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tonight on unsolved mysteries on a sunny
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afternoon in Boonville Missouri Janice
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Owen and her eight-year-old daughter
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Alyssa made their way home within an
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hour of one another
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what happened next under small community
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left even the most seasoned cops shaking
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their heads and disbelief
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Tina creamer was getting a fresh start
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with a new boyfriend
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but she was concerned because her
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ex-husband had allegedly been stalking
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her then on the night of August 10th
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Tina and her boyfriend were murdered had
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Tina's fears been realized
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could this have been a case of love gone
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wrong where is fifteen-year-old Trisha
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Autry that our Utah home she spent many
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evenings at her computer then she
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suddenly disappeared did Trisha run away
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to meet someone she met over the
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Internet
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or was she abducted against her will
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join me for these stories of heartbreak
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an entry on unsolved mysteries
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I'll see you tomorrow at Advent a
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routine Monday at Riverdale Care Center
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in Boonville Missouri population eighty
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two hundred forty three year old nurses
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a Janice Owen a widow and hard-working
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mother of two finished her shift at the
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usual time then headed for home just
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half a block away a time was 2:15 p.m.
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about an hour later Janice's
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eight-year-old daughter Alyssa was on
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her way home a sweet kid with a sunny
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disposition
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Alyssa got along well with everyone she
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was riding alone that Monday her older
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brother had been dropped off earlier at
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the babysitters
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she's a cute little smiling girl
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I just noticed her when she got off the
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bus and walked in front of my bus to get
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on her property
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I watched her angle toward the front
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door of this residence and then I was on
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my way
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later that afternoon
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Janice's mother stopped by to say hello
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Janet I tried the door and it was
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unlocked no she didn't answer me so I
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walked on through the house and she
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wasn't anywhere to be found in there
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Alyssa's coat was on the couch her
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backpack on the floor but Frances found
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no sign of her daughter or granddaughter
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it was now 5:00 p.m.
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so I wrote a note that I'd been there
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and I thought it was funny that night
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she didn't call me but there was nothing
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messed up or anything that would it give
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me any idea anything was wrong 5:45 p.m.
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a neighbor returning home from work says
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she saw some unusual activity outside
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Janice's home there was people standing
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outside her duplex there was cars parked
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on the street that usually I mean I just
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never noticed before there was a woman
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on the porch and there was a younger guy
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he was wearing the red baseball cap
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they were both facing the street and
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they both stared at me as I drove by I
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kind of thought something was odd about
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the situation
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15 minutes later Amy noticed more
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strange activity outside Janice's home
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there was a white four-door car in front
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of her house but on the wrong side of
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the street and I saw a different guy
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facing me looking down towards my end of
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the street my intuition was telling me
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there's something wrong and I didn't
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know if it was domestic dispute or what
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it was but the thought that severe
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horror would truly happen to anybody
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that never crossed my mind
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Janice Owen and her daughter ELISA had
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simply disappeared and what happened
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between 3:15 p.m. a 6:00 p.m. that
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Monday afternoons they owned home would
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become the topic of much speculation
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police department from two rural
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counties soon found themselves
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handcuffed by a puzzling case the first
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of its kind in this area in 20 years
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even big-city detectives called to
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assist in the case could make no sense
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of the evidence the next day Tuesday
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8:45 a.m.
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on the outskirts at Fayette Missouri
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just 12 miles north of Boonville three
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employees from a local sawmill spotted
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something on the side of the road at
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first glance he thought it was a
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mannequin it turned out to be the
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lifeless body of a young child
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minutes later the Howard County Sheriff
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arrived on the scene there was no signs
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of any trauma or anything so what we
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call the coroner and he arrived and and
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could determine that she probably did
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you know at least dead six to eight
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hours a lot of Sheriff Paulson Howard
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County Sheriff's Department with no
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reports of any missing children locally
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sheriff Polson contacted Boonville
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police a neighboring Cooper County yeah
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I'll check it out and I'll call you back
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as soon as I know anything okay
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detective Bob one of her made calls to
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several schools and soon had an answer
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little Alyssa Owen had been absent that
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days it turned out to be her body found
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on the side of the road
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Tuesday 12:15 p.m.
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detective Oliver drove over to see
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Alyssa's mother and deliver the terrible
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news no answer
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suspicious he went inside hello anybody
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home mrs. Owen no sign of Janice Owen I
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didn't see anything out of the ordinary
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that would give me any suspicions that
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there was a struggle no signs of any
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blood no signs of any kind of any trauma
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or anything we did not see anything out
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of the ordinary at the house onesy
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detective Oliver got a call from the
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corner the autopsy revealed Alyssa had
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died of suffocation her mother was not
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only missing she had become the prime
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suspect in a murder case but what
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possible motive could she have friends
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say Janice adored her daughter as the
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investigation continued more perplexing
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questions surfaced about the events of
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Monday afternoon was a woman named e
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podium song of course Janice Owen Amy
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wasn't sure she really didn't know her
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very well and who were the two men one
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wearing a red baseball cap the other
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standing by the white car she didn't
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know them at all but amy was sure of the
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time 5:45 p.m. some 45 minutes after
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Janice's mother told detectives she
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stopped by the house and found it empty
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lieutenant Welliver Police Department
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detectives began canvassing the area for
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more clues another neighbor reported
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seeing an older model dark-colored
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pickup truck parked near Janice's home
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Monday afternoon
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then an employee with a local waste
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disposal company came forward
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he described seeing a similar pickup
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truck Tuesday morning on the same Road
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Alisa was found just minutes before the
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sawmill workers discovered her body and
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his what body's going slow and I looked
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at him he's looking at me so I waved and
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he didn't turn his head away away for
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nothing just stared and just kept right
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on going and the guy who's wearing her
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red ball cap
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Jeff Stacy never got a look into the bed
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of the pickup truck but he thinks he
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knows what was there a body of Alyssa
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Owen
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Jeff was certain as she was not lying on
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the side of the road when he drove by
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minutes earlier fare down to there had
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to have done it after 8:30 because I see
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they're not you know there's no way why
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she was lying at I was saying I miss
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seeing her
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was the man behind the wheel the same
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one reportedly seen at Janice's home on
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Monday and was a dark green pickup truck
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parked near her home that afternoon the
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same one spotted near the crime scene
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Tuesday morning detectives searched for
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answers but came up empty over the next
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month they chased hundreds of other
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leads dead ends at every turn and still
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no sign of Janice Owen then on March 27
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2002 six weeks after Alyssa's death
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tragedy struck again Janice's body was
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discovered in a creek bed some 12 miles
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from where her daughter had been found
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she'd been in the water quite a while
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but there were no really serious signs
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of trauma that we could tell everything
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she had on from work were still there
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her rings and necklaces and earrings and
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even her eyeglasses were still on her
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head the corner later determined that
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mother and daughter had died within
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hours of one another and in the same
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manner Janice Owen and Melissa Owen had
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both been suffocated to death
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more questions why was Alyssa's body
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left in plain sight on a well-traveled
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Road but her mother's body was
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apparently dumped in a remote creek bed
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some 12 miles away and who could
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negotiate the maze of back roads at
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crisscross Howard County police have
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plenty of theories but still no suspects
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it's possible to get from either
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location to their location if you know
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the route it probably has to be somebody
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local I just don't believe a stranger
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could find those two locations
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separately and just leave what worries
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me now is they're still out there who
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knows that they won't try it to somebody
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else and I don't want that happening to
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anybody I would love to say I have it or
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that I have any clue I am a law
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enforcement officer I am a detective my
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job is to leave the options open until I
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can prove the facts and I quite frankly
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I don't know update shortly after we
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completed the story there was a major
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development in the case
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police have arrested 25 year-old Angela
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M mice and her 18 year old husband Eric
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demise
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each is charged with two counts of first
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degree murder
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the couple live in the Boonville area
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the detectives believe they were the man
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and woman seen lurking outside the home
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of Janice Owen the day she and Alisa
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disappeared
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Tina creamer and Robert Miller met on
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the job at a Lawton Oklahoma Hospital
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where they both worked they had only
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recently begun dating the couple plan to
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spend a relaxing evening at Roberts
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apartment while he prepared dinner Tina
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took a hot shower to unwind after a long
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day at work they were not aware they
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were being watched
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Roberts habit of leaving his front door
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unlocked would prove tragic
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robbed
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twenty-five year old Tina creamer and 26
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year old Robert Miller never had a
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chance just five days before her murder
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Tina Kramer's divorce had become final
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Tina and David Kemp had been married for
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five years according to Tina David began
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stalking her shortly after they were
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separated could there apparently
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turbulent relationship have anything to
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do with a double murder investigators
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turn to those who knew the victims for
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answers
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Tina loved the nursing field she loved
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helping people anybody she could help
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she did so much volunteer work for
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people that we didn't even know about
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till after the fact according to some
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Tina's life with David Kemp was
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apparently not very fulfilling
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I don't believe they had a marriage I
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don't believe they had a relationship I
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know he had hit her I know that he was
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mentally abusive she had no self-esteem
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left till after she left him Tina's new
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boyfriend Robert Miller was apparently
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providing a refreshing change from her
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controlling ex-husband Rob was very
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affectionate very loving he brought a
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lot of love and laughter into her life
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she had a lot of confidence her
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self-esteem had just exploded after she
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had left David she was a very beautiful
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woman this lady was really really good
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for him
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you're very supportive you know made him
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happy if this would have never happened
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they would have been perfect for each
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other
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the bodies of Tina creamer and Robert
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Miller were discovered when they failed
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to show up for work at the hospital
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Rob's best friend police officer Troy
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Morris responded to the scene I made
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entry and I saw Rob's body lying there
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on the floor I was too emotional to
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continue on still wanting to preserve
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the crime scene for our detectives I
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backed out other residents
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and chose not to go any further after
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exiting the residents I did what police
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officers aren't supposed to do that
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broke down I can't describe that feeling
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I can't describe it you know it was it
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was about 11:30 last night Dena's family
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learned what happened from a news report
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my husband and I which is her brother
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was watching TV TV didn't say any names
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but it showed the apartment and we just
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knew that it was them investigators
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processed the crime scene and news of
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the murders began to spread many and
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Tina creamers circle had their
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suspicions who may have been responsible
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for the cold-blooded murders and that
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suspect would soon come to the attention
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of the police the first thing that led
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investigators to seeking the whereabouts
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of David Kemp was the fact that he had
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motive he had made threats to kill
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himself and to kill Christina when they
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split up Robert said on several
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occasions that David Kim would come up
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to Comanche County Memorial Hospital and
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leave notes on Tina's car stating if I
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can't have you that nobody can she
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stated to me a few days before the
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murders that it was a calm before the
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storm because of threats and letters Rob
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knew that Tina feared David and we would
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stay to him y'all be careful you know
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watch out for him lock your doors
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when detectives attempted to locate
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david kemp for questioning they
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discovered he had suddenly left town the
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day after the murders without telling
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anyone where he was headed
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david kemp was not considered a possible
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suspect they speculated that when he
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received the divorce decree officially
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dissolving his marriage to Tina it may
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have upset him but would it have been
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enough to trigger the murders although
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police had no physical evidence to
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connect David Lee Kemp to the killings
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they located a man who claims he sold
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camp a 45 caliber handgun this person
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still had in his possession some of the
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shell casings that he had fired
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previously through that gun he provided
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the shell casings to us and we were
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submitted them for forensic examination
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those shell casings that were known to
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be fired through that gun matched
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identically to the shell casings that we
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found in the crime scene
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conclusive proof the David Kemp's gun
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was the murder weapon an all-out manhunt
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was launched to track down
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David Lee Kemp but where was he
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investigators had exhausted all leads
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then almost two weeks after the murders
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a lucky break arrived from California we
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were notified by California Highway
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Patrol that they had spotted David Kim's
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vehicle on a highway just outside of
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Bishop California
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one chilly one requesting wants on
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Oklahoma license temps 1998 Dodge Ram
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pickup truck had broken down the police
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indicated that there was no one around
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the vehicle we faxed them a photograph
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of David Kim and advised them of what he
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was wanted for then a man fitting Kemp's
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description was spotted walking along
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the same highway within a few minutes
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they called us back and stated that they
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had tried to approach mr. Kemp but that
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he had fled on foot
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California authorities corner David Kemp
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in an auto wrecking yard the suspected
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killer was trapped he began to wave the
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gun about and indicated that he wanted
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to kill himself he made a few demands
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but the one demand that he did make was
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that he talked to his mother on the
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telephone the request was accommodated
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then as Kemp said his goodbyes he was
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momentarily distracted police
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sharpshooters armed with non-lethal
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projectiles saw their opportunity
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David Lee Kemp was taken into custody
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the standoff was safely over when David
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Kemp was taken into custody in Bishop
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California he did have a 45 caliber
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pistol with him subsequent examination
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indicated that that was indeed the same
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gun that was used in the homicide
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once extradited back to Oklahoma
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David Kemp was assigned to the Comanche
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County Jail Oreo to wait trial for the
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murders of Tina creamer and Robert
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Miller when David was caught and brought
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back to the jail we were very happy we
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rested at night easier we were glad he
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was back so that justice could be served
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six months later nine inmates of the
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Comanche County Jail including David
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Kemp overpowered a guard and forced
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their way to freedom eight of the
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escapees were quickly recaptured the
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ninth
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David Lee Kemp was last seen heading
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toward Texas when David escaped we were
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angry very angry empty feelings of it
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being so unfair
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it was like hearing my brother getting
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murdered for the first time I went to
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the jail and I stood there and waiting I
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even went into the search parties I
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wanted to make sure that I was going to
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do everything I could for Rob to make
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sure this man David Lee Kamp was caught
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personally I don't know how David can
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live from one day to the next he's a
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coward for what he's done three months
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after the escape authorities missed an
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opportunity to take David Kemp back into
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custody the night manager of a Las Vegas
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motel checked to see why a guest hadn't
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paid his rent hello manager sir hello
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the manager found the guest sitting in
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the bathtub covered with blood holding a
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knife to his own stomach in what
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appeared to be a bizarre suicide attempt
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that had failed the man was taken to a
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psychiatric hospital where his wounds
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were determined to be nothing more than
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superficial cuts the troubled man
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received treatment and checked himself
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out hospital authorities had no idea
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that the man was wanted for double
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murder the mystery man was David Lee
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Kemp Kemp was last seen at a service
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station on the outskirts of Las Vegas he
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was getting into the passenger seat of a
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black Firebird
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it's just a never-ending nightmare
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I want satisfaction for my brother Rob
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and that'll be the only way he can rest
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in peace without that he's gonna be
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troubled a troubled soul our wounds have
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not even gotten to heal because they're
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David's never been tried and our wounds
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won't heal til til David faces the
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consequences of what he's done until
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justice is served
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June 24 2010
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jo-ann Autry awakens at dawn her
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daughter Tricia usually a late sleeper
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is not in her bedroom Trish
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a search of the entire house fails to
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turn up any sign of the teenager as
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Joanne's concern becomes outright panic
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she frantically calls her daughter's
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friends Trish's sisters tower the
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neighborhood when none of us found her
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then I became really frightened all of a
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sudden there was this deep fear deep not
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of fear in my stomach because it wasn't
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like Trisha to do this and I knew that
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there was something gravely wrong the
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sudden and mysterious disappearance of
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fifteen-year-old Trisha Autry left her
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family devastated in the police
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struggling for clues in many ways Trisha
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is a typical teenage girl energetic
00:26:15
insecure and eager to be liked it was a
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/ desire that may have led Trish on a
00:26:20
dangerous search for romance a journey
00:26:23
that possibly landed her in the clutches
00:26:25
of an Internet predator
00:26:30
like many teenagers seeking acceptance
00:26:33
Trisha found out a lesson sub painful
00:26:36
experience she was a kid that was
00:26:40
ostracized in school the children made
00:26:43
fun of her she didn't have what she
00:26:46
really wanted net wasn't a really close
00:26:48
friend someone that she could confide
00:26:50
all of her adolescent dreams in and be
00:26:53
able to share those things with so she
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was a pretty sad child from that
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standpoint is that she just needed that
00:27:00
one special friend
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so mrs. ultry has there been any
00:27:03
fighting no there hasn't been police
00:27:06
immediately zeroed in on Trish's state
00:27:08
of mind as an explanation for her
00:27:10
disappearance we thought it was a
00:27:14
typical runaway juvenile case that we
00:27:17
usually get from teenagers about that
00:27:19
age that just take off they've got
00:27:23
problems at home with friends depression
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type of things and they just leave for a
00:27:30
couple of days did you make the bed no I
00:27:33
found it like that this morning there
00:27:36
was only one problem with a runaway
00:27:38
scenario Trisha left behind virtually
00:27:42
everything she might need on away from
00:27:45
home there literally was nothing taken
00:27:50
except the clothes on her back and so we
00:27:52
became convinced that she went simply to
00:27:54
meet someone for a few minutes with the
00:27:56
idea that she'd be coming back Trisha
00:28:02
often hid from her unhappiness by
00:28:03
creating elaborate stories sometimes
00:28:07
attaining secret liaisons with much
00:28:08
bolder men two weeks before her
00:28:11
disappearance the teenager told her
00:28:13
family she had started a new story every
00:28:16
night she typed furiously often staying
00:28:19
up until the early morning hours
00:28:24
on the night she vanished Trisha was
00:28:27
again at the computer
00:28:33
her sister Brianne went to bed at 2:00
00:28:35
a.m. no one and Trish's family ever saw
00:28:39
her again for Trisha to disappear was
00:28:43
totally out of character for her and
00:28:46
what I was hoping was to find in the
00:28:50
story that she was writing some clue as
00:28:52
to what she was thinking of where her
00:28:54
frame of mind was and that's why I went
00:28:57
immediately there to begin looking
00:29:02
when Joanne turned on the computer there
00:29:05
was no story only a few pages of
00:29:08
scattered thoughts what then had Trisha
00:29:10
Autry been doing on the computer for all
00:29:12
those countless hours computer expert
00:29:17
John W Georgie examined a system and
00:29:21
made several disturbing discoveries
00:29:24
unbeknownst to her mother Trisha had
00:29:26
three separate email accounts and spent
00:29:29
an enormous amount of time in chat rooms
00:29:32
even more alarming was what occurred at
00:29:35
3:00 a.m. on the night Trisha Autry
00:29:37
disappeared everything that possibly can
00:29:40
be found and who she talked to what she
00:29:43
been doing on the computer in the recent
00:29:46
frame of time was deleted I figured
00:29:50
Trish was taught how to delete these
00:29:51
files because she did not from what I
00:29:53
was told by her mother have the
00:29:55
experience to know where these files
00:29:58
were stored and I took this as a very
00:30:00
bad sign that you know Sid obviously
00:30:03
somebody's trying to cover their tracks
00:30:04
but who could this mystery person have
00:30:07
been Trisha gave no hints to her friends
00:30:10
or family that she had met somebody
00:30:11
online
00:30:17
neighbors however notice suspicious
00:30:19
activity near the Autry home on several
00:30:22
occasions about two weeks before she
00:30:25
disappeared one of our neighbors had
00:30:27
seen her get out of a red car on the
00:30:30
corner and what he thought was some
00:30:32
suspicious behavior is the way she was
00:30:35
walking back to the house from the
00:30:37
corner as if she didn't want to be seen
00:30:38
so that was our first report of a red
00:30:40
car according to another neighbor the
00:30:45
red car appeared again at 4:00 a.m. in
00:30:47
the morning Tricia disappeared
00:30:54
the headlights from a car coming up the
00:30:57
street kind of struck the bedroom window
00:30:58
got my interest so I was looking out the
00:31:02
window and I saw kind of economy type
00:31:04
red car
00:31:09
young man got out the car and oh he was
00:31:12
nervous first thing that popped in my
00:31:14
mind Oh somebody's sneaking out of the
00:31:16
house and after a few minutes a lady was
00:31:20
coming down the street and they walked
00:31:25
to the car together and went on their
00:31:26
merry way I believe that she could be
00:31:31
seduced into thinking she found someone
00:31:33
who needed her and could love her I
00:31:39
think that she was bait good bait for a
00:31:44
predator two hours after Trisha was seen
00:31:49
getting into the red car
00:31:51
glenda trip a local convenience store
00:31:53
employee witnessed a strange incident
00:31:58
are you all right honey yeah I'm okay
00:32:02
thing she seemed really apprehensive and
00:32:06
nervous and she never acted like she was
00:32:08
wanting to buy anything but she kept
00:32:10
kind of stretching her little head and
00:32:11
looking out the window like she was
00:32:13
looking for someone or watching for
00:32:15
someone I've seen her in in and about
00:32:19
the neighborhood so I knew Trisha
00:32:23
I have no doubt in my mind that it was
00:32:26
Trisha after spending 20 minutes in the
00:32:29
store and making no purchases Trisha
00:32:32
vanished over the next two months the
00:32:38
police and the Autry's posted missing
00:32:40
posters in the surrounding communities
00:32:43
a man in Bountiful Utah saw one of the
00:32:47
Flyers and immediately contacted the
00:32:49
authorities what Jerry start up
00:32:55
witnessed would cast an entirely new and
00:32:57
unsettling light on the case I had gone
00:33:03
into the supermarket to do some shopping
00:33:06
I saw coming through the door this young
00:33:10
lady followed by another lady and a
00:33:13
gentleman lagging behind a little bit to
00:33:16
the right of them the man matched the
00:33:21
description of the individual who was
00:33:22
seen picking up Trisha from her home
00:33:25
both he and the woman never let the girl
00:33:28
out of their sight and constantly
00:33:30
berated her in hushed tones and I looked
00:33:34
a little bit closer and saw that her her
00:33:36
eyes were partially closed and her face
00:33:40
was a little puffy not my goodness
00:33:42
this young lady's Pratt's been beaten or
00:33:45
abused I thought she was drugged
00:33:49
she had the appearance of being drugged
00:33:52
was it Trisha yes how confident am i
00:33:55
that that was her 100% I knew I know
00:33:59
beyond a shadow of a doubt that was her
00:34:01
that was her my feeling right now is
00:34:04
she's probably being kept from coming
00:34:07
back either by force or by somebody
00:34:10
keeping her sedated on drugs or
00:34:12
something that wants to keep her I think
00:34:16
this is an abduction type of situation I
00:34:19
don't think it's a typical runaway
00:34:22
for me as a mother the greatest thing is
00:34:24
this is a tiny person that I I loved and
00:34:28
nurtured and worried about and I can no
00:34:32
longer protect her I don't know where
00:34:33
she is when I drive through town and I
00:34:39
see things that we would have been
00:34:41
sharing together or activities come up
00:34:44
that we commonly did together as a
00:34:46
family
00:34:49
and she's not there and there's no I
00:34:52
mean it's sometimes that just the the
00:34:54
grief just washes over you and it takes
00:34:57
your breath away
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since we filmed the story of Trisha
00:35:06
Autry's disappearance investigators from
00:35:09
the Sheriff's Department and Logan Utah
00:35:11
have made a tragic discovery Trish's
00:35:13
case is no longer classified as out of a
00:35:15
missing person sadly it is now a
00:35:18
homicide and a suspect is in custody
00:35:24
six months after Trisha's disappearance
00:35:26
cash County sheriff's deputies became
00:35:29
suspicious about the activities of Kody
00:35:31
Lynn Nielsen a maintenance man working
00:35:36
for a Wildlife Research Facility in
00:35:38
Millville Utah miles from the home of
00:35:41
Trisha Autry near the time of Trisha's
00:35:44
disappearance Nielsen had been observed
00:35:47
using a backhoe on facility property to
00:35:50
dig deep trenches and refill them for no
00:35:52
apparent reason
00:35:55
we contacted a cadaver dog team out of
00:35:58
Duchene County here in Utah and we
00:36:01
brought the dogs up to this site and
00:36:03
they they were real interested and they
00:36:06
they hit what they called hit on this
00:36:09
one area right here that we knew that
00:36:11
our suspect had been digging and the
00:36:14
dogs hit on this several times about
00:36:16
seven different dogs hit on this
00:36:21
Sheriff's Department investigators began
00:36:24
to dig with her own backhoe at the
00:36:26
location suggested by the dogs when we
00:36:30
got to about ten feet we found a human
00:36:33
jawbone which later was determined to be
00:36:36
Trisha Autry's it was just nothing short
00:36:40
of a miracle that we found that piece of
00:36:42
evidence in that big of a hole in other
00:36:47
trenches sheriff's deputies found more
00:36:49
of Trish's remains and clothing some of
00:36:52
which had been burned
00:36:57
Patricia's mother the news of the
00:36:59
discovery brought great pain but also a
00:37:02
sense of relief primarily because of our
00:37:06
faith we know where she is now where
00:37:09
before we wondered we would lie awake
00:37:11
together at night and worry about
00:37:13
whether she was in the cold or whether
00:37:16
someone was hurting her it's probably
00:37:20
been very agony zhing but also very
00:37:23
validating because we knew that she did
00:37:27
not run away
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00:37:45
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00:37:49
Griese Hospital Richmond Virginia on
00:37:52
february 9th 1965 a shadowy figure
00:37:55
holding a tiny infant slips silently
00:37:57
down the hall the child had been
00:38:01
diagnosed with congenital glaucoma rare
00:38:05
condition present at birth that leads to
00:38:07
complete blindness and my surgery is
00:38:09
performed within the first few months of
00:38:11
life the woman who said her name was
00:38:16
Mary Carson gave the child's name is Kim
00:38:18
her age two and a half months their
00:38:23
supervisor Billy Updike held the little
00:38:25
girl while Mary completed admission
00:38:27
papers however Billy was stunned by what
00:38:32
she heard next we talked for a minute
00:38:36
and then she said I've got to go now
00:38:39
I'll be back tomorrow Mary told Billy
00:38:43
she had two older children at home that
00:38:45
couldn't be left alone she said you
00:38:47
would return first thing in the morning
00:38:50
she seemed very calm she didn't display
00:38:54
an in motion at all and I would have
00:38:57
been crying heartbroken if I didn't
00:39:00
leave my baby
00:39:02
perhaps it affected Mary far more than
00:39:05
she let on but Billy would never know
00:39:07
when she returned to work the next day
00:39:10
she was shocked to learn that Mary had
00:39:11
failed to show up for her baby's
00:39:13
operation I'll notify administration
00:39:18
without her doctors could not perform
00:39:21
the surgery
00:39:23
desperate hospital administrator Douglas
00:39:26
pace attempted to track Mary down
00:39:28
himself I went out to the address
00:39:32
looking for the mother and I found a
00:39:35
vacant lot
00:39:36
all the houses had been demolished and
00:39:38
the block was completely vacant and I
00:39:40
was stunned and shocked and made me feel
00:39:45
kind of sad that I realized then we had
00:39:48
a baby on our hands without a parent but
00:39:52
time running out Douglas pace convinced
00:39:54
the judge to issue a court order
00:39:56
allowing doctors to perform the surgery
00:39:58
the operation was considered a success
00:40:01
but Kim's eyesight would never be normal
00:40:05
an article in the February 11th 1965
00:40:08
edition of the Richmond Times generated
00:40:10
an outpouring of sympathy donations and
00:40:12
adoption enquiries but the coverage
00:40:15
failed to turn up one solid clue as to
00:40:17
who would abandon baby Kim a police
00:40:20
investigation also led Nova 18 months
00:40:26
numerous operations as several foster
00:40:28
homes later another report in The Times
00:40:30
caught the eye of local residents
00:40:31
Richard and Sandra Butler Sandra's
00:40:34
husband Richard was especially taken by
00:40:37
the heart-wrenching story this is gonna
00:40:40
be my baby this is what he said end of
00:40:44
discussion
00:40:45
he thinks we gonna do this I'll go along
00:40:48
with him
00:40:49
we made a man up from start we wanted on
00:40:54
we got him
00:40:57
Sandra and Richard opened their home in
00:40:59
their hearts to the toddler they named
00:41:01
Kimberly dawn Kim was treated exactly
00:41:04
like the butler's two biological
00:41:06
children but her poor eyesight made life
00:41:09
a constant struggle I do remember being
00:41:13
very angry being very frustrated about
00:41:17
not being able to go and do a lot of
00:41:20
things that other children could do
00:41:21
which was hard because on one hand they
00:41:24
wanted me to grow up very normal but yet
00:41:26
I couldn't do all the normal things
00:41:29
despite her disability
00:41:31
Kim graduated from high school attended
00:41:33
college and went to work as a teacher in
00:41:37
1989 she married Michael Smith the
00:41:39
deputy sheriff over the years Kim showed
00:41:43
little interest in learning about her
00:41:44
birth parents until she became a parent
00:41:47
herself
00:41:48
once I became a mom and had two children
00:41:52
and could tell you to this day every
00:41:55
moment about the day they were born the
00:41:58
time how much they weighed their
00:42:01
birthdates I started thinking I don't
00:42:02
know any of those things about me but it
00:42:06
was more than curiosity that had Kim to
00:42:08
search for her identity as a baby her
00:42:12
son Tyler had suffered from repeated
00:42:14
bouts of respiratory infections doctors
00:42:17
feared that cause was genetic that was
00:42:20
kind of like the straw that broke the
00:42:22
camel's back after going to several
00:42:24
doctors and being able to tell anything
00:42:26
they needed to know about Mike side of
00:42:28
the family that was kind of what made me
00:42:30
decide that it was time for me to start
00:42:33
a search if I could just find those
00:42:35
answers to all those questions I have
00:42:37
and most importantly find the medical
00:42:40
history for my children and I that
00:42:42
that's what I'm in search of that's what
00:42:45
I hope to gain Kim is understandably
00:42:48
concerned for the health of her children
00:42:50
yet she harbors no anger against her
00:42:52
birth mother we always were led to
00:42:55
believe that she left me because maybe
00:42:59
she couldn't afford the medical
00:43:00
treatment I would I would need having
00:43:02
congenital glaucoma I can't be angry at
00:43:06
her about that she could have not taken
00:43:08
me to the hospital she could have not
00:43:10
registered me for the surgery therefore
00:43:12
I might not have any sight today
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00:43:16
Kimberly Smith was dropped off at a
00:43:18
Richmond Virginia Hospital on February
00:43:20
9th 1965
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00:43:30
with every mystery a single critical
00:43:33
clue may be the key to a saloon
00:43:35
perhaps you pull that key join us next
00:43:39
edition of unsolved mysteries
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