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tonight on unsolved mysteries a woman is
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listed among the hundreds of missing
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following the terrorist attack on the
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World Trade Center she would be assumed
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dead if it weren't for one troubling
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fact she disappeared the night before
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the twin towers collapsed best friends
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his childhood
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Diane Shawcross and Jennifer Luth moved
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to a suburb of Phoenix Arizona and
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immersed themselves in the local singles
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scene two months later both would be
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dead
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authorities now need your help in
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finding their killer a divorced mother
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disappears under bizarre circumstances
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suspicion focuses on her estranged
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husband who is described by some as a
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loving father but by others as a
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sadistic psychopath and now he is a
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fugitive from justice a young beautiful
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girl becomes lost in the neon glitter of
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reading she leaves behind paranoid
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emails gruesome drawings and books on
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how to change your identity her family
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prays if someone in our audience can
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help start palumbo find her way home
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join me for these fascinating stories
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perhaps someone somewhere has at one
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vital clue that can solve a mystery
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perhaps as someone is watching perhaps
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it's you
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everywhere you looked they stared back
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painful reminders of the human toll
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taken by the terrorist attack on the
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World Trade Center following September
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11th New York City was blanketed with
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homemade posters of missing loved ones
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joining the thousands of distraught
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family and friends canvassing the city
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was Ron Lieberman his wife a 31 year old
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physician of Indian descent named Sneha
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Phillip was last seen in the vicinity of
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the World Trade Center
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but Sneha story is drastically different
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from the other hundreds of people still
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listed as missing and presumed dead
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in fact snare Philip disappeared on
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September 10th 14 hours before the Twin
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Towers catastrophic collapse while she
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may have been caught in the World Trade
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Center disaster
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Sneha may have also succumbed to foul
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play her fate remains a mystery I think
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this is a very difficult situation
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because of the confusion with September
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11th that leaves every single
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possibility open I mean in our heads
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right now anything is possible only one
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year earlier Ronon Sneha were exchanging
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vows of everlasting love their future
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happiness seemed assured there are
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certain people that you meet in your
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life who just you connect with so
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strongly and right away we knew and
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basically inseparable since the first
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day we met the newlyweds shared an
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apartment in Battery Park City an
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exclusive neighborhood just four blocks
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from the World Trade Center
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at 11:15 a.m. on September 10th Ron let
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furries shift as a doctor at Jacobi
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hospital
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Sneha who was also a doctor at the next
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three days off kissed her I told her I
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loved it and I left luckily I left my
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keys at home so I went back and I got to
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kiss her again and that was the last
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time that I saw her when Ron returned at
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11:15 that night
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Sneha was not home but Ron felt there
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was no reason to be concerned my
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schedule is so crazy so sometimes she
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would feel uncomfortable staying by her
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cellphone at home and her brother lives
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very close by and her cousin also lives
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very close by so she would sometimes go
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spend the night with them and I thought
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well maybe she just decided to stop at
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her brother's house or her cousin
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the following morning Ron rose early and
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headed to work for an 8 a.m. meeting he
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expected Sneha to call him once she woke
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up
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September 11th began as a perfect day
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the weather was unseasonable warm and
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the sky a brilliant blue like Ron
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millions of New Yorkers what about their
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daily routines unaware that the entire
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world
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teetered on the verge of disaster there
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was an accident a plane hit the World
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Trade Center after the meeting that came
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outside and we saw the TVs were on and
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we saw the first plane hit so I
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immediately went and called home so now
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I figure I pick up the phone and there
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was just the message machine on I need
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you to call me let me know that you're
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okay I love you
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and then we learned that the second
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plane hit and now everyone realized that
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this is an attack and then when the
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buildings came down everyone was just
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you know people were crying but still
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trying to work and it was a very very
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emotional time I think for obviously for
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everyone I called back again about 10
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o'clock in the morning still just the
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message machine was on and then after
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that the phones went dead
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I was frightened for my wife because I
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could get in touch with her I was sad
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what happened devastated by the whole
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situation you know there's so many
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emotions everyone is in shock and
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where's my wife I don't know her on
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lieberman's personal nightmare coincided
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with one of the worst global nightmares
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in history
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imagine tried to find your wife in the
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chaos and confusion following the
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tragedy of the World Trade Center any
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evidences of what happened to Sneha
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Philip was most likely buried under 1.2
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million tons of rubble still Ron
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Lieberman pray the stea was simply lost
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in the turmoil enveloping New York City
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and that you would soon find her way
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home
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ron's hopes were based on Sneha spending
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the previous night with her brother or
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cousin
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but honey finally got through to them
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both said they had not seen or heard
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from Sneha in over 48 hours realizing
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that no one had spoken to her yet I
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realized that this is a serious
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situation at that point I decided you
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know I'm gonna try to get down to the
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apartment all roads into lower Manhattan
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were closed only emergency vehicles are
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being permitted through the barricades
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Ron hitched a ride in an ambulance and
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then made his way on foot to the
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apartment the scene down there was just
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chaos
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there was this more most scariest sights
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I've ever seen in my life as I start
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approaching my apartment building I
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started seeing trucks blown up fire
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engines turned upside down pieces of the
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building or what looked like the
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building on the ground also Ron's
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apartment in Battery Park City was
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chained shut he soon learned from a
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neighbor the snare was not in the
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building so now at this point I didn't
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know what to do and with all the chaos
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going on I thought well how am I gonna
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find her right now and I went back to my
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friend's place and I spent the night and
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that was a very difficult night I was by
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myself on the couch wondering where my
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wife was frightened that something awful
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happened
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the day following the attacks Rahn filed
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a missing-persons report with a NYPD we
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knew she was missing since Monday and
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when we told the detective if they just
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said okay we'll take your
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missing-persons report but that was
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lumped into the world trade center you
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got the feeling that the police were
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just completely overwhelmed and that
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they had very little time or effort to
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be able to put forth towards this the
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NYPD believes a snail was more than
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likely one of the many lost in the World
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Trade Center disaster but ron was
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convinced that she disappeared the night
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before he hired a private eye and
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launched an investigation of his own
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they would uncover several disturbing
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questions but one above all others had
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haunted Ron from the start
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where was Sneha on the night of
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September 10th ron discovered that an
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employee at the couple's apartment
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building remembered seeing stay of that
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evening at 5:15 p.m. he saw her leaving
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alone wearing a brown dress and sandals
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by tracing credit card receipts Brown
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found evidence that Sneha may have then
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gone shopping at a department store near
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the World Trade Center at 7:15 p.m.
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shoes lingerie and bed linens were
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purchased with Saez credit card but was
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a sniper who used a card or an imposter
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who had stolen it excuse me from what
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was purchased it sounded like it was her
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you know sheets for the beds and things
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like that's how we assumed it was her
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without proof yet Ron hoped to find that
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proof on the department store's
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surveillance video
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and for about two weeks I sat and
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watched this tape for about five hours a
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day you know frame-by-frame it's one of
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those stop action photos where I
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actually found my wife on the tape
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shopping alone after the department
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store Snares trail turns completely cold
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she leaves the store and then she just
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disappears there is not a trace of her
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nothing not a credit card transaction no
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money taken out of her account no emails
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no phone calls nothing how does that
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happen it's it's a complete mystery
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where did stay ago after leaving the
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department store she was carrying two
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large bags of merchandise but neither
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the bags nor the merchandise were found
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as snails apartment suggesting that she
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never made it back home near the
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department stores to the Millennium
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Hotel inside was a connoisseur bar and
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grill the private investigator hired by
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Ron theorized a snare could have stopped
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in for a drink is it possible that
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something happened here that ultimately
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led to her disappearance the Millennium
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Hotel was closed down after the attack
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frustrating Ron and the investigators
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efforts to see if she went there
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in fact the entire area was stea was
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last seen lay in ruins as a result any
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theory about what happened to her was
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virtually impossible to prove was Sneha
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a victim of random violence could she
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have left on her own accord to start a
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new life the question seemed endless any
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answers were surely destroyed along with
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the Twin Towers but then a mysterious
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clue emerged spinning the investigation
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into an entirely unexpected direction a
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clerk at the department store saw the
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missing flier of Sneha and stepped
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forward giving Ron ensnares family
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renewed hope from the shoe sales clerk
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told us that she remembers my wife and
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that she'd known her as somewhat of a
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regular customer and that she remembered
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her there that day and said that she was
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with another person an Indian woman and
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that she just said was her friend and
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then they said after she went to buy
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shoes that they were thinking about
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going to the lingerie area based on this
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new information Ron re-examined the
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department store surveillance tape two
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women are captured leaving the store
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together
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could this be Sneha and her companion
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so far all efforts to identify the
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mysterious woman have failed we have no
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idea who this person is and that she
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never existed in snazz past we've gone
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through her phone books we've gone
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through her email there is no like phone
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call even made to this person during
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that day she doesn't exist anywhere else
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I mean I it could be very possible to
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say I ran into her it could be an
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old-time friend is it possible the snare
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stated the unidentified woman's house on
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a night of September 10th if that was a
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case then Slayer could well have been
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heading home the next morning at the
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approximate time of the World Trade
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Center attack if Sanae was near the
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World Trade Center on the morning of
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September 11th knowing the kind of
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person she was
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it would just be instinctual with her to
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try to help and she would might have
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gone into the building or she might have
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helped people out it would have just
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been that's the kind of person she is
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she just cares about people if Slayer
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was inside the World Trade Center she
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had no chance of surviving
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but that scenario assumes as snare was
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alive the previous night the Spanish
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somewhere other than with ROM her family
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and all of her known friends she's never
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just spent a night out without informing
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us where she is informing a husband
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ratios it's never happened why would
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this night be any different so I mean I
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really think that something happened to
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her September 10th it's difficult to
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continue you know each day is the day
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that you that we suffer because we don't
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know you know sometimes I think she
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might just walk through the door or she
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might just call but it just each day
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doesn't happen and it's it's it's really
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torture
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the Cedar Creek Apartments outside of
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Phoenix Arizona a brutal heat wave
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passes through the region
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after graduating from high school
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Diane Shaw Croft 20 and her best friend
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Jennifer Luth 19 had left their homes in
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Colorado for the sunny suburb of
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Glendale Arizona they moved in with
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Diane's older sister Christine three
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young women living in a one-bedroom
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apartment soon led to tension when did
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you become mom I said no smoking maybe
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I'll just go then maybe you should they
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said they were gonna walk to the store
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to get cigarettes in a in a pump and
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that they would be back in a little
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while they didn't take anything with
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them and they never went anywhere
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without their makeup so that's what made
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me think they were coming right back
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Diane and Jennifer headed for the
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mini-mart two blocks away they never
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returned for the first time in their
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lives Diane shocked Croft and Jennifer
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Luth were living away from home girls
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began to explore the boundaries of their
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newfound freedom they were swept into an
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exhilarating whirlwind of late nights
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new friendships and lively parties but
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authorities now fear that Diane and
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Jennifer's carefree lifestyle may have
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ultimately put them in harm's way
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dinah and Jenny were very very close
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they were probably closer than most
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sisters when Jenny was a little more
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flirtatious diana was a little quieter
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and more shy but she's the woman
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basically took care of both of them I
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believe they were pretty open to just
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about anybody they like to hang out they
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like to have lots of friends but they
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like to go go go they wanted to be doing
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something all the time they didn't care
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if it was 3:00 in the morning or 3:00 in
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the afternoon on the day they
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disappeared Diana and Jennifer was seen
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at a mini-mart at approximately 7:00
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p.m. hey girls Hey
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how are we doing according to the
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cashier the girls bought cigarettes and
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sodas but instead of going home they
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lingered outside the store
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two hours passed the girls were still in
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front of the mini-mart when the cashier
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saw a man pull up in a blue truck
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they conversed for quite a while they
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got into the truck and then the truck
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drove off and that's the last time that
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anyone that knew we know of has seen
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them alive I believe she knew this
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person because she would never ever get
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into a vehicle with strangers she just
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wouldn't do it she wasn't the kind that
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would hitchhike or do anything like that
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she was very careful and very cautious
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three months later two men were hunting
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in a remote desert 100 miles north of
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Phoenix as they traversed a steep
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incline they came across a gruesome
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sight
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Diane Lynne shocked roughly on top of
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Jennifer su Luth both had been murdered
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even in death diana seemed to be
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protecting her best friend because the
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investigation is ongoing police are
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withholding the cause of death but the
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location of the girls bodies offered
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several clues as to who the killer or
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killers might be the area is extremely
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isolated sixteen miles from the nearest
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highway and accessible only by pickup
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truck or four-wheel drive
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we feel that this person is probably
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been in this er er frequented this area
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are certainly was aware of this area in
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some way by their own forward driving or
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hunting or at least some personal
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knowledge of the area the deepness of
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the ravine also raises another troubling
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possibility they were both fairly
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decent-sized girls so you would have had
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to have handled each one of those so
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either we had a very strong person our
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we had more than one person possibly
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that were involved and taking these
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bodies out Jennifer was a strong girl
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and she was a scrapper if she needed to
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be it wouldn't be easy for one person to
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overpower Jennifer alone but with two of
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them it's it's just sort of an
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conceivable to me that one person was
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able to do that to two girls
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the police investigation centered on
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finding the mysterious man in the blue
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truck believing that both girls knew
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this man police delved into their
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personal lives not in Phoenix Diane and
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Jennifer had attended numerous parties
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and night clubs
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they had a lifestyle with a lot of males
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involved in it they were a lot of male
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friends and male relationships they were
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involved in so many people's lives they
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were involved in many strangers lives to
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the point it could have been somebody
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they just met what are you from Colorado
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mr. really small town where it's like
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zero degrees right now we're so happy to
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be here I think both Ginni and Diana
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were very naive and very innocent I
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think like most night senior olds they
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think they're invincible and can just
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conquer the world
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lots of people guys should come down
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really and I think whoever got involved
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with them knew that could read him like
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a book and took advantage of them
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there was one final strange twist to
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this case
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the families erected a shrine where the
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bodies were found pictures of both girls
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were placed at the foot of two wood
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crosses police decided to occasionally
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survey the site hoping for a morbid
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visit from the killer
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no one ever showed up at least while
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authorities were at the scene on
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September 29 2000 the tech t'v
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discovered that both photos of the girls
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had been removed from their frames only
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police and the victim's family knew the
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precise location where the girls bodies
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had been found nothing else seemed to be
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disturbed and it definitely raised
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questions as to who would want the
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pictures who would go to that much
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effort to go back in as far as it is get
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the pictures and take them hard to even
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imagine who would be or why they would
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do it unless is the perpetrator have the
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killer return for a macabre souvenir of
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his brutal act police can only speculate
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no evidence that might identify the
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murder has ever been found
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search for Diane and Jennifer's killer
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or killers continues authorities would
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especially like to question the man who
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was the last person seen with the girls
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he may be driving a blue pickup truck to
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friends a 44 year old Brenda Bowen
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arrived at her rural Alabama home after
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she fails to show up for a prayer
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meeting earlier that morning but Brenda
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is nowhere to be found
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within hours the Shelby County Sheriff's
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Office responds to the scene Brenda's
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clothes were laid out on her bed as if
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to Drey us after she got through there
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her shower on her dresser was her
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jewelry everything was laid out real
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nice and lead
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also they saw her curling iron was in
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the on position in the bathroom but
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there was no other signs that you know
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brenda was there at all
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brenda bowen lived a life most of us
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would envy she was blessed with two
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healthy teenage children a thriving
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real-estate business and a sprawling
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home in the beautiful Alabama
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countryside her friends and family could
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find no reason why she would suddenly
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vanish when Brenda went missing it was
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devastating to us I stayed at home I
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thought she might call you know but
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ain't my heart I knew but something had
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happened to Brenda something bad the
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only source of friction of Brenda's life
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was her ex-husband Jerry Lee Bowen two
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years earlier Brenda's long lasting
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marriage to Jerry had abruptly fallen
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apart they worked together for about 18
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or 19 years and they'd work good
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together but Jerry Jerry
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got out and found a girlfriend he asked
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her for divorcing Jerry you've agreed to
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give Brenda complete and unencumbered
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use of the house until your daughter
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turns 19 Brenda you will give Jerry use
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of the guesthouse in the back as his own
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with the help of a divorce attorney
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Jerry and Brenda separated on good terms
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and even agreed to a very unusual living
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arrangement Jerry would reside in the
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guesthouse behind the main residence he
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also gave Brenda the bulk of the
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couple's assets
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Jerry lived quietly in the shadow of his
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ex-wife until he ran into financial
00:26:35
difficulties friend I'm asking for your
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help here hello Jerry
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you're asking me to live a lie it's only
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a business arrangement
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and he told her he was in financial
00:26:48
trouble and they had to get back
00:26:51
together he had to have some relief
00:26:53
benders answer was I'd have to think
00:26:56
about that year so you're not gonna help
00:27:01
me
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I don't know Jerry can't we talk about
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this in the morning
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Jerry Jerry we can talk about it in the
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morning
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I'm gonna take you back to cohort
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four days later brenda bowen vanished
00:27:27
anything you'll find I want bag I wanted
00:27:30
fire police began their investigation at
00:27:33
the bone holding Gerry bull was fully
00:27:36
cooperative and even offered his own
00:27:38
theory on what happened to Brenda as I
00:27:42
started to leave Gerry says well Don
00:27:45
what do you think happened to Brenda
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well let's just hope she's on a beach
00:27:48
somewhere down in Florida tan in her
00:27:50
buns you're wrong
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she's dead
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I said well if she's dead where do you
00:27:57
think we could find her and Jerri looked
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at me he says you could find her in
00:28:01
water somewhere that same night Brenda's
00:28:07
car was found stuck in the mud 43 miles
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from her home
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we found a personal item belonging to
00:28:15
Brenda that we found her purse we we
00:28:18
found this cellphone it was checkbooks
00:28:20
there so that told us that this was not
00:28:24
a robbery
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that perhaps the car was left where it
00:28:27
was just as a decoy that Brenda would
00:28:29
not be found there
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Brenda's own son raised an even more
00:28:36
troubling question about the car I was
00:28:39
wondering what position of the driver's
00:28:40
seat was in all the way back right yeah
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it was all the way back well my mom
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she's only five two
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with a car seat completely pushed back
00:28:52
Brenda's feet could not have reached the
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pedals but the strangest question of all
00:28:58
came out of Jerry Boone's own mouth when
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he unexpectedly appeared at the crime
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scene is that the car that belongs to
00:29:04
the woman is missing yeah
00:29:07
now this was his ex-wife's car
00:29:11
he knew whose car that was and it turned
00:29:14
out later to be a question that we felt
00:29:16
was very important to pinning down list
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who was responsible for Brenda's death
00:29:22
Jerry was taken to the Shelby County
00:29:24
Sheriff's Office for an interview where
00:29:27
his behavior continued to raise red
00:29:29
flags he was not of any help to us
00:29:32
whatsoever he showed no concern for her
00:29:36
well-being
00:29:37
and doing the process the interview he
00:29:40
actually went to sleep but Jerry's
00:29:44
friends and family adamantly claimed
00:29:46
that he was in a state of shock and
00:29:48
overcome with worry for his former wife
00:29:51
Jerry was very concerned about her but
00:29:54
he was also upset that the police
00:29:56
thought it might be him he said often
00:30:00
that that he was innocent so there was
00:30:02
no way he was going to be pinned with a
00:30:04
murder they stripped him down they
00:30:08
checked him for any cuts or bruises or
00:30:11
bites or anything they didn't find a
00:30:13
scratch on him anywhere but they got in
00:30:17
his face and told him we know you did
00:30:19
something to her whatever happened her
00:30:21
we know you did it and we will prove it
00:30:24
and they had televisions from that night
00:30:27
Oh
00:30:29
manners zero doubt in my mind the Giro
00:30:32
and killed my daughter Brenda no doubt
00:30:36
but there was no evidence linking Jerry
00:30:39
borne to his wife's disappearance and he
00:30:42
was released several months later three
00:30:48
fishermen saw something floating in the
00:30:50
murky waters of the Coosa River it was
00:30:54
the body of Brenda bone bound and tied
00:30:57
inside a sheet the advanced state of
00:30:59
decomposition made it impossible for the
00:31:02
coroner
00:31:03
to determine the cause of death when
00:31:06
Brenda Bowens body surfaced she was for
00:31:09
lack of a better way of saying it
00:31:11
packaged in a certain manner around her
00:31:17
body was a green top sheet off of a bed
00:31:24
around that was a length of nylon rope
00:31:34
the sheet was positively identified as
00:31:37
coming from the Bowen home and there
00:31:40
were several curious aspects about the
00:31:42
rope it was tied with two specific nuts
00:31:46
a Boland and a slip and the ends had
00:31:49
been deliberately burnt the son asked to
00:31:54
look at the rope that was around his
00:31:58
mother's body and he looked at it and
00:32:00
tears filled his eyes he said I've seen
00:32:03
that same combination of knots from
00:32:05
Jerry Bowen dozens of times he said I've
00:32:08
never seen anybody else do it in
00:32:10
addition to that every time Jerry Bowen
00:32:14
cut a piece of nylon rope he would take
00:32:16
a cigarette lighter and burn the ends of
00:32:18
the knots the car seat the burned ends
00:32:23
of the rope it all starts pointing back
00:32:26
to Jerry Bowen
00:32:28
gerri born was arrested and tried for
00:32:31
the murder of his wife Brenda the case
00:32:33
against him was almost entirely
00:32:35
circumstantial except for one crucial
00:32:37
element Jerry could not account for his
00:32:40
whereabouts prior to 9:30 in the morning
00:32:42
of Brenda's disappearance a jury took
00:32:45
only six hours to decide his fate
00:32:47
guilty but the bizarre story of Jerry
00:32:50
Bowen did not end with his conviction
00:32:55
while awaiting sentencing Bowen was
00:32:57
released on bond the day of the hearing
00:33:01
Jerry's sister received a blunt letter
00:33:03
it read this may be a dumb move on my
00:33:07
part sis but I don't feel I should serve
00:33:09
time for a crime I didn't commit
00:33:11
therefore I am running when jr. was
00:33:15
convicted my thought was it's payday
00:33:18
when Jerry fled I felt like payday
00:33:22
evaporated and and it did the FBI
00:33:29
descended on Jerry's home looking for
00:33:32
any clues as to his whereabouts but no
00:33:36
one was prepared for what was found on
00:33:37
Jerry's computer thousands of violent
00:33:41
and sadistic pornographic images
00:33:45
jury is very polite respectful to others
00:33:49
but when he's back in his own secret
00:33:51
place within his own residents the
00:33:53
bizarreness of his behavior starts to
00:33:56
emerge when he's visiting websites of
00:33:58
women being abused tied up shackled and
00:34:02
tortured as well as a fascination for
00:34:04
pregnant women that are naked
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no other evidence was recovered from
00:34:12
Gerry's home that would lead detectives
00:34:14
to the convicted killer he has now
00:34:17
evaded capture for over a year he's
00:34:21
still on the roof and we can't have
00:34:24
closure until he's found and come back
00:34:28
to the Sheriff's Department reblogs I
00:34:30
hope they bring him in change
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in the early morning hours of April 26
00:35:02
2000 the young woman is spotted
00:35:04
wandering in a restricted area of the
00:35:06
reno-tahoe International Airport she
00:35:09
appears disoriented and frightened an
00:35:12
airport police officer is called he
00:35:16
finds a woman cowering near a truck
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the woman identifies herself a star
00:35:27
Palumbo
00:35:27
she then claims she's trying to find her
00:35:30
younger sister who was running loose on
00:35:32
the tarmac okay we searched the grounds
00:35:35
for your sister with the description
00:35:36
that you gave us she no what have you
00:35:38
found the airport police officer felt
00:35:41
there was a possibility the star story
00:35:43
was not true but he also believed the
00:35:46
star had no criminal intent for being
00:35:48
out on the runway he had no idea why she
00:35:51
was out there she gave no logical
00:35:52
explanation but instead of arresting her
00:35:55
he decided to release her
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star Palumbo was dropped off near a
00:36:02
hotel and disappears into the
00:36:04
kaleidoscope of blinding neon lights the
00:36:10
next day an illegally parked car is
00:36:12
discovered at the airport and why ran a
00:36:15
routine license check on to put an
00:36:17
impound sheet the register owner came
00:36:18
back to start Palumbo as I just go
00:36:21
through the vehicle during the impound
00:36:22
I found appeared to be loaded with all
00:36:25
her personal possessions also in the car
00:36:28
was Starr's cell phone and purse
00:36:30
including $600 in cash and star had left
00:36:34
behind other items that caused even more
00:36:36
concern copies of three emails sent to
00:36:39
the white house indicated the star felt
00:36:41
the government was trying to murder her
00:36:43
a morbid drawing depicted a woman who
00:36:46
looked like star bound and gagged and
00:36:48
finally there were two books on how to
00:36:51
change your identity star never showed
00:36:55
up to claim her car she has now been
00:36:57
missing for over a year there are two
00:37:02
very likely possibilities the first is
00:37:05
that she is suffering from some type of
00:37:07
either organically caused or
00:37:10
drug-induced psychosis and is a set
00:37:13
woman and doesn't know who or where she
00:37:15
is and the second possibility sadly is
00:37:18
that she's been the victim of a serious
00:37:20
crime and has either been murdered or is
00:37:23
in a position where she can't contact
00:37:24
her friends and family the mystery of
00:37:29
what happened to star palumbo began long
00:37:30
before the 25 year old woman vanished
00:37:33
star was once a vivacious brunette full
00:37:36
of hope and promise but authorities
00:37:38
believe that she tragically drifted into
00:37:40
another world of drugs and desperation
00:37:42
placing her life and imminent danger her
00:37:46
family is convinced as stars alive and
00:37:48
with your help for one day come home
00:37:53
star lived very happy childhood
00:37:56
and she's very dependable and she's very
00:38:00
trusting person she's a very happy
00:38:03
person sociable person and she really I
00:38:08
guess trusted people too much one year
00:38:12
prior to her disappearance star left her
00:38:15
home in Tucson Arizona and moved to Reno
00:38:17
Nevada she lived there with her
00:38:19
grandmother it was in Reno investigators
00:38:24
believed the star's life began to careen
00:38:26
off-course interviews the stars friends
00:38:29
there revealed a portrait of a troubled
00:38:31
woman who had lost her way
00:38:34
in this particular case star seems to
00:38:38
have fallen in with a very bad crowd and
00:38:41
had been involved in a more increasing
00:38:46
degree of drug use and specifically with
00:38:49
methamphetamine at a level that could
00:38:53
only be disastrous according to her
00:38:56
friends and the weeks leading up to her
00:38:58
disappearance stars drug habit costs
00:39:01
more than she could make as a cashier at
00:39:02
a pawn shop police believe it is
00:39:06
possible that the increasingly
00:39:07
distraught woman began to look for other
00:39:09
ways to make money there is an
00:39:13
indication that star had been dabbling
00:39:15
in prostitution in her phone books there
00:39:19
was reference to a number of men we
00:39:21
really don't have a good feeling for the
00:39:23
extent of the relationships with a
00:39:25
number of those men however certainly
00:39:28
prostitution is a high-risk occupation
00:39:31
and one of the factors that causes us
00:39:34
concern about what has befallen star in
00:39:37
her disappearance plan and Reno star
00:39:40
continued to call her mother on a weekly
00:39:42
basis and seemed in good spirits but on
00:39:45
the day she disappeared star made a
00:39:48
final phone call that took on an ominous
00:39:50
and paranoid tone
00:39:53
she would only talk to us for a little
00:39:56
bit she said that she felt somebody was
00:40:00
following her and when she talked on the
00:40:02
phone she thought maybe the phones were
00:40:04
tapped and somebody was listening and
00:40:06
she mentioned how something was going on
00:40:09
and she was afraid for her life and she
00:40:13
wouldn't discuss it anymore than that
00:40:15
according to her mother Starr expressed
00:40:17
a desire to turn her life around she
00:40:19
then talked about flying home to Tucson
00:40:22
and starting over I love you Gail
00:40:28
Palumbo has not heard from her daughter
00:40:30
since
00:40:35
following star's disappearance her
00:40:38
parents mounted a massive effort to
00:40:39
locate their daughter thousands of
00:40:42
fliers were distributed and stars
00:40:43
picture was posted throughout the state
00:40:45
of Nevada
00:40:46
it appears that those efforts have paid
00:40:48
off
00:40:50
Linda fields owner of a silver dollar
00:40:53
casino in Elko Nevada claims to have
00:40:56
seen star there a full eight months
00:40:58
after her disappearance miss fields
00:41:04
described seeing a young woman who in
00:41:08
her mind she was very certain was the
00:41:11
star palumbo who had come into the bar
00:41:13
one evening had looked frightened was
00:41:19
alone and that the young woman had
00:41:21
volunteered to her that her name was
00:41:24
star and that she was being chased or
00:41:27
was trying to escape from a pimp
00:41:31
Linda field says that star became
00:41:34
extremely agitated when a man peered
00:41:36
through the bars window a short time
00:41:39
after that star left the bar with
00:41:41
another young woman if the woman was
00:41:44
star then where did she go after leaving
00:41:47
the bar
00:41:48
maybe the ridi was somebody after her
00:41:51
could she have used the books found in
00:41:53
her car to change her identity and
00:41:55
escape it is this scenario the stars
00:41:58
family clings to I'd like to say
00:42:02
star that your mom and dad really love
00:42:04
you and no matter what you've done or
00:42:08
anything that we we should contact us
00:42:12
see if we could help you join me next
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time for another fascinating edition
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unsolved mysteries
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