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Speaker 1: I'm Chris Hansen right now on Crime Watch Daily.
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Speaker 2: From here in New.
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Speaker 1: York, A family moves into a new apartment in the
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Speaker 1: Atlanta suburbs, only to learn it's a murder house. It
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Speaker 1: was here the green eyed Honey Malone, just eighteen years old,
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Speaker 1: had been shot and dumped in the closet.
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Speaker 3: Who would want to kill Honey? Dad?
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Speaker 4: Is the million dollar question?
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Speaker 1: Theory Number one, she walked in on a robbery.
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Speaker 5: She saw more than what she needed to see.
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Speaker 1: Thirty two someone wanted her silenced.
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Speaker 3: I really think this was a setup.
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Speaker 1: Bloodstains on the carpet, shellcasings, and shoe prints. There are
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Speaker 1: a trail of clues in puzzling questions.
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Speaker 6: How did Honey's cell phone end up half a mile away?
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Speaker 1: Anna Garcia investigates the mystery who killed Honey?
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Speaker 3: This could be a break in the case.
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Speaker 6: It could be a big break.
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Speaker 1: Then a fifteen year old girl missing. Years later, mysterious
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Speaker 1: letters begin arriving from the girl herself.
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Speaker 3: You know, this whole story sounds crazy?
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Speaker 1: Are they really from Monique Daniels? Something's not quite right today?
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Speaker 1: Why her own father is on the run from our cameras?
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Speaker 2: Stay off my Robert.
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Speaker 7: What do you think happened to Monique?
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Speaker 1: Right now?
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Speaker 6: Andrea Isisenser with Crimewatch Daily.
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Speaker 3: Jason Mataro A crime Watch Berry.
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Speaker 7: This, I'm Elizabeth.
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Speaker 6: I'm here with crimewat and Michelle from Crimewatch Daily.
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Speaker 1: Is crime Watch Dale.
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Speaker 4: We'll find you again, we always do.
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Speaker 6: So.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Crimewatch Daily, everyone, I'm Chris Hansen. First up today,
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Speaker 1: we join in the hunt to find the men responsible
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Speaker 1: for taking the life of eighteen year old Vanessa Malone
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Speaker 1: and Georgia, teen remembered by friends as being so sweet.
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Speaker 1: Her nickname was Honey Anna. Garcia is just outside of Atlanta.
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Speaker 3: Now with the details.
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Speaker 6: A family gets the shock of their lives when they
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Speaker 6: move into their new apartment.
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Speaker 8: They said that it was a great place to live.
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Speaker 6: The Curry family thought this would be a safe refuge
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Speaker 6: from crime brit in Atlanta, but death had already made
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Speaker 6: an unexpected visit. The Curries found a trail of red
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Speaker 6: stains on the carpet. They said. The landlord told them
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Speaker 6: it was just fruit juice, but those stains tell a
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Speaker 6: scary story.
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Speaker 9: I squirted the parhat side on the spot and it
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Speaker 9: started folding.
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Speaker 3: That was bloody.
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Speaker 6: The Curry's new home was at one time a crime scene.
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Speaker 8: There was a murder in our apartment, but whose blood
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Speaker 8: was it? There was all kind of trails of blood
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Speaker 8: from the front door, all the way through the dining room,
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Speaker 8: all the way through the hallway where it stopped in
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Speaker 8: our closet, and.
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Speaker 6: It was in the closet We're years earlier. The bloody
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Speaker 6: body was dumped, the body of eighteen year old Honey Malone.
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Speaker 3: How's it been for you without her?
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Speaker 4: It's hard because I think about her all the time.
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Speaker 6: Who killed Honey Malone? It's an enduring mystery that still
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Speaker 6: haunts the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain. Downtown's main street
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Speaker 6: seems idyllic, but they are the mean streets. Stone Mountain
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Speaker 6: is said to be one of the most dangerous cities
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Speaker 6: in Georgia. Was she an innocent victim who accidentally walked
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Speaker 6: in on a home invasion in progress? Or was Honey
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Speaker 6: silenced because she knew too much about a drug deal?
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Speaker 5: I think she walked in on a drug deal.
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Speaker 10: That went bad.
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Speaker 6: She was born Vanessa Malone, but everyone called her Honey.
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Speaker 3: How did shand up with the nickname Honey?
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Speaker 4: She actually told me Vanessa Marie was plain for her,
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Speaker 4: I should have gave her a more exact name, so
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Speaker 4: she wanted to be called Honey.
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Speaker 6: Her mom, Flora, says, Honey had a heart of gold.
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Speaker 4: She was actually the sweetest little girl you've ever met.
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Speaker 4: I mean, she was the type that went and kissed
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Speaker 4: everybody good night and never had a bedtime.
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Speaker 3: And she had some striking eyes.
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Speaker 4: Green eyes, and her eyes told everything about her.
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Speaker 3: They would actually twinkle.
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Speaker 6: Those twinkling green eyes were the envy of her big sister, Cassandra.
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Speaker 3: She had beautiful eyes, she had green eyes. I was jealous.
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Speaker 3: What do you miss most about your sister?
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Speaker 11: I missed her little high energy self, just her voice,
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Speaker 11: how she is. I wish she was here so she
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Speaker 11: could see my son.
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Speaker 6: Honeymade friends easily, perhaps too.
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Speaker 3: The lead. Tell me about the group that your sister
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Speaker 3: was hanging out with.
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Speaker 11: From what I hear, they were cool, but they also
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Speaker 11: did extra activities at their house.
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Speaker 6: Those extra activities alleged drug dealing. According to Decab County
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Speaker 6: Police officer Courtney Brown, one of the first detectives on
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Speaker 6: the scene, from.
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Speaker 5: My investigation, the apartment was very busy. People went in
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Speaker 5: and out of the apartment. The traffic was of high volumes,
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Speaker 5: so it could have been many, many more.
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Speaker 6: And when you say there was a lot of traffic
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Speaker 6: in and out of the apartment, is that because they
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Speaker 6: were selling drugs out of there? Yes, ma'am. Some of
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Speaker 6: Honey's friends have criminal records with names like Spoon, Mercy,
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Speaker 6: and Yak. That's Honey in the pink shirt filming a
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Speaker 6: rap video with Spoon and his buddies.
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Speaker 12: She obviously got caught up in hanging out with the
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Speaker 12: wrong crew. It was a dope house?
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Speaker 3: Is that all they sold in there?
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Speaker 12: We believe they sold marijuana and cocaine.
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Speaker 6: One night, Honey, she came home from her job at
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Speaker 6: a dress store. She told her mom she was going out,
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Speaker 6: so you knew where Honey was going and what she
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Speaker 6: was gonna do.
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Speaker 4: Well, she didn't really say where she was going. Then
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Speaker 4: she came back in like two minutes or three minutes,
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Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh, okay.
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Speaker 3: She said, no, I just wanted to know that I
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Speaker 3: love you and I'll be right back.
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Speaker 6: But Honey never came right back. Those were the last
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Speaker 6: words she would ever say to her mother.
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Speaker 4: She had to walk all the way around our place
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Speaker 4: to come and tell me how much she loved me,
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Speaker 4: and it's like, where is this coming from. I mean,
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Speaker 4: not that she didn't say I love you all the time,
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Speaker 4: but it's just weird and something was just strange.
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Speaker 6: Moments later, cops believe Honey stumbled upon an armed robbery.
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Speaker 12: I believe it was a home invasion robbery with the
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Speaker 12: main purpose to steal the drugs and the money out
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Speaker 12: of that apartment.
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Speaker 6: Invasion may be an understatement. Honey's friends who were in
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Speaker 6: the apartment told cops between three and six men with
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Speaker 6: guns kicked down the door. They claimed they were beaten
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Speaker 6: and tied up with a belt and the cord of
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Speaker 6: an electric razor, and herd it into the shower, and
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Speaker 6: then gunshots pierced the night. Honey was shot once at
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Speaker 6: the back, a second shot to the chest, the bullet
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Speaker 6: plunging straight through her heart.
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Speaker 12: While the robbers were ransack in the apartment. I believe
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Speaker 12: Honey walked in and when she turned to leave, that's
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Speaker 12: when she was shot.
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Speaker 3: When she turned to leave.
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Speaker 6: Yes, so you think she was trying to get out
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Speaker 6: of there when she was shot.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 12: When you associate yourself with friends like that, you know
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Speaker 12: you can be brought down.
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Speaker 6: The gunman dragged Honey's body across the carpet, leaving that
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Speaker 6: trail of blood. She was taken into the master bedroom
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Speaker 6: and dumped face down on some dirty clothes in the closet.
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Speaker 3: But why shoot Honey?
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Speaker 5: Collateral damage?
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Speaker 3: She saw?
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Speaker 5: She saw more than what she needed to see. They
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Speaker 5: were there to do a drug transaction, either buy some
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Speaker 5: drugs or to sell a large quantity of drugs. While
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Speaker 5: in the midst of doing that drug transaction, Honey walked
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Speaker 5: in and she saw too much.
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Speaker 6: These are the actual crime scene photos, most too graphic
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Speaker 6: for us to show you on national television. Those are
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Speaker 6: the shell casings from the bullets that killed Honey. There
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Speaker 6: are shoe prints on the front door and in the
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Speaker 6: gravel and outside blood drops, but it was not Honey's blood.
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Speaker 12: We talked to a neighbor that saw the suspects leave
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Speaker 12: the apartment. There was a confrontation in the parking lot,
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Speaker 12: and he believes that one of the suspects was shot
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Speaker 12: in the leg because his buddy was helping him into
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Speaker 12: the car. We followed up with all the hospitals in
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Speaker 12: the Atlanta metro area and surrounding count Nobody came in
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Speaker 12: that night or the next day with a gunshot wound
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Speaker 12: to the leg, so the suspect either traveled out of
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Speaker 12: state or he just had it fixed by a neighborhood doctor.
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Speaker 6: Honey had a tattoo on her left hand that said Blessed.
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Speaker 6: But on the night the lights went out in Georgia,
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Speaker 6: she wasn't next The cold case heats up, so.
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Speaker 3: This could be a break in the case.
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Speaker 12: It could be a big break.
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Speaker 1: Honey Malone's life was as bright as her death was dark,
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Speaker 1: discarded face down on some dirty clothes in a closet. Now,
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Speaker 1: after years of searching for the men responsible for her murder,
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Speaker 1: detectives may finally have the break they were looking for.
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Speaker 2: Anna Garcia is back with that.
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Speaker 6: Honey Malone was as sweet as her name. The eighteen
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Speaker 6: year old beauty never realized that when she went to
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Speaker 6: a friend's apartment, she was walking into her grave.
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Speaker 4: She said, everybody would know her name, she would be
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Speaker 4: on the news.
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Speaker 6: But this isn't how anyone ever dreamed Honey would be
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Speaker 6: front page news.
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Speaker 3: How will you solve Honey's murder? We need someone come forward,
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Speaker 3: someone who.
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Speaker 6: Knows what happened. But getting that someone to come forward
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Speaker 6: has been a challenge for decab County, Georgia Police.
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Speaker 3: So who's this that's going to be spoons.
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Speaker 6: They've granted Crime Watch Daily rare access to the evidence
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Speaker 6: and the hope our story will help solve this cold case.
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Speaker 3: Does this one of the cases that just bugs you?
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Speaker 5: I have a picture of Honey in my office and
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Speaker 5: I look at that picture every single day.
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Speaker 8: I want this case.
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Speaker 6: Closed, and so does Honey's mom, Flora.
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Speaker 3: But who would want to kill Honey?
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Speaker 4: That is the million dollar question because I can't think
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Speaker 4: of anything. She's one hundred pound teenager. She didn't drive
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Speaker 4: a car, she didn't have anything to steal.
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Speaker 3: What could has she known?
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Speaker 6: Copps believe Honey was killed when she unwittingly walked in
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Speaker 6: on an armed robbery of a suspected drug den but
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Speaker 6: Honey's family wonders, is there something more?
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Speaker 3: Why not kill all the witnesses? What's the difference?
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Speaker 4: If you've got one body on you, you might as
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Speaker 4: well just take them all.
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Speaker 6: While Flora and Honey's sister Cassandra believe Honey was lured
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Speaker 6: to the apartment to silence her.
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Speaker 3: Why don't you believe that she walked into a robbery?
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Speaker 4: I believe that they thought she knew something or saw
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Speaker 4: something and was worried that she was gonna tell. She
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Speaker 4: wouldn't just walk into a kicked indoor to see what happened.
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Speaker 10: That's not her.
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Speaker 6: So you think this whole home invasion robbery theory is what.
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Speaker 11: A seta to make it look like it was a
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Speaker 11: robbery so they can get off, and they're like, Oh,
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Speaker 11: she knows too much, we need to kill her. I
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Speaker 11: really think this was a setup.
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Speaker 6: One troubling question why was Honey's cell phone found far
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Speaker 6: away from the murder scene.
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Speaker 12: We tracked her cell phone after the murder to a
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Speaker 12: location about a half mile away, where it stayed there
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Speaker 12: until it died.
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Speaker 6: So how did Honey's cell phone end up half a
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Speaker 6: mile away?
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Speaker 4: Uh?
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Speaker 12: Stolen during the incident.
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Speaker 3: Why would they take her cell phone?
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Speaker 6: They've already killed her. What do they need her cell
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Speaker 6: phone for? Thinking that maybe she could call for help.
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Speaker 12: No, they're just easy to resell on the street.
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Speaker 6: But Honey's family doesn't buy that explanation. The unexplained mystery
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Speaker 6: of the disappearing cell phone and the stories from the
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Speaker 6: witnesses who say the gunman tied them up, has sparked
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Speaker 6: fresh speculation.
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Speaker 11: I don't think that the story that they gave the
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Speaker 11: police is accurate.
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Speaker 3: They don't think so either.
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Speaker 11: You at the how you you sell drugs? You got
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Speaker 11: all these weapons, and you scare, you scared to untie yourself,
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Speaker 11: and you scare you had to weigh intil These three
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Speaker 11: to six men left before you untied yourself and a
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Speaker 11: girl with you.
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Speaker 6: But Honey's alleged gangster friends, Jack and Mercy, the men
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Speaker 6: who claim they were tied up, are not officially considered
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Speaker 6: suspects or persons of interest, at least not yet.
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Speaker 12: I would say a main person of interest in this
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Speaker 12: case will be Mercy, based on these statements that I've
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Speaker 12: reviewed and the evidence that I've looked at.
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Speaker 6: He was very.
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Speaker 12: Deep into the dope gang. It seems like he ran
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Speaker 12: the business out of that house.
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Speaker 3: Did the drugs and the money.
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Speaker 6: Belong to Mercy?
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Speaker 12: I believe so.
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Speaker 6: So Mercy probably knows who was out to get them, probably,
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Speaker 6: and that same person might be the person who killed Honey. Probably.
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Speaker 6: Mercy was charged with theft by receiving stolen property and
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Speaker 6: possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He pleaded
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Speaker 6: guilty and was sentenced to a year in jail and
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Speaker 6: Yak pleaded guilty to violating the Controlled Substances Act and
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Speaker 6: tampering with evidence. Neither has been charged in connection with
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Speaker 6: Honey's murder, and they haven't responded to our request for
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Speaker 6: a comment. It seems that everyone has their theories about
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Speaker 6: why Honey was killed, but theories alone don't solve murders.
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Speaker 6: Hard evidence does. And now Crime Watch Daily can exclusively
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Speaker 6: report a dramatic new development. Police tell us new evidence
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Speaker 6: a handgun recently seized in an unrelated arrest could possibly
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Speaker 6: lead to the killer.
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Speaker 3: Where did you find this new gun?
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Speaker 12: One of the people that identified as being a person
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Speaker 12: ventures in this case was arrested with a firearm. It
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Speaker 12: is a nine millimeter, which we had nine milimeter shellcasings
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Speaker 12: at the scene, so we're just hoping that it might match.
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Speaker 3: Really so this could be a break in the case.
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Speaker 12: It could be a big break. We know who the
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Speaker 12: gun belongs to. If it comes back as a match,
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Speaker 12: we're almost there.
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Speaker 6: Would this have been a bullet that killed Honey or
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Speaker 6: a bullet that was found within that gun battle.
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Speaker 12: It was found within the gun battle, so we could
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Speaker 12: associate that showcasing with being at the scene, but we
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Speaker 12: don't know what exactly killed Honey.
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Speaker 6: And remember the Coorey family, the good people who moved
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Speaker 6: into the apartment of death.
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Speaker 9: I was always worried about who's gonna kick in my doors.
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Speaker 6: They found a new home after they learned they moved
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Speaker 6: into a murder house.
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Speaker 8: And once we found out that the stains were actually blood,
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Speaker 8: we immediately called the leasing office. We told them we
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Speaker 8: pulled up the fact that a murder happened in our apartment,
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Speaker 8: and we asked them why I know one it had
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Speaker 8: told us.
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Speaker 6: Unbelievably, Under Georgia law, landlords don't have to reveal a
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Speaker 6: murder has taken place unless you ask about a specific death.
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Speaker 9: Anyone who moves into an apartment I feel shit, do some research.
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Speaker 6: And as for Honey's family, search for answers continues. They'll
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Speaker 6: never rest until the killer or killers are behind bars.
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Speaker 3: You've been clutching a photo the whole time.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, all of her little photos.
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Speaker 3: Does my baby's sister.
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Speaker 11: She was my first baby before my baby's mess her
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Speaker 11: so much.
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Speaker 1: There's a fifty thousand dollars reward for information that leads
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Speaker 1: to the arrest and conviction of Honey Malone's killer or killers.
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Speaker 1: If you know anything you can call anonymously to crime
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Speaker 1: Stoppers Atlanta at one, four, four, five, seven, seven tips
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Speaker 1: coming up. Her sister vanished without a trace, but it's
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Speaker 1: how she disappeared that has haunted her to this day.
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Speaker 10: My stepdad said she's gone again, and my mom goes,
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Speaker 10: really just like that?
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Speaker 1: What really happened to Monique Daniels? Crime Watch Daily with
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Speaker 1: one woman's mission to find the truth.
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Speaker 6: There are a lot of family secrets here. Yes, is
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Speaker 6: there murder here?
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Speaker 1: That's next. We're back now with a crime Watch Daily
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Speaker 1: update on the disappearance of an Oklahoma teen with dreams
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Speaker 1: of being a doctor. As our Ana Garcia reports, the
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Speaker 1: investigation into this case would reveal some dark family secrets.
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Speaker 6: Oh, she did exist. There really was a girl named
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Speaker 6: Monique Daniels. No, and yet but for a few of
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Speaker 6: the people who knew her best, you'd never know it.
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Speaker 3: Do you have anything of Moniques?
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Speaker 10: Nothing?
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Speaker 6: Did the fifteen year old run away?
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Speaker 2: She was seen loading her clothes into a pickup truck?
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Speaker 6: Does she want to be found?
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Speaker 3: Everybody wants to know what happened? What happened to Monique?
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Speaker 6: Or is this the real truth? Hiding behind the very
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Speaker 6: darkest of family secrets.
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Speaker 10: I feel like I've had this comment. Maybe Monique would
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Speaker 10: still be here.
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Speaker 6: It's been almost two decades since anyone last saw her,
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Speaker 6: twenty years since the oldest of Chuck and Candace daniels
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Speaker 6: six children disappeared without a trace. Oh, Jean, Nikki are
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Speaker 6: so quiet, aren't they? But before she became a ghost
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Speaker 6: haunting old home movies, Monique Nikki Daniels was very much
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Speaker 6: a part of her loved ones lives.
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Speaker 10: She had tons of friends. Everybody loved her. I can't
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Speaker 10: even remember guys in my class crushing on my sister
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Speaker 10: and asking why she was so cute and I wasn't
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Speaker 10: things like that.
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Speaker 6: One of Monique's best friends from school, who was asked
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Speaker 6: to remain anonymous, remembers her as the kind of girl
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Speaker 6: who always seemed to put others first.
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Speaker 9: With a great friend, I mean, to write notes and
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Speaker 9: always try to cheer you up, and you know, always
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Speaker 9: very thoughtful and carrying and stuff.
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Speaker 6: The caring girl even had big plans to become a
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Speaker 6: doctor after high school. But Monique was also nursing her
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Speaker 6: own wounds, the kind you can't see but cut the deepest.
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Speaker 10: I know that Monique was also really hurting because of
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Speaker 10: the terrible things that had happened already to her as
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Speaker 10: a young.
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Speaker 6: Girl, allegations of abuse too horrific to repeat, all at
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Speaker 6: the hands of the four oldest kids biological father, a
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Speaker 6: now convicted and imprisoned sex offender. After this horrible situation
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Speaker 6: with your own father, your mother divorces, you get a
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Speaker 6: new stepdad. Did you think that, finally I'm going to
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Speaker 6: get a good, safe and loving family.
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Speaker 10: The first time I met Chuck, I remember thinking that,
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Speaker 10: finally I'm gonna have a dad that's not gonna hurt me.
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Speaker 10: And I was so happy, and I ran and jumped
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Speaker 10: in his arms, and he swinging me around and I
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Speaker 10: felt safe.
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Speaker 6: But soon after Chuck and Candace married, they had two
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Speaker 6: more children, a new family portrait began to develop.
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Speaker 10: I feel like we looked like a pretty normal family.
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Speaker 10: Were you not in the least?
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Speaker 6: Okay? Okay. Both parents were in the military, and according
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Speaker 6: to Angelique, they ran their house like drill sergeants, not
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Speaker 6: necessarily the best fit for a teenage girl just starting
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Speaker 6: to come into her own.
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Speaker 10: I know she was just crying out for help. She
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Speaker 10: got pregnant, and it was a It was a big
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Speaker 10: thing in our family, and my parents were very upset
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Speaker 10: about it.
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Speaker 6: According to Angeliqe, her sister was forced to terminate the pregnancy.
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Speaker 6: Then one day, not long after that, Monique suddenly wasn't there.
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Speaker 10: She did run away from home. My parents looked for
21:11
Speaker 10: her every single day. I remember the phone would ring
21:14
Speaker 10: and somebody had seen her, and they would jump in
21:16
Speaker 10: their vehicle and go try to chase her down, but.
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Speaker 6: There would be no family reconciliation. Once back home, tensions
21:23
Speaker 6: were at an all time high, and it seemed to
21:26
Speaker 6: be Monique against everyone else, just how Chuck wanted it.
21:30
Speaker 6: Depending on who you believe.
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Speaker 10: He made sure to keep us feuding. It was like
21:37
Speaker 10: that with all of us.
21:39
Speaker 6: Then, just a few weeks before Monique's sixteenth birthday, Angelique,
21:43
Speaker 6: her oldest brother Brian, and her mom got an opportunity
21:47
Speaker 6: to tour with their church choir.
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Speaker 10: We were going to be gone for a week. Was
21:51
Speaker 10: that night before and I was packing and getting things
21:54
Speaker 10: around for the trip, and she came in the back
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Speaker 10: and she said, I had no idea that you could
22:02
Speaker 10: sing like that. You sounded so beautiful, and I toltal
22:06
Speaker 10: leave me alone. And that was the last thing I
22:08
Speaker 10: said to her. So we went the next morning and
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Speaker 10: we drove, you know, on our trip, and it was
22:18
Speaker 10: a strange week. It rained, and I remember my mom
22:22
Speaker 10: was really quiet.
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Speaker 6: After the trip, the three returned home to More, Oklahoma,
22:29
Speaker 6: back to where nothing would ever be the same.
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Speaker 10: My stepdad said, she's gone again, and my mom goes
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Speaker 10: really just like that, and it was something was off,
22:41
Speaker 10: something was wrong. The house is in a disarray. Now
22:44
Speaker 10: we're talking about a spotless environment all the time. There
22:49
Speaker 10: were beer bottles, there were cigarette butts put out on
22:52
Speaker 10: the fireplace mantle. There was an empty pregnancy test, just
22:56
Speaker 10: the box on the bathroom counter.
22:59
Speaker 6: But far from being concerned, Angelique says her parents traded
23:03
Speaker 6: Monique's absence like just the next chapter and they're gone again,
23:08
Speaker 6: off again relationship.
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Speaker 10: I remember hearing if Monique wanted to be here, she
23:12
Speaker 10: would be.
23:12
Speaker 6: Angelique says it wasn't long after the disappearance that Monique's
23:16
Speaker 6: parents seemed to be erasing all traces of her from
23:19
Speaker 6: their lives.
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Speaker 10: We got new family pictures. She took the old picture
23:25
Speaker 10: down from above the fireplace, put it in the attic,
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Speaker 10: and put the new one up.
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Speaker 6: A picture without Monique.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, And after he hung the picture, he sat in
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Speaker 10: his chair. He said, here, you go so much better now.
23:38
Speaker 10: Isn't everything just so tranquil?
23:42
Speaker 6: As the months wore on, Angelique says they were forbidden
23:45
Speaker 6: to talk about Monique, but outside of the home the
23:49
Speaker 6: missing girls, aunt Leslie, Monique's mom's sister, was growing more concerned.
23:54
Speaker 6: She even offered to call in additional resources to help
23:57
Speaker 6: figure out what happened.
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Speaker 10: She called my mom and was asking for the police
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Speaker 10: report number so that she could get Monique in the
24:06
Speaker 10: national database for Missing exploited children. And my mom said, yeah, yeah,
24:11
Speaker 10: I'll get that for you.
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Speaker 6: But that wasn't exactly true, because what aunt Leslie and
24:17
Speaker 6: the rest of the family were about to find out
24:20
Speaker 6: was that there was no police report.
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Speaker 3: What do you think of that?
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Speaker 2: I don't know what to think.
24:25
Speaker 3: Is it suspicious?
24:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely a suspicious.
24:30
Speaker 6: By then, it had been about six months since the
24:32
Speaker 6: girl vanished, a gap in time loved ones feared would
24:35
Speaker 6: make it harder to find her. Then again, was she
24:39
Speaker 6: ever even lost in the first place?
24:42
Speaker 10: One day with phone rang but I just said, Hi, Nikki,
24:45
Speaker 10: how are you coming up? She was married and had
24:48
Speaker 10: a baby named Chelsea.
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Speaker 6: After months of silence, a voice from the abyss.
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Speaker 10: Then she just wanted to drop a line and let
24:56
Speaker 10: mom know that she was.
24:57
Speaker 6: Okay, And an act of God unearthed some deeply buried secrets.
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Speaker 3: Is there murder here?
25:09
Speaker 1: Now? Back to today's Crime Watch Daily Update, Dark family Secrets.
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Speaker 1: Did fifteen year old Monique Daniels simply run away from
25:16
Speaker 1: home or was her disappearance something more sinister? The answer
25:20
Speaker 1: to that question depends on which family member you ask.
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Speaker 2: Here's Ana Garcia.
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Speaker 6: The last time Monique Daniels was seen alive was here
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Speaker 6: at the family home in Moore, Oklahoma. That was over
25:32
Speaker 6: twenty years ago. If you believe her parents. The girl
25:35
Speaker 6: ran away, and roughly six months after Monique disappeared, Angelique
25:42
Speaker 6: got an apparent call from her long lost sister confirming
25:45
Speaker 6: as much.
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Speaker 10: My brothers were standing around listening to me at night.
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Speaker 10: My mom called. All the relatives said, oh, Monique called,
25:53
Speaker 10: and she's doing just fine.
25:55
Speaker 6: And just a week after that call, the Daniels family
25:58
Speaker 6: also got a letter from Monique with a postmark from
26:02
Speaker 6: nearly two hundred miles away in Dallas.
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Speaker 10: She was married and had a baby named Chelsea. She
26:08
Speaker 10: just wanted to drop a line and let mom know
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Speaker 10: that she was.
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Speaker 6: Okay, but to some of Monique's relatives, like Angelique's aunt, Leslie,
26:17
Speaker 6: something was still off.
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Speaker 10: My aunt has contacted the More Police department wants a
26:22
Speaker 10: handwriting specialist to check the authenticity of the letter because
26:26
Speaker 10: she believed my mom wrote the letters.
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Speaker 6: Then, just a day before Monique's mom promised to take
26:31
Speaker 6: the letters in to be examined, there was a reported
26:34
Speaker 6: break in at the Daniels residence.
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Speaker 10: The furniture was tipped over, there was some CDs missing,
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Speaker 10: a couple of little boomboxes, and the letters.
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Speaker 3: What do you mean the letters?
26:47
Speaker 10: The letters that were supposed to go to the police
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Speaker 10: department that day for the handwriting specialists to check.
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Speaker 6: We're missing, suspicious. No matter who you ask, who steals letters?
27:00
Speaker 6: I don't know how does the More Police Department view
27:04
Speaker 6: these series of incidents and the coincidence of timing is
27:09
Speaker 6: very strange. But then Angelique didn't need a specialist to
27:13
Speaker 6: convince her that there was no way her mom could
27:16
Speaker 6: have written those letters, and the reason for that was
27:19
Speaker 6: because she wrote them.
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Speaker 3: You know, this whole story sounds crazy.
27:24
Speaker 6: I do, And that supposed phone call from Monique also fake.
27:30
Speaker 10: I wake up every day wishing that it didn't happen.
27:33
Speaker 6: Angelique says her dad told her that after Monique left,
27:37
Speaker 6: her mom became suicidal.
27:39
Speaker 10: He said, and the only thing I can think of
27:40
Speaker 10: is what if we wrote letters saying that we were
27:43
Speaker 10: Monique so she'd feel better?
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Speaker 6: And I did, according to Angelique. Her stepdad then said
27:52
Speaker 6: she faced jail time if she ever told. And with
27:56
Speaker 6: no letters, no Monique, and no one talking, the investment
28:00
Speaker 6: mitigation had nowhere to go.
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Speaker 3: I was scared.
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Speaker 10: I was really afraid for myself, and you know, I
28:07
Speaker 10: thought that I was going to.
28:09
Speaker 6: Be wherever she was, Angelique says. After nearly two years
28:14
Speaker 6: of lies, cover ups, and the continuing mystery of what
28:17
Speaker 6: really happened to Monique, Angelique decided to run away from
28:21
Speaker 6: home and she came here to Michigan to be with family.
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Speaker 10: I cried the entire way here. I'm on the way
28:28
Speaker 10: from the bus station to my aunt's house. I told
28:31
Speaker 10: her about the letters, and she started to freak out.
28:34
Speaker 10: She's like, oh my gosh, what has he done with her?
28:37
Speaker 10: And he kind of dawned on me that he might
28:39
Speaker 10: have done something really.
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Speaker 6: Bad to her, and she was about to get even
28:43
Speaker 6: more evidence. She felt supported that theory because when Angelique
28:47
Speaker 6: ran away, her parents filed a missing person's report immediately, which,
28:52
Speaker 6: as the rest of the family was about to find out,
28:55
Speaker 6: was in very stark contrast to how they had reported Monique.
28:59
Speaker 10: He told the whole family that he already filed a
29:01
Speaker 10: runaway report.
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Speaker 6: But that wasn't true.
29:03
Speaker 10: That was not true.
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Speaker 3: He lied.
29:05
Speaker 6: Your parents never filed a missing person's report on.
29:08
Speaker 10: Your sister until I ran away from home, almost twenty
29:12
Speaker 10: two months after.
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Speaker 6: Authorities questioned both parents about the suspicious delay, and Chuck
29:18
Speaker 6: even admits to faking the letters with Angelique. But police
29:22
Speaker 6: make little headway.
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Speaker 2: Well, you never We're given the opportunity for a lot
29:26
Speaker 2: of detective Did you ask for one?
29:28
Speaker 3: Yes, so they refused to take a light detector.
29:31
Speaker 2: Correct.
29:32
Speaker 6: In addition, officers find a neighbor who claims he saw
29:36
Speaker 6: the girl get into a truck with a white male
29:38
Speaker 6: on the day she left. True or not. Angelique was
29:42
Speaker 6: too scared to go back home, telling her aunt her
29:45
Speaker 6: parents were both mentally and physically abusive.
29:49
Speaker 10: The next day went to Child Protective Services and I
29:51
Speaker 10: filed a child and abuse charges against my parents.
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Speaker 3: And what did the court rule?
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Speaker 10: My parents were trying to get me extradited back to Oklahoma,
30:02
Speaker 10: but the judge said no way. I found out later
30:05
Speaker 10: that they pled no contest to child abus in effect.
30:09
Speaker 6: With Angelique now outside the home and evidence of a
30:13
Speaker 6: cover up out in the open, both she and her
30:15
Speaker 6: aunt Leslie go public, appearing on various TV shows to
30:20
Speaker 6: discuss their suspicions surrounding Chuck and Candace.
30:24
Speaker 9: She was murdered somewhere else and brought here.
30:28
Speaker 10: My younger brother Andrew called me and said you gotta
30:30
Speaker 10: come and get me. He was thirteen.
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Speaker 6: He was to be the third of the Daniels children
30:36
Speaker 6: to run away in as many years. Like his sister,
30:39
Speaker 6: Andrew alleged abuse inside the home, and yet when his
30:43
Speaker 6: parents left to live in Germany for the next ten years,
30:46
Speaker 6: he went with them. Angelie continued living in Michigan, eventually
30:50
Speaker 6: got married, and over the next two decades, Monique Daniels
30:54
Speaker 6: became little more than a name attached to a phantom.
30:58
Speaker 6: What would you say are the things that happened in
31:01
Speaker 6: this case that make it so difficult for you to investigate?
31:05
Speaker 2: The eighteen month delay notification to the police department, combined
31:10
Speaker 2: with conflicting testimonies, and I mean no body to indicate
31:16
Speaker 2: foul play.
31:17
Speaker 6: But a storm was gathering in the skies above More,
31:21
Speaker 6: an unstoppable force of nature that was about to bring
31:24
Speaker 6: old walls tumbling down. It was only a few weeks
31:29
Speaker 6: to the day since Monique had disappeared.
31:32
Speaker 10: Years earlier, an F five tornado ripped through More, Oklahoma,
31:36
Speaker 10: just trashing it. And I was watching it on TV.
31:39
Speaker 10: All these homes that I played in as a kid,
31:41
Speaker 10: just obliterated. And the phone rings and it's Andrew and
31:46
Speaker 10: he's crying, and I'm like, what's going on? Are you okay?
31:51
Speaker 10: And he's like, she wasn't talking. I said, what do
31:55
Speaker 10: you mean she wasn't talking. He's like, and I was
31:58
Speaker 10: there and she wasn't talking. And I'm like, I knew
32:03
Speaker 10: he was talking about Ohnique, and I knew he was
32:06
Speaker 10: about to tell me.
32:07
Speaker 6: And what Andrew had to say was about to bring
32:10
Speaker 6: new life to this twenty year cold case. Coming up
32:14
Speaker 6: had real eerie feeling. Just what did Andrew see?
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Speaker 13: She was still, she didn't look over at me or anything.
32:21
Speaker 6: And are you Chuck Daniels, Yeah, yeah, Monique's parents respond,
32:26
Speaker 6: So what do you.
32:27
Speaker 7: Think happened to Monique?
32:37
Speaker 6: Where did Monique Daniels go twenty years after her parents
32:41
Speaker 6: claimed she ran away. One of the last people to
32:45
Speaker 6: see her alive, younger brother Andrew, is finally speaking out
32:49
Speaker 6: about what he remembers from her last day.
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Speaker 13: I remember having the feeling of that there was something wrong.
32:56
Speaker 6: It began, Andrew says, like a lot of days in
32:59
Speaker 6: the house with fighting between Monique and her stepdad. Some
33:03
Speaker 6: time later, Chuck gathered up the boys for a spontaneous
33:07
Speaker 6: fishing trip. Nothing too out of the ordinary about that,
33:11
Speaker 6: but Andrew says what happened next definitely.
33:15
Speaker 13: Was before we left.
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Speaker 5: You know, my dad was like, hey, you guys need.
33:25
Speaker 13: To go and say goodbye to Monique. We all went
33:28
Speaker 13: in there like in like a single file, Like I
33:31
Speaker 13: was in front and my little brothers were behind me.
33:33
Speaker 13: Monique was in her room.
33:34
Speaker 6: But Andrew says Chuck only allowed the boys to talk
33:38
Speaker 6: to Monique through her cracked bedroom door.
33:41
Speaker 13: When I saw Monique, she was on the floor of
33:43
Speaker 13: her in her bedroom the letter cross.
33:46
Speaker 3: She was still.
33:48
Speaker 6: After that, Andrew says, the boys left without their fishing
33:52
Speaker 6: poles in the pouring rain.
33:55
Speaker 13: We drove for two hours one way and got off
33:57
Speaker 13: on an exit somewhere and went to McDonald's.
34:01
Speaker 3: And then you came home.
34:03
Speaker 13: My dad pulls the car into the garage and he.
34:07
Speaker 6: Says, things only got stranger from there.
34:10
Speaker 13: And he goes inside the house and leaves us in
34:12
Speaker 13: the in the in the car inside of the garage.
34:14
Speaker 13: For you know, it was like an hour or more.
34:19
Speaker 6: When Chuck finally let the brothers out, andrew says, he
34:23
Speaker 6: rushed to the bathroom and got the eerie feeling he
34:27
Speaker 6: wasn't alone.
34:29
Speaker 13: I had real eerie feeling in that bathroom that day,
34:32
Speaker 13: you know that I was actually like scared. I hadn't
34:35
Speaker 13: seen Monique. The shower was closed. There's things that lead
34:40
Speaker 13: me to believe that she was in that bathtub.
34:44
Speaker 6: Before he could check, Andrews says, Chuck hustled all the
34:47
Speaker 6: boys into his bedroom. Then, after telling them he was
34:51
Speaker 6: going to go look for Monique, he locked them in
34:54
Speaker 6: for two days.
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Speaker 13: After that, I don't really remember much of what happened, meaning,
35:02
Speaker 13: you know, I don't recall the incidences after that.
35:06
Speaker 6: But according to something Angelique heard from another brother, at
35:10
Speaker 6: some point while the boys were locked up, Chuck came
35:13
Speaker 6: back then left with one of the twins.
35:17
Speaker 10: He said. The only thing I can remember is being
35:19
Speaker 10: in Dad's truck and there was an oil barrel in
35:21
Speaker 10: the back. That's all I remember.
35:25
Speaker 6: In Angelique's mind, it was all pointing toward one very
35:29
Speaker 6: grim conclusion.
35:31
Speaker 3: What was in the oil barrel?
35:32
Speaker 10: My sister?
35:34
Speaker 6: So if the list is physical abuse, mental abuse, is
35:38
Speaker 6: their murder here?
35:40
Speaker 10: I believe that Charles Daniels killed my sister Monique, and
35:46
Speaker 10: then I believe he put her in an oil drum
35:48
Speaker 10: and he drove her out to where he took her
35:51
Speaker 10: to and he buried her there.
35:54
Speaker 6: Angelique, you know the thing is it's a very serious
35:58
Speaker 6: allegation to claim that your stepfather killed your sister. Yes,
36:07
Speaker 6: but Angelique wasn't backing down. In fact, when Andrew first
36:11
Speaker 6: told her his story just a few years ago, she
36:14
Speaker 6: convinced him to go with her to the police. Officers
36:18
Speaker 6: even dug up the family's old backyard based on rumors
36:21
Speaker 6: Monique might be buried there.
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Speaker 2: We didn't find anything.
36:26
Speaker 3: What do you have on your hands? Is this a
36:28
Speaker 3: missing person's case?
36:29
Speaker 2: Yes, it's a missing person case.
36:31
Speaker 6: We have two siblings who are saying they believe their
36:36
Speaker 6: stepfather killed their sister. Isn't that enough for you to
36:41
Speaker 6: open up a murder investigation?
36:43
Speaker 2: Well, unfortunately, we don't have a body to prove that,
36:47
Speaker 2: and we have a witness that has a different testimony
36:50
Speaker 2: that they saw Monique alive.
36:53
Speaker 10: Who said that they saw her the neighbor directly across
36:57
Speaker 10: the street.
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Speaker 6: So the neighbor said he saw her leaving. And do
37:01
Speaker 6: you believe the neighbor?
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Speaker 10: No?
37:06
Speaker 6: So, then what really happened to Monique Daniels? If she
37:10
Speaker 6: really did just run away, why did her parents wait
37:13
Speaker 6: nearly two years to report her missing? And one of
37:17
Speaker 6: the biggest questions of all, what are Monique's parents think
37:20
Speaker 6: about their daughter's mysterious disappearance. We came here to Tampa,
37:25
Speaker 6: Florida to ask them, how are you. My name's Ana
37:29
Speaker 6: Garcia and I'm from Crime Watch Daily. We've been trying
37:32
Speaker 6: to reach you and your husband Chuck about Monique's disappearance.
37:36
Speaker 6: Uh huh do you have a few minutes to talk
37:38
Speaker 6: with us?
37:39
Speaker 11: Uh?
37:39
Speaker 3: Oh, not really.
37:41
Speaker 6: But when I pressed Candace about Angelique and Andrew's allegations,
37:45
Speaker 6: she did have this to say.
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Speaker 3: Whatever happened, it's in God's hands, Thank you very much.
37:50
Speaker 3: And I'm going to ask now that you leave, but
37:52
Speaker 3: just one thing, you know, the allegations are serious. That
37:54
Speaker 3: your husband could have killed your daughter.
37:57
Speaker 6: Angelique said that you're in Angeline is a really messed
38:01
Speaker 6: up young lady.
38:02
Speaker 3: But like I said, before you start taking an.
38:06
Speaker 10: And asking me about anything, you need to just I
38:12
Speaker 10: think leave the property, okay before I call the police.
38:15
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, thank you, ma'am.
38:16
Speaker 10: Yeah, Angelique is not a reliable source.
38:21
Speaker 3: You can get the camera off. Please.
38:24
Speaker 6: It was a dead end. But not long after that,
38:27
Speaker 6: another vehicle pulled into the driveway. Are you mister Chuck Daniels, Sir?
38:32
Speaker 6: How are you Chuck Daniels? You are Anagarcia from Crime
38:36
Speaker 6: Watch Daily. We're doing a story about Monique, who's been missing.
38:40
Speaker 6: Angelique and Andrew have made some very serious allegations against
38:45
Speaker 6: st you.
38:46
Speaker 10: Did you check your sources with him?
38:47
Speaker 6: An alcoholic and a drug addict. In response to that claim,
38:51
Speaker 6: Angelique acknowledges struggling with years of mental anguish, but denies
38:56
Speaker 6: any substance abuse problems, and while Andrew admits to having
39:00
Speaker 6: issues in the past, he says today he is completely
39:03
Speaker 6: clean and sober under advice the counsel. I have nothing
39:06
Speaker 6: to say to you, Angie.
39:08
Speaker 10: I love you, Sorry about that.
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Speaker 2: Stay off my property.
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Speaker 7: So what do you think happened to Monique in God's hands?
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Speaker 10: I don't know.
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Speaker 6: Neither parent has ever been charged or named as official
39:21
Speaker 6: suspects in Monique's disappearance. There are a lot of family
39:25
Speaker 6: secrets here.
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Speaker 10: Yes, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe maybe I need to just
39:31
Speaker 10: move forward. Maybe I need to just let this all
39:34
Speaker 10: be in the past and you know, keep it hidden too.
39:38
Speaker 10: But I can't. I cannot do it. I have to
39:41
Speaker 10: let people know that there was a Monique Daniels