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this is a wonderful bubbly confident independent woman and she's missing Jamie lady disappeared doesn't
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make any sense she's a college graduate from University of Michigan respected within her community people of her
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background and stature don't just come up missing for 10 weeks and nobody hears from them how can one of my best friends
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have been missing for 10 weeks how did it come to this that she could be gone so long and nobody reported it I
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couldn't believe that it had been that long that nobody had noticed it was absolute
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craziness with Phoenix in the metropolitan area is the sixth largest city in the country it's it's a big
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valley and it's surrounded by desert on all four sides I believe Jamie lady came
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to Arizona to establish her own identity Jamie was a very private person she kept
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to herself she wasn't close with her family she just kind of had a don't ask me about my parents kind of thing so the
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only person that saw her on a daily basis was her Livin boyfriend Brian Stewart Jamie and I dated for nearly 3
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years she's always refused to talk about her past or her family every time that jimie saw her parents she was
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terrified it was a very different case than just about everything else that we work there was no
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blood there was no body there was no evidence of a crime scene There's No Smoking Gun in this case but there is a
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lot of burning match sticks Jamie's lost we don't know where she is and it's really sad she was a good person and she
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didn't deserve this I believe Jamie was murdered because there's no clear explanation as
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to where she is now what happened to her and why Jamie liy is alive she took $100,000 of Daddy's money and she left
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the state of Arizona he's a very convincing liar bring it on I know she's aive I'm Aron morard tonight on 48
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Hours The Stranger Beside Me [Music] [Applause] [Music] when Jam leod disappeared in March of
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2010 none of her closest friends noticed for weeks the truth is Jaimie had been fading from their lives for nearly 2
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years after your friend stops making an effort you kind of stop too but I never thought Jamie would have been the one to
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stop making an effort it was completely out of character for the sweet California girl they all met as freshman
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at the University of Michigan she was a good friend we were a support network for each other gwenneth Newman Sheila
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dubes and Jennifer Lango say they quickly formed a lasting bond with Jamie kind of like we had this rock we had
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this family of of friends that we were so connected with and I remember leaving Michigan it was just so reassuring that
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you're just a phone call away from feeling like you belong somewhere again they call themselves the 516 girls
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referring to the address of a house they shared in Ann Arbor their senior year and where they were passionate
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supporters of Michigan's Big 10 football team like we were obsessed with um football no one was a greater booster
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than Jamie I think just I I always picture her in my mind on football Saturdays you know charging out to the
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stadium Sheila says that she and Jamie had a special connection we were both from immigrant families and both were
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under heavy pressure to succeed I think our fathers were kind of the same we they put a lot of pressure on us to do
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really well in school but I think she just wanted to make it on her own Vonnie and Jimmy leady came to the US from
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Thailand in search of a better life they admit they pushed Jaimie to go to medical school you think that because
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you were pushing her to go back to school she might have pulled away a bit she said she's a big
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girl after graduation Jamie landed in Phoenix Arizona The Big Valley was booming the perfect place to blend in
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and make her own way she eventually found a high paying job selling medical supplies and while it consumed her time
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she managed to maintain her now longdistance friendships we emailed each other a lot even though we all ended up
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in different locations I think we still look to each other for [Music] support the weddings were the big thing
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that kind of kept us together but far away in Arizona Jaimie was lonely so she joined a local
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University of Michigan Alum Club where she found friends who shared her deep love of Michigan
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football Marina Buffa was the group's president she was enthusiastic but still she was reserved and quiet but when she
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caught the eye of a handsome young fellow Michigan fan Jamie found romance she was hot I mean I how else do you put
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it Brian Stewart says the attraction was immediate she had a really good smile and and really got enthusiastic about
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the football games and would jump up and cheer and would sing with the fight song they started dating in the fall of
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2007 about a year later Brian moved into the home that Jamie owned in the trendy
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Phoenix suburb of Chan she was the bread winner making well over $100,000 a year Brian a personal
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trainer made much less did she pay most of the bills most of the big ones yeah but it's not like I was dependent upon
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her did you love Jamie I still love Jamie you know I just want Jamie to be happy it's hard because I don't know if
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Jamie knows what what it takes to make her happy in August 2009 Jaimie suffered a
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crushing setback when the economy took a big downturn she lost the thing she valued most her high-powered job her
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career had been going so well for so long and I think this was a a pretty major blow to her she searched for
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months in Arizona Florida New Jersey but jimie couldn't find another job when the
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real estate crash hit Chandler and her property value plunged Brian says she became despondent and even more
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withdrawn you know it was like when it rains it pours for Jamie it was pouring Brian says all of it took a toll
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on their relationship so we rented an apartment in Scottdale and planned to break things off and on the night of
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March 17th he said he was going to tell Jamie he was moving out instead he says she surprised him she came in asked me
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to take a week off from work and she's like We're going to go to Denver we're going to get a house you know I I I've
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got a job offer up there um it's it's time to go I want to go I want to get out of this state basically I I told her
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no I'm not leaving Arizona I'm not going to marry you Brian admits Jamie was upset and that they argued still he says
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that when they went to bed things had settled down at the crack of dawn the next morning Brian left for work she was
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laying in bed and I gave her kid told her I loved her and got in the truck and drove to work but later that morning
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Brian emailed Marina Buffa and told her a different story and said Jamie dumped me she moved to Colorado did that
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surprise you at all no I thought good for her did he seem upset um a little bit he was a more
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angry that she left him alone at any point did it even cross your mind mind that something could have happened to
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Jamie no I knew she had means if she wants to pick up and leave good for her that day and for weeks to come no
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one realized that Jamie had disappeared when is the last time you saw Jamie physically saw her 3:15 a.m. March 18th
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2010 [Music] there she is Jamie liy had always been fiercely private but by the summer of
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2009 she was practically reclusive cutting herself off from nearly everyone except her live-in boyfriend Brian
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Stewart we never had anybody over for dinner we never had any parties nobody came over to watch
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television or to just hang out why not so I I one of the great Mysteries I don't
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know even Jim's parents say she was more distant than ever my husband said well you know she's a busy girl don't bother
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her that's why it took nearly three months for anyone to notice that Jamie was missing I think people were just
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respecting her privacy in her space and I was unfortunate then on May 28th Marina got
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a call from Brian he said you know I'm starting to get worried about Jamie marinaa was also worried so she and
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another member of the Michigan Alum club called a private investigator Burke files files did a background check on
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Brian and found nothing suspicious although one thing did stand out about 10 years earlier at two different
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addresses in Michigan Brian had lived with a man named Rick Wayne Valentini it could be a roommate it could be a close
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friend it could be a relative and then Burke files went on to trace ja's credit to see where she was
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now living and working he came up empty and nothing there was no activity all nothing Jamie had disappeared Into
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Thin Air so files sounded the alarm marinaa urged Brian to call Jaime's parents who
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then called the police I immediately thought something was wrong people of her background and stature don't just
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come up missing for 10 weeks and nobody hears from them that afternoon chance andler police got a warrant to search
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Jaime's home and started calling Brian but he seemed to be ignoring them to me that was alarming it just showed a lack
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of concern later that same night when detectives were searching for Jam's missing Ford Escape they found it in
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Scottdale with Brian behind the wheel the detective said well I'm here in regards to your girlfriend and the first
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thing he did was say my ex-girlfriend the detective felt that Brian was being evasive and seemed nervous when Brian
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asked to use the bathroom in his own apartment the answer was no we didn't want to risk losing any evidence if
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there was some in there his luck would have it uh he had a warrant for his arrest for driving on a suspended
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license for a traffic offense so the detective used that warrant to take Brian into custody
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friend yes hey I'm Nate MF how are you man it's b r y an right yes last name is Stuart detective Moffet interrogated
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Brian how long have you and Jamie been dating give or take 3 years okay when did you guys move in together honestly I
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don't know okay were you cheating on Jamie at all before no while detective Spielman searched Jam's home for Clues
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walk me through what happened around March it was simple really um she hated everything about this state she wanted
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out now she'd been up there for interviews I suspected that she would get the Denver offer you know he's
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saying she went to Colorado yet all of her suitcases are there and her passports there all these things that
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she would need to travel her there at the house but Jaime's wallet and driver's license were missing I was
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concerned but the possibility did exist that you know she just left and she doesn't want to be
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found but at Chandler PD Moffet smelled a rat and started pressing Brian did you hurt
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Jamie okay did you have anything to do with her disappearance you have nothing to hide
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no uhuh but things just didn't add up for offet there were just too many inconsistencies Brian gave a birth date
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to the arresting officer which didn't match the date on his Arizona ID I have no freaking clue who's sitting in front
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of me and it's extremely uneasy for me as I'm investigating a case of this magnitude Moffett had no idea how right
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he was until the next day when Brian was in a jail cell and detectives were searching his apartment well we were
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searching his new residence we located a manila envelope with a Michigan driver's
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license in the name of Rick Wayne Valentini and that picture was Brian Stewart you're not really Brian Stewart
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at all are you on the night of May 29th 2010 as he interrogated Brian Stewart about his Miss girlfriend Jamie leady
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detective Moffett knew that Brian wasn't telling the truth I me you're talking a
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woman who's who's been gone for 2 months now um and I have a person in front of me that has different Social Security
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numbers a couple different dates of birth you're not really Brian Stewart at all are you to me I am but not legally
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are you well legally I'm not anything actually legally Brian is Rick Wayne Valentini remember the roommate that
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private investigator Burke files notice in Brian Stewart's credit history well there was no roommate just this guy Rick
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Valentini who was preparing to change his identity in our modern world with the databases you just can't turn on a
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new name a new taxpayer ID number or social security number you have to age it you have to season it in OCT October
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2001 when the name Brian Stewart had enough of a credit history Rick Valentini disappeared from Michigan Days
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Later a man named Brian became a resident of Phoenix driving from Michigan to Arizona
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that's all I did Brian Stewart Brian Stewart Brian Stewart Brian Stewart I was always saying listening for Brian
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Stewart Brian Stewart because it's a new name a new name and a new man man according to Rick the kind of man he
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always wanted to be and he insists that whether legal or not he is now Brian Stewart and would only agree to an
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interview if we would use that name and if you don't want to accept that I don't
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want you around I don't want you in my life why not change your name legally why go to the trouble forging a birth
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certificate well it it was my understanding that to to change your name legally would take years
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Brian claims he wasn't running from the law just leaving behind what he describes as a tragic
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childhood everybody takes their name for granted your your name is the very Core
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Essence of who you are of what you are and you find out it that it's all a lie and then you find out that your own
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father doesn't even know you exist because your own mother didn't didn't bother to tell him his mother was 18
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when he was born his real father reportedly walked away he just wasn't loved just didn't
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have love that's why he loved us cuz we loved him his aunt Donna says she believes he was physically and
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emotionally abused I think the other children were too but not like him he always knew there was something
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different about him and he didn't know what do you think that he created this different name different Persona because
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he just didn't want to be who he was exactly exactly but when detectives started
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looking into Rick valentini's background this is what else they found three Ex-Wives and two
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daughters hello hi is this Cynthia this is hi Cynthia detective Dave Salvage from Chandler Police Department one of
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his EX's told Chandler police she thinks Rick is just a deadbeat dad on the Run he owed from what I understand quite a
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bit of back child support from Wendy his first wife his oldest daughter Amy was a
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baby when he left he never called he never talked to me never contacted me when your mom finally told you about
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your dad what did she say about him what kind of guy he was a really bad guy a liar he always she told me that he
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always lied all the time he lied about lots of things in Phoenix his whole life was a
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lie he told everyone including Jamie that his parents were killed by a drunk driver he pretended to be 8 years
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younger than he is and boasted a hero's military record that was complete fiction when you talk to detective
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Moffet when he sat you down he asked you about your military record and you said
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you've been to Iraq and Afghanistan you hadn't had you no you lied I was you lied
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yeah Rick Valentini AKA Brian Stewart was an enlisted man but he was dishonorably discharged after going
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awall and stabbing two Military Officers in the hand and leg he served two years
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in a military prison he never mentioned that to anyone either you tell a lot of stories though
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don't you I have a lot of stories to tell but you tell a lot of lies um lies mixed in with the truth like the
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lie that ultimately made Jamie leady trust Brian with her life you never actually went to the
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University of Michigan did you no mm-m but you let people think you did sure why it was just uh a tie in to my home
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state and it was just part of the The Pride that I had I've been a Michigan fan since I was a little
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boy he was right in there and boy he was a Michigan man and it wasn't just that fanaticism that conned the alumni group
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in Phoenix for 4 years Brian also had a make diploma he's fooled all of us we're talking hundreds
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of people here and 20 or so board members many of them attorneys and judges news of Jaime's boyfriend's
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double life went viral and made her disappearance even more alarming this doesn't happen to
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your friends no this does not happen to the people you went to college with that
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you call your sister this doesn't happen to your family you don't have friends who meet people who have double
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identities did you begin to think that maybe Jamie was dead yes and did you think he might
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have killed her mhm did you kill Jamie no I've never killed anybody in my life not ever did you two fight that night
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were you angry with her no she told me that uh she was going to be leaving the next day and where was she going it was
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my impression Denver but detectives who had already discovered several suitcases in Jaime's
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home couldn't find any evidence of Jaimie ever leaving for or arriving in Denver Brian says that's because Jamie
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didn't want to be found I taught Jamie how to create a whole new life for herself that included a new
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identification a whole new persona a whole new way of looking at things are you saying that you helped Jamie change
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her identity yeah I showed her how to do it the only thing that she ever lived for was to be free of her family she
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wanted to be on her own he's too smart why would he have stayed there for 10 weeks if he killed her why wouldn't he
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have just left he' done it before why wouldn't he do it again isn't it possible that Jamie's doing the same
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thing that that Brian did just vanished the same way and and no one's been able to track her down are you asking me
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today if I believe that's possible absolutely not I wholeheartedly believe Brian Stewart Rick Valentini
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whoever you want to call him murdered jam liy on the night of March 17th but a year and a half after Jamie disappeared
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there is still no body no blood no sign of a struggle no physical evidence of a murder we just didn't have you would
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consider a traditional crime scene so we went with more of a virtual crime scene
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they started investigating the digital record of Jim's life and this little white envelope contains several pieces
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of the puzzle prosecutor Juan Martinez says it was enough to convince him that Brian Stewart should be charged with
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murder this is a really telling piece of evidence oh my gosh in this many pieces
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[Music] in June 2010 Brian Stewart was charged with fraud for forging a new birth
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certificate and changing his name illegally if you think using the name Brian Stewart is
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fraudulent hey we're going to fight it out in court but what detectives suspected he was responsible for The
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Disappearance and death of his girlfriend Jamie leady they couldn't charge him with her murder what did the
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two of you think happened that night I think they had a fight but wouldn't there be some sign of that in her home
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not necessarily I mean strangulation or Suffocation or or anything like that there's going to be virtually no blood
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with no physical evidence they would have to build a strong circumstantial case to prove that jimie was dead and
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Brian was the one who killed her we literally dissected all of Jaime's financial affairs all of her accounts
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all of the transactions his email her email what they saw was a very responsible woman I mean she was a
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person that stayed up on her emails she returned phone calls she paid all of her
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bills on time until March then she didn't do any of those things for the next 3 months detectives
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realized that the only person who appeared to be using Jam's credit cards was Brian Stewart the only transactions
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on one of Jaime's accounts were internet purchases and dating websites he used her cards to meet other women that's
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right basically he said the same thing he was a graduate of the University of Michigan never been married didn't know
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if he wanted kids or not that's NY isn't it yeah it's pretty nervy and pretty insensitive too isn't it um
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yeah you know a little because well let me let me explain you used her credit cards to go on dating sites to meet
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other women well you know what look Jamie Jamie was leaving but nothing alarmed prosecutor Martinez more than
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what detectives found when they searched Brian's apartment in Scottdale her wallet was lying on his desk there was a
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number of her credit cards there on the desk and then on the back filing cabinet
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was her personal telephone that he said she had with her so was this small white envelope and
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when police got a warrant to open it they found pieces of cut up ID and credit cards when they put them together
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they had Jamie lead's driver's license her Michigan University Alum card and several credit cards card s why did you
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cut up her driver's license I didn't cut them up Brian claims it was Jamie who cut up the cards after she changed her
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identity and ran away but when Chandler police tested the envelope to see who sealed it the DNA belonged to
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Brian even when you had that envelope it still took a year before you brought murder charges against them we were
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tying up all the Loose Ends uh when you don't have a body you have to be very careful because you only get one
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chance that chance came when an inmate at the jail where Brian was being held agreed to testify that Brian had
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confessed to killing Jamie he went to this particular individual and said do you think that
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they can charge me if they can't find the body on March 24th 2011 a grand jury indicted Brian on charges of second
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deegree murder of his girlfriend Jamie leady he was also charged with fraud for using Jaime's credit cards without her
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permission who is technically legally on trial here an individual by the name of
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Rick Valentini also known as Brian Stewart but isn't this a little OD because even through the trial you're
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calling him Brian Stewart that's the name that he preferred I'll use whatever name he wants to convict
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him in October of 2011 Rick Wayne Valentini AKA Brian Stewart went on trial st's first witness
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the first witness to testify for the state was Andrea arsma what does your husband do for he is a professional
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baseball player back in 2010 she and her husband David then ace pitcher for the Seattle Mariners were in Scottdale
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during the off seon Andrea worked out at Gold's Gym 5 days a week and her personal trainer was Brian and did he
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tell you whether or not he had a girlfriend yes he had a girlfriend and did he tell you her name Jamie as a
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result Andrea testified that for months before Jamie disappeared Brian had complained about his souring
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relationship and what he really thought of his girlfriend whiny Naggy uh Sugar Mama um nothing nothing positive
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at all I don't know if he just thought I was a good listener or if he really did think
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that I was stupid and that he could tell me all these things and nothing would come of it in one of the trial's most
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disturbing moments Andrea stood up and reenacted Brian sharing his nickname for Jamie Jamie the gut Jamie the gut and
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I'm like man like if you hate her so much just just break up with her the jury also heard from Jaime's parents
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have you received any emails from her no has she shown up at your house no have you been hiding her just so that
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Mr Stewart won't find her no but some of the most significant testimony revealed that Jamie had found
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a new job and not in Denver but right here in Phoenix she's very excited about her new job and we're looking forward to
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working together on March 18th David bab a lawyer and friend testified that he helped Jaime negotiate
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the contract for that job what's more he saw Jaime two days before she disappeared and testified that he saw
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bruises she was exhibiting many many of the characteristics of a battered woman and she absolutely broke
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down on day seven of the state's case thank you please be seated the jail house snitch took the stand the whole
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truth nothing but the truth so help you got I do thank you at his request the judge ordered us not to reveal his
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identity he also got a deal for testifying a 2-year sentence for fraud was reduced to one he's very agitated
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talking about how uh the police know that that I killed her that uh he he needed to get it off his chest by the
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time the state rested prosecutor Martinez and detective Nate Moffett were sure they would get a conviction on the
00:32:05
fraudulent schemes charge but had they convinced the jury that Brian had committed murder I think a lot of people
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would have a hard time convicting with nobody we really had to be careful and listen to both sides knowing his life
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was on the line Brian was about to do something that would shock the entire courtroom room were you expecting the
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defendant to take the stand I wasn't no absolutely not but I was glad that he [Music]
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did pieces of a driver's license and credit cards a closet filled with shoes and purses the evidence of trial is a
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daily reminder of what Jamie lead's parents have lost so hard every time they mention her
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name it's hurt me so much now I'm think that I'm not going to see her anymore then and as the defense begins Jamie's
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mother has one wish the whole time I've been praying that I hope he take this stand why because then they can see
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through him her prayer is granted despite his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent and very much against his
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lawyer and most any lawyer's advice stand up raise your right hand Brian Stewart boldly and defiantly takes the
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stand I am the only human being who knows what happened I'm the only human being who knows why things
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happened when they happened what was your relationship like it was I would say 95% great did did you
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argue no not really he appears confident and relaxed but after all it is his lawyer asking the questions did you kill
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Jamie to use her credit cards absolutely not did you have General permission to use her credit cards yes Brian insists
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he didn't need to steal from Jamie why do you why do you feel that you had permission to use the
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cards even from our first date it was literally an instruction to use them and then he drops a bombshell claiming that
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long after Jaimie disappeared she was still in Phoenix and would visit the house they shared and his new condo when
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Brian wasn't around because I would get back to my condo and things would be moved around
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or things would be left behind okay now how did she get into your into your apartment she had a key but that's not
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all he also claims he continued to communicate with Jamie long after that morning in March
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2010 when she vanished how did she communicate with you email and telephone okay you have told people that if you
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had a computer you could find her I've got a computer here you want to try got my iPad here how would you find
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her I I would have to look on mine um I mean if I got this whole thing set up could you I mean if you could I need to
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get into my computer because there's a special email site that we were working through
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you you must know Brian that that sounds a little crazy that you would have given
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this information to your attorneys and they wouldn't go looking for the one person who could save you from going to
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prison for life you know I I I told them that and I never heard anything did you
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murder Jamie Ley no Jamie liy is a lie she would just let you go on trial for murder go to prison for the rest of your
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life I don't know I don't think that I don't think e either one of us ever expected it to get this far would you be
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at all surprised if I told you that she was about to walk through that door no I believe that but prosecutor
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Walmart marz wasn't buying any of it you didn't actually talk to her in that condo did you no you have not seen her
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at any time and she hasn't walked in now right right and she won't walk in because you killed her right
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wrong I don't have anything else thank you one day before Thanksgiving 2011 more than a year and a half after
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Jamie leady disappeared the prosecution in defense rested after presenting two very different
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stories it was now up to the jury to decide and Foreman Leon Leed was worried as we were moving to
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deliberation I wondered how difficult of a decision this is going to be for uh the 12 of us knowing that there's no
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body but just 4 hours later the jury returned returned with a verdict did any of you look at him when you walked in no
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I did not no thank you please be seated Brian Stewart was reassured by deputy sheriff's guarding him a jury oh
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yeah they're like yeah you're you're good anytime a jury comes back that quick and I was like okay well wow all
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right that's pretty good we the jury Dulan panel and sworn in the above entitled action Upon Our
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Oaths as to count one second degree murder do find the defendant guilty frul guilty Jam's parents were overcome are
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these your true verdicts so say you guilty that's all I heard and I just I lost it so happy pan and and then there
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was more as to count two fraudulent schemes and artifices do find the defendant guilty sign for person Brian
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Stewart couldn't believe his ears I just sat there like to me my life was over with I just couldn't
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understand you know I mean if I would have killed her I would have admitted to it do you think Brian Stewart Rick
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Valentini is a dangerous man yes yes yes absolutely no question in your mind none none at all the first 10 minutes of
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his testimony any doubt I had that he was solely responsible for the murder of Jamie had been sealed at that moment in
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time you've told so many stories it's hard to believe you let's look at the Army okay no let's look at what happened
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to Jamie that's what really matters Jamie took $100,000 and she left the state of Arizona I've
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said it for 18 months I say it now and I'm going to say it for the next 18 years but investigators say there was no
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money and his story is just another lie and for her friends and family I just feels so bad that we
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weren't there the one remaining question may never be answered is it hard because you don't
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really know where she is you've never been able to bury her that's right that's right I still have um what they
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call the receiving blankets of Jamie from the hospital and I I carried it with me all
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the time and I intend to use that blanket to carry home and we find her [Music] oh
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