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history and the single deadliest incident for firefighters and law enforcement officers in the history of
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the United States 412 firefighters and law enforcement officers were killed and in
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the last 20 years Al-Qaeda leaders have used the anniversary of this day to call
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for more attacks on the United States September 11 or 911 as people often say was an attack on all of us and
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nearly 3,000 people were killed when terrorists piloted planes slammed into the World Trade TR Center the Pentagon
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and a field in Pennsylvania it was also a day when our constitutional freedoms were attacked 20
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years have gone by we will not forget the date is also one of special remembrance and sorrow for one South
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Florida family for personal reasons this date for them too is a sad anniversary of personal and permanent loss for the
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rice family the pain of that day started in 1995 when 9 y- old Jimmy Rice was abducted Jimmy's mother the late
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Claudine rice used to say God sleeps on September 11 in the days following Jimmy's
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disappearance search helicopters filled the skies law enforcement agencies went through thousands of leads from all over
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the country Jimmy's photo was all over the news and a missing person's flyer was being put up
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everywhere strangers offered up prayer PR for the little boy this is true crime garage and this is a case of Jimmy
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[Music] Rice Miami Dade County 1995 our True Crime Story starts off on Monday September 11 we're going to the
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City of Homestead Florida which is primarily a Miami suburb and a major agricultural area we will also be
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talking about a neighboring unincorporated town called Redland Samuel James rice known to those close
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to him as Jimmy Rice was a 9-year-old student enrolled in the gifted program at Naranja Elementary School in the
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Redland Community of South Florida Jimmy was a very compassionate kid he was kind
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to others and wanted to help people when he grew up telling his parents that after career playing in The Bigs Major
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League Baseball that he wanted to cure diseases so he could help people Jimmy as you can imagine was a good baseball
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player and he was a DieHard Miami Dolphins fan the rice family were season ticket holders to the Dolphins games and
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Jimmy was a true DOL fan even saving up his money to hang a nice-sized Dan Marino poster in his bedroom Jimmy had a
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great day at school on this Monday it's only September 11 so it's still very early in the school year Jimmy's in the
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fifth grade at the end of his school day Jimmy like his other classmates rode the
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bus home his bus stop was located at Southwest 232nd Street and 162nd Avenue this
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Captain was just a mere five blocks north of his home now unfortunately Captain this will lead to be one of the
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last known whereabouts for Jimmy and we see this a lot in missing persons cases there is not a lot of information about
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what happened to the missing person well because if there were a lot of information and detailed background for
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the story well then we would know what happened and this kid would not be missing the short version of Jimmy's
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story is he got dropped off at his normal bus stop at about the normal time and then he never came home on that
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Monday after school the long version is Jimmy gets off of the bus the bus stop is about five blocks from his house from
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my understanding Captain there were several other kids that get off at this same bus stop yeah around 10 but they're
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walking in a different direction than Jimmy Jimmy will need to be walking southbound to get home now he's just
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about two weeks shy of his 10th birthday he's Caucasian 70 lb brown hair blue eyes and on on this day it was reported
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that Jimmy was wearing a white T-shirt blue jeans or blue shorts black and white high top sneakers and Jimmy was
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carrying a dark brown book bag when Jimmy Rice went missing after his school bus dropped him off at his usual stop
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around 3:30 p.m. those who knew Jimmy immediately suspected the worst friends said it's not like Jimmy to get lost and
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a local Minister and family friend Bill bagette said the family feels that someone took him they are a family in
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tears but they have not given up hope for his safe return a neighbor in Homestead this is Annabelle
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Pomer said she thought she saw Jimmy around 3:40 p.m. south of Southwest 247th Street and 162nd Avenue she said
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she saw the boy walking alone he kept looking around like he was disoriented Miss pomar was outp picking up her
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stepdaughter at the middle school that is located in that very general area when she saw who she believes was Jimmy
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Rice walking alone okay so she thinks she saw the boy walking alone but looking around like he was disoriented
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or or something and this to me Captain seems like it was probably him that this was a good sighting because what we have
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here is the kid according to the witness fits his description Jimmy Rice's description and the time is right this
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would put him about halfway home and she says it was about 3:40 p.m. so let's unpack this a little bit we have a kid
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that gets off the bus with at least 10 people it could have been more but they all go into different directions I I was
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luckily enough to just be dropped off right by my house house and there wasn't a bunch of people on my bus stop and I
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didn't have to travel that far five blocks is not outrageous but I don't think he was probably disoriented he was
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probably just looking around being a young kid taking in his surroundings he's 9 10 years old who knows I mean I
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walk down the street grown man I'm disoriented right it's from my understanding there was a light rain
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that day but I don't get the vibe here captain that that this is the type of kid that's just going to go wandering
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off or because there's a light rain and he's going to allow that to affect his Trek home and the sad situation is that
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it is only a five block Tre for him but as you said we have other kids getting off we have kids waving goodbye they're
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chatting as they kind of walk and anybody that's had to walk home from school or has a bus stop that is any
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considerable distance from their home they know that at some point if you're the the last guy if your house is The
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Last One MH on the route well at some point these friends and classmates start parting ways as you continue Along on
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your journey but it seemed to me that there was nobody that went Jimmy's Direction it was just him correct at
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some point he's by himself walking by himself and this would be normal everything about this day so far is a
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normal day for Jimmy Rice when they don't find Jimmy at home this is alarming because we we have patterns
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that we start forming when we're kids MH you know or especially with your parents
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if you're told hey when you get off the bus come right home start working on your homework or get a snack or whatever
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you could do but you're not playing with friends and it's not okay to go to your
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friend's house it's not okay to follow one of your friends back to their house and start playing at this point even
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though yeah he's young they probably already establish a routine and a schedule with Jimmy yes that's correct
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and a few things that are surprising here one that is not but surprising that Jimmy doesn't show up at his house is he
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had things scheduled for later that afternoon so he had things that he would be either looking forward to or things
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that were in as you said his routine and routine is going to be broken by him disappearing the other thing that's
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surprising to me too is the fact that all of the friends and family immediately are going well something's
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terribly wrong and we think maybe somebody took him and it's not surprising that people make that leap
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that's not the surprise for me the surprise for me is I looked at that walk that he would have taken that that five
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block and one thing I do want to point out it I don't know five blocks does not mean the same thing to every person out
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there right that's a little Loosey Goosey on that description but it's always been said that it was five blocks
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from his house that general area was a fairly busy area not like a lot of businesses
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and stuff like that but an area that I would expect to see a lot of traffic and so I'm a little surprised that what we
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have is just one eyewitness and if we do have a situation that leads to an abduction which we know that we do that
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means that it happened in broad daylight in an area that there's a decent amount
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of traffic well another thing that's a little interesting is even with bus stops now if it's a busy area they're
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more likely to break up the stops and not just have a one dump off spot right because they don't want the kid to have
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to travel you know five to six blocks by themselves so we have this one witness Miss pomarance who says that she
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believes she saw Jimmy walking by himself this would be about 3:40 p.m. now this area is semi- rural it's a very
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nice Community though upscale the rice family lives in a big house on over 3 and2 acres of land this story is a
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little weird though because Jimmy actually goes missing on a day when his mother and father are out of town
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they're both out of town for work M Jimmy's parents are Donald and Claudine rice it's a family of five now Jimmy is
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the baby and and he's considerably younger than his older brother and sister Jimmy's older brother and sister
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are technically his half brother and sister as they are Donald's kids from his first
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marriage Claudine though raised the two like they were her own and Jimmy was a welcome surprise because Claudine in
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1985 at the age of 43 found out that she was a few months pregnant this is when she went to the
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doctor believe beling that she was having some kind of health issue she didn't feel right and they told her hey
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congratulations not only are you healthy but you're also pregnant well I'm a little confused because you say that
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this is a hi trffic area but then you say Jimmy lives on 3 acres yeah 3 and 1/2 acres of land it looks to me like a
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lot of the homes out there back in '95 in the early 90s would have been on larger plots of land when I say a busy
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area again I specified and I don't mean lots of businesses or anything like that
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I when I view it on the map I see a lot of community type things in that area we
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have schools we also have uh again it because of it being a agricultural area I would expect there to be a lot of
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traffic not necessarily business and things like that but a lot of people driving through this area so basically
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you think that at this bus stop they're letting off these children at a a busier
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road instead of going back into the nooks and crannies of the neighborhood to drop them off that's correct yep so
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where is Jimmy and where are his parents on this day as said they were out of town on business Jimmy's parents are
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both attorneys Donald is age 52 he is an attorney for the City of Winter Haven and Claudine was an attorney with the
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IRS for years but retired she was retired by 1995 a family friend his name was Fred
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and I failed to write down Fred's last name here Captain he's an 18-year-old guy krer his when we say family friend
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he's a yes A family friend but from my understanding it's actually his parents that were closer with the Rices than
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than he would have been he is left in charge of watching both the rice home and Jimmy while they are gone because
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the parents were only to be gone a couple of nights and once it was reported that Jimmy was missing they are
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back in town almost immediately because they were actually due to be back that very night anyway the way that this goes
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down is that Jimmy is reported missing to the authorities a little after 400 p.m. so this is because Fred goes to the
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house to the rice house a little after three because he's going to be waiting there for Jimmy when he gets home from
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school that day so he gets there at the house actually he may have been running late or whatever but he says when he got
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to the home he was expecting to find Jimmy there or that Jimmy would be there very soon instead he finds no Jimmy he
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finds Jimmy's music teacher who was scheduled to give a piano lesson that day these are regularly scheduled
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sessions Claudine calls home around 4:00 just to check on everything you know hey how's it going how's the house
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how's Jimmy is is he in the middle of his piano lesson M normal stuff we're we're coming home tonight we're on
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schedule everything's on track we'll be home at this time D D D D du you think it's going to be a normal phone call
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unfortunately Claudine finds out very quickly from Fred because Fred says Hey Claudine was Jimmy supposed to do
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something today that that wasn't on the schedule because his piano teacher is here and he's not here right and she
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goes no this is he should have gotten off of the bus walked home did the piano lesson and as you said they have this a
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pretty well structured home in family Dynamic here MH and immediately Claudine says to Fred what do you mean he's not
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there Fred says he never came home Claudine says hang up the phone call the police report him missing right now see
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this is surprising to me a little bit because what's the first thing that you would assume if he's not at home ready
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for his piano recital well his with his piano lesson I don't know because it's difficult to really hone in and analyze
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this very specific situation because I did not know Jimmy and what his Tendencies were and looking at it from
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my perspective though Captain being a a guy and remembering how I was as a boy uh I was easily distracted it didn't
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take a whole lot to talk me into going over to a friend's home but again I'm not Jimmy I'm looking back on my own
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experiences and I I'm a big believer though in gut feelings I've always said that on this show and I'm also a big
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believer in mother's intuition I'm really in to butt feelings well uh that's disgusting but
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um I I'm a big believer in if you feel like something's wrong make that phone call at the end of the day let's say
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that let's say that you screwed up and the kid went off to somebody else's home just to Goof Off with one of his buddies
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for a little bit no harm no foul right maybe you're taking up a little bit of time of the police departments but if
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you think something's wrong don't hesitate because when there is something wrong the minutes and seconds are
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extremely valuable but what I was getting at is the first conclusion I would jump to is Jimmy never got on the
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bus he's still at school something something happened and he never got on the bus because there
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are occasionally not that often but there was a c couple times in my career as a student where I I missed the
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bus so that's all I was saying is I to me criss cross you missed the bus jump jump uh
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but that so all I'm saying is I think it's a little surprising that they're like hey get off the phone call the cops
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where I'd go call the school first see if he yeah got for some reason like missed his bus well or got on the wrong
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bus that's an inter point of view there because now when we talk about our own experiences I look
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back and I think of a few times where I missed the bus either way either coming home or going to school and being rather
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independent rather than mess up anybody else's day I just walked now it took me a lot of time to a long time to get
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there uh and I think every time I did that I ended up getting in in trouble with my my mother who said you know why
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wouldn't you just make a phone call and I'm like I thought I was doing your favor I didn't bother anybody I was
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going with my gut feeling right but also like you said in any missing person case
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the the minutes and seconds are really valuable and a lot of times like you look at the schaer case nobody really
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reacted for multiple days because there was nothing on his schedule that he needed to be there for so Jimmy if he
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didn't have this family friend that came over to check on him or be there during
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this piano lesson or have the piano teacher be there and the parents aren't home who
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knows how many hours Jimmy would have been missing before he was even reported missing right and what we have here
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that all right welcome back you filthy animals cheers to everybody in the front the back cheers to you to the
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crispiest of the colonels cheers to you captain now we have a missing child situation and police firefighters family
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and friends will spend all of Monday night and all of Tuesday searching for Jimmy or searching for any kind of clue
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that may lead to his whereabouts by first thing Wednesday morning September 14th around 20 FBI
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agents are at the rice household so we have 20 FBI agents basically stationing themselves at the rice home this is less
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than 36 hours after the kid goes missing according to FBI spokeswoman Lucy Van andhar the FBI had no reason to suspect
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Jimmy had gotten lost or run away but they also didn't have any evidence indicating Foul Play here and she said
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quote when it involves a child we meaning the FBI do become active in the investigation after a 24-hour period we
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initiated a kidnapping investigation and are working in conjunction with Metro Police aggressively pursuing All Leads
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we can to locate the whereabouts of Jimmy police and FBI agents mapped grids of places to search and studied aerial
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maps of the area five German Shepherd dogs who helped to search for victims in the Oklahoma City bombing just earlier
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that year were brought in to help in the search effort and one Chihuahua hundreds
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of people this included both First Responders volunteers and even juvenile volunteers searched South Dade Groves
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while Metro Dade Fire Rescue you set up a task force and command post at the Redland Elementary School to coordinate
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volunteers who scoured the area on foot on Horseback and in allterrain vehicles well like I said at first you want to
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make sure you got on the bus so they did that so we have a bunch of eyewitnesses
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that place Jimmy on the bus but then you want to start questioning I mean one of
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the things that pops into my head is got both parents gone on on a Monday yeah this is a business trip it's something
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that would be easy to verify and as said they were planning on being back that night anyway yeah you're right you have
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a lot of people to talk to right you want to talk to everybody at the school you want to talk to the bus driver the
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other kids on the bus any kid that got off at that same stop just to see if they saw anything you want to know even
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what this kid's demeanor was what was his behavior that day was he acting abnormal was there something going on
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that maybe he was aware of that we could detect based off of the way he was acting that day and everybody on the bus
00:31:02
says that he was his normal self he was chatty he was upbeat and it was really only that strange eyewitness situation
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of saying that they saw the boy walking alone and he appeared to be disoriented I don't know how much of an observation
00:31:20
this is I don't know the situation did this woman see Jimmy when she's out of her vehicle or was is just quickly and
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passing as she's driving to the school to pick up her stepdaughter the other thing too here is you're going to be
00:31:34
looking to the public right we see this in so many situations it's so key and crucial and it will be in this case and
00:31:42
it always seems to be when we have what appears to be a child abduction we need the help of the public and as said
00:31:50
earlier this is an area that if he was abducted between point a and point B which is is the bus stop and his home
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and if you put a lot of weight into this eyewitness and what they saw well now it's halfway between point a and point B
00:32:08
that something happened to this kid and if he was abducted you're looking to the
00:32:13
public for any information this was in broad daylight did anybody see anything at all out of the ordinary or anything
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that they question for any reason at all in this situation come forward let us know well also asking the kids is there
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any little nooks and crannies in these neighborhoods that Jimmy would want to go play down at uh a little creek or is
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there a little Pond or something that Jimmy like to go to that they could go investigate there you're going to do all
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of the normal stuff you know when you respond to this call you're checking the rice home immediately that's the first
00:32:51
goto for law enforcement and then you're spreading out from there where was he supposed to be last well it would be the
00:32:57
bus stop so you're checking all these known areas Now by this point in our timeline we have the community that's
00:33:04
really stepping up and getting involved very early on so of course we have missing posters or Flyers going up
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everywhere in this area I saw a picture of a woman who made a sign out of one of
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those big this is probably like a 6ot by 4ft piece of wood this she spray painted
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saying please help find Jimmy and setting this up at a a major intersection and it has several missing
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Flyers already stapled to this piece of wood this sign that she created people were putting up yellow ribbons within
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two days of him being missing and hopes that he would return hundreds of people were volunteering their time to look for
00:33:48
this boy even with these large party searches searching for kid or clue they don't find Jimmy and they never find any
00:33:56
of his belongings that he had with him that day like his clothing or his book bag and the book bag was something of
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major concern for his parents in fact I think it was this item here captain that
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Claudine his mother says early on that she believed that someone took Jimmy and the family stated that they believed it
00:34:17
may have possibly been two people that were responsible for his disappearance so the parents are stating that they
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believe that someone took Jimmy simp simply based off of the idea that both parents said Jimmy would not have gotten
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into a car on his own he would not have strayed he would not have run away so they feared that it may have taken two
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people to abduct him because of a conversation that Claudine had with him just about a week or so before Jimmy
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went missing this is when Jimmy told his mother that there were two men in a car
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that approached him and asked him for directions and she said it was then that the two had a serious talk about not
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approaching strangers not talking to strangers and if someone approaches you or tries to take you you should flee the
00:35:07
scene immediately scream yell drop your belongings and run and it was even Jimmy's own words that he promised his
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mother should that type of situation if he's ever presented with that type of situation that he would
00:35:25
drop his book bag and he would run so not finding the book bag was of major concern for the parents as well
00:35:32
and that's why they thought maybe this had to be two people he wouldn't have got into a car this may have required
00:35:38
whatever happened to him may have required somebody getting out and somebody throwing the kid or grabbing
00:35:44
the kid and pulling him into a vehicle yeah or other possibilities that he knew the individual and that's why he would
00:35:51
get into the vehicle with him or possibly by some kind of other force with a knife or a gun Jimmy's
00:36:01
disappearance shook the homestead community and indeed all of South Florida a place where little boys didn't
00:36:06
just disappear from one minute to the next Janine Reynolds the owner of a local sandwich shop in Redland said this
00:36:15
is serious this has never happened in our community this little boy is important people out here take care of
00:36:22
each other law enforcement was running polygraph tests on those clo to the case this would be people close to the family
00:36:30
people close to Jimmy at school I don't know who specifically was polygraphed but it does say that several people were
00:36:38
polygraphed in The First 48 hours I'm guessing the parents no Don and Claudine were not two of the people that were
00:36:46
polygraphed wrong again Captain both but both agreed saying that if asked they were happy to take the test what about
00:36:54
the piano teacher or their the family friend that was there again they never specifically said who was
00:37:02
polygraphed the statement that was released was that there were people that were polygraphed several people but the
00:37:09
parents were not in that batch on day three of the search a small amount of blood was found in the general area of
00:37:17
where Jimmy was last seen so this is stemming from that tip that came in from a neighboring woman that lived in the
00:37:27
area that said hey I saw the boy in this area again it's about the halfway mark of where he would be walking home and he
00:37:35
looked to be disoriented they found a small amount of blood in this area these are listed simply as just some drops of
00:37:44
blood found on a loading dock so they bring in the forensic experts and the blood is tested and very quickly they
00:37:54
determined that this Blood was not human it was in in fact animal blood so even though this tip this eyewitness tip is a
00:38:01
good one the blood has nothing to do with our case MH on day four a reward was put up by some local group offering
00:38:13
$225,000 for tips leading to the missing boy and there was a tip hotline number that was announced and listed in several
00:38:21
of the local papers and with Jimmy gone most of the week and his parents saying unfortunately we believe he was taken on
00:38:30
that Friday we get a press conference where the Metro day police are saying quote there is no indication that Jimmy
00:38:39
is still in the area end quote short sweet and just absolutely heartbreaking a segment ran that Friday night on
00:38:49
America's Most Wanted that featured the boy's parents and wow how just how crazy
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is that we know know that John Walsh featured a lot unfortunately a lot of missing kid segments over the years on
00:39:02
that great show but America's Most Wanted he's sitting there speaking with parents of a Florida boy who are
00:39:10
insistent that their child was taken it's really got to bring up all kinds of memories for John Walsh in that specific
00:39:21
situation police took Jimmy's bed sheets very early on when they were looking for
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the boy and in this missing child investigation I believe this was on day two but couldn't 100% confirm when that
00:39:35
action took place in these situations Captain as you know they take the bed sheets because
00:39:42
this is a really good way for them to collect hair and skin samples should they need them at any point in their
00:39:50
investigation by this time the hotline had received over 400 tips that the police were bringing in extra detectives
00:39:58
and we already said that there were at least 20 FBI agents in the area working the case so they're bringing in all
00:40:06
kinds of extra help to really be efficient in their way of double cheing these tips and tracking down each piece
00:40:15
of information that is coming in from the public because as we know and as we've seen dozens of times on cases that
00:40:22
we've covered here in the garage in cases like this you are very reliant on the help of the public well they're very
00:40:30
reliant on the public and they continue to search for Jimmy Rice for months and months but they have no real big break
00:40:39
yeah and I want to as we see here in most cases there's a lot of action a lot of activity early on within about that
00:40:47
first week to 10 days of when a child goes missing and then from that point on it's very repetitive and things kind of
00:40:55
just taper off as you're hoping to find that big clue or get that big break in your search for the missing person the
00:41:06
Miami Herold Captain did a fantastic job covering Jimmy Rice's case they were there from the beginning and they
00:41:13
continue to give us updates in their story and in their coverage of this case for the next I mean up to this day we're
00:41:23
sitting here 25 26 years later and they've continued to cover the story throughout those years so if you will
00:41:32
allow it I would like to read for everyone an article that came out on the Sunday following his disappearance so
00:41:41
right now in the timeline we are about six days six and a half days into this missing person's
00:41:47
investigation and this article from the heral sums up what is going on and everything that was going on looking for
00:41:55
Jimmy at this point very nicely read on Colonel the article is titled parents and Friends of missing boy cling to Hope
00:42:03
subtitled efforts continued Saturday in what was the last scheduled volunteer search and it reads newspaper clippings
00:42:13
missing child Flyers notes of encouragement Jimmy Rice's mom is saving them all in a scrapbook momentos of The
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Nightmare she hopes will end soon with his safe return quote it's for Jimmy when he comes home Claudine rice says
00:42:30
matter of factly as there's no doubt he'll be walking through the door Saturday marked the fifth day since
00:42:37
99-year-old Jimmy vanished Without a Trace near his house in Redland victim of an apparent kidnapping every minute
00:42:44
that passes bodess poorly for his chances but his parents refuse to give up hope they tick off the possible
00:42:51
scenarios Jimmy fell victim to family friend or a business enemy of his parents he ran away from home he was
00:43:00
kidnapped for ransom all of those options have been ruled out his parents said leaving one inescapable
00:43:08
conclusion we're just convinced it was a stranger at random and that any child could have been the victim said Don rice
00:43:16
Jimmy's father the problem is we don't know what the motivation was we don't know who it was we don't know how it was
00:43:25
done dozens of Law Enforcement Officers want the same answers Metro Police and the
00:43:33
FBI reported no breakthroughs in the case despite an offer of $25,000 in reward money Jimmy whose full
00:43:41
name is Samuel James rice was last seen Monday getting off the school bus at Southwest 232nd Street and 162nd Avenue
00:43:53
3/10 of a mile from his front door he he never made it home Law Officers are interviewing known child molesters and
00:44:01
other sex offenders who live in South day they're also questioning all the children on Jimmy's bus and the people
00:44:08
who came to the rice home which has been for sale during a real estate open house
00:44:14
last Sunday at night the FBI flies over the area with an infrared camera looking
00:44:20
for hotpots heat generated as a byproduct of a body that decomposing civilian efforts also
00:44:29
continued Saturday and what was the last scheduled volunteer search a candlelight
00:44:34
prayer service will be held at 7:30 p.m. at harrisfield in Homestead with generosity reminiscent of Hurricane
00:44:42
Andrew recovery efforts more than 250 volunteer Searchers broke into teams to col Fields canals and Groves they were
00:44:52
fortified by mountains of donated food and drink and by sense of community that United even total
00:44:58
strangers quote this community is a lot more bonded than others said Liz minderman 24 a family friend who
00:45:06
coordinated the search I'm not saying bad things can't happen here but this is the first time this kind of thing has
00:45:13
happened the outpouring of support has helped Jimmy's parents make it through these agonizing days in limbo still no
00:45:21
matter how much Goodwill there is his mother feels powerless like a rat in a cage running in the same
00:45:29
spot she aches for her son the simple rituals they shared from bedtime prayers and piano practices to organizing his
00:45:38
toys in carefully labeled storage bins quot how will I feel doing the things we do together how can I go out to dinner
00:45:48
to Monkey Jungle to dolphins games without Jimmy those are family activities where's Jimmy
00:45:59
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