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Now, there's nothing in the immediate
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area around the truck that would suggest
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something happened to the family there.
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[music] No sign of a struggle, no blood.
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But, I will say there had been big rain
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storms the last few days there that
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could have washed away evidence if there
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was any to find.
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>> Either way, all signs point to bad. And
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authorities need to get boots on the
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ground and find the Jamesons because
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they're already days, if not a full
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week, behind and this isn't going to be
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an easy search. This area on the
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mountain, I said, rugged terrain and I
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do not mean that lightly. This isn't a
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developed area with fully built homes or
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walking trails. This is middle of
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nowhere country and the people who live
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up there are living off the grid. In
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fact, that was Bobby and Sherilyn's
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plan. They were going to buy some land
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and live out of a shipping container and
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home school Madison. Which honestly,
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when I heard the story years ago, back
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when I first learned about this case,
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like I couldn't even wrap my head around
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that. Off-grid, I don't know, these days
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is kind of sounding more like the way to
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go, but like they were excited about
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this plan. So, over the next week or so,
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massive searches start getting underway
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to find the family. They're combing the
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mountain up from the base through the
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north side into an area called
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Smokestack Hollow. And not only are they
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dealing with the harsh environment as it
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normally is, but those rain storms that
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they had earlier make it so that they're
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slogging through mud and wet brush along
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the way.
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But, they search and search and there is
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just not so much as a sign of this
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family or what happened to them on the
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mountain. But, that might be because the
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biggest clues are actually buried in
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what was happening with the Jamesons
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before they ever even got to the
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mountain.