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[Music] it's been several years now but I have a distinct memory of being in The Newsroom
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crowding around a computer with several colleagues as we watched a video on Facebook of Matthew Queen and his new
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girlfriend Sarah you're going to hold this okay a balloon or something like it popped and blue confetti poured out
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it took me a minute to figure out this was a gender reveal Sarah was pregnant with Queen's baby and they were having a
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boy if I remember correctly Sarah explained in the comments that Queen jokingly pouted in the video because
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he'd really wanted a girl he already had three boys from his marriage instantly I
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thought of the messages Queen had sent Jane before Bailey's disappearance saying he and Bailey were having a baby
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girl the timing I just I was trying to do the math in my head the news created quite the buzz Jessica Bailey's friend
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who was Queen's neighbor had the same thought as many of us what was the timing here she's pregnant already and
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Bailey's been missing for only so many months like I just I don't know like in my head for a while I was trying to P it
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together and I just was like this girl has to know something here's Bailey's best friend Maddie it's one of the
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things that made me very I guess just like emotional towards the situation because it's one of those things like
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how can you do that to somebody you know and not to mention she was only 20 years
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old at the time as well when she got pregnant you know it's like here you are with a 43-year-old man whose girlfriend
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just disappeared and you have no problem having his [Music] child I'm Olivia Lavo and this is the
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Bakersfield 3 [Music] by my calculation Sarah would have gotten pregnant in either July or August
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so roughly 3 to 4 months after Bailey went missing Bailey's mother Jane has always made it
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a huge point to not let emotion overtake her and hearing this news was no exception she calmly did her best to
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accept it and keep moving forward as she puts it I knew I couldn't be made to look like I was crazy or else I'd never
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find Bailey she continued to do what she always did hang flyers every day and every time Matt Queen had a court
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hearing she'd show up I let him know I wasn't afraid of him I wasn't going to stop looking for her by this point you
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might remember that Queen was facing charges for the gun case when he and Bailey were pulled over together and a
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newer case where he was arrested for being in possession of a gun after police saw it sticking out of his pants
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on surveillance video as he dropped off all of bayley's belongings after she went missing often times in criminal
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cases there are a lot of hearings many are insignificant and brief just to reschedule and continue to push it back
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but no matter what Jane was always there in the audience SAR was there one time I I
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would hand Flyers out to everybody there and say this is you know the bk3 Flyers
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and I gave Sarah one and I said oh congratulations on your pregnancy I hope what happened to Bailey doesn't happen
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to you and she just kind of giggled and other than making that comment Jane tried to not let the pregnancy or queen
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and Sarah's relationship in general distract her from finding her daughter a month or so after the gender
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reveal video surfaced I was packing up my bag at the news station on a Friday evening when I got a call from Jane she
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was very excited to tell me her persistence to get the Bakersfield 3 featured on national news had finally
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paid off she had been trying for months to get Dateline 48 Hours 2020 any big crime show you can think of
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really to feature Bailey James and Micah's cases when I asked her what the show was her answer threw me off guard a
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bit runaways gone wild all new Dr Phil Dr Phil obviously a show myself and I'd say probably most of the people
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listening are familiar with but not the first show I'd think of when it comes to
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covering an unsolved crime Dr Ville is no Jerry Springer his episodes tend to be more tame than that
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but many of them do center around family drama whether it be struggling with your
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out ofc control children or your spouse with a Wandering eye Jane asked me if I could be at the studio to tape the show
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with her and the other moms that Monday morning pulling into the parking lot at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles it was
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apparent this was going to be a different experience than any other national news program I've done such as
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Dateline for example this had less of a news feel more Hollywood in the sense that guests had their own dressing rooms
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and hair and makeup artists on hand Cheryl said It felt strange getting all dolled up as if you're going out to a
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big party but instead you're going to walk out on a stage in front of a live audience of hundreds of people and
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discuss how you believe your missing son has been murdered all three of them were
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as quiet as I had ever seen them they wanted the case to get National exposure and hopes it would lead to new tips but
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they were also terrified this wasn't just being interviewed by a local news reporter this was a highly produced
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massive show watched by millions I was nervous too even though by that point I'd been covering the case for 7 months
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I felt like for every answer I had there were a 100 questions that followed so when Dr Phil asked the million dooll
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question about the Bakersfield 3 I could only give a pretty vague answer Olivia do you have you uncovered anything that
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suggest what would know that would be so devastating that they would need to be silenced in this way one of the things
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that makes this case so complex is I could save myself I've gotten so many different stories so many different tips
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um from an array of people so it can be really tricky what to believe you kind of have to look at everything and see
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okay what stories are are overlapping but something that uh myself and the mother we have strongly considered is
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the possibility that Bailey Bailey knew what happened to Micah and that made her a liability of sorts that she had
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that information the taping lasted several hours we were told the episode would air
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sometime after the New Year Christmas music played in the background as we walked out of the overly air conditioned
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Studio the moms were so emotionally exhausted they were almost zombie like as they said goodbye and got into a car
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to head back to Bakersfield an hour into their Drive the phone rang someone from
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Andy rapid DNA called to give a brief to the point message the testing on the leg
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and the arm comparing to Mike and Bailey's DNA had been successful and the mothers would hear from detectiv shortly
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this was Monday evening and the start of the clock where it seemed every second that went by was slower than the last
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the next morning I was in court with my 17 News cameraman but I was out of my element instead of covering a criminal
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hearing I was there to cover a civil harassment restraining order typically I'd only report on a restraining order
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if it ended up being tied to a crime down the road in this case Not only was there no crime committed between the two
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parties there wasn't even a restraining order yet in place today's hearing was to determine if the petitioner's claims
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of harassment warranted one or not as I waited in the packed hallway shoulder-to-shoulder with sour-faced
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people there to air their grievances I saw Jane Scurry down the hall per usual she was more chipper than you'd expect
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for a woman in her situation she makes a conscious effort to be this way hoping it will make more people want to help
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her D James's mom was behind her always there for moral support then Sarah walked in with her mother by her side
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she had her long brown hair pulled back dressed professionally in a away with her baby bump quite
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visible at that point I had never reported that Bailey had a close friend who moved in with Matt Queen after biley
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went missing and got pregnant by him shortly thereafter short was an interesting perhaps suspicious looking
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tidbit about the case but at that point reporting it felt a little odd as it was
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essentially gossip yes I knew it was true but I couldn't say if it had any relevance to Bailey's case and both
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Queen and Sarah had always turned down my attempts to speak with them so I didn't have their side other than a few
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Facebook comments and messages but that day technically for the first time I had it all in writing
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on an official document it wasn't a police report but rather Sarah's request for a restraining order against Jane
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claiming Jane was stalking and harassing her in Matt Queen and now it was her time to go in front of a judge and make
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her case as to why she needed the restraining order and Jane's time to defend her actions that Sarah said Rose
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to the level of stalking Sarah started off with her points she shows up to every single one
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of my court days to disrupt for us she's saying she's passing out fires but it's
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it goes little fur that EV are trying to intimidate me to try and solve those same person's case which is all due to
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Jan's words and the things that she has said on social media regarding it and her showing up to our house and all the
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court dates and her options have gone too far and I'm afraid for my and my son's
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safety Sarah told the judge that her doctor advised that for the safety of her unborn child Jane shouldn't be
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anywhere near her I I am concerned about her daughter's disappearance nobody is trying to
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solve I've given all the information I have the detectives Jane continues to try and create a Lynch Mob Source where
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everyone's saying all these things about me on Facebook in terms of things being said
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on Facebook I at that point hadn't reported anything about Sarah but Jane had months earlier when it came out that
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Sarah and queen were taking down Bailey's missing flyers in their neighborhood Jane pledged to still
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continue to hang them in that area even if she had to keep reposting them over and over on the 7-month anniversary of
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Bailey's disappearance Jane made a Facebook video that really rubbed Sarah the wrong way here's a clip of it I
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always hang Flyers up on light pole right here in front of the house that's the house right there I last saw her at
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it Jane doesn't say the address or even the street name and the video is shaky as she tries to hang a flyer with one
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hand and hold her phone in the other as that's happening she narrates Sarah driving by in her car I'm going to go
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over here and hang one up right in front of their house just because I can't little [ __ ] piss me
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off as Jane would put it it was a quick slip of the tongue a second where emotions came into play normally she's
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always quite composed Sarah made sure to reference the little [ __ ] comment and
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her request for a restraining order and she mentioned that people had commented on Jane's video saying someone needs to
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get Sarah to talk after Sarah presented her side Jane was given the chance to respond and defend
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her actions to the court I go to the court case is because he's the last person to have seen my daughter um and
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the gun charges and stuff he is Bing involv in the same daughter in terms of hanging flyers in their neighborhood
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here's what Jane told the judge I hang Flyers all over town they're just all over town but the last place my da was
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at that I saw her Al light yes I do concentrate in that area but I by no way have ever posted I'll at the house this
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is what Jane said about the hearing when we talked about it recently I wanted to
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say a lot of things but I couldn't I just had to let it play out and then when Sarah slipped up and I saw my
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spot this is what Jane is referring to as Sarah's quote slip up and itless do you think you're going to see her
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walking around where you're putting up the fires in front of our house well why would I not see her do
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you know something that I don't that's not what I was asking it wasn't a particularly dramatic
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moment but Jane was still glad to have the opportunity to slip in the questions do you know something I don't know do
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you know what happened to her why wouldn't I find her there after the hearing the judge took
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some time to consider both arguments ultimately Sarah's request for a restraining order against Jane was
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denied though it was an anticlimactic moment for Jane because at the time it was really the last thing she was
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worried about she and Cheryl Micah's mom were still waiting for the DNA results that was Tuesday by Wednesday I was on
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the phone with a detective myself asking what the holdup was I remember him solemnly saying with Christmas less than
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a week out they were put plans in place to tell the families the results soon if
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it were my child he said I'd want to know before Christmas they deserve that it's a strange concept but I understood
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what he meant the first Christmas for all three moms without their children was already gut-wrenching enough as
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people decorated their homes with string lights roped Christmas trees to the roof
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of their cars and listen to music declaring It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year it was a glaring reminder to
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the mothers they would never feel that Joy again during the holiday season this is a clip of a video Jane
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made that week after she tried to go into the grocery store to pick up a few things and over 2 hours later realized
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her cart was still empty as she described it she was in a complete Fog she missed Mother's Day her 21st
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birthday now she's going to miss Christmas and the realization that my daughter's not going to be here for
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Christmas I need everybody to pray for a Christmas miracle that I get my daughter
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home and somebody be brave enough to call and tell us where she is D also showed more emotion than she
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typically did here's a clip of her reading a letter aloud that she wrote to James for his first Christmas in
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heaven dear James from your very first Christmas I've always loved being your mom and being one of Santa's
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secret elves for you you made me whole when you took your first breath and now that your golden
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heart has stopped beating my heart aches every moment of every day for you there were so many things and I just
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can't imagine anybody wanting to take your life the only that I can think of is that whoever
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did has to be broken so broken and Cheryl after the doct Phil taping and getting the call that results
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would be coming soon well she spent the next few days quietly at home trying to process that answers were
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coming that Thursday the call from detectives finally came asking the families for a meeting we met at Jane's
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house and I guess detective Garrett had called in the troops from every the whole place looking back on it now it
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feels like the place was packed so it's either mic or Bailey right cuz they're not going to invite
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the whole neck of the woods right to come and find out it was neither so he knew walking in there that
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somebody was going to come out with some information Cheryl and Micah's father Lance walked in with dye as they sat in
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Jane's living room crowded by various law enforcement officials it was very surreal then someone from the Corner's
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office started to speak and they told me first that Bailey's not a match for the
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arm and she wasn't a match for the leg and my response was oh my God now I never know where to go look for
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her as Jane broke down hearing that neither body part belonged to her daughter detectives turned to cherylyn
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Lance which of course then leaves us we would all be sitting here if it wasn't Micah
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right and so that's when they said that it it was indicated um a certain match with my D
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that I had given the swab that I had given that day 5 days before Christmas Micah's family got the confirmation the
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arm found in the duffel bag in the river belonged to him I don't celebrate Christmas anymore I
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don't decorate for it I don't it was you know that's just a week that I go to bed I just can't function I don't
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[Music] function um so Christmas is um difficult I'll never forget that day I had just a few hours at work before
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heading home for the holiday days it was noisy in The Newsroom everyone was chattering about Christmas and New
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Year's Eve plans when Cheryl called me on the other end of the phone all I could hear were her screams muffled
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within deep sobs she didn't have to say anything when I did eventually have a conversation with Cheryl about the
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horrific news I was a little surprised at what part of it she seemed to want to discuss the most they don't tell us
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anything thing um so I don't know who they were but I know that there were some young people that found the the
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duffel bag and opened it in the river that day and and realized that there was you know
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a body part in there and they they did the right thing and they called law enforcement and they did they did the
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scary thing they didn't just throw it back out in the river and run and have a story to tell right they they talk to
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law enforcement and and that meant so much to us and we've Lance and I have always thought it
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would just be wonderful to be able to speak to them and tell them how much we we love them we don't know who they are
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but just thank you for taking if any of they hear this just thank you for taking
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care of our son when you found [Music] him just thank you for not throwing him away
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again Cheryl and Lance say that group of boys are their Heroes and they'll never
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know how much they really mean to them nameless strangers who changed their lives who brought the confirmation that
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changed everything in this case there were all sorts of rumors about who might be involved in this once we heard
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law enforcement say that we knew okay there's something big about what's going on there's something crazy about this
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case that's next time on the Bakersfield 3