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Ireland but this isn't your average case of someone going missing and turning up
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murdered in this case no one is really sure what happened here and the victim is a
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juvenile a child who simply went out for a bike ride to meet friends and ended up
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dead in the strangest of places and in the oddest of circumstances one detective called this
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the strangest case he'd seen in his over 30-year career this is true crime garage and
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this is the suspicious death investigation of Noah [Music] donaho [Music] on Sunday June 21st 2020 Noah Dono age
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14 set off on his bike around 5:30 p.m. to meet friends at Cave Hill Country Park this is in Belfast in Northern
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Ireland Noah was a pupil at St maly's College a private Catholic boys School founded in
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1833 according to the Irish news Noah was meeting a group of school friends to work towards his Duke of Edinburg award
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now the Duke of Edinburg award is a Civic self-improvement award given to young people who complete the
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requirements of each level at Noah's age the four requirements would be community
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service mental skill building physical Recreation and adventurous Journey this last one requires that an adventure be
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completed with a group of kids working together which was pre-approved by an award leader when Noah left the house he
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had a large backpack containing his laptop and some books he anticipated needing for the day's activities Noah is
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regularly described in the media as a talented chist at school he played rugby and basketball and sang in the choir he
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was an exceptional student and received multiple Awards in the three years at the school including the spirit of the
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college award the perfect attendance award and various class prizes that Sunday afternoon Noah never showed up at
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Cave Hill Park yeah now Noah's mother is going to plead with the public for any information about her son his
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disappearance was completely out of character for him and it seems that the police recognized right away that
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something was wrong once they received the report that he was missing no was widely described as last scene wearing a
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black skateboarding helmet a khaki green North Face jacket gray sweat shorts with
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an emblem on one leg a tiedye blue hoodie Nike sneakers with a bright yellow swoosh and a khaki backpack
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Noah's missing person's case became big news in Belfast with people holding vigils and participating in searches in
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fact according to the Belfast telegram his case became one of the biggest missing person's cases in the history of
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Northern Ireland on the day that he disappeared on that Sunday searches Sunday night and Monday focusing on the
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area he was believed to have been heading to Cave Hill Park came up empty but on Monday night police received news
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that a woman named Karen Kooks called in she had heard all about the missing boy
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as it was all over the news right she told police that on Sunday night so this was right after Noah went missing he
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left his home at 5:30 p.m. she found a black Apollo mountain bike lying in the road at her Northwood Road home this is
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a residential area so at the time you know she just assumes some neighborhood kid left his bike and would come back
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and get it later right she left it in front of her house and went to work on Monday morning it is an odd place to
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find a bike maybe you'd see one on the sidewalk we don't know the area so we don't know if there was sidewalks or
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maybe you'd find a children's bike in in somebody's yard but in the street I think that's a little uh suspicious so
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on Monday she heard about Noah from the news and the description of his bike a black Apollo mountain bike so when she
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went home she finds that the bike is still in her yard no one's come to retrieve it she called the police at 700
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p.m. and on Tuesday police confirmed that it was in fact Noah's bike so police now had an idea where Noah had
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gone note this Northwood Road neighborhood is totally residential and is nowhere it is nowhere near the park
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where Noah was supposed to be going his his supposed destination yeah I wonder how familiar he was with riding into the
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park this was actually 2 and 1/2 miles away from Cave Hill and no one had any idea why Noah would be in that
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particular area one thing that Irish crime Fighters have at their disposal that is of tantamount to this case and
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cases like this is CCTV cameras all over the place right the Police Service of Northern Ireland
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psni was able to put together a timeline of where Noah went and when by compiling
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CCTV footage from businesses and homes believe they had over 20 pieces of video footage with Noah on it yes so this was
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from 22 different sources and they were able to watch nine full minutes of Noah's Journey this was broken up
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footage from 22 different cameras that captured Noah as he went past by utilizing the timestamps on the footage
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they were able to track his travels that Sunday evening here are their official findings one note before we get into the
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route Noah took that day Noah's home address where he lived with his mother Fiona has not been published right media
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Outlets like Belfast live have published maps showing the different points where
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Noah was seen on CCTV that afternoon and they placed the starting point at the intersection of absy street and
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Oru Avenue and I'm going to spell those just in case I'm not pronouncing them correctly that's APS l y Street and o r
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m e auu Avenue the bike ride to Cave Hill from this area is 6.7 miles so it would take Noah over an hour to get
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there and like you said he's not in the area he's supposed to be that that is one of the the biggest mysteries of this
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case yes and there's no real reporting about whether Noah had biked to this area
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before or if he was even used to such long bike rides by himself so we don't know if he's familiar with this area
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where he's not supposed to be right the Irish news reported that it was thought that Noah may have taken a wrong turn
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you know simply got lost from his home in South Belfast on his way to Cave Hill and ended up in the Shore Road Northwood
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area where his bike was found instead but how many times have you been driving or riding your bike or or whatever
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you're doing you make a wrong turn because you think it looks familiar and then for a mile or a few miles you're
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going okay now this doesn't look familiar right and so you just keep going like I'm going to see something
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pretty soon that that makes me realize I'm going in the right direction but you just don't
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well and this is just last summer when this boy vanished so keep in mind Noah had a phone with him and he's a smart
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14-year-old if he made a wrong turn one would think he would just use a map app to obtain directions regardless a wrong
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turn even if that's the case it's certainly logical but if that's the case it does not explain him Vanishing right
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let's go through the timeline presented at the August and November preliminary hearings okay so to be clear with
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everyone they have held these hearings to try to determine what happened in this case this is not a trial uh this is
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simply people getting together and trying to decipher what happened in this particular situation the
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timeline is as follows Noah left his home in South Belfast on Sunday June 21st at 5:41 p.m. on his bike he had on
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his jacket and his backpack he then traveled along or Mayu Road at 5:42 p.m. towards the city center before cycling
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through Victoria Square at 5:49 p.m. then he hit corn Market High Street and Royal Avenue this at 5:50 p.m. so
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several different roads traveling pretty fast Along on his bike covering a decent
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amount of ground no was then seen traveling alongside the AR College near the corner of York Street and Frederick
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Street at 5:53 p.m. CCV footage shows Noah traveling toward yorkgate by which stage Noah is clearly seen to no longer
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be carrying his backpack weird stuff he's not interacted with anybody he's simply traveling on his bike and when we
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get to this clip we can't see a backpack he's no longer carrying his back backpack Noah then traveled along York
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Street crossing great Patrick Street and the motorway which is another word for their Highway before turning left onto
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broam Street and then right along North Queen Street at 557 p.m. moving toward the north of the city this part is not
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on CCTV but came from a witness statement saying that at 6: p.m. as Noah cycled toward the Grove well-being
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Center on North Queen Street in York Road he fell from his bicycle just before the junction with the Shore Road
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a motorist stopped at the intersection witnessed this it seems she did not actually talk to Noah because Noah got
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back on his bicycle within one minute and continued along Shore Road at this stage he was no
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longer wearing his green Overcoat he continued along York Road cycling in a normal way according to the
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barister presenting the timeline one minute later at just before 6:02 p.m. Noah was seen entering Northwood
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Crescent from Skoal Avenue he was wearing his black skate helmet blue hoodie gray shorts and black Nikes then
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because a story involving video surveillance footage would not be complete without a glitch in the
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timestamp there was an initial Gap in the timeline it was reported to the public that the next sighting of Noah on
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CCTV was at 6:11 p.m I think we're now 100% in the cases we covered when there's CCTV where something is wrong
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there's a time stamp is normally wrong correct it's it would be abnormal if they're 100% correct so so what we have
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here is the the initial reporting at these hearings is stating hey there's nine minutes unaccounted for where Noah
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is not visible we don't know what he's doing who he's with if anyone at all this Gap in the timeline was enough to
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cause all sorts of rumors conspiracy theories including that Noah could have been
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abducted and had fallen victim to child molester or even been kidna SED in some politically motivated plot against
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British loyalists but this was all eventually addressed by the psni this is a statement from one of the
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hearings says quote police have since confirmed that the 1811 timing is wrong the time stamp on
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the actual footage is 1808 police misunderstood at the time of its retrieval that the clock on the CC
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TV was 3 minutes slow and hence the reported actual timing of 1811 police Now understand the clock on
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the CCTV to have been 5 minutes fast hence the new last sighting timing of 1803 these timings will be evidentially
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verified at the full inquest but it's very strange I mean we have these gaps in time but the fact that he's leaving
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his book bag behind the fact that he's leaving his jacket behind uh we can't say for 100% certainty that
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he had no interaction with somebody because we don't have obviously every second of his travel that day there's
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yeah that's correct we don't have every second of his travel however what this means per the statement is that there is
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in fact no Gap in the footage at all the next sightings of Noah are at 6:03 p.m.
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well yeah and I and I think what they're implying is we don't think there was any
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interaction because there's no time Gap showing that he would have stopped to interact with somebody correct correct
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and again from the official statement this is for the next stage in the timeline at 6:03 p.m. Noah is seen a
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short distance away outside of 85 Northwood Road without any close he has seen on this CCTV to go
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between numbers 80 9 and 91 Northwood Road which leads to an area of waste ground behind the two houses this is a
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wooded area behind the neighborhood okay just a recap no real Gap in the CCTV footage footage pulled from 22 cameras
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where we can see Noah traveling Along on his bicycle however there are articles of
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clothing that seem to be disappearing at as he continues on his Adventure just that doesn't make any sense first the
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backpack then his his jacket yeah and then to the point where he's he's visibly naked right
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so he's then seen walking in this residential neighborhood naked the CCTV footage that captured this was from a
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camera on the Northwood Road home of Linda Patterson so we are at this point no possessions no
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clothes and his bike is gone at this point correct now Linda Patterson um which her CCTV captured
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this footage she said that she was sitting in her living room watching television when she saw Noah bike passed
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and he was not wearing any clothes at this point she says that she called to her husband but by the time he got into
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the the room and they looked again out the window the boy was gone and they saw his bike just lying in the street she
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said to the media quote quite a few people saw him but they just saw him from the waist up and didn't think
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anything of it end quote Yeah they didn't see his dingle dangle she also said that the boy did not seem to be in
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distress in any way at all but again this is a very quick sighting out of window here right this is the the last
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footage showing Noah Dono before he vanished but here here's what we do have though is we do have at some point that
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we know that there's a mistake between law enforcement and the information on the CCTV so I think some people wonder
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is there possibly more mistakes that law enforcement just didn't catch yes uh Linda's house the eyewitness her home
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appears to be a condo with multiple units in one larger building this is also a call to sack
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Noah had last been seen between numbers 89 and 91 the addresses 89 and 91 Northwood Road one of these is the home
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of Karen Crooks she's the woman who found Noah's bike and later reported it so Noah was there biking naked this is
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not a situation where the child was abducted at some point and somebody dumped the bike off in this neighborhood
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we have eyewitnesses and footage putting him there before he disappears and now simply it's a bike in the
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street none of the footage however actually shows him removing his clothing at any point it's reported that police
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believe Noah left the area on foot they did not suspect Foul Play Because in all
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of the footage they reviewed which seemed to account for Noah's Journey from his home to where his bike was F
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found he was not seen interacting with a single person but regardless no one knew where
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to the information at the hearing it was reported to the court that on Wednesday
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Noah's helmet was found by a member of the public on Northwood Road on the same day his hoodie and shoes were discovered
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by a member of the public lying on a wall at 63 Northwood Road mhm clearly he had discarded his clothing and then
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gotten back on on his bike and I'm saying that with a question mark at the end and where were the rest of his
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clothes you know we we don't have his jacket his shorts so now that the police knew that that Noah was biking along
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naked and the witness had reported seeing him fall off his bike people began to speculate that perhaps Noah
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suffered some kind of head injury during this fall you know we reported he was wearing a skating helmet
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but regardless theories about it that perhaps he suffered some kind of concussion underneath the helmet the
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fall from the bike and the motorist saying that he may have hit his head is what led police to believe Noah might
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have been disoriented got lost or was simply hiding the psni superintendent Clark
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said quote the one thing we are majoring on is that he has in some way suffered a
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head injury which led him to being disoriented an appeal was made to the public to please search their homes
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Gardens garages out buildings and surrounding areas for the boy police said we still believe he may have gone
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into an empty building or shed foot searches supported by an aerial unit police dogs and a Tactical Team covered
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the area thoroughly as well as local volunteers but they still could not find the boy they couldn't find Noah the fall
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from the bike could not explain one thing Noah shedding his backpack and coat because this would be before the
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fall right and it also does not explain the direction he was traveling in this is not the direction he should be going
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in by the time he fell off his bike he was in a location he had no business being in that anyone knows of and it's
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far from his alleged destination okay so then you asked about the backpack on Friday June
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26th it was announced that police recovered his backpack here's what happened a known drug addict his name is
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Daryl Paul age 33 found the backpack he says leaning up against a wall we don't know exactly where he ran sacked it and
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he tried to sell off some of the items he found inside of the backpack at like a
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they call it a cash converters shop but I imagine it's like a pawn shop mind you
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there's the laptop computer inside this backpack this was 2 days after Noah went
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missing on June 23rd for unknown reasons the store refused to buy it Paul was arrested that week on unrelated charges
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and was sitting in jail meanwhile this is bizarre an anonymous call to police informed them that Daryl
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Paul was in possession of the computer backpack and school books with missing child Noah donah Who's name on them mhm
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so they don't find these items on this dude when they arrest him on unrelated charges he's sitting in a jail cell
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because of these unrelated charges this unrelated arrest and magically an anonymous phone call comes in saying hey
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remember that missing kid that we still haven't found this dude had some of this
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kid's belongings police are going to search his home to try to find these items or hopefully
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even find the boy and they did recover the backpack and the books they then recovered the laptop
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from a friend of Pauls I guess he said that he he loaned it to his friend or maybe possibly trying to sell it to the
00:30:50
friend again we look at these cases and we say if you could have just you know one question question answered this case
00:30:59
you're going to have a whole long list of them but here at this point in the timeline I would be fascinated to know
00:31:06
who called in this anonymous tip about these belongings this lead is strange too because it turns out there was no
00:31:16
possibility that Daryl Paul had anything to do with what happened to Noah and this is per a police statement quote
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CCTV footage confirmed that the individual who took the bag was a number of miles away when Noah was last seen
00:31:32
with the bag at or about the art college right this individual is being investigated for the offense under the
00:31:41
Theft Act and the police will deal with this manner separately so Paul per CCTV footage they can put this guy at a
00:31:51
completely different location miles away from where this boy was when his backpack disappears off of his body off
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of his person on the CCTV footage right according to statements made at the preliminary hearing Noah's phone was
00:32:08
discovered within a few days of his disappearance this was near a playground on North Queen Street a citizen found
00:32:15
the phone and turned it in it was reported that both the phone and the laptop were undergoing forensic
00:32:22
examination as one would expect although initial investigation did not discover anything useful or any useful
00:32:30
information on either of the devices right we don't have any record of him making connection with somebody through
00:32:38
these devices yeah it doesn't seem to be communicating with anybody uh as far as
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we know he's not looking up a map app to indicate that he's aware that he's lost
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again we also don't have any communication of why he would be in that area and not heading towards the park so
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as you will recall the final piece of the CCTV footage showed Noah walking naked near a house on Northwood Road
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where his bike was found searches of the area at the time turned up nothing but by Thursday police seem to be on to
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something and we say that because by that Thursday they're now asking everyone to stand down on their public
00:33:22
searches remember they were asking the public for help for information and for them to search their their properties
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right they're now asking the public to stand down on Saturday June 27th 6 days after Noah was last seen
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there was news police found Noah's body at 9:45 a.m. in a storm drain complex underneath the Shore Road area search
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and rescue teams had been searching the complex apparently for several days Captain psni superintendent Clark made a
00:33:56
public statement saying quote while we have no official identification we believe it is the missing teenager Noah
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Dono Clark asked the public to stop spreading baseless rumors about Noah being murdered stating that said he did
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not believe Foul Play to have been a factor yeah I don't think there was any puncture wounds like bullet holes or he
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wasn't stabbed with a knife or anything right we do have some information from the autopsy it was conducted um in
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rumors flew that Noah had been murdered placed in the storm drain system to hide
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the body yeah look my issue with this examiner saying people shouldn't question things so much in this area
00:34:41
they did have people that were being harassed and stocked online so that's not out of the norm for the public to
00:34:50
have some questions about that we have a we have a missing child that we have on
00:34:57
film basically um removing all his belongings it just doesn't add up correct and the thing that we have going
00:35:07
on here too is the baseless rumors that the investigators are telling the public
00:35:12
hey can you please stop with this this is not helping our investigation at all because what you have here Captain is we
00:35:20
know that his bike was found on Northwood Road and then we have the public statement of what we tracked him
00:35:28
via camera footage to where his bike went was found and then about a week later we find him in this storm drain
00:35:39
complex it's it's we'll go through the storm drain complex here in a little bit but we find his body in this area what
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you have is you have accusations by people online who are saying okay well this person that lives on Northwood Road
00:35:54
they must have killed him and abducted him and killed kill him this person that lives on this street must have done this
00:36:00
right and that's not helping their investigation at all I I'm just saying that I I don't think it's uncalled for
00:36:09
for the a community that knows that people are being harassed online and stalked online to have questions so the
00:36:18
autopsy again with the rumors and everything like that of course they're looking for Foul Play and the police
00:36:24
suspected that Noah may have suffered a head injury resulting in this unusual behavior the coroner was also looking
00:36:31
for any signs of head trauma or head injury the results of the autopsy were startling to many it was found that the
00:36:39
cause of death was drowning Noah had drowned in the storm drain system or appears to be that way right and to make
00:36:47
things even more puzzling it was also revealed that he did not sustain any severe head injury in fact there was no
00:36:54
detectable head injury at all according to the BBC coroner Joe mccriskin said there is no evidence that
00:37:03
Noah was attacked or that any other person was involved in his death he also expressed concern about continued
00:37:11
baseless online speculation about the incident now what about uh his mental health do we know if he's on any
00:37:19
medication or do we know if he was ADHD or anything like that it does not appear
00:37:26
that he had anything of concern because if if he had like severe ADHD or something like that and they had him on
00:37:35
a high dose of something that maybe his parents stopped giving him or maybe he stopped taking he could be having
00:37:45
symptoms of like withdraw which would make sense on why he was taking his clothes off because one of the symptoms
00:37:53
of a of a drug withdrawal would be that you feel like your body's on fire correct correct um let's go through that
00:38:01
storn drain system here because anybody that's not familiar with this case they're probably just picturing this boy
00:38:10
being found in a ditch somewhere mhm you know a large puddle of water so to speak
00:38:16
so the storm drain system and also let's try to figure out how he got there because this is not what you're
00:38:23
picturing if you're not familiar with this case the police believe that Noah entered the storm drain of his own
00:38:28
accord this is something you would have to physically get into yeah and they say
00:38:34
the police say that they know exactly where he went in now we don't know exactly how they quote unquote know this
00:38:43
but they figured out that he was in the drain system and went into search for him and ultimately retrieved his body
00:38:51
there's an obvious location where he could have entered if you believe that he's entering the nearest to where his
00:38:56
bike was found so that's that could be how they quote unquote know that he entered the storm drain system at this
00:39:03
location I don't think anybody knows anything in this case is why I'm using air quotes there um yeah nobody nobody
00:39:11
knows anything well nobody can see that you're making air quotes except for me but um I think the thing here the
00:39:18
evidence that they're just not pointing out which is obvious is that there's latches with locks on these storm drains
00:39:27
so process of elimination if all of them are locked going forward you know the the next five are locked and the five
00:39:37
behind us are locked but this one isn't I think that's where they know the point
00:39:42
of entrance yeah so remember Karen Crooks the nice lady who found Noah's bike and reported it the entrance to the
00:39:50
storm drain where it is believed that Noah went in is at the bottom of her yard behind her home
00:39:57
now this is not a manhole or one of those small under the curb openings like we see in our cities here in the US M
00:40:05
this drainage system is massive it's a maze of underground tunnels spanning one kilometer and the drains themselves are
00:40:14
huge yeah I'm I'm not saying it looks just like this but if you think of like Stephen Kings it you know exactly what I
00:40:23
thought of you know the dairy uh sewage system that's that's what I'm imagining these
00:40:29
have been described as CTS carrying underground waterways and the entrance behind the crooks home is a very
00:40:37
imposing looking opening photos of the access point to the storm drain system it is thought that Noah entered are
00:40:45
available online the entrance is a very large concrete opening that descends into the ground almost resembling the
00:40:54
entrance to an underground tomb or maybe a crypt and the opening is topped by a very imposing iron bar grate clearly
00:41:04
intended to keep people out so the great intended to keep people from going into the drain system at
00:41:14
first there was some question as to whether Noah could fit through the bars Karen krooks said her small boys
00:41:22
their ages are five and seven told her when they were discussing the case that they were able to squeeze through and
00:41:30
had done so the Bars were 7 and 1/2 in apart now according that's according to the Irish news keep in mind Noah is 14
00:41:39
he's not five or seven so I think it's highly doubtful that Noah could fit through such a small opening and as the
00:41:46
captain pointed out I don't know he's I mean he's rail thin well as you pointed out we would later learn that this
00:41:54
great it was unlocked yeah so it's intended to keep people out but if you don't put a lock on it it's the same as
00:42:01
any unlocked door anybody can walk through the thing right this is could just simply be a tragic
00:42:07
coincidence I guess the complex had been inspected on June 18th just 3 days before Noah died but the inspection
00:42:16
failed to note that the access hatch was not locked right so on June 21st when Noah had for unknown reasons decided to
00:42:26
enter the storm drain it was unlocked the infrastructure officials placed a padlock on it on June 24th this is after
00:42:35
they discovered that the police were considering whether Noah could have gone into it yeah three days after this is
00:42:40
three days too late so again from the from the Public's perception right you have this boy who went into what should
00:42:48
appear to be a locked great and it's going to be be reported as such now you're wondering how did did he
00:42:56
magically end up in there and then you find out well it it was only locked just before they found him it wasn't locked
00:43:04
on the day that he went missing wait hold on did you smell that lawsuit so once it was established
00:43:11
where Noah accessed the storm drain system it took police several days to find his body the Waterway tunnels were
00:43:19
pitch black inside and it took many twists and turns the psni superintendent Clark told the media that the storm
00:43:27
drain system searches were quote extremely challenging well and what's going to be very challenging here is
00:43:34
even if they say he died from drowning again like we've talked about the case yesterday fire destroys evidence water
00:43:43
destroys evidence equally yes and the superintendent included this in his statements about finding the body saying
00:43:51
in my 30 years in the police this is one of the most unusual missing person inquiries that I have dealt with at the
00:44:01
second preliminary hearing this was on August 28th the coroner addressed the court with his findings about the storm
00:44:08
drain system and Noah's demise this is quoted from the Belfast live quote today in conjunction with the police and my
00:44:17
Council I am providing some details which was which will dispel the many baseless and inaccurate rumors which
00:44:26
continue to circulate today I will set fact against fiction to me it seems likely that Noah entered the storm drain
00:44:33
to the rear of 85 Northwood Road by lifting a metal drain cover which at that time was not secured I have
00:44:41
examined the drain cover as have police officers and it seems entirely possible for Noah to have been able to lift that
00:44:49
cover and enter the drain system at that location end quote the coroner described
00:44:55
the drain as running underground from Northwood Road to Shore Road and again with him being found over a kilometer
00:45:03
away from the entrance this is a pretty big underground tunnel system yeah I mean he had a you know it took him days
00:45:10
to find him but also could he have gone down there and again we don't have pictures of this location so could he
00:45:18
have kept traveling when he got down down to the system without going through all the actual point point and different
00:45:26
roads and stuff because I think it will just get confusing here in this audio format that we have but there are maps
00:45:34
online to one show you his journey that he took on his bicycle right before going missing and there are also maps
00:45:42
that will show the different entrance points to this underground Waterway tunnel system I will post those on our
00:45:49
website and I'll also post those on social media Instagram at True Crime garage Facebook at True Crime garage and
00:45:57
Twitter at True Crime garage but something that's incredibly important to understand here is the environment
00:46:03
within the drain system itself it's described as of course challenging there's a lot of twists and turns the
00:46:10
drainage system there it it backfills with water during intervals between low and High
00:46:17
Tides so what we have here is the storm drainage system is tidal the water levels would EB and flow with the tides
00:46:28
right it would be entirely possible for someone to enter the drain when the water level was low or even very low
00:46:35
thinking that it would not pose any type of danger only to get trapped down there
00:46:41
when the tide rushed in on July 6th Fiona this is Noah's mother issued a statement that read in effect at this
00:46:51
time we are working with the psni on matters which are outstanding to the investigation and we are seeking
00:46:58
answers to questions which arise Noah's disappearance and death undoubtedly raise questions however public
00:47:07
speculation in theory is unhelpful we are dealing with the facts okay here's some questions one we don't know why he
00:47:16
was going in the direction he was going in and not towards the park that doesn't
00:47:21
make any sense we have some time gaps but we don't think that he was communicating with any individual what
00:47:29
happened during those time gaps we have those questions because sometimes we have items missing from him but we don't
00:47:36
have video footage of him actually discarding those items other question why does he get off his bike next
00:47:43
question he's nagged why and then what was the reasoning for going into the drainage
00:47:51
system was that because he was naked right you know and he was looking for a place to oh I don't have any clothes I I
00:47:59
need a place to hide and then like you said the the tide comes in and he he drowns or was he having some kind of
00:48:07
break was there some medical issues he was having that maybe his parents didn't know about maybe classmates knew about I
00:48:17
mean the only reason why I say that possibly a symptom and we can't even say for sure that it was a symptom was like
00:48:24
that he would feel like he was burning because why else would you take off your clothes right so as far as like
00:48:33
misdiagnose like a disease or something the it is a symptom rare symptom of Ms I
00:48:40
think there's even some stuff to do with um diabetes and stuff mhm but again like
00:48:45
I said did he have some kind of attention deficit disorder where they pulled him off his medication or did he
00:48:52
have a mental thing that he was on some kind of Narcotics that they pulled them off and he started going into some
00:48:58
withdrawals and just didn't know how to handle himself I mean he's only 14 years
00:49:02
old well and some people that have never heard of this case are probably asking why is the garage covering this one well
00:49:08
first of all it's been requested requested yeah and then second of all for a week while this child was
00:49:16
missing it was considered by the public to be an abduction and possibly a murder
00:49:21
right then he's found then the autopsy's conducted to to confirmed that he drowned and it's believe he drowned in
00:49:28
this drainage system well a good amount of the public still question what the hell happened here and so we have to
00:49:35
look at this put it under the garage microscope and wonder if there was a crime that was committed here now on
00:49:45
August 9th his mother put a post onto Noah's Facebook page that says why do we not all wake up my son died we have no
00:49:58
answers we have nothing please start questioning why I have no answers that same day a petition was circulated on
00:50:08
change.org and this petition was people requesting that the psni they're questioning the
00:50:16
investigation itself and psn's handling of Noah's case this petition got 22,500 signatur
00:50:25
in just two days so there's a lot of people that want to know what the hell happened here right
00:50:33
because and let me put my tin hat on but the world we live in is not the world in
00:50:41
which they just tell us about and what I mean by that is just because they say that you know the walls are blue
00:50:47
sometimes you're looking at the walls and you go those damn walls are red but everybody's trying to tell me they're
00:50:52
blue and that's why I was saying is the CCT TV footage accurate and is the information that law enforcement uh is
00:51:00
putting out to the public is that accurate and if it is accurate then then there was no communication there was no
00:51:08
nobody else involved there was no Person of Interest that he came in contact with
00:51:14
but you you have to start with believing the information that has been given well
00:51:19
and many people have stated that the autopsy did not yield results um that anybody felt good about many
00:51:28
people believe that the autopsy itself which we're only able to report a little portion of it I I don't know could not
00:51:37
find what I believe to be the complete autopsy to have been released right and and then we've seen in multiple cases
00:51:45
hold on I smell him a little FY Malik we know in in plenty of cases of suspicious
00:51:53
deaths or possible murderers where the autopsy is they don't make a lot of sense or there's errors I mean we
00:52:01
saw that in uh Kendrick Johnson's case we've see that with um like the boys on the tracks case yeah but I think that's
00:52:09
quite a accusation there to be no I'm just I'm just saying that there's people in the public that will question that
00:52:16
because of those cases because of the the rumors that they've heard about other uh Foul Play I'm not saying that
00:52:23
you should assume that the autopsy wasn't done correctly or that there was some weird workings of the autopsy I'm
00:52:30
just saying that that's because of other cases people go we still don't have any
00:52:37
answers right well was this autopsy done correctly was the investigation done correctly it do the parents actually
00:52:45
know but they're they're hiding something from us yeah and you're right many people have have put forth the idea
00:52:51
that the autopsy only presents more questions than it did answers there was to be an inquest in
00:53:00
the case of Noah donoho's death that was set for this week in fact it was set for
00:53:07
Monday January 18th 2021 it appears that that has been postponed because of the covid situation
00:53:18
so now what they're saying is and I'm I'm going to pull up this article here because this is a very fluid
00:53:27
situation again there was supposed to be a preliminary hearing where they were going to go through everything all of
00:53:34
the facts of the case just earlier this week what statements have come from that
00:53:41
is that one it's to be postponed there is some type of further hearing which I don't understand the difference in what
00:53:48
these hearings are and I'm not going to pretend to uh but what I'm seeing here Captain is that a further hearing will
00:53:55
be conducted on April 12th 2021 so this year however the formal final inquest will be held January 10th
00:54:09
2022 per that we're going to be left with with little in the way of answers until we have that uh I guess that final
00:54:19
formal inquest that final formal sitdown yeah this is definitely a case that we're going to need to revisit on off
00:54:27
the Record and it's it's just really sad I mean you got a kid a young kid that's
00:54:32
intelligent good-looking kid again it just there's so many questions why is he heading in that direction why why is he
00:54:40
taking his clothes off why is he taking his belongings and just tossing him aside all the way down to where he's not
00:54:46
even on his bike he's on nothing and then he goes into a draining Sy system and why is that system why was it
00:54:53
unlocked well and and I can only go what what off off of what I'm reading and what I'm seeing and it does not appear
00:55:01
that anyone's denying or questioning if the gr itself was unlocked it seems to be pretty understood across the board
00:55:11
that that happens to be the situation what is completely bizarre and I think you know I saw somebody post this and I
00:55:20
think this is the the only way to describe this case in this situation we we had the Chief Inspector who says this
00:55:31
is the most bizarre missing persons inquiry that I've seen in my 30 years on the force but take that a step further
00:55:40
the best way to describe this is someone said this case is a real head scratcher
00:55:44
and that's exactly what it is this case is fascinating to me I have no freaking clue what happened in this situation
00:55:52
because we can say things like well maybe there was a mental break okay there's no history there's no evidence
00:56:00
leading up to this event of that that we've been made aware of that we can say what about drugs what about a toxicology
00:56:09
report there doesn't seem he doesn't seem to have been a drug user number one and number two there is no report
00:56:17
of of what was found or not found in the boy system the thing here for me Captain
00:56:25
is it's question after question after question to get to this result there's no answer after answer after answer and
00:56:34
this is what we have no it's he said he was going one place he ended up in an entirely different place he had the
00:56:43
means and the resources to correct his route if he realized at any point he was lost right then we have his personal
00:56:52
items and clothing seem to be dis disappearing right before our eyes all of this stuff comes off of his person
00:57:00
but yet at no point on any of this camera footage now mind you there's tiny little breaks you know it's 22 cameras
00:57:07
piecing together 9 Minutes of his travels but it's boom he's fully clothed backpack helmet everything next picture
00:57:16
no backpack next picture no jacket and then to the point where he's naked his he's off of his bike none of this makes
00:57:25
any sense at all and I I can't I cannot sit here and say that I believe that a crime was committed I can say that I
00:57:34
that 100% there is a huge mystery before us I feel bad for no and I feel bad for
00:57:40
his parents and the community and and hopefully by April we have some more answers yeah this case is so intriguing
00:57:48
because it's it's just so bizarre it's perplexing it's tragic by all account no was a lovely boy he and his mom were
00:57:57
very close he was someone that would not be expected to behave in such a strange
00:58:04
way at least as far as the mainstream media has reported there were no background issues that would indicate
00:58:12
that Noah was anything but a normal teenager being raised in a loving household even attending a rigorous
00:58:18
religious school and working on being the best that he could be so what on Earth happened to him that day is
00:58:25
anyone's guess at this point and no Theory makes complete sense I've reviewed all the popular theories online
00:58:33
and I can poke holes in every single one of them rather quickly it is very interesting and it will be very
00:58:39
interesting to see whether the inquest is able to provide us with any [Music] answers
00:58:58
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