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I don't usually ask this
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cuz normally I can tell. Uh
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but I'm kind of dying to know like what
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what do you think? This one genuinely
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has me in knots. Like there are very few
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cases that have me flip-flopping back
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and forth by the day the way that this
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one does. You cannot argue with that
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video. Like she
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left her house on her own. She had a
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backpack. She lied to everyone about
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what she was doing that day.
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I do believe that she wiped her phones.
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It is so easy to look at this and say
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that she left. Especially the more
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stories we hear about other women who
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have done the same. I feel like mothers
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have this different societal expectation
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than father or like men do and it's hard
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for us to wrap our minds around a mom
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leaving. But it does happen, right? Like
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I brought this up in another episode
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recently, but there was the case of
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Brenda Heist who went missing. Lots of
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people side-eyed her husband because
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they were about to get a divorce and
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then poof, 11 years later she shows back
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up. Then I don't know if you saw the
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story that like everyone was recently
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passing around about that woman in North
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Carolina, that mom who went missing in
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like 2001.
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>> Yeah, um
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Michelle Hunley Smith.
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>> Mhm. So like her husband reported her
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missing, suspicion fell on him. Everyone
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assumed the worst and then Michelle
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turned up alive in February of 2026
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having quietly built a whole new life
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somewhere else for more than two
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decades.
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So it's not beyond the realm of
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possibility.