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But that hope got shattered on Sunday, September 8th of 1991. That is a weekend where Patty is at her
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dad's house for a [music] visit and there's this knock on the door. And the moment that she sees police standing
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outside, she said this wave of dread just washed over her. >> So instead of answering it herself, she
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like runs to wake up her dad and his girlfriend from a nap. And after Don talks to the officers for a few minutes,
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he comes into Patty's room and basically tells her they found your mom. And then
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he turns around and goes back to his bedroom. >> That's it. >> That's it. That's all he told her.
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>> No explanations, no comfort. I mean, nothing. >> He doesn't even tell her that the only
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thing recovered was Linda's skull. Patty actually has to learn that from her cousin who picks her up and brings her
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to Aunt Fran and Uncle Sam's house [music] where there like for the first time she hears the full story [music]
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and she is angry because in her mind she knows exactly why Dawn left out the detail about where her mother was found.
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You see, Kasa Gallardo isn't just some [music] random restaurant. It is like Dawn's second home. Patty told us that
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he went there five nights a week. He knew all of the staff. They literally had a hat rack set up for him with his
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name on it. And Patty spent much of her childhood there, like looked after by bartenders while her dad drank just a
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few feet away. And get this, police learn that Dawn was at the restaurant on the same exact day that Linda Skull was
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found. But he denies having anything to do with her death. He tells reporters that someone might be just trying to
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frame him, that whoever left the school there must have known that he was a regular. And he maintains that Linda
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just left with someone else and that whatever happened to her happened to her after that and it wasn't his