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it was five days before christmas in 1984 when janelle matthews went missing from her home in greeley colorado
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family and friends of janelle recall what happened that day i had a basketball game that night my
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dad dropped my sister off at the choir concert and he came and watched my game janelle needed a ride home so she hopped
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in our truck and we took her home my dad waited until he saw her flick on the light that was our sign that she made it
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inside and everything's fine but when her father came home from her sister's basketball game twelve-year-old
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janelle was nowhere to be found i could tell janelle had been there i yelled out hi janelle janelle are you
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there no answer did it occur to you that maybe she had run away no because i know my daughter well enough
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that number one is christmas time she loves presents she just loves the whole festivities of christmas there was a
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note from janelle but it was only a phone message she had taken for her father before she vanished
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the only physical evidence were footprints in the fresh snow found just outside the home
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and there was something very odd about them [Music] whoever did it tried to rake their
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footprints and he was using what a garden rake yeah right out of my garage or to cover them up yeah yeah
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janelle's mother was out of town that night but when she called home her husband gave her horrifying news
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i called home and he said i just have to tell you something we can't find you down
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i just had a sick feeling to my stomach where's chanel do you know where janelle is
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everybody was looking for chanel what happened and why