on when that nine to
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Speaker 8: one one call was made, or even after the fact
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Speaker 8: er Miller.
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Speaker 1: That is complete incompetence. They should have gone to the
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Speaker 1: home with a search warrant and.
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Speaker 10: See they didn't have a consent to search, which should
31:51
Speaker 10: be required absence of search warrant, and a search warrant
31:55
Speaker 10: should be done quickly because once as time progresses and
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Speaker 10: information that could lead to probable cause become stale and
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Speaker 10: you're not going to get a search warrant. So that
32:05
Speaker 10: should have been done asap as you've said.
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Speaker 1: The reality is it's not too late or knowing what
32:11
Speaker 1: we know, I mean, you can still get a search warrant. Oh, absolutely,
32:14
Speaker 1: you can still get a search warrant. Now has evidence
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Speaker 1: been destroyed if there was any, Probably, But I've learned,
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Speaker 1: we've all learned that it's very, very hard to get
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Speaker 1: rid of certain evidence. And I'm referring specifically to blood evidence.
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Speaker 11: That's very true.
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Speaker 10: And I've actually participated in searches of apartments so with
32:35
Speaker 10: forensic teams from the Chicago Police Department that the apartment
32:38
Speaker 10: looked pristine to the naked eye. But there's certain ways
32:42
Speaker 10: that forensic teams have ways to determine if there had
32:46
Speaker 10: been flood there, if there had been any type of
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Speaker 10: efforts to remove the blood from the scene. Even using
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Speaker 10: bleach doesn't necessarily totally eliminate the law enforcement abilities to
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Speaker 10: look at.
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Speaker 1: It needs something more like myriadic acid. Bleach doesn't cut it,
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Speaker 1: something like a black swan. Myriadic acid does the trick.
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Speaker 1: Marty Martine joining me, this is Mikaela's aunt. Was that
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Speaker 1: home ever searched?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they did.
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Speaker 5: They did do a search on the boyfriend's residence.
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Speaker 6: It was later on.
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Speaker 5: It wasn't immediate. I don't know exactly what they took
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Speaker 5: out of there, but they did go in there after.
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Speaker 5: I know it was at least a week the day
33:31
Speaker 5: that we all showed up there.
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Speaker 4: Though.
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Speaker 6: The boyfriend had an ex girlfriend in the home who
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Speaker 6: is a professional house cleaner, which was really odd to us.
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Speaker 1: A professional house cleaner in the home. Yeah, okay, what
33:46
Speaker 1: we know. Mikhaila Standridge, beautiful blue Eyes is about one
33:54
Speaker 1: hundred pounds, a tiny little slip of a girl, and
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Speaker 1: leaving behind this now twenty six year old mom is
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Speaker 1: a three year old little boy. This is eerily reminiscent
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Speaker 1: of the case of Michelle Russ. Take a listen our
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Speaker 1: cut seven wmar.
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Speaker 15: Michelle Russ disappeared on the day of what was supposed
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Speaker 15: to be her son's third birthday party. Her husband told
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Speaker 15: police she left their Hailthorpe home to go to the
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Speaker 15: store that morning. Later that day, Michelle's nineteen ninety eight
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Speaker 15: green Dodge caravan was found along a street by Hillcrest
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Speaker 15: Park in nearby Lansdowne.
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Speaker 16: The key actually was in the driver's side door broken
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Speaker 16: off inside of that caravan when it was found. Neighbors
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Speaker 16: in the area were questioned about anything that they may
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Speaker 16: have seen, and unfortunately, nobody saw anything relating to how
34:44
Speaker 16: that van got there and more.
34:46
Speaker 15: As far as what happened to the twenty four year
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Speaker 15: old missing mom after that. Baltimore County Police Corporal Donna
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Speaker 15: Carter explains why detectives believe Michelle fell victim to foul play.
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Speaker 16: Her credit cards were never used, there was no ag
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Speaker 16: m activity, her checking account never had checks written against it,
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Speaker 16: so foul play was assumed. Also, she was diabetic, and
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Speaker 16: she was a devoted mother, so it just doesn't make sense.
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Speaker 1: That case Michelle never found. It goes on and on
35:17
Speaker 1: and on. Here's another victim. Take a listen to our
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Speaker 1: cut thirteen WRCB.
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Speaker 17: She had so many dreams. She wanted to be a
35:24
Speaker 17: marine biologist and she got detoured. I think the answer
35:30
Speaker 17: will come out on the people that's involved.
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Speaker 1: We just don't understand exactly what happened, you know, just
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Speaker 1: where it went.
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Speaker 18: Wrong easlynd was last known to be at the Flying
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Speaker 18: Ja truck stop in Resaca, Georgia. That's where police found
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Speaker 18: her car. Inside were her keys, her book bag, and
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Speaker 18: her wallet, but she was nowhere to be found.
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Speaker 1: Keys and Roberts to this day not found. And what
35:54
Speaker 1: about Gretchen Fleming? Take a listen our cut fifteen WCHS.
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Speaker 13: The Parkersburg Police Department is asking for your help in
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Speaker 13: finding twenty seven year old Gretchen Fleming of Vienna. Detectives
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Speaker 13: say she was last seeing the night of December third
36:06
Speaker 13: and fourth, but relatives didn't realize she was gone quickly
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Speaker 13: and did not report it until this week. Police located
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Speaker 13: her purse and phone, amping up concern. Detectives have worked
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Speaker 13: around the clock since then to cultivate information, and the
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Speaker 13: public has really stepped up in regard to tip.
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Speaker 1: And of course, Jane Johnson coming from a small area
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Speaker 1: much like Concrete, Washington, where the neighbors say nothing like
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Speaker 1: that ever happens here. Take a listen to our cut nineteen.
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Speaker 1: Our friends at KRQE.
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Speaker 4: People just don't go missing like that around here.
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Speaker 19: They've spent months searching all around Lincoln County looking for
36:45
Speaker 19: any clues to tell the hundreds of volunteers what may
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Speaker 19: have happened Gene Johnson.
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Speaker 15: I mean, he just kind of shook everybody up a
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Speaker 15: little bit, like who you know who would do this?
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Speaker 14: And what did they do?
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Speaker 8: And would you know?
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Speaker 11: Where is she?
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Speaker 4: It's just it just makes no sense.
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Speaker 1: Leading the search. Johnson's daughter, Heidi, like.
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Speaker 6: Looking for a needle and a stack, but I can't
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Speaker 6: stop looking for.
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Speaker 1: To Marty Marton, this is Mikaela Standridge's aunt. Marty, do
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Speaker 1: you believe Mikaela is still alive.
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Speaker 6: I'm hoping and praying that she is with everything that
37:19
Speaker 6: I've got. That's what we're really hoping for.
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Speaker 1: Have you spoken Have you spoken to the boyfriend?
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Speaker 5: I haven't spoken to him in over a month. I
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Speaker 5: tried to. Last time I spoke to him, it wasn't.
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Speaker 6: He told me that I need to get my sources straight.
37:36
Speaker 6: I was asking who someone was and it wasn't a
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Speaker 6: good conversation. He told me that he wanted to talk
37:43
Speaker 6: to me personally, one on one. We haven't had that
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Speaker 6: conversation yet. I told him that he was responsible. He
37:52
Speaker 6: was supposed to take care of my niece, and for
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Speaker 6: someone to hear someone who he supposedly loves yell help, help, help,
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Speaker 6: and going off into the night and not call nine
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Speaker 6: one one or not go after her, that makes him
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Speaker 6: guilty in my eyes.
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Speaker 1: At this juncture, no one has been named a person
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Speaker 1: of interest, no one has been charged. The search for
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Speaker 1: Mikila Standridge goes on while her little boy waits for
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Speaker 1: mommy to come home. The tip line in this case
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Speaker 1: is three six zero four one six one nine one
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Speaker 1: one repeat three six zero four one six one nine
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Speaker 1: one one.
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Speaker 9: Goodbye friend,