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Now, throughout this time, the original detective assigned to this case, Detective Terry Harris, would check in
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with Vicki every so often. It'd be the usual no update, but she felt like he was putting in real effort into looking
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for her daughter and grandchildren. So, at some point, it kind of felt like this
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turned into an investigation, right? Yeah. But did they ever check the car for evidence then? Like, go back and do
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that? I didn't say a good investigation. No. So, according to Vicki, the car, you
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know, she tried to keep it as long as she could in case Jennifer came back, but it got repossessed at some point,
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though she can't remember exactly when. So, whatever happened inside that car, if anything, whoever was in it or if it
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held any clues as to where to look for Jennifer and the girls, that remains a mystery. Even in spite of that, Vicki
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had at least an ounce of confidence in Topeka PD until 2011. That's when she gets a call from a new
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investigator in charge of the case asking her to submit DNA. The investigator won't give a reason why and
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Vicki is living in Houston at the time. So, she's like, "Sure, you know, the next time I'm passing through Topeka,
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I'll give you guys my DNA." But the detective is like, "No, you need to go to the nearest police station as soon as
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possible and give them your DNA. Like, please hang up now." Uh, what do the police know that we don't know? Well,
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what do they know that even Vicki doesn't know? because they won't even tell her why. So, she goes to the
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Houston Police Department to give her DNA and she asks the detective there like, "Do you know what's going on?"
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Yeah. And he tells her what police in Kansas wouldn't. That police found female remains in Illinois that they
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think might be genocide.