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that looks like a great print when you work on an investigation you give it everything you
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got that's why we went into law enforcement help those who couldn't help themselves we're driven to solve these
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cases in working these cases in particular missing person's case it's devastating
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to the family they have no [Music] answers in the fall of 1989 Annie tahan a single mother of three in her 20s went
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[Music] missing people don't just disappear but that really happened in this case she just disappeared and vanished
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without a trash Michael palan was Annie tahan's boyfriend he was a decorated sailor in
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the US Navy and became the center uh of interest in this case thank you he had a complicated role within the
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Navy he was an electronic service Warfare specialist you've got to be very sharp in order to execute that
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mission when Annie met Michael she thought that she had found the man of her dreams it really seemed like they
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were about to start a life together he was good to her he treated her nice he swept her off her feet they moved to
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South Carolina and Annie got pregnant and Annie is just ecstatic she could not have been happier but it wasn't long
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before this story took a unexpected and tragic twist Michael told the police that on November
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6th 1989 he woke up and Annie was gone you would think that if someone disappeared that there would be a
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massive search but that did not happen after she went missing Kathy French her closest friend was the only
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person searching for her for about 3 and 1/2 years I needed to find her I I spent
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approximately $166,000 in phone bills I had hired a private detective I wasn't going to give
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up Kathy contacted every agency she could think of trying to get someone to look into Michael
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palon the mere fact that Michael Pan was active duty sailor at the time we had an
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obligation to seek out the truth I have fear for the safety of me and my family the more and more that I spoke
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with Kathy the more I became concerned that something really did happen to Annie Michael was an evil evil
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man I know with every fiber of my being that he had done something really bad to
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her we're starting to realize that she did not leave on her own bition these are the things that you see
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in horror movies these are not things that happen to the people that you [Music]
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love this case definitely turned into a cat and mouse game between NCIS and Michael palon there are a lot of
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disadvantages to opening a case like this but here's the advantage we own the clock we knew that this is going to be a
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mental Warfare game if we're going to solve this thing we got to approach it right because something terrible has
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happened to an tan and we owe it to her CIS mission is global we're on aircraft carriers we're in foreign ports
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we watch after each other we take care of each other NCIS deal with every type of crime cyber fraud
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murder Counter Intelligence counter terrorism every Crim is a tragedy invol sisters brothers husbands I feel it very
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personally we live in dangerous times and we're never going to get NCIS the cases they can't forget