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Hi, it's Dan. Please leave a message. It was January 22nd, 1998. It was Stan's 38th
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birthday. He didn't come to work. And that's not like Stanley. Here's a very diligent person with a very high-profile
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job. And he had an appointment that he didn't show up for and didn't call anybody
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[Music] about. A federal prosecutor was missing and nobody knew where he was. A group of his friends were throwing him
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a party at a club in downtown Manhattan. It was his birthday and he didn't come to his own birthday
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party. Did he go out? Did he go partying? Did he drink? Was he using drugs? Was he involved in some sex
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capades? You know, they were saying no. You know, he's kind of a quiet, mild mattered guy. Like he wouldn't just
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disappear. he wouldn't just not come to work. [Music] One possibility was that he was at home
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either ill or or sleeping or passed out. When we arrived at Stanley's apartment, the superintendent didn't
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have the key. So, one of the guys followed the building superintendent up the fire escape, and the superintendent
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used his elbow to smash in Stanley's kitchen windows. There was nothing that indicated that
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Stanley had been there recently. Then somebody pressed the answering machine on his telephone. Hi,
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it's Stan. Please leave a message. You know, beep, happy birthday from some friend or
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relative. And then the third message was, this is your credit card company calling to say there's unusual activity
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on your card. Couple of beeps after that was even [Music] worse. A person called and she said, "I
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found your wallet in Bedford Styverent in the garbage." And that was really scary. Bedford Styverson is a tough
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neighborhood in Brooklyn. What would his wallet be doing? Beed sty. Somebody said, "Maybe he's lying in an
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alleyway somewhere bleeding." And somebody else said, "Or maybe." Or he was [Music]
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dead. This is unbelievable. There's got to be something more to the story. As we
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started to look into it, people were thinking, "This is just really way too crazy to be true.