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all right for my talk of the table I am looking ahead to my 48 Hours report this
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weekend when Cassandra Cantrell vanished in the summer of 2020 her friends and family had no idea where she had gone
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and then investigators discovered surveillance video of a mysterious man in a hat leaving her car 48 Hours
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obtained that never before seen footage here's a preview of my report on August 26 2020 33 year old Cassandra
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Cantrell was supposed to meet her best friend Alexandra McNary but she never showed up I texted her hey where are you
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I got no response I left panicked messages until her voicemail box was full Cassandra had vanished 2 Days Later
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police found her car in an industrial area near downtown Tacoma but why was it there Pierce County Sheriff's detective
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Franz helmke knew the city's light rail system was nearby and discovered they had footage of Cassandra's car we're
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able to see the white car Cassandra's Cassandra's car you can see a subject getting out of the vehicle and start
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walking away you can see him walking across the street he's dressed in all black black shoes black pants black
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T-shirt blue surgical gloves and a black fedora who was the man in the Hat helke
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believed he was the key to finding Cassandra he knew something he was involved Alexandra says when she saw the
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video she immediately knew who it was Colin Dudley Cassandra met him in 2006. was he always wearing a hat he would put
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it on and switch into his Persona of the hatman and preferred to be called The Hat Man helmke confronted Colin but
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Colin insisted he hadn't seen Cassandra in years their conversation was recorded
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do you have any contact with no messages or no Facebook or anything no humpke suspected Colin was lying and there was
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something else about Cassandra she was Keeping a Secret which was unusual for her yeah turned out to be a Deadly
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Secret yes yeah it did [Music] so what did surveillance cameras the role what did they what they play in
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this well as you saw there was incredible surveillance footage again this was the very first time we were
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able to see the police released it to us exclusively and what's fascinating it's
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not just the surveillance video this this case really broke because of the digital footprint that we all create of
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course we know there are cameras everywhere your cell phones you can track them everywhere but also what
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broke this case wide open was tracking that man hatman his name is Colin Dudley his car in your car people may not
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realize is you actually have you know the equivalent of a black box which is but they have on airplanes yeah that
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Reveal Your locations and where you travel and that pretty much gave away the rest of the story so so can you tell
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us what that secret is or should we wait and see the episode you're gonna have to
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watch and see I will say that that man you saw there um definitely had a past with Cassandra
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and they had reconnected but I'm not going to say much more about okay I was on the edge of my seat yes but that said
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he was living with another woman had a whole other life so um and he said he had no relationship
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with this woman to the police but you'll see there are some things that are different yeah for sure you can see my
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full report Cassandra's secret on 48 hours that's tomorrow night at 10 9 Central right here on CBS and on
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