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Auburn California above the fog and below the snow the perfect place rural steep
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Cliffs wooded areas dirt roads there are a lot of places to bury a body [Music] what were you doing that brought you
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here in 2003 I was conditioning a horse to do endurance those Labor Day weekend Saturday that I came up on a my just my
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normal training ride right about here yeah I saw a freshly dug hole in the brush the rest of my ride I kept trying
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to justify why it was there it sort of haunted you it sounds like did it did we had just come home from our summer
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house up in the sieras I barbecu at dinner were Donal and at vandero their daughter Justine and her
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boyfriend Danny no one had any idea what nightmare was about to unfold after that
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meal I gave her a kiss on forehead said good night I love you I spoke to her on the phone I told her that I loved
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her I was leaving for work at 5 5:30 in the morning Lynette walks into Justine's
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room Justine is not there the dog is on the bed the front door is open and her car is
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gone 17 years old disappears leaves everything behind without trace it felt Sinister we're going to find her we
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searched and searched everywhere there were searches at the banders shoots organized and then there were searches
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that we did on her own with our search and rescue teams I try to imagine what it was like
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and what it's going to be like when she comes back Danny and his roommate Brandon were on the sheriff's radar
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quickly friends started to come forward about how jealous Danny was of Justine they were interviewed that first day
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they said oh no we were home all night there's a belief right away that they are concealing something about Justine's
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disappearance okay how a SE have you ever seen anyone die Brandon tone changes story changes he
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confesses Brandon claims that Danny killed Justine she's laying down and he's over her and his hands were not
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released but she he explained that Danny was choking her and that he helped bury
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her let's go at the end of the interview Brandon led the investigators to the location of Justine's body Justine
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Vander sho's body discovered buried in a shallow grave the Auburn Journal had a photo of just the brush where Justine
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had been buried and I went oh my gosh I saw freshly dug hole 3 days prior to her
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disappearance I immediately you know contacted the sheriff's department that was a big piece of evidence that's
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absolutely coldblooded premeditated the vandero family says they are relieved the decision was made
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to accept please to murder from both defendants and give them a life sentence hopefully we can all move on from here
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no one would have ever imagined that 20 years later we would still be fighting for justice for Justine and her family
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in 2020 Brandon Fernandez filed a petition to get out of his murder conviction if Brandon's petition is
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granted one of Justine's Killers will walk free we're fighting for her that's why we're here she doesn't have a voice
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so we're her voice