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chair grab a beer let's talk some true crime foreign [Music] [Music] foreign there is a whole other world
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one that is confusing blurry and hypnotizing it was in this world that all I could
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see or at least make out at the time was a Sea of Faces many of them young but it was an organized sea not chaotic
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at all the faces all seem to be perfectly lined up in a grid row after row column after column
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like one very large black and white page from a yearbook I was lost somewhere between those two
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worlds of sleep and perfectly aware and alert it was 1am I was falling asleep I've been reading for hours in either
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the state I was in was due to the late hour where the soothing rhythmic reading of each name
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one by one row after row column after column I was stuck entrenched and entranced
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and then I was out when I came to I was able to sort out the blurry details of the image
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that was the gateway to my slumber it was page 84. the October 26 2008 Edition The Daily American Republic
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a fine newspaper out of Poplar Bluff Missouri the page featured 83 faces each the face of a missing person
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across the top of the page in large type were words of immediate concern missing children
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which were book ended by the national Center for missing and exploited children organizations logo and the
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number to call should you have seen or have any information about one of the missing
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people on the page or frankly anyone who is missing it all 1-800 the Lost I know the name does not make it clear
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but the national Center for missing and exploited children or knick-knack for short
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the organization assists in bringing home adults as well in fact and unfortunately many of the younger
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folks listed on this page and on the Knick Mac website where children who went missing Once
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Upon a Time and are now adult age missing people 34 of the faces and names were once from
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the state of Missouri one of them the face and name of this week's featured case
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of the missing persons featured from Missouri there are some names that you are sure
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to recognize names like that of Suzanne Streeter and Stacy McCall Suzanne and Stacy are two of the
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Springfield three females who are still missing to this very day and believed to be the victims of an
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abduction we covered the Springfield 3 case back in April of 2017. in episodes 97 and 98
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also from Missouri there's Branson Perry Branson went missing in 2001. he was about 20 years old at the time
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we covered Branson's case in April of 2021. episode 484 then there was the picture of a little
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girl from Orlando Florida the name Kaylee Marie Anthony [Music] Kaylee went missing in June of 2008.
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remember this page was printed up for an October 26 2008 newspaper Kaylee was still missing at this time
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her mother was charged with first-degree murder that same month Kaylee's body was found in December of
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2008. we covered that story in a four-part series starting in April of 2017. with episode 101
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but the focus for this week is one of the Missouri cases a case still active today
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it was the picture that was in the first of many rows of faces the tenth face in the row
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Heather Nicole colorne from St Louis Heather vanished under mysterious circumstances on a hot July night in
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1999. this is the story of the search for Heather colorne and this is true crime
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garage [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] starts off in July of 1999. the unfortunate victim in this
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story is twelve-year-old Heather killorn she was last seen on July 14 1999. this was at 10 pm now most of the
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websites out there will typically list Heather as missing since July 15th the next day well that is because what
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police rightfully have focused in on is a six hour window the six hour window that we will be talking about today is
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from 10 p.m on the 14th to 4 a.m on the 15th it appears that police have narrowed down the whatever happened to
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Heather as happening in this window of time Heather was 12 the night that she disappeared she was spending the night
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in an apartment complex in Richmond Heights Missouri this is a neighborhood in the Greater St Louis area
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what has been told to police is that Heather was to be babysitting a two-month-old baby girl overnight and on
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that night the baby was the daughter of 23 year old Dana Madden and 34 year old Christopher
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Herbert these two were both friends with Christine colorne Christine is Heather's
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mother we will get into that relationship some more as we go through everything and
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before we get into the details of the night in question let's discuss what we know about Heather leading up to The
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Disappearance so Heather was only 12 years old she didn't live at this apartment complex she lived with her
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mother and brother on Vermont Avenue this is in the Greater St Louis area as well Heather's mother Christine
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is a single mother of two Heather has an older brother named Matthew one of Heather's favorite things was the nearby
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Six Flags amusement park to which Heather had his season pass Heather was described as mature for her
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age I believe someone said it was like she was 12 going on 30. Heather was excited about her babysitting gig and
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she was looking forward to spending the summer earning some money a lot of kids you know going into their teenage years
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want to earn a little cash so they can spend it you know maybe it's at this amusement park but I do think it's kind
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of a tall task for a 12 year old to be watching a two-month-old overnight I agree Captain I remember we all like to
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get those summer jobs and start earning a little bit of money it sounds like Heather was looking
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forward to saving up some money and there's a few different versions of what she was saving this money for some have
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said that this would be for Christmas gifts that year and others had said that it could be for personal items or items
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of a more personal nature or items for her own entertainment Heather was social we know this from
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school and her Six Flags pass she would visit with friends and hang out with them at the amusement park but nothing
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was mentioned about boys or her being more concerned about spending time with friends that summer rather than going
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off and having this job and making some money it appears captain that the summer was
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going to be spent primarily with this babysitting gig and using her Six Flags pass
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so it's summertime we have a 12 year old watching a two-month-old overnight and Heather was just I believe 410 just
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under 100 pounds so pretty small she was just out of the sixth grade but a little
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bad news here unfortunately Heather was due to return to sixth grade after the summer time this was not about Behavior
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or grades unfortunately it was due to absences during the course of her sixth grade year Heather got sick and she
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began missing a lot of school days in February of 1999 she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes this meant regular
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required daily insulin injections by the summer of 99 Heather had learned to manage her diabetes this was some
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reminders and supervision from her mother Christine before we get into the more ominous parts of our story there
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was a detail here that I found to be rather Charming if you look up Heather on the web often what will come up is a
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funny picture of Heather with no eyebrows so this picture was taken after a day when she decided she was going to
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take on some of her own Beauty regimen by plucking eyebrows and uh this turned into having to shave them off
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I'm sure that many of us can remember times when we attempted our own haircut when we were young and it didn't turn
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out so well but I also believe that she chopped up her bangs pretty bad as well during this
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same time period leading up to her disappearance and there's a couple different reports out there and I I'm
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I'm uncertain as to why this would be here Captain so it states that she would have been spending a week
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with the couple and their new daughter and there's at least one source that had said that the
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intention was for her to stay two weeks with the couple and their daughter so she's going to be hanging out with the
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couple and watching the kid while they're there assisting with the kid while they're there and also watching
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the baby when they are both not able to be there as far as work goes we do know that Dana Madden 23 year old
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she had a job at a gas station and oftentimes she would work the night shift she would work the third trick
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Christopher Herbert his work status is a little more foggy uh and that will become obvious for
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obvious reasons as we go through the timeline and the events that took place after Heather went missing yeah again
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I'll repeat it I just think a 12 year old watching a two-month-old is irresponsible especially to have
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somebody watching a child where they don't have any means of transportation themselves right and it I think it's
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irresponsible on several levels so I think that it was probably a bad idea for Heather's mother to allow this to take
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place I also think it's a bad idea for the mother and father of the two-month-old to think that a 12 year
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old would be capable of handling such a tall task but that's neither here nor there none of that can be changed now
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we should State here that Heather was in constant contact with her mother this for a multitude of reasons but primarily
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Christine was checking in with her daughter Heather to monitor the diabetes situation and to constantly remind her
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daughter hey you got to be checking everything and you got to be taking your medication as scheduled that's the most
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important thing here as far as Christine was concerned and then depending on what
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route you'll look at from home to home we're talking about a 15 20 minute drive for mother to get to daughter should
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Heather need something the interesting part here too Captain like one thing I I couldn't wrap my head
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around early on in looking at this case was like you said not just why would we have
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a 12 year old watching a two-month-old but why would my 12 year old be staying with another couple
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and I think I felt a little better about this the more I kind of dived into the the relationship there so Christine was
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to be good friends with Dana man the mother at the the apartment where she'll be watching the two-year-old and then
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Christopher Herbert who is older than Dana Christopher Herbert's 34 Dana Madden's 23 the father of the
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two-month-old he has known Christine Heather's mother and Heather for a good deal of time so at one point
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Christopher and Heather's mother had an on and off again relationship and Christopher would stay
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at Christine and Heather's house or apartment on occasion so he was rather close to Heather before any of this took
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place as well this doesn't make me feel any better about the situation you're basically saying that her mom and
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and this guy were were in a relationship yes at one time they were in a relationship yeah I'm what I'm getting
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at though Captain is I was concerned going into this situation where we may have a male living in the apartment with
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a 12 year old girl being inserted into a situation with a man that she does not know right they have a lengthy history
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both the male and the female Christopher and Dana so the police have really narrowed down this timeline to about a
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six hour window so let's go over the night in question yes and I think one thing that we should
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point out here regardless of if if it was supposed to be a one-week stint or a two-week period that she would be
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assisting the the new parents that this was not night one you know this was not the first night that she was to be there
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and the the other thing that that's unsettling here as well you have to wonder with Dana working overnight how
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many of these evenings how many of these babysitting shifts for Heather were to be overnight her alone with the
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two-month-old overnight in this apartment complex and not gonna lie it was pretty easy and
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pretty quick to figure out that this apartment complex not the best area not not the kind of area that I'm going to
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move into and raise a two-month-old so we have Christopher Herbert and Dana Madden their newborn baby living at 1646
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Yale Avenue and the way that this story works is that 23 year old Dana Mann she says that
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she goes to work her overnight shift she's going to be showing up for her shift leaving the apartment about 10 pm
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that night with the intention of returning after her shift is done at 7 00 am the following morning Christopher
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Herbert Heather killorn and the two-month daughter are all at the apartment when
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Dana Madden leaves let's fast forward to around 4 a.m or after 4 a.m sometime in
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the 4 a.m hour Christopher Herbert comes home he said he left the apartment at 10
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30 p.m that night when he arrives the following morning it's still dark out of course in that 4 a.m hour
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he says that even through the door before he even opens up his front door he could hear his baby inside crying
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right he thought that when he opened up the door he would see Heather trying to console the the little girl or taking
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care of the little girl trying to figure out why she is crying and how we could stop them
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unfortunately Christopher says that when he went into the apartment he does not find Heather he only finds
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his crying little two-month-old daughter where but where does Christopher say he
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went let's save that for when the police arrive here Captain because what we have
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here is his next move is going to be calling his girlfriend Dana Mann at work he calls her and there's some
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discrepancy on how lengthy this conversation was there's some discrepancy on how this
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phone call played out some say he calls in talks to Dana briefly Dana gets off the phone calls
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the police reports Heather missing the other version of that story is that he called Dana they end up in an argument
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on the phone and then after the argument Dana hangs up calls police to me I don't think it really matters
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exactly what happened on that phone call as far as the discrepancies in those two
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stories I couldn't imagine there not being an argument well on that phone call it's an
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intense situation so somebody passing by and hearing this conversation could mistake Panic worry and uh maybe a
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little frustration with each other that you know that doesn't mean that they're arguing and the two likely
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reported it differently to police right right you you're talking to Dana you're talking to Christopher you're talking to
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them separately Dana's probably saying yeah I gave him I gave him the business I gave him the what for when he called
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me I was panicking this is my friend's daughter and Christopher maybe he saw it a
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different way maybe he's he's looking for Heather he's concerned he's in a panic State doesn't feel like it was
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necessarily an argument just two people as you said excited panicked uh maybe raised voices because of the situation
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with no intent of arguing or debating who's to blame here right police are on the scene a little after 5 a.m they're
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at the apartment and they are searching the apartment complex they are searching
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the apartment the surrounding areas looking for Heather now you had asked about where did Christopher Herbert say
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that he was well he told police that he left the apartment at 10 30 that night and he left the apartment to take a
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friend home well that seems a little strange it shouldn't take five and a half hours
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to take a friend home and police were on to that very quickly they questioned Christopher Herbert why would you tell
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us you were gone a whole five and a half hours he didn't have a solid answer for
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that what he did have was a a second story I was at a park near the riverbank and a friend and I
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went there to party together and when I came home Heather was gone so you go to a park after 10 pm chances
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are if that's uh State Park is not open after a certain time period I don't trust any of these people that
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they change their story immediately well of course yeah and when two-story Chris
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well it's going to turn into more like four-story Chris before we get done with with our story
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um so they speak with Christopher and immediately he changes his story as said he's out partying in a park with one of
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his buddies and when he returns Heather is not there now they start going around
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and they are looking through the apartment complex they're knocking on doors and one of the doors that they
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knock on is a man by the name of Mike Mason Mike Mason is a friend of Christopher Herbert's They Know Each
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Other Well and in fact Mike Mason knows Heather killorn as well because he is often over at Herbert's apartment
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very quickly in the search for Heather what they discover Captain is drug paraphernalia in the apartment complex
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itself in fact where they find it is in a garage a detached garage that is shared by these two men Christopher
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Herbert and Mike Mason what's unclear here Captain is who all had access to this garage right
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we know that these two guys who lived in separate dwellings both had access to this garage both its reported had shared
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the garage but where they're sharing the garage with anybody else that is a good question but they find
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paraphernalia in this garage area and later after some some hardcore work they determined that they're probably cooking
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methamphetamines in this garage [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] all right we are back to the windows to
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here Captain you can see already how murky and how foggy this story is going to be
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for the investigators they're really trying to hone in on what could have happened to this missing girl where
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could she be where can we locate her how can we bring her home safe and as you pointed out and as I agreed I
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don't think we don't think she was already placed in the best of situations and now we're dealing with the the worst
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of the worst a true nightmare well another thing too is if if her mother actually knew these individuals like you
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said this 34 year old man leaves he it was capable of staying at home but he leaves to take his friend home
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again we have no mention of that friend initially being at the house when um when the wife leaves for work
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he's gone for five hours and when they start searching the premises they find evidence that they're cooking
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methamphetamines so if you knew these individuals you probably knew what they were involved in
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that's another reason not to have your daughter watching their two-month-old exactly and here's the thing here too
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captain and I know that police have sorted some of this mess out I know that they have their suspects in this case
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but the timeline is unclear because of what we pointed out before the break you said old two-story Christopher well
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I said four story Christopher the whole stories here are going to create a bunch
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of problems for our timeline that we are going to try to sort out that timeline should lead us to who is most likely to
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have actually seen Heather last so what we do have here Captain one box that we can check is that 10 p.m box so that 10
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p.m that night Dana Madden says that she leaves to go to her overnight shift she
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intends to work the shift they follow up on that law enforcement follows up on that they confirm 100 percent Dana
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Madden was at work that night arrived on time and she was still there when the when the phone call came in from
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Christopher that Heather was missing what's unclear and I know you were kind of dancing around this just a second ago
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the first story that Christopher supplies to the police is that he drove a friend home well who was that friend
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and was he at the apartment at the time that Dana left the apartment yeah or was
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it a situation where the friend calls on him I'm at work can you pick me up and take me home
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Christopher's story has always been that he left the apartment at 10 30. what's tricky here is we know this from
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the information that came out from law enforcement the next morning after Heather is
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reported missing when they are out knocking on doors looking for Heather hoping to find her in somebody's
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apartment one of the people they talked to is this Mike Mason who is friends with Christopher friends with Dana
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he says he knows Heather doesn't know where she is didn't see her that night according to his statements
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the police then asked Mike Mason if he could drive to Dana's place of work at the gas station in nearby St Louis pick
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her up and return her to the apartment complex so what that implies is that maybe she did not drive herself
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to work that night so is it possible that the husband leaves with the friend and leaves with his wife to drop her off
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and then drop him off it's see that's what's difficult to sort out because Christopher's story has always been and
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and one thing we should say in his defense he does give different stories but in all of his stories he's leaving
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the apartment at 10 30 and returning to the apartment a little after four that part always stays the same in his
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stories so you're right does Christopher have to drive Dana to work and we know that this
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is only it's only about a 10 minute drive so he could in theory return to the apartment
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then his buddy comes over or he meets up with a buddy and be there for a few minutes and decide to leave at 10 30 and
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and return his friend what is not likely is that he returned his friend to the friend's home it's
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probably more likely that his friend and Christopher get in the same vehicle at 10 30 they go off to the park and now
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they're drinking and getting high together well it's all fishy and it's all suspect
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and like I said I mean you're you're the mother of this 12 year old daughter you're sending her over there to a
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babysit a two-month old and it's like yeah you've been friends with these individuals for a while but
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then you you probably know that they have some drug use in their history or their
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or their currently drug users and now you have the situation where like like you said you were finding evidence that
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they're cooking meth in a in a garage in these apartments it's yeah it would be very difficult for us to sit here and
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try to sort out what uh her mother Christine knew about these two and what she didn't know what we do
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know is that Heather was supposed to be there and and what we have to sort out is Christopher Herbert's versions of his
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story so version one and two are different in the sense that he goes off to return his
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friend home version two he and his friend are at the park drinking and getting high together and
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then he returns at 4am again the thing that that always stays true in those two stories or or Remains the Same I
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shouldn't say stays true Remains the Same in those two stories is that he left at 10 30 and returned a little
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after 4 AM in version three he left at 10 30. returned at 4 am so that stays the same
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he's at the park same park near the riverbank near the river and they are he and his friend are
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making meth there Story 4 gets even even more out there well surprise surprise what's
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interesting to me is a couple things here police seem to all agree that the 10 P.M
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statement from Dana Madden she went to work Heather was alive and fine I that's the last time I saw her
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it seems like police have reason to believe that that is accurate right that they have evidence to back up that that
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part of this story is a truth so whatever happened we now need to be concerned starting at 1001 PM the night
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before up until Christopher calls Dana at her work the following morning which is in the four o'clock hour well in this
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case we have a good report coming from a newspaper article on what the police were seeing as they arrived to check out
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figure out what's going on and where is this missing girl right so for a little Clarity here July
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15th would have been a Thursday that week in 1999. this report comes from the St Louis Post Dispatch and they're
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reporting this on Saturday July 17th they're getting their information from the police as they worked the
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investigation on that Thursday they're giving information to the newspaper the Friday morning so the article is by
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Valerie shrimp and she states as follows police said that they suspect foul play
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in The Disappearance of 12-year-old Heather killorn who was last seen early Thursday morning in a Richmond Heights
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Apartment about 2 A.M Thursday a neighbor so we have a potential eyewitness here
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according to this report it says at about 2 A.M that Thursday a neighbor taking out his dog
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says that he saw a man carrying a child who would have been about Heather's age out of the apartment
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when they say the apartment they mean Christopher and Dana's apartment right this witness or potential eyewitness
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says the child's upper body was wrapped in a comforter she was not wearing shoes
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and appeared to be sleeping investigators said the neighbors report plus other evidence LED them to suspect
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Foul Play quote it supports our belief that she didn't leave on her own this from Lieutenant Robert Lowry Jr of the
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St Louis area major case Squad police described this comforter as an off-white with faded flowers quilted on one side
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and flat Cotton On The Other Side authorities said they were concentrating their investigation on people who knew
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Heather and then this is going to add to the thought of Foul Play police say that they found blood inside
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the apartment oh God but test had yet to determine if the blood belonged to the missing girl Heather blood was found
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outside of the apartment now this turned out to be blood that was from a neighbor who had
00:38:03
been bitten by a dog recently police said some of the belongings in the apartment were out of place after
00:38:11
the girl was reported missing but authorities were not releasing a whole lot of details they go on to tell the
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public that Heather is a diabetic who needs two shots of insulin a day without them she would become dehydrated and
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slip into a diabetic coma well this is where it becomes tricky because because of her
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new it's a new situation for her as far as being diabetic and having to test and again she's young she's 12 years old
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this is a again if if my daughter just found out she was diabetic and we needed to make sure that she had insulin and
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made sure that we test multiple times a day I want her around me as much as possible I'd want her to be staying at
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home as much as possible until we get the situation under control because there could be an accident there could
00:39:09
be something this guy leaves for a little bit and and she goes into some a coma State and freaks out
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and instead of calling the cops because he's either high on drugs or involved with drug making and probably drug
00:39:29
selling he's he's less likely to call 9-1-1 right and the thing here too Captain is that may be what the argument
00:39:38
would have been about it had there been one on the call from Christopher to Dana
00:39:43
Madden he may have been telling her don't know don't call the police I got some stuff around here I need to
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clean up and hide I got some things we gotta we gotta sort out before we can have the law knocking on the door
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and the this article gives a little more detail saying that Dana Madden and Christopher Herbert had lived in that
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apartment for about a year uh prior to this disappearance their daughter is two months old as we said earlier and this
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report states that Heather had been staying with them since Saturday to help watch the baby and as we said
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the the time in question is Thursday morning so she's been there a couple of nights leading up to the night that she
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goes missing they do state openly in this article that Christopher Herbert has made conflicting
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statements to police but he is not considered a suspect at this time and I hate when they say that just say
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everybody is a suspect at this time we have a missing 12 year old girl but the neighbor
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if you get a good enough look where you can identify this comforter wouldn't you be able to identify your
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neighbor because he was neighbors with Christopher wouldn't he be able to say and it was Christopher that was carrying
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this child out so that's where the problem Falls here so we have the neighbor who says I saw a man carrying a
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child the child's wrapped in a comforter no shoes on and appeared to be sleeping
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they have a description of the comforter this is not coming from the the neighbor
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the and I keep saying potential eyewitness and you'll understand very quickly why
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because he was high on methamphetamines the the description of the comforter is coming from Dana Madden and Christopher
00:41:38
Herbert the the two that that own the comforter that that live in reside in the apartment
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so when when police searched the apartment basically there's two things missing from the apartment
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Heather and this comforter right her shoes are still there more importantly her medicine that she requires according to
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this article twice a day to survive is there that's the scary thing for mom when she first hears about her daughter
00:42:07
missing amongst other things my daughter's missing oh and she's she's without her medicine that she's required
00:42:14
to take that she needs so she becomes a endangered missing very quickly yes and then on top of that as we said police
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are openly stating to the public on Saturday or I'm sorry on Friday this article comes out on Saturday but on
00:42:28
Friday morning so they're stating we suspect Foul Play We have evidence of Foul Play the
00:42:36
eyewitness the potential eyewitness unfortunately could not describe the male other than
00:42:46
tall and white I believe was the very basic description that was given right this man who was walking his dog at 2 am
00:42:55
it's dark it's what what's really kind of intriguing too here Captain about this situation is this is not one of
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those large apartment complexes so many times when we're covering murder cases or missing persons case and we're
00:43:09
talking about apartment complexes we're talking about large ones where you may have 150 units or 60 units and you you
00:43:15
could have a hundred people or 200 people living in in a confined area this apartment complex only has a very few
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units so we don't have a ton of people living here this neighbor out walking his dog
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is legally blind without his required glasses and of course he's not wearing his
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glasses at 2 am when he took the dog out for a walk yeah I believe the police's statement was he's blind in one eye and
00:43:44
he can't see out of the other the thing though is note the time that he says he says he's walking the dog at 2 00 A.M
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and this is one of the parts of the story where look I have a hard time believing some
00:44:01
of Christopher's stories obviously I have a hard time believing some of the statements that will come from Mike
00:44:09
Mason right and I'm sure everybody out there is also questioning Dana Mann what does she know or what did she suspect
00:44:20
but part of the story that that I have a hard time not believing is this guy out
00:44:26
walking his dog even though he can't describe the the child that he sees even though he can't describe the man that's
00:44:33
carrying the child I kind of believe he probably saw somebody carrying a child roughly Heather's age
00:44:40
outside of that apartment carrying out of that apartment that night at 2 A.M absolutely absolutely I believe he saw
00:44:47
something and it's hard to buy Christopher's story because like you said what does he do not change
00:44:54
the time he left and the time he returned well why would that be important because if you know that we
00:44:59
took the girl out of the house at 2 A.M you need to make sure that your story lines up that you weren't there at 2AM
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right he needs to make sure that he's not there at 2 A.M so just because that part of the story never changes doesn't
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mean I believe anything coming from this piece of shit's mouth at the time of The Disappearance in this
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article they are pointing out that Heather is four feet ten inches tall weighing 75 pounds she has medium brown
00:45:28
hair and hazel eyes and police were asking anyone who knows of Heather's whereabouts or any of her acquaintances
00:45:36
so even if you don't know about her whereabouts uh please call the Richmond Heights Police at
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314-645-4413 because they're trying to sort out they they very quickly have a lot of
00:45:53
reasons to believe that either the person that took Heather the person responsible for her
00:46:00
disappearance knew her that the two knew each other or this person has a direct connection
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to that apartment to that apartment unit [Music] thank you foreign us back here in the garage tomorrow same
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bat Time same bat Channel and until then be good be kind and don't litter [Applause]
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thank you [Music]