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foreign [Music] she didn't care what you thought of her she didn't care if you liked her
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she didn't care if she was too loud or too in your face she just was she was your best friend right yeah yeah for
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years I got a pair of new shorts this t-shirt two Essie nail polishes she got into these things called haul videos
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where you would go shopping I will show you what I got and then I'll tell you how much everything cost kind of spread
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the word about deals 99 Cents 7.99 8.99 3.50 she never really left home got this
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for my mom I got this for my mom to go with the slippers I also bought this for her she was always there so we were
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really good friends August 25th 2020. Cassandra's mom Marie Smith got up she left for work
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everything was fine when I came home it was clear that she had used the master bathroom to get
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ready to go all of her makeup was in there and then I didn't hear from her I knew she had a shopping day planned
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and her friend Alexandra was going to be meeting with her the next day I remember I was late by about 15
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minutes I texted her hey where are you hey I'm sorry I'm late I got no response I left panicked messages until her
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voicemail box was full she never just went dark like that before the morning of the 27th I had texts from
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Marie that said to Cass spend the night with you is she at your place are you with her
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she's not with you I thought she was with you and that's what I realized there was
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something wrong when did you call the police I called them later that day it started out like any other adult
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missing person case the majority of those calls are resolved with no nefarious activity
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maybe she's out there the world is so wired with cameras there is just no way that somebody didn't see
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something we're able to see the white car Cassandra's Cassandra's car you can see
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a subject getting out of the vehicle and start walking away that's Downing evidence that's incredibly valuable
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evidence for us 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 something he was involved but there was something going on there
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we didn't know about yeah she was Keeping a Secret she didn't want to tell me [Music]
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thank you foreign [Music] this is Ruby they're called everybody anybody I could think of this is going
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to be complete Pet haul only and nobody had heard from her this I got for eight dollars in change who is nine dollars
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and change 5 I hope you liked relaxed for Marie Smith the realization that her daughter Cassandra Cantrell had
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been missing for more than two days was almost more than she could take I never thought that I'd be the person sitting
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here talking about my daughter I wanted her found I don't even know how to explain how
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Frenching it is Marie's close friend Christy Sinclair says it was Agony this can't be happening this isn't real
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she lost her phone she lost her car she had no money I don't know anything but what you don't want to think about
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anything about that I'll show you this I made it this was only five dollars as Cassandra's family and friends grappled
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with her disappearance police got to work Pierce County Sheriff's detective Franz helmke was assigned to the case
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his first step talk to those who knew Cassandra best how did Marie describe Cassandra normal
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I thought Christie's pajamas responsible yeah responsible she would you know call let her know you know
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where she was going detective honke learned Cassandra was close with her family and good about staying in touch
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they're selling these for 15 she enjoyed making those YouTube shopping videos and
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loved being on stage she'd even joined a local production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show where people act alongside
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the movie Marie says it was a perfect fit for her daughter she was with a group of people
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who were a little wacky like her she was good it's adorable Sherry Mueller the show's
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producer recalls Cassandra's natural Talent she was playing a character by the name of Janet Weiss she also learned
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the character of Columbia by all accounts at the time of her disappearance because Cassandra was a
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happy 33 year old and not someone who would run off this wasn't the typical missing person that was going to come
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home in a couple days detective helmke canvassed the area around where Marie and Cassandra lived and found on a
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neighbor's security camera a clip of Cassandra's white Mazda on the morning of August 25th it was seen leaving the
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neighborhood did you see any video of the car coming back no hours ticked by with no sign of
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Cassandra her family and friends tried to remain hopeful it was particularly difficult for Cassandra's twin brother
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Rob growing up the two were inseparable and would stay up late at night to watch
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scary movies she was never scared of that stuff no wow we laughed a lot of it okay it's just a tough girl then as they
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got older their shared passion for movies evolved into collecting memorabilia they even dreamed of opening
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their own collectible shop Half Price two dollars it was only five bucks but as close as they were Rob couldn't
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imagine where his sister went and he was filled with remorse about their last conversation we were having an argument
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she wanted to actually come over on the 25th but I ignored her the 25th of August 2020 the day Cassandra went
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missing that's a big regret I imagine still for you yeah because then she probably would have told him what she
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was doing that day and I would have at least known she had gone Cassandra's family and friends organized
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searches I can't imagine what that must feel like to be out there searching and and knowing what you could possibly be
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looking for you put it in the back you don't think about that just help me find a clue help
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me find a clue and then three days after Cassandra vanished police found her white Mazda
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unlocked with the keys still inside it was almost underneath Interstate 705 which goes into the heart of the
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downtown Tacoma it's Camp there are cars in the area did something happen down here
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strange place for a young woman to park a car and then go missing yeah our alarm
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Bells going off then yeah increasingly she had clearly gotten ready to go somewhere
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where did she go who did she go to see detective helgi had ordered an emergency trace on Cassandra's cell phone to try
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and find her last known location and he discovered her phone last pinged about two miles south of a tower on Vashon
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Island in the Puget Sound one of the first things I did was just get on Google Earth and strike an arc from that
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Tower to see where it lands and it showed his landing around this Shoreline at Owen Beach or Point Defiance Park
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Anderson huge body of water you're thinking we're just never going to be able to find this yeah
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[Music] [Music] [Music] foreign chasing that last ping from Cassandra's cell phone knew it was somewhere here in
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the vast Waters of the Puget Sound which is nearly 100 miles long what's the next
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step about trying to recover that we debated about that because it's a needle in a haystack
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it's a huge body of water this is the vicinity that it showed up as of being at finding it was a long shot but detective
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Sergeant Brent Van Dyke was up for the challenge he brought the Pierce County Metro dive team out to the beach on a
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summer day we got lucky with the tides that day the tide was extremely low so it made our search area a little less
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Van Dyke had a plan to dramatically reduce the area where the phone might be first he asked members of his team to
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throw stones from the beach to simulate how far someone could throw a cell phone
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if you picture throwing something from here it limits the distance that I would have to search for what he threw the
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dive team then formed a line essentially creating an underwater Dragnet we had a
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boat out in the water and a line of people on snorkel that day just looking down
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they were told that Cassandra's phone had a case decorated with glitter this is the actual underwater footage
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the dive team was in the water for a little more than an hour when incredibly one of the guys on the line said hey I
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think I got it they saw a sparkle I think I got the phone and it wasn't fault phone was sent to a specialist to
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determine if any information could be recovered the hunt to find Cassandra was intensifying as detectives learned more
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about her she felt like she could tell you pretty much everything about what was going on
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in her life right yes even her deepest darkest secrets she would tell you first yep
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and a month before she disappeared Cassandra confided a secret to her best friend she texted me a positive
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pregnancy test and said I think I might be preggers and the day she was supposed to meet
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Alexandra but never showed up it was going to be her first ultrasound for detective Franz helmke learning
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Cassandra had been pregnant at the time of her disappearance changed everything this is what is now peaking my my
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interest normally in a situation where a pregnant woman disappears you look at who the partner is first correct
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Cassandra had also told her mother she was pregnant but didn't provide details I asked Marie did she tell you who the
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father was and she says well with some guy she met online or through a dating app she told me it was not somebody that
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she was actually seeing and that he didn't even live in the area it was no secret Cassandra was actively
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date like Tinder detectives about an old boyfriend Cassandra was still in touch with
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Colin Dudley the two had dated back in 2006 while in The Rocky Horror acting group
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the show's producer Sherry Mueller Colin played a character called a criminologist
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on stage outside of the stage when he wasn't performing he was the head of tech and he kind of ran the cast
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but after dating for several months Colin and Cassandra broke up Colin started a relationship with
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another cast member Rebecca Fisher and the two eventually moved in together [Music]
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Steve Ammon hung out at their home regularly to play a game called Dungeons and Dragons
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explain what Dungeons and Dragons is it's not a board game right no not a traditional board game uh it's more of a
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theater of the Mind type gameplay doing things that you wouldn't normally do in real life who will play a wizard a rogue
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a fighter [Music] always took place in calling Colin was kind of the dungeon master of
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it the one who ran the show and Steve liked being around him Colin was quick to help if someone needed money he says
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and he still remembers the meals Colin cooked for game nights he was a chef by profession so it was
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nice food in 2014 after Colin's father died he rekindled a friendship with Cassandra
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she assured me you know that she was just there to be a friend she's like he's got a girlfriend
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according to Marie Cassandra and Colin would sometimes watch movies or grab a bite to eat
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at some point Alexandra says even though Colin was living with Rebecca his relationship with Cassandra once again
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turned romantic and Cassandra told Alexandra that Colin was the father of her baby she was very
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excited she talked about you know names and games she wanted at the baby shower she had
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she had a Amazon registry already made Cassandra's only hesitation whether she should tell Colin he was
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with Rebecca and had mentioned he didn't want to have kids but Alexandra says Cassandra did tell Colin she was
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pregnant and he was okay with it she called me and she said well I told him and it went better than expected he was
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calm and said not to worry about it and that they would talk detective helmke wondered if Colin knew
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where Cassandra was we're just trying to follow up with people who knew Cassandra
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you know places she likes to go that we could maybe look Colin sat and talked with Detective
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helmke on his front porch and the conversation was recorded this is a recorded statement we're going to be
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taken from Colin Patrick Dudley so you know we just kind of begin with just simple hey tell us about you and
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Cassandra how did you meet hi Mary are at The Rocky Horror Picture Show we were in a relationship for a
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couple of months and then we broke up in 2006. I then started kind of running some of these things by him that that
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people were telling me talking to other people talking to Cassandra's family and
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some other friends they reported that she was about 10 weeks pregnant and what we've been hearing is that she's
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been telling people that you are the father no way no hell no Colin was adamant he and Cassandra were
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not in a relationship and he was most definitely not the father of her child I asked him are you sure you know no
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one-night stands no you know hookups after the fact or anything like that no absolutely not he says in fact Colin
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insisted he hadn't seen or spoken to Cassandra since they broke up back in 2006 except once when he ran into her at
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the mall do you have any no contact with no messages or no Facebook or anything no
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helmke believed Colin was lying but could he prove it it turned out a clue to finding the answer was in Marie's
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paperwork [Music] detective helmke believed Colin Dudley was lying when he said he had not seen
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or spoken to Cassandra for years but it was Cassandra's mother Marie Who provided some proof she had been combing
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through Cassandra's old phone bills where she noticed a mystery number that kept reappearing
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we didn't know whose it was because it didn't have a name attached to it going back how far in the past oh we looked
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back months and months you know as far back as we could see this number kept popping up
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and the last time it popped up Marie told detective helmke was the morning Cassandra disappeared I said so okay so
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what's that number and she tells me I immediately know it's Collins humpke wanted forensic investigators to
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take a closer look at Dudley's phone which detective helmke had taken when they'd met on Dudley's front porch I
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told him you know I have a warrant to seize your phone I read him the warrant grabbed the phone and we left
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investigators later obtained the phone records for both Cassandra and Colin's phones they were turned over to
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Detective Ryan salmon the cell phone forensics analyst for the sheriff's department salmon noticed something
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curious the name Cassandra never appeared in Colin's phone what name was he using right for Cassandra he had it
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under Velma why Velma we learned later through Cassandra's mother that she had gone as Velma from Scooby-Doo as a
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Halloween costume and it's likely salmon said that Colin Dudley did not want his living
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girlfriend to know he was still in touch with Cassandra even without the information from her waterlogged phone
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salmon was able to see when and where she and Colin interacted simply by having those phone records it's
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extremely helpful in determining where somebody was during a critical time frame people have a cell phone with them
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almost all day every day Sandra or someone else parked it there detective helmke knew the city's light
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rail system was nearby and asked their security people if they could find any footage of Cassandra's car
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what they found proved crucial we have the video you want you need to get it down here and look at it these videos
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have never been shown publicly in this video from a moving Light Rail train taken the late morning of August 25th
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helke could see a man in a black hat walking away from where Cassandra's car was parked then a different camera shows
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that same man from a much closer angle he'll cross right in front of this camera
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so he comes walking across and you see all black the blue gloves then the Fedora and he just sits down at
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the stop the time was 11 50 A.M the man sits for four minutes and then keeps walking well he
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what's up he continues walking his face covered by some type of mask is hard to see but based on his build and
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gate helke suspected that Colin Dudley was the man wearing that Fedora the detective had been told that Colin often
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had asked demanded even that people call him hat or Hat Man was he always wearing a hat
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he would put it on and switch into his Persona of the Hat Man and preferred to be called the hatman Alexandra McNary
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had heard all about it from Cassandra the Persona was basically the main character from Clockwork Orange hi hi hi
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there my little druggies very dark intentionally so morally dubious did you see the security video at all of
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the man in the Hat I did get to see it did you look at it and say that's Colin well who else would
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it be in that video from the light rail system the man in the Hat keeps walking right
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into the Tacoma Dome station parking garage only blocks away from where Cassandra's car was found honky a
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security Personnel at the garage if they had any footage the answer was a resounding yes
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they find him walking into the parking garage to a truck you can see him using a remote control
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opener gets into the truck and then as he exits the parking garage you can see pretty clearly in the video the license
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plate which comes back to Mr Dudley that was Colin's Chevy truck proving the detective said that the man in the video
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and Colin Dudley were one and the same detective helmke was convinced that Colin had done something to Cassandra
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and he wanted to get into Dudley's house immediately we don't have a body we don't have any true evidence that
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Cassandra's dad were still hoping maybe she is tied up in the basement what do you think is the strongest piece
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of evidence connecting Colin Dudley to Cassandra's disappearance chat now with the 48 Hours team on Facebook and
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Twitter thank you authorities were out in force after they raided Colin Dudley's house but they
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found no sign of Cassandra Cassandra was not found inside McCollin was detained temporarily for us to do
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the fingerprints and DNA investigators seized several items from the house including Colin's Chevy Colorado truck
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and a black fedora I don't know if it's the same one he's wearing in the video or not there were numerous areas that
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they identified in the basement where there was possible DNA blood evidence they said that the cadaver Dogs showed
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particular interest in the basement specifically a brown sofa in the basement detective helmke believes something
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terrible had happened to Cassandra Dudley had stopped talking to investigators but his live-in girlfriend
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Rebecca Fisher a carpenter agreed to sit down for an interview do you think he would be capable of hurting Cassandra
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after a third pause say yes he's got size and strength on her I don't think he would no
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he would not and investigators could not prove otherwise Dudley was free to go why can't you arrest him
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well he's guilty of something but what is he guilty of detective Henke wanted to know
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every move Dudley made on August 25th the day Cassandra went missing and he said it became clear that Dudley had
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hatched a well-thought-out plot to get rid of Cassandra he had planned this and probably was pretty meticulous in his
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planning in his police interview Dudley said that early in the morning Cassandra
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disappeared he visited Costco so the first stop he makes is at a Costco gas station
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then he went to a second Costco to pick up supplies for investigators subpoenaed receipts and
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the store provided video here surveillance cameras pick up Dudley in the store around 7 A.M this is where he
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said he stopped because he needed supplies for his spring cleaning correct yes the video is so Crystal Clear we think
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that probably the garbage sacks store records show that Dudley purchased a box of heavy duty trash bags goes back to
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his house right detectives say then Dudley dropped off the supplies at home and drove to the Tacoma Dome station
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parking garage arriving at 8 17 a.m We answer surveillance video for that too shows that truck again now in the back
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you'll see a bike and then you'll see him get out and put on a helmet and get on a bike and ride it away
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Dudley left his truck in the garage and began pedaling home it's about a 20-minute ride investigators believe he
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wanted to be home by 9 A.M because as it turns out he and Cassandra had made plans at his house
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sure enough text records show that Cassandra was outside Colin's house at 8 49 A.M
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she said I'm a bit early that okay and he says he says yep come on down those two messages were both deleted out
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of his phone and so the two phones are then pinpointed in that same location at the
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house for a couple of hours right for a little more than two hours neither phone showed any movement and it was
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during this period of time investigators believe Colin Dudley likely killed Cassandra Cantrell
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shows you the amount of premeditation right went into planning this right it appears investigators say that around
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11 40 a.m Dudley turned off his cell phone as Cassandra's phone shows it moving away from the house
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detective salmon says that's because Dudley had her phone with him as he drove her car to the spot where he
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abandoned it near the Light Rail station he turns his cell phone off but doesn't
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turn her cell phone off and is driving around with it what was he thinking apparently he
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wasn't he wasn't thinking well enough not as smart as he thought he was you'll see Cassandra's car is that it
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right there yep that white wine coming down and then you see Dudley in the Hat walking away from her car
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remember how he paused for a few moments and sat down detective salmon believes he was gathering himself after murdering
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Cassandra I think he's just physically tired because of probably how violent the
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incident was detectives say Dudley then retrieved his truck from the garage where he had stashed it earlier that day
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drove to Owen Beach and talked to Sandra's phone into the Puget Sound and what time roughly was that last
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thing it was around 12 45 P.M but while investigators had discovered her [Music]
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full deal what Dudley had done with her but they did have his Chevy Colorado truck
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helke had an idea as an investigator I've been exposed to different Technologies and we knew cars
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had electronic evidence contained in them almost every car or truck has reams of data that can be extracted as
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Illustrated here so this is where the major break in the case came through you can turn your cell phone off and not
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necessarily be able to track but you can't turn your car's Black Box off exactly helke got a warrant to remove
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the truck's Black Box essentially a computer that tracks and Records nearly every move a vehicle makes he reviewed
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the data which confirmed much of what they already knew from the phone records but there was something new that caught
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everyone's attention trucks Black Box had a record of Colin Dudley's movements on August 26th the
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day after Cassandra visited his house and this is the next morning correct so now we're at 6 00 a.m and then of course
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we notice where the vehicle stops that there's a large wooded ravine on September 22nd 2020 detective
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Sergeant Brent Van Dyke rushed to that Ravine which is eight miles from Dudley's house it was nearly a month
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since Cassandra had gone missing I got there first and looked over to the hillside
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and you could clearly see that there was a garbage can halfway down the hill you could see that the garbage can had a
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bag liner and some ropes around it he also spotted blood Point knew you had remains oh absolutely
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helmke also at the scene wanted to make a quick identification and he knew that Cassandra had a distinctive tattoo I
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asked them to take a picture of it so they took a picture and came walking up the hill helmke recognized the tattoo
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immediately Trail was dead when he thought about calling Cassandra's mother so I called Marie and uh
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told her that I had information that I needed to share with her first question was
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okay and he said I don't know I'm sorry he's not Cassandra's twin brother Rob overheard
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that phone call the second I heard her screaming I knew that they had found her Colin Dudley was arrested that night and
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later charged with first-degree murder investigators felt they had built a strong case so strong that they decided
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not to try and retrieve the information on Cassandra's waterlogged phone case barreled toward trial for two years
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and then Cassandra's friends and family heard that prosecutors were considering making a plea deal with Dudley they
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could not believe it was premeditated it was literally cold-blooded I have no words
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a lot of anger though a lot see more evidence of how the case against Colin Dudley came together at
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48hours.com [Music] she was an optimist she never lost that even up until the end I believe that she
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entered his house hopeful hopeful that Colin Dudley was getting comfortable with her pregnancy instead
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investigators believe he brutally murdered her an autopsy revealed exactly how brutal there were fractures major
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fractures to her skull so head over the head yeah yeah many times cause of death
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was a blunt force trauma investigators say they were never able to identify a murder weapon but they did
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find those traces of blood likely Cassandra's in Dudley's basement basement floor walls a stainless steel
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table and the laundry room sink police suspect Colin cleaned the basement multiple times
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killing Cassandra and kept her body there overnight before dumping her and that Ravine the next morning and they
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believed Colin's living girlfriend Rebecca was home during some of that time and thinking about you know
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Rebecca's there in the house too that was my next question was there any thoughts that she had to have been
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involved there was no I mean some people thought that investigators confronted Rebecca
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did you have anything to do with The Disappearance of Cassandra on any level nope we did not find any information
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that she knew that it went on that she had anything to do with it they kept separate areas of the house and so I
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could see you know her doing her own thing and not going down the basement yeah but Rebecca did
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Allen never wanted to be a father he does not want to be a dad Pierce County Deputy prosecutors Brian
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Watson Carey and Patrick Vincent went to work on proving Colin's guilt I thought
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this was a very strong case at least circumstantially I mean oddly it's not one in which we had a great deal of
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physical evidence it was a case that relied on essentially digital records like that video of Colin leaving
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Cassandra's car those phone records placing Cassandra at Colin's house the morning she disappeared and the data
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showing Colin's truck where Cassandra's remains were eventually found prosecutors it seemed like a lot but
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they were concerned about convincing a jury at trial insurance paper we don't have an
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eyewitness we don't have a murder weapon we don't have a confession so when the defense offered to accept a
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plea deal the prosecutors negotiated eventually Colin Dudley agreed to plead guilty to murder in the first degree for
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killing Cassandra the prosecutors brought the deal to Cassandra's family they were Furious
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[Music] but on November 14 2022 Colin Dudley formally entered his guilty plea in
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compared to the church he was sentenced to 26 years in prison I I have no words that would even
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encompass the frustration anger sadness heartache Cassandra's family and friends had
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wanted a trial where the full story was told they're also upset that someone guilty of murdering a pregnant woman
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would only get 26 years in prison do you think the system is broken very broken in this case how is it that
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somebody can do what he did and not have to spend his life in prison it was a sentiment Steve Ammon shared he
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felt betrayed by his one-time friend and had even written a letter to the judge saying he should not be out at all he
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won't learn from this Colin Dudley likely will get out and with good behavior he could be free
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again as early as 2044. never see the light of dick is when he gets out he could be in his
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early 60s yeah I still got all that time to live Cassandra's family wants to make sure
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that no one else suffers the way they say they have they would like a law in Washington
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state that if someone is guilty of knowingly killing a pregnant woman they would automatically get a life sentence
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no possibility parole you die in jail until there's any sort of resemblance of Justice I'm not letting this go
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and while the family wages that fight Cassandra's twin brother is trying to honor
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Ed her in other ways she would have loved you did though finally open that dream that you had together your own
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store yes I got a big mirror of her hanging in the window and in photos throughout the store of her it's a
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living tribute to her [Music] you know say hi keep her headstone clean for your flowers
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do you think what life could be like with her now if she had had the chance to live her life
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and be a mom yeah I think about it a lot because she had all of these plans you know
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she had oh geez sweet plants Marie says her daughter lived life to the fullest immortalized by that
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distinctive tattoo she had of her favorite quote we don't stop playing because we grow
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old we grow old because we stop playing she always had something up her sleeve and she would spring little surprises on
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me hmm and that's what I miss most is just happy presents [Music] two young women out for a night of
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partying together there's a dark side to Los Angeles how did they end up dumped at separate
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hospitals and who was responsible for their deaths something terrible happened that night 48 hours Saturday on CBS and
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