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If investigators missed someone that obvious, it raises a bigger question. What else could they be missing? But,
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here is the wild thing. During one of these like meetings where they were like talking to people and bringing people
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together, they caught the officers in a straight-up lie. So, police are in this meeting. They're
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saying they're interviewing everyone. They're specifically saying that they've interviewed everyone who was on Joan's
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flight. But, then someone in the room is like, "Um hi. Uh I was on Joan's flight
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and you never talked to me." Oh, like egg on the face, right? >> Yeah. But, even if this was like a
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simple slip-up, it was a big one. Yeah. This is why when Joan's classmates start getting the
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feeling that police think she just like ran away on her own, they get right to work. They start
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calling newsrooms all over New England. They contact local papers. They work the
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phones nonstop. They're passing out flyers. They're just trying to keep Joan's story in the public [music] eye.
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It would've been real nice to include a suspect sketch in one of those appeals to the public. For the life of me, I
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cannot figure out why this wasn't widely distributed. >> or distributed at all, widely or not.
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Like, this Even if you don't want to call this guy a suspect, even if you think there is a chance that that might
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not even have been Joan, until you can say who it >> found this guy, we talked to him, we
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know it's not him. >> that wasn't Joan or whatever. Like, I feel like you have to show it. Like, you
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have to find the guy who has this unusually heavy suitcase, last seen with a woman who looked like your missing
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person. But, they don't seem to do anything to find that guy. Instead, most of the press pick up
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just features Joan's family, who by this point have flown to Boston themselves to
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help out with searches and speak to the press. By January, even with a $10,000 reward
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offered for any information, no one knows where Joan could be. Little did anyone know Joan's luggage had actually
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been hiding in plain sight since just hours after she walked off that plane. And where it's found could be the
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biggest clue in this case.