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- 0:12Speaker 1: There's a moment most people don't think twice about. You
- 0:14Speaker 1: step outside, maybe to get some air, maybe to clear
- 0:18Speaker 1: your head, maybe just to walk. You don't take your phone,
- 0:21Speaker 1: you don't grab your keys, because you're not planning to
- 0:24Speaker 1: go far, and for almost everyone you come back. On
- 0:29Speaker 1: the morning of June nineteen, twenty twenty, in Cape Coral, Florida,
- 0:32Speaker 1: a young mother stepped out into an ordinary day and
- 0:35Speaker 1: never returned in any way that anyone could clearly explain.
- 0:39Speaker 1: There was no confirmed struggle witnessed in public, no verified
- 0:43Speaker 1: footage showing where she went next, no immediate evidence pointing
- 0:47Speaker 1: investigators toward a single clear direction, just a sudden absence
- 0:51Speaker 1: in a place where life is usually visible, routine, and predictable.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Her name was Lauren Britney Dumelo. She was twenty nine
- 0:59Speaker 1: years old, and within hours what began as a missing
- 1:03Speaker 1: person report would slowly grow into a case that unsettled
- 1:06Speaker 1: not only her family, but the wider Cape Coral community.
- 1:10Speaker 1: According to initial reports from local law enforcement, Lauren was
- 1:13Speaker 1: last seen in the area of her residence in Cape
- 1:16Speaker 1: Coral that morning. After that point, the trail went quiet,
- 1:20Speaker 1: no confirmed communication after she was last seen, no verified
- 1:24Speaker 1: travel records placing her far from the area, and most notably,
- 1:29Speaker 1: personal belongings items that would typically accompany someone leaving home
- 1:33Speaker 1: for the day were reportedly left behind. That detail would
- 1:37Speaker 1: become one of the earliest and most troubling indicators for investigators.
- 1:42Speaker 1: As time passed, concern began to grow among those closest
- 1:45Speaker 1: to her family and acquaintances began reaching out, trying to
- 1:50Speaker 1: reconstruct her movements in the simplest way possible. Who saw
- 1:54Speaker 1: her last, what she said, where she might have gone.
- 1:57Speaker 1: But the answers did not line up into a clear sequence. Instead,
- 2:01Speaker 1: they left gaps, and so the case entered a difficult
- 2:04Speaker 1: early phase that investigators often describe as the information vacuum,
- 2:09Speaker 1: where urgency is high but verified facts are scarce. And
- 2:14Speaker 1: that is where this story truly begins, not with what
- 2:17Speaker 1: was happening, but with the moment she disappeared into a
- 2:20Speaker 1: morning that looked at first completely ordinary. Before June nineteenth,
- 2:25Speaker 1: twenty twenty, before Cape Coral police were pulled into a
- 2:27Speaker 1: missing person's investigation, before her name appeared in urgent posts
- 2:32Speaker 1: shared across Florida, Lauren Dumlo was living a life that,
- 2:36Speaker 1: on the surface looked familiar to many young mothers trying
- 2:40Speaker 1: to build stability one day at a time. Lauren Britney
- 2:44Speaker 1: Dumalo was born on July fourteenth, nineteen ninety. She came
- 2:47Speaker 1: into the world in Florida, but it was the Northeast
- 2:50Speaker 1: that shaped her. Her father, Paul Dumlo, raised her and
- 2:54Speaker 1: her younger sister, Cassie, primarily in Maryland and later New York.
- 2:59Speaker 1: By all the counts, Paul was a devoted, hands on father,
- 3:03Speaker 1: the kind of man who showed up, who tried to
- 3:05Speaker 1: do right by his kids even when things were hard.
- 3:07Speaker 1: Growing up, Lauren was the kind of person who drew
- 3:10Speaker 1: people in her. Loved ones described her as spiritual and compassionate,
- 3:15Speaker 1: someone with a laugh that could fill a room. She
- 3:18Speaker 1: was empathetic to a fault, always the first to offer help,
- 3:21Speaker 1: always the last to ask for it herself. People who
- 3:25Speaker 1: knew her used the phrase heart of Gold over and
- 3:27Speaker 1: over again, not because it was a cliche, but because
- 3:31Speaker 1: it fit. She genuinely cared about others in a way
- 3:35Speaker 1: that wasn't performative. It was just who she was. But
- 3:39Speaker 1: Lauren's teenage years brought pain that would shadow her for
- 3:42Speaker 1: a long time. She was involved in a serious car
- 3:45Speaker 1: accident during her adolescence and was prescribed painkillers to manage
- 3:49Speaker 1: her recovery. That prescription, as it does for so many
- 3:52Speaker 1: young people, opened a door she would spend years trying
- 3:56Speaker 1: to close. The addiction that followed wasn't a moral failure.
- 4:00Speaker 1: As an adult, Lauren had a daughter named Mikayla, who
- 4:03Speaker 1: became the center of her world, but the addiction had
- 4:06Speaker 1: taken its toll. Lauren lost custody of Mikayla when the
- 4:10Speaker 1: little girl was three years old. After a relapse, Mikayla
- 4:13Speaker 1: went to live with her paternal grandmother. It was a
- 4:16Speaker 1: loss that hallowed Lauren out, but it also became her
- 4:19Speaker 1: fuel for two years before she disappeared. Those who knew
- 4:23Speaker 1: her say she was genuinely sober, genuinely working, genuinely trying
- 4:28Speaker 1: to rebuild. She held two jobs, one at a local
- 4:31Speaker 1: taco bell, another as a server at a restaurant. She
- 4:34Speaker 1: wasn't coasting. She was grinding her way back to her daughter.
- 4:38Speaker 1: In twenty sixteen, Lauren and Cassie made a significant decision.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Their mother, Laura, lived in Cape Coral, Florida, a city
- 4:46Speaker 1: on the southwestern coast of the state, across the Calusahatchie
- 4:50Speaker 1: River from Fort Myers. The sisters hadn't been close to
- 4:53Speaker 1: their mother growing up. There was estrangement and distance that
- 4:56Speaker 1: had accumulated over the years, but Lauren, always drawn toward healing,
- 5:02Speaker 1: wanted to try. She and Cassie moved to Cape Coral together,
- 5:05Speaker 1: hoping to rebuild that connection. Lauren moved in with her mother, Laura,
- 5:10Speaker 1: and her stepfather, Victor. It was through Victor that Lauren's
- 5:13Speaker 1: life in Florida took on a new dimension, because it
- 5:16Speaker 1: was through Victor that she met Gabriel Pina. But the
- 5:20Speaker 1: thing about people who spend their lives trying to heal
- 5:23Speaker 1: others is that they don't always see the danger when
- 5:26Speaker 1: it finally reaches them, And in Florida, the person Lauren
- 5:30Speaker 1: trusted most was someone with a past she couldn't fully see.
- 5:35Speaker 1: Gabriel Pina was forty years old when he and Lauren
- 5:38Speaker 1: started dating. He was a divorced father of two, a
- 5:41Speaker 1: construction worker who moved in the social circle around Laura
- 5:45Speaker 1: and Victor. He was known as Gabby to those close
- 5:48Speaker 1: to him. What Lauren may not have known in the beginning,
- 5:51Speaker 1: or perhaps chose to believe, he had moved past was
- 5:55Speaker 1: that Gabriel had a documented history of violence. Court records
- 6:00Speaker 1: indicated that in twenty fourteen, he was charged with battery
- 6:04Speaker 1: for assaulting his ex wife while she was holding their
- 6:06Speaker 1: infant child. After roughly two years of dating, Lauren and
- 6:10Speaker 1: Gabriel decided to get their own place. They rented an
- 6:14Speaker 1: apartment at forty nine twenty seven Coronado Parkway in Cape Coral,
- 6:18Speaker 1: just two blocks from where Laura and Victor lived. The
- 6:21Speaker 1: relationship was described by those who knew them as on
- 6:24Speaker 1: and off, the kind of dynamic that never fully settled
- 6:27Speaker 1: into stability. Lauren did not have a car or a
- 6:30Speaker 1: driver's license. She relied on walking to get around the apartment.
- 6:35Speaker 1: Her jobs, and the parks she loved were all within
- 6:38Speaker 1: reach on foot. That was her world. From the outside,
- 6:41Speaker 1: it looked like an ordinary, unstable relationship, But behind closed doors,
- 6:46Speaker 1: there were moments that never made it into official reports,
- 6:50Speaker 1: and by the time Lauren started thinking about leaving, it
- 6:53Speaker 1: may have already been more complicated than just walking away.
- 6:57Speaker 1: The spring of twenty twenty was already a turbue season
- 7:00Speaker 1: for the entire country, with the COVID nineteen pandemic reshaping
- 7:04Speaker 1: daily life for Lauren the disruption was far more personal.
- 7:10Speaker 1: In late May twenty twenty, Lauren underwent an abortion. Her
- 7:13Speaker 1: family later told investigators that the aftermath of that procedure
- 7:17Speaker 1: seemed to trigger a serious mental health crisis. On June first,
- 7:22Speaker 1: twenty twenty, Lauren was admitted to a mental health facility.
- 7:26Speaker 1: Her family said she had been reaching out for help
- 7:28Speaker 1: and that the hospitalization was a step she took because
- 7:32Speaker 1: she knew she wasn't well. She spent more than two
- 7:34Speaker 1: weeks there. She was released on June eighteenth, twenty twenty.
- 7:39Speaker 1: That same evening, the day she was discharged, surveillance footage
- 7:42Speaker 1: captured Lauren at a local speedway gas station on Cape
- 7:46Speaker 1: Coral Parkway filling out a job application. Detective Nick Jones
- 7:50Speaker 1: of the Cape Coral Police Department later pointed to that
- 7:53Speaker 1: footage as one of the most important pieces of context
- 7:57Speaker 1: in the whole case. A woman who had just got
- 8:00Speaker 1: out of a mental health facility, who was struggling financially,
- 8:03Speaker 1: who was tired, and she was already looking for work.
- 8:07Speaker 1: The next morning, June nineteen, twenty twenty, Gabriel Pina left
- 8:11Speaker 1: for work at a construction site in Marco Island. About
- 8:14Speaker 1: an hour and a half south of Cape Coral at
- 8:17Speaker 1: approximately six a m. He later told investigators that Lauren
- 8:21Speaker 1: was asleep when he left, that he kissed her and
- 8:24Speaker 1: slipped out quietly. It was the last time anyone who
- 8:27Speaker 1: has spoken to police claims to have seen her. She
- 8:31Speaker 1: checked herself into a facility, she asked for help. She
- 8:34Speaker 1: made it through, and less than twenty four hours after
- 8:37Speaker 1: getting out, she was already planning her future, which makes
- 8:42Speaker 1: what happened the next morning that much harder to explain.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Sometime around eight fifteen that Friday morning, a maintenance worker
- 8:50Speaker 1: at the Coronado apartment complex had a conversation with Lauren
- 8:53Speaker 1: that would later become a significant detail in the investigation.
- 8:57Speaker 1: Lauren approached him and asked if he knew of any
- 9:00Speaker 1: cheaper apartments in the area. She told him she wanted
- 9:03Speaker 1: to get out of the situation she was in. She
- 9:06Speaker 1: was awake, she was thinking about her future. She was
- 9:10Speaker 1: in some form making plans. At some point between ten
- 9:14Speaker 1: and eleven a m. Lauren or someone using her phone
- 9:18Speaker 1: initiated a Facebook video call to Gabriel's phone. He did
- 9:22Speaker 1: not answer. He later told police he never saw the
- 9:26Speaker 1: call come through. After that, the trail goes dark. When
- 9:29Speaker 1: Gabriel returned home from Marco Island that evening, he found
- 9:33Speaker 1: Lauren's cell phone sitting in the apartment. She was nowhere
- 9:36Speaker 1: to be found. He called Lauren's father, Paul, who lived
- 9:40Speaker 1: in California at the time, around eleven that night. Paul
- 9:44Speaker 1: told him to file a missing person's report and to
- 9:46Speaker 1: keep him updated. Gabriel did not call the police that night.
- 9:50Speaker 1: Lauren spoke to someone. She made a call. She left
- 9:53Speaker 1: no clear trace behind, and whatever happened after that moment
- 9:57Speaker 1: left behind no witnesses, no noise, just silence. The hours
- 10:02Speaker 1: that followed Lauren's disappearance would later be scrutinized intensely. On Saturday,
- 10:07Speaker 1: June twentieth, Lauren's sister, Cassie, reached out to the Cape
- 10:11Speaker 1: Coral Police Department and asked them to do a wellness
- 10:13Speaker 1: check at the apartment. Officers went to the door, no
- 10:17Speaker 1: one answered without probable cause to enter, they had to leave.
- 10:21Speaker 1: On Sunday, June twenty first, twenty twenty two full days
- 10:25Speaker 1: after Lauren was last seen, Paul Dumolo called the Cape
- 10:29Speaker 1: Coral Police himself from California and learned that no missing
- 10:33Speaker 1: persons report had been filed none. Paul immediately booked a
- 10:38Speaker 1: flight and flew to Florida. That same Sunday afternoon, Gabriel
- 10:42Speaker 1: filed a missing person's report at six twenty three p m.
- 10:46Speaker 1: He told investigators when he did so that he was
- 10:48Speaker 1: filing it because Lauren's father had asked him to. He
- 10:51Speaker 1: also told police that Lauren had not expressed any desire
- 10:55Speaker 1: to harm herself or any one else, and that she
- 10:58Speaker 1: wasn't on any medications. But the report, once filed, hit
- 11:01Speaker 1: a clerical snag. It wasn't formally entered into the system
- 11:05Speaker 1: or assigned to a detective until June twenty fourth, twenty
- 11:08Speaker 1: twenty five, days after Lauren vanished, her case was officially active.
- 11:12Speaker 1: Two days passed, no report, no urgency, no official search,
- 11:18Speaker 1: and by the time law enforcement began looking for Lauren,
- 11:20Speaker 1: whatever had happened to her was already far beyond reach.
- 11:24Speaker 1: On June nineteenth, twenty twenty, the very day Lauren disappeared,
- 11:28Speaker 1: a citizen found her purse at four Freedom's Park, located
- 11:31Speaker 1: at the forty eight hundred block of Tarpancourt in Cape Coral.
- 11:35Speaker 1: The park was a six minute walk from her apartment.
- 11:38Speaker 1: It was a place she went regularly to meditate, to
- 11:40Speaker 1: walk to find some peace. Her purse was found with
- 11:44Speaker 1: her ID and bank cards still inside. It was turned
- 11:48Speaker 1: over to park rangers. Because she had not yet been
- 11:51Speaker 1: officially reported missing, her family wasn't notified of the discovery
- 11:55Speaker 1: for several days. Cadaver dogs were later brought in to
- 11:58Speaker 1: search the park. They found no trace of Lauren. Then,
- 12:02Speaker 1: on July second, twenty twenty, nearly two weeks after she disappeared,
- 12:07Speaker 1: Lauren's shirt was discovered at the waterline of the same park.
- 12:11Speaker 1: The park had been searched multiple times before that date,
- 12:15Speaker 1: the shirt had not been there before. Investigators confirmed through
- 12:19Speaker 1: testing that the shirt belonged to Lauren, but it yielded
- 12:22Speaker 1: no other forensic evidence. The circumstances under which it appeared
- 12:27Speaker 1: at a previously searched location nearly two weeks later led
- 12:31Speaker 1: some investigators and family members to believe it may have
- 12:34Speaker 1: been placed there deliberately. Inside the apartment, detectives found Lauren's
- 12:39Speaker 1: cell phone. Her phone records, when examined, showed nothing unusual
- 12:43Speaker 1: in the days before she vanished. Most of her recent
- 12:47Speaker 1: calls and messages were connected to her job search. The
- 12:50Speaker 1: same job search she had been conducting the night she
- 12:53Speaker 1: was released from the mental health facility. The Cape Coral
- 12:57Speaker 1: Police Department concluded that Lauren did not leave of her
- 13:00Speaker 1: own free will. The evidence, as Chief Anthony Sizemore would
- 13:04Speaker 1: later state, publicly, pointed in one direction. I think it
- 13:07Speaker 1: would be irresponsible not to suspect foul play at this point,
- 13:11Speaker 1: Sizemore said, And it's very unusual for somebody to just disappear.
- 13:15Speaker 1: She had paid her rent in full, she had filled
- 13:18Speaker 1: out job applications the night before she vanished. She had
- 13:21Speaker 1: a daughter, she was desperate to get back. She had plans,
- 13:25Speaker 1: A purse placed, not lost, a shirt appearing where it
- 13:28Speaker 1: hadn't been before, not random, not accidental, which raises a
- 13:32Speaker 1: question investigators still can't answer. Was someone trying to send
- 13:35Speaker 1: a message or trying to control the story? The Cape
- 13:40Speaker 1: Coral Police Department launched what would become one of the
- 13:42Speaker 1: most extensive missing persons investigations in the department's history. Detective
- 13:48Speaker 1: Nick Jones would describe the case as the only one
- 13:51Speaker 1: in his career he had not been able to solve,
- 13:54Speaker 1: a fact that clearly weighed on him. Police executed twelve
- 13:57Speaker 1: search warrants in connection with Lauren's disappear pearance. Over one
- 14:01Speaker 1: hundred individuals were interviewed. The investigation required, as Sizemore explained,
- 14:07Speaker 1: an unusual approach, starting not from a crime scene or
- 14:10Speaker 1: a body, but from a person. Gabriel Paina was, as
- 14:14Speaker 1: his standard in cases involving intimate partners, examined closely. Investigators
- 14:19Speaker 1: reviewed his phone records and GPS data. Detective Jones confirmed
- 14:23Speaker 1: that Gabriel was not in Cape Coral at all during
- 14:26Speaker 1: the day on June nineteenth. Records indicated he was at
- 14:30Speaker 1: a construction site in Marco Island. He was administered a
- 14:34Speaker 1: polygraph examination, which he passed. Investigators found no physical evidence
- 14:39Speaker 1: linking him to Lauren's disappearance. At the same time, investigators
- 14:44Speaker 1: noted that Gabriel had used a different address, not the
- 14:47Speaker 1: Coronado Parkway apartment, when he filed the missing persons report,
- 14:51Speaker 1: and that his name was not on the lease. Investigators
- 14:55Speaker 1: also learned about an allegation of domestic violence involving Lauren.
- 14:59Speaker 1: She towardly not provided a sworn statement against him, which,
- 15:03Speaker 1: as those who work in domestic violence cases understand, is common.
- 15:08Speaker 1: The charges were not pursued. Paul Dumolo, meanwhile, had relocated
- 15:12Speaker 1: from California to Florida to be closer to the search
- 15:15Speaker 1: for his daughter. He threw himself into the effort. It's
- 15:19Speaker 1: been rough, really, Paul said, It's not been easy. He
- 15:22Speaker 1: appeared on national television, including on In Pursuit. The Missing
- 15:26Speaker 1: Lauren's case received coverage from People magazine and national crime podcasts.
- 15:32Speaker 1: The family also organized community searches around Cape Coral, and Cassie,
- 15:36Speaker 1: Lauren's sister, was a constant visible presence in the public
- 15:40Speaker 1: effort to find answers. Six months after Lauren disappeared, Paul
- 15:44Speaker 1: hired private investigator to review the case with a fresh perspective.
- 15:48Speaker 1: Hundreds of hours, dozens of interviews, every lead followed, and
- 15:53Speaker 1: still nothing that could explain how a woman could disappear
- 15:56Speaker 1: in broad daylight. For over a year, the investigatation continued
- 16:01Speaker 1: without a significant break. Then in October twenty twenty one,
- 16:06Speaker 1: the case took a turn that sent the Dumlo family
- 16:08Speaker 1: through one of the most agonizing weeks. On October fifth,
- 16:12Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, skeletal remains were discovered in a wooded
- 16:15Speaker 1: vacant lot off Pine Island Road in North Fort Myers,
- 16:19Speaker 1: not far from the Tamiami trail. The remains appeared to
- 16:22Speaker 1: be those of a small statured white woman between the
- 16:25Speaker 1: ages of thirty and fifty. The remains were found alongside
- 16:29Speaker 1: something that investigators believed was associated with Lauren Dumelo, though
- 16:34Speaker 1: officials did not publicly specify what that item was. On
- 16:38Speaker 1: October thirteenth, twenty twenty one, Lee County Sheriff and Cape
- 16:42Speaker 1: Coral Police Chief held a joint press conference. They announced
- 16:46Speaker 1: that the remains shared characteristics consistent with Lauren Dumolo, and
- 16:51Speaker 1: pleaded publicly with the dental community anyone who had treated
- 16:55Speaker 1: Lauren in Southwest Florida, New York or Maryland to come forward.
- 17:00Speaker 1: We cannot conclude the remains belonged to Lauren Dumolo, Sheriff
- 17:04Speaker 1: Marceno said. However, it cannot be excluded. Chief Sizemore was
- 17:08Speaker 1: characteristically direct. We believe that there is a good possibility
- 17:12Speaker 1: that these skeletal remains belonged to Lauren Dumolo, he said.
- 17:16Speaker 1: Paul Dumolo, reached by reporters, said that while law enforcement
- 17:20Speaker 1: could not confirm his daughter's identity, he had always carried
- 17:23Speaker 1: a gut feeling that she was gone. The next day,
- 17:26Speaker 1: a dentist confirmed that he had her records within days.
- 17:30Speaker 1: Those records were compared to the remains found off Pine
- 17:33Speaker 1: Island Road. They did not match. When you're working a
- 17:37Speaker 1: cold case, you're very hopeful when a lead comes about,
- 17:40Speaker 1: Sismore said afterward, it's a punch to the gut. You
- 17:43Speaker 1: dust yourself off, you step over it and keep going.
- 17:46Speaker 1: For Lauren's family, it was an almost indescribable emotional whiplash.
- 17:51Speaker 1: They had braced themselves and then they were left again
- 17:55Speaker 1: with nothing. For a moment, it felt like the nightmare
- 17:58Speaker 1: might finally end. A body, an answer, a place to grieve.
- 18:03Speaker 1: But when that answer was taken away, the case didn't
- 18:05Speaker 1: just go cold again. By June twenty twenty three, three
- 18:09Speaker 1: years had passed since Lauren Dumelo walked out of her
- 18:12Speaker 1: apartment at forty nine twenty seven Coronado Parkway and into
- 18:16Speaker 1: the unknown. The apartment itself no longer existed. The building
- 18:20Speaker 1: had been demolished, replaced by an empty lot. Cassie Carey,
- 18:23Speaker 1: Lauren's younger sister, spoke to Foxford's Brianna Brownly around the
- 18:27Speaker 1: three year mark. She was tired in the way that
- 18:31Speaker 1: only sustained unresolved grief can make a person tired. At
- 18:36Speaker 1: this point, we are going on three years of the unknown,
- 18:39Speaker 1: Cassie said, And I think that is the hardest part,
- 18:42Speaker 1: not knowing, because your brain is constantly in fight mode
- 18:45Speaker 1: and think mode. She thought about her niece, Michaela Lauren's daughter,
- 18:50Speaker 1: who was five years old when her mother disappeared. She
- 18:53Speaker 1: was eight, now growing up with a grandmother instead of
- 18:55Speaker 1: her mom, with photographs instead of memories. Cassie spoke directly
- 19:00Speaker 1: to anyone who might have information and was staying silent.
- 19:04Speaker 1: If you were in Lauren's circle, if you knew her
- 19:07Speaker 1: at whatever level, and you know more than you shared,
- 19:10Speaker 1: why won't you come forward. Cassie told reporters that the
- 19:13Speaker 1: last time she spoke to Lauren was the night before
- 19:16Speaker 1: she disappeared June eighteenth, twenty twenty, the evening Lauren was
- 19:21Speaker 1: released from the mental health facility. They had been planning
- 19:24Speaker 1: to talk the next day. I was supposed to help
- 19:27Speaker 1: her get signed up for unemployment. Cassie said that phone
- 19:31Speaker 1: call never came. Three years without answers doesn't just create grief,
- 19:36Speaker 1: It creates questions that don't stop. In June twenty twenty five,
- 19:41Speaker 1: five full years after Lauren's disappearance. Chief Sizemore told Fox
- 19:45Speaker 1: four that there had been movement on the case, but
- 19:48Speaker 1: Sizemore remained emphatic that the case was not forgotten. Obviously,
- 19:52Speaker 1: the answer is out there somewhere, he said, I don't
- 19:55Speaker 1: know what it is, but that's what we continue to
- 19:58Speaker 1: aggressively find out about Lauren. We care about what happened
- 20:02Speaker 1: in this case. We don't have suspects, Seismore said. We
- 20:06Speaker 1: have a victim, We have a lot of witnesses. The
- 20:10Speaker 1: Cape Coral Police Department continues to accept tips. The reward
- 20:13Speaker 1: for information in Lauren's case through Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers
- 20:17Speaker 1: stands at eight thousand dollars. Tips can be submitted anonymously.
- 20:21Speaker 1: Five years later, investigators say the answer is still out there,
- 20:25Speaker 1: not lost, not gone, just unspoken, and until someone decides
- 20:30Speaker 1: to say it, Lauren Demolo remains exactly where this case
- 20:34Speaker 1: left her. Lauren Brittany Demolo was born on July fourteenth,
- 20:37Speaker 1: nineteen ninety. She was twenty nine years old when she vanished.
- 20:42Speaker 1: She stood five feet tall. She had light brown hair
- 20:45Speaker 1: dyed blonde, with darker roots showing. She had brown eyes.
- 20:48Speaker 1: She had a tattoo of the word Nama stay down
- 20:51Speaker 1: her right side, rosary beads on her ankle, a small
- 20:54Speaker 1: n y on her pelvis, and an alms symbol on
- 20:57Speaker 1: the inside of her wrist Marx that told you exactly
- 21:00Speaker 1: who she was, what she believed in, where she came from.
- 21:04Speaker 1: She was a daughter, She was a sister, She was
- 21:06Speaker 1: a mother. She was a woman who had been knocked
- 21:09Speaker 1: down more than once and who kept getting back up.
- 21:12Speaker 1: Someone out there knows what happened on Coronado Parkway on
- 21:16Speaker 1: the morning of June nineteenth, twenty twenty. If you have
- 21:19Speaker 1: information about Lauren Dumelo's disappearance, please contact the Cape Coral
- 21:23Speaker 1: Police Department or Southwest Florida Crime Stoppers anonymously. Thank you
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