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know someone who is kind loyal and a generous person someone that is genuinely loved
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by everyone that knows them not just her friend friends and family but also beloved by her
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co-workers someone who would drop what they were doing in order to help someone else in
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need maybe someone came up against an obstacle or maybe someone was in trouble the person I am talking about
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and the person you should be thinking of in your life is someone that would stop
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and she would help that person having trouble this week's True Crime Story is about a
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young woman who with no notice at all would take time from her own busy life to help
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another the young woman I am talking about has more kindness in her heart and soul than the average man or
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woman unfortunately the young woman in this week's True Crime Story vanished investigators are certain Foul
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Play is the reason for her disappearance what kind of a sick person would take advantage of this caring
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young woman what kind of evil do you have to have in your heart and your thoughts to set up an opportunity to
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seize and harm this Good Samaritan did this monster do this by chance I think not as we go through this
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week's case I think you will come to the same conclusion that we have someone so
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evil set her up the abduction was all part of a plan to get the young woman alone away from
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others and to do the unthinkable she didn't stand a chance it was an ambush it was a trap that she
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innocently walked right into never to be seen again this is the case of Danielle
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El is licky and this is true crime [Applause] [Music] [Music] garage Daniel an is licky looked younger
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than her years she was a vibrant young woman Who Loved life her family and her friends she is the daughter of an and
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Richard stislicki and the older sister to Holly Jillian and Matthew Dany as she was called grew up in Redford Michigan
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and graduated from Redford Union High in 2006 she went on to college but settled
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in the area after graduation Dany had an incredibly tight-knit group of friends who called themselves the the Redford
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girls and pretty much did everything together and knew everything about each other the way old friends do even though
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they all went their separate ways for college they remained very close not only socializing together but traveling
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together as well Dany even went as far as India on one of her trips she described herself as a cat lover a
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foodie and into yoga her major goal was a modest and logical one she was looking
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to build herself a nice little house to live in everyone who knew her described her as happy and fun and the photos that
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I've seen of her shows her well she's all smiles in 2016 Dany is 28 years of age and living
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alone in the independence green apartments near Grand River Avenue and Hallstead Road in Farmington Hills
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Michigan this is a suburb of Detroit her parents lived about 50 that's 5 minutes away in a much more rural area
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Danielle and her mother an both worked at the same place which is Met Life Insurance this is a larger company that
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in 2016 was located just 10 miles from Danny's home in a large building on Telegraph Road in
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Southfield Dany whose title was global technology and operations associate worked on the fourth floor and her mom
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worked on the sixth floor they saw each other often at their shared workplace and regularly met for lunch people who
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worked with Dany during her nine-year tenure at MetLife often volunteered to lead workshops or take on extra
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assignments Dany was a reliable worker and she was genuinely sweet and helpful from what we could find she she had not
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one single person who had any kind of problem with her and as for her romantic life well there's not much to tell as
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far as we know Dany was single at the time of these events having gone through all of her usual relationships and
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breakups that most people experience her parents describe her as an open book she
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was very Frank about life posting on social media and blogging regularly yeah a lot of times in these cases we see
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somebody was in and out of relationships or just out of a long-term relationship
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that doesn't seem to be the case in this case on Friday December 2nd 2016 Dany was at work as usual she was
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texting with one of her friends Sarah who was having a hard time with some personal issues Dany was supposed to
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work into the evening but as it was a Friday Friday and things were slow at work she received permission to get out
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a little early Dany and Sarah made plans for that night Dany texted her and said
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that she would go home after work pick up a bag and some other items and then come over and the two would go out get
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dinner and they would spend the night together she told Sarah that she did have work the next morning again that's
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that would be Saturday as she was scheduled to lead an 8 a.m. training class that would go until noon on that
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Saturday but the two would have the night together hopefully this would take Sarah's mind off of the things that were
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bothering her and Sarah expected Dany at her place sometime in the early evening
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now that text was the last time Sarah heard from her friend Dany when Dany failed to show up as Sarah's as planed
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Sarah text and called Danny numerous times but the phone went directly to voicemail Sarah finally fell asleep now
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she's a nurse who worked long hour so she was probably just tired and fell asleep while waiting for her friend when
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she woke up the next morning and still had heard no word from her friend she became incredibly worried because Dany
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would never ever just blow her off like this right I mean should at least send her a text hey I'm not feeling well or
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I'm tired I'm going to have to cancel our plans sorry yeah these are old friends and let's keep in mind they are
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hanging out for the purpose that Sarah is having some troubles some difficulties she is going to go to her
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friend to be there for her friend so Danny not showing up not texting as you said Captain not reaching out to give an
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explanation why this is completely and totally out of character Sarah text Dany a number of times that morning saying
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things like where are you and I'm worried even saying are you even alive which she was probably you know joking
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around out of frustration she then called one of Danny's sisters who had not heard from
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her either so after spending a nervous day worrying about Dany Sarah decided to head over to Danny's apartment to see
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what was up now Sarah arriv at the Independence Green Apartments this is at 6:00 p.m. on that Saturday when she got
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there Captain she saw Danny's vehicle this is a 2015 Jeep Renegade that was parked in
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its usual spot her parking spot Danny's usual parking spot is just eight feet from the front door to Danny's apartment
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right now just a quick brief description each apartment has its own own door that you don't you don't open
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up your door into a hallway and then have to walk through a hallway a shared hallway and out one single door each one
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of these apartments has its own front door and most of them it appears to me Captain would lead you out to the
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parking lot area and as said Danny's front door is eight feet from where she would park her vehicle now trying to get
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a hold of her friend Sarah went to Danny's window she's you know yelling through the window she went and honked
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her horn her car horn several times she gets no response she walked around to the back to the rear window of the
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apartment but saw no sign of anyone as she peered through the window I think at some point she even threw some rocks at
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of window to try to get thinking that maybe she fell you know that her friend fell asleep and just didn't wake up for
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her meeting and I'm going to throw some pebbles at her window to see if I can wake her up yeah she was really doing
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everything that she could to try to get in touch with her friend keep in mind she arrives at the apartment sees her
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vehicle out front as usual she has every reason to believe that Dany would be inside of her apartment yeah but what a
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great friend right because if I didn't show up somewhere they they wouldn't even call me the next day because they'd
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be thinking oh that [ __ ] the captain he stood me up I'm not even going to check in on him this friend goes above
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and beyond and says I'm going to call I'm going to call her sister heck you're not returning my calls I'm going to go
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over there myself and knock on the door myself yeah she did everything but bust down the front door looking for her
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friend now when she can't get any answer from Dany Sarah decides hey it's time that I need to alert Danny's Family keep
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in mind as we said earlier Dany and her group of close friends they've known each other since high school some before
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high school so Sarah knows Danny's Family quite well as she's a longtime friend of Danny's Sarah spoke to Danny's
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sister and asked her to tell Danny's mother and that Dany was missing an action and the SZ lickies were very
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close to their daughter they spent a lot of time with Danny they knew her patterns and routines and they
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recognized immediately that something was wrong keep in mind we've already mentioned
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that her mother an and Danny they work in the same building right Dany does not respond to any of the family's text or
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calls either they decide hey it's time to call the police and the family they all start heading over to Danny's
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apartment when they got there Captain they observed as well Danny's black Jeep parked in her usual parking spot
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mud was splattered and encrusted all over the bottom half of the black vehicle this is because the road to the
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slicky family home was a dirt road and the vehicle routinely got filthy as Dany drove to visit her
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parents the vehicle was locked and the door to the apartment was locked as well now her mother an is licki called
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Danny's grandparents Rich's parents her husbands who had an extra key to the apartment the police met them there at
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the apartment took a report while they waited for this key to arrive so the slickis could enter Danny's apartment
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the slickis also called tripa a to open up the locked vehicle the slickies were adamant that this be done because
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looking into the vehicle they could see Danny's purse Sitting In Plain Sight Dany knew not to leave her purse like
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everybody else knows not to leave their purse or their wallet just sitting there
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inside your vehicle where wouldbe thieves could see it right so this was a red flag for her family and her work bag
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containing her work laptop was also visible indicating that she had in fact probably come home after work the car
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was opened and nothing seemed a miss other than the fact that Danny's purse was inside the Jeep inside the purse
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Captain we have Danny's wallet that had cash in it it also had her ID and credit
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cards and the spare set of keys was in the glove box of the vehicle this is listed as where Dany typically stored
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her spare set of keys right the police left the area and the slickis having finally gotten the key to to the
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apartment well they went in to Snoop around and see what was up there they found everything just as it seemed Dany
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had likely left the home went off to work left as usual nothing seemed to be wrong inside of the apartment there was
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literally nothing that raised any concerns to her family there was no forced entry no signs of a struggle or
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robbery and to the family it did not appear that anything really was missing you know
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nothing of value especially there was no blood and no body inside the apartment yeah and then your brain is it can go
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two ways one it can go to something really bad happened even though there's no evidence of that or your brain can
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start going okay well maybe her phone wasn't working so she couldn't get a hold of her friend and maybe she got in
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touch with somebody from work and they came to pick her up for the this training session yeah I don't have any
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record of the family calling her work but because her mom worked for the same company she wouldn't have any trouble
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checking in on her daughter at work you know sometimes sometimes you can't you can't just call someone's work and ask
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if they are there or if they didn't show up they they aren't so quick to offer up
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that information to somebody that they don't know but seeing how it would be family and family worked for the same
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company the thing here is where you raise the alarm is the purse and her work bag being in her vehicle that seems
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totally out of the norm for Dany and then you get into the apartment and you don't see anything that raises any red
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flags immediately but we should point out Dany describes herself as a cat lover so of course she has a cat her
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name is Adelaide and the cat had not been fed as far as the family could tell and the the cat appeared to be quite
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hungry so this was alarming to the family as well because now they're like well we're concerned about this purse
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and her work bag being in her vehicle but it also does not appear that she's been home at any time to take care of
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her cat yeah multiple red flags there's really no way for the family to tell exactly when the last time Dany had been
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at her apartment but again as you said multiple red flags the clothes um her jacket and boots that she wore to work
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on that Friday they could not find them in her apartment yeah again something that
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women are way better than men at because if I had a job with my father he probably couldn't tell you what I was
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wearing the last day he saw me well and your closet is much like Ernest you you open it up and it's the same plaid shirt
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and pair of jeans means there's there's 12 different sets of that very similar to Bart Simpson yeah so the
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slickies they're they're worried right so they called the police back to the scene and they want to point out some
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things to the officers pointing out that Dany was clearly missing so the police acknowledged that it did not seem that
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Dany had ever made it into her apartment and the canines this time they brought canines with them could not find her
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scent in the parking lot and it should be easy right Captain you have the vehicle approximately 8 feet from the
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front door to her apartment right you don't have to imagine where you would start looking for her scent and they're
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not picking anything up yeah that's when I start getting pretty worried so we have bad news that it looks like this
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young woman is missing the good news that we can say for once it seems like considering the the sheer number of
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cases that we've covered where the police drag their feet ignore the signs refus to get involved insist that the
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missing young person either ran away or self-harmed and so on the Farmington Hills Police Department took immediate
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action in this case Danielle's case was investigated as a very concerning missing person's case right from the G
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police issued a statement very quickly saying that Danielle vanished after last being seen leaving work on Friday in the
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area of 10 Mile Road and Telegraph Road in Southfield and that they were asking for the Public's help in quote four
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major categories all right number one they wanted to know if anyone saw Danielle leave metti that's her her
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place of work around 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on December 2nd they included that she was last seen wearing a royal blue
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winter jacket yeah because since we have her car at her apartment that does not mean that she made it there and we have
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some evidence that maybe she didn't make it there even though her vehicle did so
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now we have to go back and figure out did somebody actually see her leave the building right now number two they want
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to know if anyone saw Danielle driving her Jeep Renegade on December 2nd or the following day December 3rd the police
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chief specifically said that they wanted to know when her Jeep arrived back at her
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apartment we should note that the apartment complex that these buildings they had no surveillance cameras so
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again as you just pointed out Captain they're just really trying to figure out the movements of Danielle and if they
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can't figure out Danielle's movements they want to at least figure out the movements and the timing of such for her
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Jeep Renegade now items three and four are kind of lumped together uh the police
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said that they were looking for Danny's Keys now the keys would be noticeable because they had a yellow smiley face
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figurine on the keychain and they were also looking for her Samsung Galaxy phone which was in a rosec colored case
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so it appears that her keys and her phone and Danny are the only things that they believe to be missing do you know
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if they did any type of phone tracking yeah there was some phone information and we're going to get into that now
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when police are are asking the public for help of course they released photos of all of these items so people could
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see exactly what they were seeking so this would be a photograph of the Jeep Renegade for its movements as well as a
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photograph of Dany of course but also a photograph of her phone and the keys and
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the police also referred to a $10,000 reward that was was put together by the family for information on dany's
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whereabouts the description given of Dany at this time Captain was a young white woman with
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brown medium length wavy hair often worn in a bun she was 5' 5 in tall and weighed about 120 to
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125 pounds she was wearing blue jeans a black zipup shirt a blue Eddie Bower coat and burgundy
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boots starting on Sunday morning okay so as far as we know here Captain Saturday
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is when everybody starts getting really worried about Danny so now we are at Sunday morning about 24 hours after
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everybody is extremely concerned about where their daughter sister and friend could be starting on that Sunday morning
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searches of places that Danny was known to frequent commenced while detectives processed the apartment and Danny's
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vehicle looking for Clues Flyers with dany's face and information were circulated it was confirmed that there
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were no there was no movement of any kind of her financial accounts during the time of concern and her phone
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continued to be off shut off right a massive snowstorm in the weekend after Danny vanished really really hampered
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early searches and this is just one of those unfortunate things that rarely occurs but we've seen this in some other
00:28:07
cases where Mother Nature just does not agree with with allowing you to conduct a good thorough search this is some
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heavy snowstorms but over the next few months exhaustive widespread searches for her Incorporated aerial
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resources dive teams ground searches with Kines and so on and the areas that they were looking for her included
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Detroit Leonia Highland Park Farmington Hills Berkeley Royal Oak and other areas
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of Wayne and Oakland County so we're talking about a massive area that was covered in the next few months and early
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on they were even checking dumpsters and following trash routes looking in landfills for Dany now unfortunately
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Danny's body has never ever been located and I wonder with law enforcement if they
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had some kind of lead or tip to look out into these areas or if it was just we don't know where to look so we will look
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everywhere that people will volunteer or we can get resources too yeah I don't know it could have been as simple as hey
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let's start with point a and then we expand from there and the search just kept growing and growing when they
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didn't uncover anything so what do we have well we have a caring beloved young woman who was reliable dependable and
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really just utterly normal in every sense with no known risky behaviors issues dangerous habits or enemies who
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uncharacteristically did not show up for an appointment with a friend in need and
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then the following morning missed work this is a person who is a constant texter and poster she was unheard of for
00:30:14
over 24 hours and truly unheard of ever again her car was parked at her apartment but her keys her cell phone
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[Music] today all right we're back cheers cheers to you Captain long distance cheers to
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you my friend yeah all right where is Daniel to licky that's the topic of course one of the first things
00:33:09
detectives did was try to track Danny's phone as you had suggested here is what they were able to determine on December
00:33:19
2nd Danny's phone pinged off of a tower indicating that at 4:47 p.m. it was very likely that her
00:33:29
phone was in or at the MetLife building where she worked on Telegraph Road ping showed that the phone then moved East
00:33:39
starting at 4:48 arriving at a location in Berkeley at 5:07 p.m. now we talked about those
00:33:48
searches earlier and you wonder how quick they had this phone information when they were conducting their searches
00:33:57
in determining what areas to search right the phone continued to Ping off of this same Tower okay arriving at that
00:34:05
location in Berkeley around 5:07 p.m. the phone continued to Ping off of this same Tower servicing this area of
00:34:13
Berkeley until 7:53 p.m. so just a little shy of three hours they believe their her phone to be
00:34:24
in this general area right so tell me when the it started pinging there at what time okay so they have her phone
00:34:34
they believe her phone was at work near her work building at 447 and then it began to move away from
00:34:41
the work building at 448 and arrived in a location in Berkeley at 50:07 p.m. it stayed in this
00:34:51
area until 7:53 p.m. so just shy of 3 hours and we don't have any text text message to her friend during that time
00:34:59
period her last text message was in the 400 p.m. hour right yeah that's the thing um her her last communication is
00:35:09
to her friend saying hey I'm going to get a bag I'm G to swing by my house and then I'll I'll meet you at your place
00:35:15
and that seems to be the actual last communication that Danny made with anyone and and that would be
00:35:23
communication she made to her friend as she's leaving work it seems like yeah later in the day shortly before leaving
00:35:31
and so they're able to track her phone even though it does not appear that she's using it to communicate with
00:35:37
anybody during this threeh hour time period now at 7:53 Danny's phone began to move again pinging off towers as it
00:35:47
traveled Westward arriving in the area of her apartment building at 8:16 p.m. and I do want to point some things out
00:35:56
out here we we're citing these times right down to the minute but we're doing so because the times all match up with
00:36:06
what would be a very direct route from each of these locations so when we site a time of arriving in the vicinity of
00:36:16
her apartment at 816 that means that that phone traveled in the direction that is the most common
00:36:25
route the fastest route that one would go from that area in Berkeley over to her apartment it seems like the phone
00:36:34
was shut off after arriving in the area of her apartment building at 8:16 p.m. and the
00:36:42
phone according to the records that were cited that I've seen was never it never
00:36:48
came back online after 8:16 PM mhm now we're going to say right off the bat here this is is not one of those usual
00:36:58
missing persons cases like some of those frustrating ones that we've covered before you know you could you could
00:37:06
reference Brian schaer or Brandon Lawson where there are no clues whatsoever to what happened to the
00:37:15
missing person in in Danielle ssi's case the police almost know exactly what happened to her and when it happened to
00:37:25
her and maybe even how it happened to her and then of course who did it the only thing
00:37:33
they do not know is where Danny's body is right but it's also not a missing person case where they have to think did
00:37:43
she run away did she want to start a new life you know did was she suicidal that was
00:37:52
nothing that they had to really focus on from the beginning no because in this case as said in the
00:37:59
trailer police arrived at the conclusion very quickly that this young woman vanished because Foul Play was involved
00:38:09
right and the detectives and the police did some really great work investigating
00:38:16
this case this is some of the better uh police work that that we've seen that we
00:38:21
will be discussing um as we go through this case now we should probably put in a caveat here because all of the
00:38:30
things that we're going to state are they're simply alleged uh but thanks to a very thorough
00:38:40
televised preliminary examination in this case we have a very good idea of what the state of Michigan's case is
00:38:50
against the suspect whom they alleg killed Danny with premeditation and then disposed of her body somewhere and we
00:38:59
also believe that there's some more information that law enforcement has that they haven't obviously shared that
00:39:05
will be positive in their case against this individual going forward yeah so here's what happened let's say right and
00:39:14
this is again it's all alleged so at this point it's still Theory but as you will hear as we go through this there is
00:39:23
evidence to back up certain items along the way on this Theory so let's all join
00:39:32
hands and and walk together down this path in True Crime garage Army fashion Danny was at work on Friday
00:39:42
December 2nd 2016 and she made plans with her friend Sarah to have dinner and sleepover at
00:39:49
Sarah's place after work Dany usually got out of work between 5 and 5:30 p.m. but as we said it seems that on this
00:40:00
Friday she managed to get permission to sneak out a little early her phone was in the area of her workplace at
00:40:10
4:47 but at :07 just 20 minutes later it was pinging off a different Tower several miles away
00:40:19
in the Berkeley area then it returned to the area of her apartment before Vanishing from the network at 8:16 that
00:40:29
night after Dany was reported missing police set about interviewing her friends family and colleagues this
00:40:37
involved sending a team to her workplace Met Life Insurance they needed to determine
00:40:44
whether she had left work that day as her phone indicated and then when she left and whether she was alone when she
00:40:54
left at metti police interviewed a woman named Debbie I am she I'm guessing Captain she's related to the the much
00:41:04
more famous Sam I Am Daniel slicking hold on neither one of them like green eggs and ham
00:41:13
right uh Danel stislicki was Debb's trainer and according to Debbie was a bit of a mentor now Debbie told police
00:41:23
that she and Danny left the MetLife building at the same time on that Friday afternoon okay so they they're walking
00:41:32
out of the building and this is a big beautiful building looks very traditional in the office sense and it
00:41:38
spills out into this very large parking lot so the two of them leave through you
00:41:45
know leave out the building at the same time and they parted ways out the front door but they both you know they're both
00:41:53
walking toward their vehicles that are parked in the front lot of this building so even though they've parted ways they
00:42:01
can still see one another but once Debbie was at her vehicle she looked over and observed that Dany did not walk
00:42:11
to her Jeep Dany for whatever reason walked over to a vehicle that was sitting in the lot and this vehicle had
00:42:19
its Hood up so Debbie could see her friend Danny talking to a man who appeared to be the
00:42:28
owner of the vehicle that had the hood up right Debbie identified the car as a dark gray late model
00:42:37
Buick Debbie watched as Dany chatted with the man who Debbie described as a black man about 5'8 in tall dressed in a
00:42:48
suit the two appear to know one another according to Debbie and in fact Debbie recognized him him from around the
00:42:58
building this is also not a parking lot that just random people would park in so
00:43:05
you have a car with its Hood up you don't think that the person was there in that parking lot to go to Walmart or to
00:43:12
go somewhere else if you're in that parking lot you're pretty much going to that insurance agency well and here's
00:43:19
the difficult thing here as well Captain with this eyewitness statement and God bless Debbie for her wonderful
00:43:28
information this is a pretty thorough eyewitness account she is saying to police that I recognized the man that
00:43:38
Dany was talking to from around the MetLife building right what is not what we cannot discern 100% from
00:43:49
this is if she recognized him by name okay so what I think we have here and I think this is
00:43:57
is is very important to to key in on from all of the reports I saw it does not sound to me like Debbie knew the
00:44:07
name of this man other than saying I believe I've seen him in the MetLife building or recognize him from work I
00:44:16
just don't know his name again this is a large office building there's a lot of people that work there yeah I I believe
00:44:22
you said that the mother worked on the sixth floor but I don't remember how many floors total they had in this
00:44:28
building but from seeing pictures and seeing video I mean this is a this is a complex right right and because Debbie
00:44:37
said that one she recognized the man and two the man and Dany appear to know one
00:44:44
another this is she's just gauging this from observing their conversation she decided it's okay to
00:44:52
leave and head out you know she had places she needed to go right so everything seemed to be fine and she
00:44:57
said all right well I I took off that was the last time that Debbie ever saw Danielle slicky a police spoke with a
00:45:06
metti employee this is another employee his name was Brandon Williams he was a co-worker of Danny's and said that the
00:45:15
two were friendly they they knew each other somewhat although they did not socialize outside of work he said that
00:45:22
he left a few minutes after Dany did on that Friday she said goodbye to him on her
00:45:30
way out Brandon's car was parked in the back lot behind the building so Danny's Jeep is parked in the front lot and
00:45:41
remember she's last seen by her friend Debbie talking to a man in the front lot right Brandon is parked in the back lot
00:45:48
behind the building so he leaves and by the time he got to his car and drove around to the road out side the front of
00:45:57
the building this this would be several minutes would have elapsed by this point
00:46:03
but he says that he pulled up to a stop sign or stop light at the intersection I'm not sure if it's a stop sign or stop
00:46:10
light but he pulls up to that intersection now Brandon was in the left lane and next to his car was Danny's
00:46:17
vehicle was also stopped at the same intersection but she's in the right lane you know how you have uh two lanes and
00:46:25
sometimes one makes you go One Direction and the other lane will force you to go
00:46:29
a different direction the cars are right next to one another heading out of the parking lot the right lane headed north
00:46:38
onto Telegraph Road and the left lane headed south Brandon said Dany was driving the vehicle and a man that he
00:46:48
recognized from the MetLife work building was in the passenger seat Brandon the ey witness says that this
00:46:57
was sometime around 5:00 p.m. on that Friday Brandon is the last person who is known to have seen
00:47:07
Danny okay so police have two witnesses who saw Dany in the company of a black man they both recognized right as
00:47:18
someone they saw around their work building who was it so detectives said later that they became aware of this man
00:47:27
on December 6th by this time Dany was missing for four days this likely means that by the sixth
00:47:38
they had received the two witness statements naming the Man scene with Dany in the parking lot but they were
00:47:45
left scratching their heads when they discovered that the Man scene with Danny was not an employee of
00:47:53
metti and as the captain said this is not not really a parking lot where one would just find themselves you you this
00:48:00
would be a destination you would expect to only see people working in that building or working for metti in that
00:48:09
large parking lot the man we're talking about was once employed there but he no longer worked in the
00:48:17
building there was no reason for this man to be in the metti parking lot on December 2nd 20
00:48:27
2016 the man's name was Floyd Galloway Jr now why did he stop working at MetLife so let's let's get into who he
00:48:39
is and he did work there as you said what he did while he worked there and then we'll we'll get through um the the
00:48:47
the short answer of why he no longer work there was these larger buildings are usually typically under under
00:48:57
property management companies that will manage the building the grounds and and the daily activities and such so he the
00:49:06
company he worked for was contracted to work in that building well when the building switched ownership or
00:49:13
management companies the company he worked for was no longer contracted to work in that building right so Floyd
00:49:21
Russell Galloway Jr was born on January 20 3rd 1987 he attended Shrine High School in
00:49:30
Royal Oak played basketball and football he was relatively quiet and did not get
00:49:36
into any trouble at all that I could find we know that at the time Danielle vanished Floyd was married for about
00:49:45
four years to a woman named eileene Galloway who was a me who was a mechanical engineer the the couple lived at 2910
00:49:57
Oxford Street in Berkeley Michigan there's that Berkeley again yeah Floyd was employed by a security contractor
00:50:06
and was either taking classes to become certified or already was certified as an
00:50:13
EMT and volunteer firefighter he was a pretty big guy pretty well in shape yeah he's not he's not particularly tall
00:50:21
described about 5'8 5'9 but yeah you're right he's in he's in very good physical
00:50:27
shape and it appears that he you can you can look at the guy and you have to believe he's got a gym membership now
00:50:36
Floyd and Danny met through Floyd's employment as a contractor for the company that provided security for the
00:50:44
MetLife building Floyd's job was to man the desk and the front entrance to the MetLife to
00:50:53
sign in visitors you know you check IDs monitor the parking lot and there's a lot of other duties that go into that as
00:51:02
well but that's a general description of his job various people told police that
00:51:09
Floyd was interested in Danielle it seems that Dany was one of those nice young women who is friendly to everyone
00:51:19
you know that's just her nature and if he you know we have people saying that he's
00:51:27
interested in her if he made advances or flirted with her she very likely was too
00:51:34
polite to shut down unwanted intentions yeah she had a very friendly face and and she had a
00:51:43
nice smile and and so you could see a guy go okay well this girl they could have locked eyes or something and she
00:51:51
was just trying to be polite and maybe smiled at him and then this guy goes okay well I'm a security guard here now
00:51:58
I got to pass by her desk as many times as I can uh because a lot of those large
00:52:04
buildings that you work in you never talk to the security guards directly unless there's an issue well I always
00:52:12
liked working in those large buildings because they feel like their own small little version of a city you know they
00:52:18
usually have some place to eat in there and you you have people that work in all
00:52:23
different areas but you're all forced to be in this building together uh at about
00:52:29
the same time so you you exchange pleasantries and niceties with people throughout your day that's that's
00:52:37
part of the the corporate game right now as all of our listeners will recall an to
00:52:45
licki Danny's mom worked in the same building she said that she found Floyd she she knew who Floyd was to always be
00:52:55
professional and friendly saying quote Floyd was very friendly and approachable to many many people in that building and
00:53:03
quote this is what she told the Detroit news as part of his job Floyd's job he would watch employees particularly
00:53:13
female employees as they walked to their vehicles at night to make sure that they
00:53:18
made it to their vehicle safely the only thing an Danny's mom thought that was odd about Floyd was that he you know
00:53:29
he's supposed to be Manning the desk but she said he was always kind of wandering
00:53:35
around particularly when she and Dany were having lunch in the fourth floor cafeteria right he was the only security
00:53:44
guard who ever came up there according to an and it happened so often and it constantly seemed to be when Dany was on
00:53:55
on her lunch break Floyd was friendly and would come up and make conversation but again an found this to be odd an
00:54:05
noted an instance on October 28th 2015 so this would be more than a year before Dany went missing when Dany had received
00:54:17
a surprise bouquet of flowers on her desk yeah there was a note written on a yellow sticky that said you know one of
00:54:28
those yellow Post-it notes yeah let's not call a sticky that's what we used to call him at the office that I oh yeah
00:54:35
hand me a sticky oh thank you so this said on the yellow sticky it said from secret admire hope this made
00:54:45
you smile today and it was unsigned and thought it was a little creepy because outside deliveries to employees were not
00:54:55
not permitted at their desk so I'm sure a lot of our listeners are very familiar
00:55:00
with this setup if you work in one of these large buildings if a delivery from outside of the building were to arrive
00:55:07
it's usually kept and held somewhere for you to come down and pick up he it's right it's held at the front desk and
00:55:16
who is Manning the front desk or the mail room this building had a mail room so it it could have been held in the
00:55:22
mail room right but somehow it got security and who's most likely to deliver this the guy that's stopping by
00:55:30
her desk every day well and of course what an is going to put together Captain is that the the flowers arriving to
00:55:39
Danny's desk meant that someone in the building was Danny's secret admire right that that the the the the flowers came
00:55:49
from someone in the building at the time no one including an suspected Floyd Galloway of being the
00:55:58
person to give these flowers to Dany but an said that Danny most definitely did not have a
00:56:06
relationship with Floyd Galloway in fact it sounds like an was made aware by Dany
00:56:13
that Dany thought that he she was a little creeped out by him she noted that he would loiter near her cubicle
00:56:22
constantly trying to make conversation with her which was not part of his job at all and this did not go unnoticed by
00:56:32
Danny and at some point she communicated this to her mother well and it's also weird when you're in such a big building
00:56:38
like that I used to work in a presort maale building so everybody had their own stations and we worked pretty far
00:56:45
from each other I'd say 15 ft at least and you'd have stock people that would come up to the individuals throughout
00:56:54
the day and you might have a a buddy that was became friends with the stock guy and the stock guy would just drop by
00:57:01
to talk about a Monday night football or whatever and same way with security guards but if they stopped by a couple
00:57:09
times for friendly conversation not a big deal but when it's um a guy that seems to be flirting with you um that
00:57:19
would get pretty uncomfortable when police processed Danny's apartment they found some things of interest one was
00:57:28
this note from the secret admire that was taken into evidence of course and they found Danny's old phone so it
00:57:37
sounds like Dany was in the habit of using prepaid phones it's not really clear why but someone who knew her well
00:57:45
posted that there was absolutely nothing nefarious about this when when we think
00:57:51
of people you know that when we talk true CRI captain and we think of prepaid cell phones you usually don't think of
00:57:59
good activities uh for that cell phone but this was just a personal preference of Danny's I should point out you know
00:58:09
some people have been burned by cell phone companies cell phone uh service providers where you get a bill for five
00:58:19
or six or $700 that will break the bank so to speak and so to police themselves some
00:58:27
people will use a prepaid cell phone so they don't go over their limit or they don't find themselves in a situation
00:58:35
yeah or if she had really bad credit she might not have been able to get a phone
00:58:40
so this is another way she could have got it so this old phone that they find in her apartment it contained a series
00:58:47
of text messages between Danny and Floyd and this was from the fall of 2015 so again a little more than a year before
00:59:02
she went missing keep in mind Dany worked in this building for the same company for over nine years yeah here is
00:59:10
a shorten version of those text this starts on October 23rd captain from Floyd to
00:59:19
Danny how is the new place coming along Danny responds good still getting settled in may I ask who this is Floyd
00:59:30
to Danny it's Floyd silly I thought you had me saved and then he sends a a frowned uh face Danny says I did I lost
00:59:40
my old phone one week later on October 30th Floyd to Danny haa Danny replies hi what's up Floyd says nothing just seeing
00:59:53
how you are doing Danny says I'm good preparing for a class tomorrow Danny says hey by any chance did you send me
01:00:01
flowers Floyd says nope I don't know anything about any flowers was it your birthday or something special happened
01:00:10
this week Danny no just showed up on my desk and I can't figure out who sent them hahaa
01:00:19
Floyd well since it's Friday and I'm bored LOL you have any plans tonight Mark Danny I'm
01:00:29
supposed to go to a friend's 30th birthday party tonight but I'm not sure when I'm getting out of work still frown
01:00:37
face Floyd well tell work peace out and let's pregame before you go out he sends the
01:00:45
wink Emoji I I have this really neat drinking game you might like you're welcome to come over to my place if you
01:00:54
want to guys's a tool I'd love to this is Danny replying I'd love to but I'm already going to be late since I'm
01:01:01
leaving now and it started at 6:30 October 30th the day that Floyd was texting on
01:01:09
this this same day on the 30th that Floyd invited Danny to come over to his home to play a drinking game I I want to
01:01:19
throw out there a note that that was Floyd's wife's birthday this guy's a piece of [ __ ] sandwich
01:01:25
so Floyd tried once more to text Dany according to the old phone asking her on November 21st what she was up to that
01:01:35
evening now there are no more texts between the two of them that appeared on that old phone police were able to
01:01:43
determine that on Danny's new phone which we should point out has never been found there were four texts between
01:01:52
Floyd and Danny and a April of 2016 however their content is unknown police may know what those messages were
01:02:05
we don't know it's not been released to the public but somehow they exchanged numbers or some
01:02:13
at some point they exchanged numbers yes and we don't know exactly how that came
01:02:18
about did Floyd give her his number you could you could imagine any number of ways that he could have gave her his
01:02:28
number again it does not appear that that if in fact Floyd was interested in Dany which it appears to be that way it
01:02:37
does not appear that Dany shared the same interest so clearly we have Floyd who's interested
01:02:45
in Danny there's nothing that look this would be nothing that every single young
01:02:52
woman has not had to deal with at the workplace or school or somewhere else you know someone who exhibits interest
01:03:00
in her than she does not reciprocate and she's too polite to firmly just shut it
01:03:07
down well right and but it becomes a becomes a lot harder for her because of his position one if it was her boss it
01:03:16
would probably be even harder but he's security guard um he's almost somebody that like he's obviously based on what
01:03:24
her mother is saying is not staying in his area so he can swing by and talk to her whenever he wants yeah and to top
01:03:31
that off I mean this is going to be somebody that you're going to see every day so being outwardly rude to somebody
01:03:40
usually isn't not a great idea for somebody that you're going to have to be around day after day after day so a lot
01:03:48
of our Our Lady listeners out there know exactly what we're talking about here captain and 99% of of the time the guy
01:03:56
is harmless you know who's who's flirting or or whatever but the other 1% of the time these seemingly harmless
01:04:05
crushes well anybody that's got the ID channel will tell you they can turn into obsessions look it happens to men too
01:04:14
but the Threat Level isn't there you know you might work in a an environment where some girl comes by your desk a
01:04:24
couple times a week to say hello and and and try to get her flirt game on but you
01:04:30
don't feel threatened in any way but I couldn't imagine what women have to go through on a daily basis at work and at
01:04:39
gyms and everywhere else now one thing about Floyd that caused some serious concern to investigators was in December
01:04:48
of 2016 remember Floyd did not work at the MetLife building in any longer in fact
01:04:55
he had not worked there since October when the building had been sold and the new management company hired a different
01:05:01
security company so they're asking themselves we got two people that say Floyd was the man at the vehicle in the
01:05:10
suit in the parking lot in December of 2016 what on Earth was Floyd Galloway doing at
01:05:18
metti as Danny happened to be walking out of work on that Friday on December 6th after having received Floyd's name
01:05:28
from the witnesses at metti police went to his home address again this is 2910 Oxford Street in Berkeley no one was
01:05:37
home so they went to his work he was contracted out by his employer the security company to provide security at
01:05:46
American Axle in Ro in Rochester Hills on weekdays from 300 pm to 11 p.m. police went there and found Floyd there
01:05:57
with his dark gray Buick parked in the lot now remind you that's the same description that was given by uh our one
01:06:07
witness Debbie who saw a man with the hood up at the MetLife parking lot the car had a temporary
01:06:16
plate I don't fully understand this portion of it Captain but I'm going to go through it anyway the temporary plate
01:06:24
police discovered that his wife had recently taken possession of this vehicle at a dealership on November
01:06:34
28th uh the day she entered the H okay so I I I now fully understand it's just the wording is weird this vehicle did
01:06:44
not belong to Floyd per se it was in his wife's name the vehicle was used but it
01:06:51
was new to the both of them and that's why it had the uh temporary plate because she had recently purchased it
01:07:00
from a dealer in late November now his wife went into the hospital around the same time now Floyd
01:07:11
told police that he did in fact know Danny but he hadn't seen her in months which would line up with him not having
01:07:20
worked at metie for months yeah it doesn't line up with the two eyewitnesses correct he said that a
01:07:28
friend told him about her disappearance and detectives noted that he would not look at them during questioning during
01:07:38
this time where they they talk to him at his work he would only glance at the flyer with Danny's photo and the
01:07:47
detective say that Floyd's hands were shaking while he was talking to them when asked about his wife Floyd told
01:07:56
them that his wife eileene had cancer and she was in the hospital for an Extended Stay receiving treatment at a
01:08:05
Cancer Center in Detroit and he called into his work on December 1st calling out sick calling in
01:08:16
and saying hey I'll be I'm sick and I'm not coming in the next day which would be December 2nd of course this is is the
01:08:24
same day that Danny stislicki vanished so he's unaccounted for as far as his work is concerned as you pointed out we
01:08:33
have the eyewitness accounts of him being seen at the MetLife building where he did not work around 5:00 p.m. on the
01:08:42
day that Danny went missing well it's a big red flag I mean if it's just like when they have a cell phone ping into
01:08:50
somebody's house and then the the girl goes missing but they have a cell phone ping into a
01:08:55
guy's house and then they stop by the guy's house and they go do you know uh Debbie and he goes no has she ever been
01:09:02
to your house nope that's the big red flag and here's this guy going I haven't seen her in
01:09:08
months but we got two eyewitnesses that put you in that parking lot um you're not looking at us in the
01:09:15
eyes you're shaking these are these are big red flags well and I like that you point out uh into someone's house that
01:09:23
we have a cell phone that we can pinpoint to the point of knowing that it was in someone's house that is not the
01:09:32
case here in Danny's case because of of the time frame that we're talking about but we've covered some cases and in
01:09:39
certain areas this is a this is a warning for any wouldbe attackers out there how good and how far advanced
01:09:47
technology is getting against these offenders and these horrible people there are certain areas that
01:09:54
today have technology that can triangulate and pinpoint a cell phone signal to the point of if if someone has
01:10:03
a slightly larger than normaler lot uh property size where they can go Not only was this cell phone on the property from
01:10:14
this time to this time we believe it was inside the home from this time to this time which is fascinating stuff as far
01:10:22
as how we are protecting offenders and preventing crime and and and finding victims as well well and technology is
01:10:31
going to keep getting better so we're going to get more detailed reports in the future so after this conversation
01:10:38
with police Floyd immediately lawyered up and afterward he refused to talk about Dany
01:10:46
at all all this was enough for police to obtain a search warrant for Floyd's home
01:10:52
which was exec uted the next day on December 7th the search Warr warrant was secret and not reported by the media at
01:11:02
all a second search was conducted on the same premises but this would be on December 22nd in this search the media
01:11:12
was on site and articles started appearing in the Press linking a former security guard to Danielle tisi's
01:11:21
investigation so what does that mean what it means is Floyd Galloway was not named by name in the papers at that time
01:11:29
they were simply referring to him as a former security guard has been linked to the Danielle stislicki
01:11:38
investigation what was observed though Captain was police were seen removing a mattress and floorboards from the
01:11:45
Galloway home they impounded a total of three vehicles and collected close to 300 items of evidence over the course of
01:11:56
several searches as we now know upwards of 78 78 search warrants were granted and
01:12:06
executed in this case sources told the media that the searches were targeting areas that Floyd was known to frequent
01:12:16
like areas near his church school his parents home and so on the neighbors were reported to police that they had
01:12:25
not seen Floyd or his wife much since around the time of Danny's disappearance this is because as soon as
01:12:35
the unannounced searches of their home started Floyd and eileene who eileene remember she got out of she was in the
01:12:45
hospital but got out of the hospital on December 9th they moved to her parents home in Royal Oak and one wonders what
01:12:55
Floyd told his family was the reason behind all of this interest the police interest in him eventually both his home
01:13:04
and Floyd's parents home were searched as well but both families continued to support Floyd during this time meanwhile
01:13:16
searches for Danny continued all in all Farmington Police consulted more than 12
01:13:22
law enforcement agencies and this included but was not limited to the FBI Michigan State Police
01:13:31
the Secret Service as well as US Customs and Border Patrol so what they're doing
01:13:38
here Captain is they're really circling the wagons to make sure that they leave no stone unturned because what they
01:13:45
wanted to do is to verify that Dany did not leave the country that in fact something had happened to her that Foul
01:13:55
Play was involved and that is the reason for her disappearance authorities assured
01:14:01
everyone that they were utilizing special resources offered by these larger more well-funded and
01:14:10
resourcer larger police policing agencies in a December 7th press conference the Farmington Hills police
01:14:20
stated that they did not believe that Dan left of her own accord her parents pleaded for information they showed
01:14:29
photos of Dany what she was wearing that day her missing keys and phone and her Jeep and hopes that someone might have
01:14:38
seen something the independence Green Apartment Complex and Met Life company each put up a
01:14:46
$50,000 reward for information and by mid December the reward was supplemented by the family and others to exceed
01:15:00
$125,000 but the news Unearthed by the investigation behind the scenes was not good on December 19th
01:15:10
2016 the Farmington Hills Police Department announced that based on evidence gathered they believed Dany was
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the victim of Foul Play the original classification of the case as a missing person was now a criminal
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