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foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] think of someone you know someone who is kind loyal and a generous
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person someone that is genuinely loved by everyone that knows them not just her friends and family
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but also beloved by her co-workers someone who would drop what they were doing in order to help someone else in
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need maybe someone came up against an obstacle or maybe someone was in trouble the person I am talking about and the
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person you should be thinking of in your life is someone that would stop and she
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would help that person having trouble this week's True Crime Story is about a young woman
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who with no notice at all would take time from her own busy life to help another
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the young woman I am talking about has more kindness in her heart and soul than the average man or woman
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unfortunately the young woman in this week's True Crime Story vanished investigators are certain Foul Play is
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the reason for her disappearance what kind of a sick person would take advantage of this caring young woman
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what kind of evil do you have to have in your heart and your thoughts to set up an opportunity to seize and harm this
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Good Samaritan did this monster do this by chance I think not as we go through this week's case I
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think you will come to the same conclusion that we have someone so evil set her up
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the abduction was all part of a plan to get the young woman alone away from others and to do the unthinkable
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she didn't stand a chance it was an ambush it was a trap that she innocently walked right into
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never to be seen again this is the case of Danielle stazlicki and this is true crime garage
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foreign [Music] [Music] looked younger than her years she was a vibrant young woman who loved life her
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family and her friends she is the daughter of Ann and Richard stazlicki and the older sister to Holly Jillian
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and Matthew Danny as she was called grew up in Redford Michigan and graduated from
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Redford Union High in 2006. she went on to college but settled in the area after
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graduation Danny had an incredibly tight-knit group of friends who called themselves the
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Redford girls and pretty much did everything together and knew everything about each other the way old friends do
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even though they all went their separate ways for college they remained very close not only socializing together but
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traveling together as well Danny even went as far as India on one of her trips she described herself as a cat lover a
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foodie and into yoga her major goal was a modest and logical one she was looking
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to build herself a nice little house to live in everyone who knew her described her as happy and fun and the photos that
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I've seen of her shows her well she's all smiles in 2016 Danny is 28 years of age and living alone in the independence
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green apartments near Grand River Avenue and Halstead Road in Farmington Hills Michigan this is a suburb of Detroit
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her parents lived about 50. that's five zero minutes away and a much more rural area Danielle and her mother and both
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worked at the same place which is MetLife Insurance this is a larger company that in 2016 was located just 10
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miles from Danny's home and a large building on Telegraph Road and Southfield Danny whose title was global technology
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and operations associate worked on the fourth floor and her mom worked on the sixth floor they saw each other often at
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their shared workplace and regularly met for lunch people who worked with Danny during her
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nine-year tenure at MetLife often volunteered to lead workshops or take on extra assignments Danny was a reliable
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worker and she was genuinely sweet and helpful from what we could find she had not one
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single person who had any kind of problem with her and as for her romantic life well there's not much to tell as
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far as we know Danny was single at the time of these events having gone through all of her usual relationships and
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breakups that most people experience her parents describe her as an open book she
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was very Frank about life posting on social media and blogging regularly yeah a lot of times in these cases we see
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somebody was in and out of relationships or just out of a long-term relationship
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that doesn't seem to be the case in this case on Friday December 2nd 2016 Danny was at work as usual she was texting
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with one of her friends Sarah who was having a hard time with some personal issues Danny was supposed to work into
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the evening but as it was a Friday and things were slow at work she received permission to get out a little early
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Danny and Sarah made plans for that night Danny texted her and said that she would go home after work pick up a bag
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and some other items and then come over and the two would go out get dinner and they would spend the night together
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she told Sarah that she did have work the next morning again that's that would be Saturday as she was scheduled to lead
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an 8 A.M training class that would go until noon on that Saturday but the two would have the night together hopefully
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this would take Sarah's mind off of the things that were bothering her and Sarah
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expected Danny at her place sometime in the early evening now that text was the last time Sarah heard from her friend
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Danny when Danny failed to show up as Sarah's as planned Sarah text and called Danny numerous times but the phone went
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directly to voicemail Sarah finally fell asleep now she's a nurse who worked long
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hours so she was probably just tired and fell asleep while waiting for her friend
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when she woke up the next morning and still had heard no word from her friend she became incredibly worried because
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Danny would never ever just blow her off like this right I mean she at least send
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her a text hey I'm not feeling well or I'm tired I'm gonna have to cancel our plans sorry yeah these are old friends
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and let's keep in mind they are hanging out for the purpose that Sarah is having
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some troubles some difficulties she is going to go to her friend to be there for her friend so Danny not showing up
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not texting as you said Captain not reaching out to give an explanation why this is completely and totally out of
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character Sarah texts Danny a number of times that morning saying things like where are you and I'm worried even
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saying are you even alive which she was probably you know joking around out of frustration
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she then called one of Danny's sisters who had not heard from her either so after spending a nervous day worrying
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about Danny Sarah decided to head over to Danny's apartment to see what was up now Sarah arrived at the Independence
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Green Apartments this is at 6 pm on that Saturday when she got there Captain she
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saw Danny's vehicle this is a 2015 Jeep Renegade that was parked in its usual spot her parking spot Danny's usual
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parking spot is just eight feet from the front door to Danny's apartment right now just a quick brief description
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each apartment has its own door that you don't you don't open up your door into a
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hallway and then have to walk through a hallway a shared hallway and out one single door each one of these apartments
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has its own front door and most of them it appears to me Captain would lead you out to the parking lot area and as said
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Danny's front door is eight feet from where she would park her vehicle now trying to get a hold of her friend Sarah
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went to Danny's window she's you know yelling through the window she went and honked her horn her car horn several
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times she gets no response she walked around to the back to the rear window of the apartment but saw no sign of anyone
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as she peered through the window I think at some point she even threw some rocks
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at a window to try to get thinking that maybe she felt you know that her friend fell asleep and just
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didn't wake up for her meeting and I'm gonna throw some pebbles at her window to see if I can wake her up yeah she was
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really doing everything that she could to try to get in touch with her friend keep in mind she arrives at the
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apartment sees her vehicle out front as usual she has every reason to believe that Danny would be inside of her
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apartment yeah but what a great friend right because if I didn't show up somewhere they won't even call me the
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next day because they'd be thinking oh that [ __ ] the captain he stood me up I'm not even going to check in on him
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this friend goes above and beyond and says I'm gonna call I'm going to call her sister heck you're not returning my
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calls I'm going to go over there myself and knock on the door myself yeah she did everything but bust down the front
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door looking for her friend now when she can't get any answer from Danny Sarah decides hey it's time that I need to
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alert Danny's Family keep in mind as we said earlier Danny and her group of close friends they've known each other
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since high school some before high school so Sarah knows Danny's Family quite well as she's a long time friend
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of Danny's Sarah spoke to Danny's sister and asked her to tell Danny's mother and that
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Danny was missing an action and this is lickies were very close to their daughter they spent a lot of time with
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Danny they knew her patterns and routines and they recognized immediately that something was wrong keep in mind
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we've already mentioned that her mother Ann and Danny they work in the same building right Danny does not respond to
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any of the family's texts or calls either they decide hey it's time to call the police and the family they all start
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heading over to Danny's apartment when they got there Captain they observed as well Danny's black Jeep
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parked in her usual parking spot mud was splattered and encrusted all over the bottom half of the black
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vehicle this is because the road to the sizzlicky family home was a dirt road and the vehicle routinely got filthy as
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Danny drove to visit her parents the vehicle was locked and the door to the apartment was locked as well
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now her mother answered as licky called Danny's grandparents Rich's parents her husbands who had an extra key to the
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apartment the police met them there at the apartment took a report while they waited for this key to arrive so the
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dislikis could enter Danny's apartment this is like he's also called AAA to open up the locked vehicle
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were adamant that this be done because looking into the vehicle they could see Danny's purse Sitting In Plain Sight
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Danny knew not to leave her purse like everybody else knows not to leave their purse or their wallet just sitting there
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inside your vehicle where would be Thieves could see it right so this was a red flag for her family
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and her work bag containing her work laptop was also visible indicating that she had in fact probably come home after
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work the car was opened and nothing seemed amiss other than the fact that Danny's
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purse was inside the Jeep inside the purse Captain we have Danny's wallet that had cash in it it also had her ID
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and credit cards and the spare set of keys was in the glove box of the vehicle this is listed as where Danny typically
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stored her spare set of keys right the police left the area and the sizzlikis having finally gotten the key
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to the apartment well they went in to Snoop around and see what was up there they found everything just as it seemed
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Danny had likely left the home went off to work left as usual nothing seemed to be wrong inside of the apartment there
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was literally nothing that raised any concerns to her family there was no forced entry no signs of a struggle or
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robbery and to the family it did not appear that anything really was missing you know nothing of
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value especially there was no blood and no body inside the apartment yeah and then your brain is it can go two ways
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one it can go to something really bad happen even though there's no evidence of that or your brain can start going
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okay well maybe her phone wasn't working so she couldn't get a hold of her friend
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and maybe she got in touch with somebody from work and they came to pick her up for this training session yeah I don't
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have any record of the family calling her work but because her mom worked for the same company she wouldn't have any
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trouble checking in on her daughter at work you know sometimes sometimes you can't you can't just call someone's work
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and ask if they are there or if they didn't show up they they aren't so quick to offer up that information to somebody
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that they don't know but seeing how it would be family and family worked for the same company the thing here is
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where you raise the alarm is the purse and her work bag being in her vehicle that seems totally out of the norm for
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Danny and then you get into the apartment and you don't see anything that raises any red flags immediately
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but we should point out Danny describes herself as a cat lover so of course she has a cat her name is Adelaide and the
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cat had not been fed as far as the family could tell and the the cat appeared to be quite hungry so this was
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alarming to the family as well because now they're like well we're concerned about this purse in her work bag being
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in her vehicle but it also does not appear that she's been home at any time to take care of her cat yeah multiple
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red flags there's really no way for the family to tell exactly when the last time Danny had been at her apartment but
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again as you said multiple red flags the close um her jacket and boots that she wore to
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work on that Friday they could not find them in her apartment yeah getting something that
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women are way better than men at because if I had a job with my father he probably couldn't tell you what I was
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wearing the last day he saw me well and your closet is much like Earnest you you
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open it up and it's the same plaid shirt and pair of jeans there's there's 12 different sets of that very similar to
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Bart Simpson yeah so this is lickies they're they're worried right so they called the police
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back to the scene and they want to point out some things to the officers pointing
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out that Danny was clearly missing so the police acknowledged that it did not seem that Danny had ever made it into
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her apartment and the canines this time they brought canines with them could not find her
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scent in the parking lot and it should be easy right Captain you have the vehicle approximately eight feet from
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the front door to her apartment right you don't have to imagine where you would start looking for her scent and
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they're not picking anything up yeah that's when I start getting pretty worried so we have bad news that it
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looks like this young woman is missing the good news that we can say for once it seems like considering the
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the sheer number of cases that we've covered where the police dragged their feet ignore the signs refused to get
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involved insist that the missing young person either ran away or self-harmed and so on the Farmington Hills Police
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Department took immediate action in this case Danielle's case was investigated as a
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very concerning missing person's case right from the get police issued a statement very quickly
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saying that Danielle vanished after last being seen leaving work on Friday in the
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area of 10 Mile Road and Telegraph Road in Southfield and that they were asking for the Public's help in quote four
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major categories all right number one they wanted to know if anyone saw Danielle leave meant life that's her
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her place of work around 4 30 P.M to 5 p.m on December 2nd they included that she was last seen wearing a royal blue
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winter jacket yeah because since we have her car at her apartment that does not mean that she made it there and we have
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some evidence that maybe she didn't make it there even though her vehicle did so
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now we have to go back and figure out did somebody actually see her leave the building right now number two they want
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to know if anyone saw Danielle driving her Jeep Renegade on December 2nd or the following day December 3rd the police
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chief specifically said that they wanted to know when her Jeep arrived back at her apartment we should note that the
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apartment complex that these build buildings they had no surveillance cameras so again as you just pointed out
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Captain they're just really trying to figure out the movements of Danielle and if they can't figure out Danielle's
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movements they want to at least figure out the movements and the timing of such for her Jeep Renegade
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now items three and four are kind of lumped together the police said that they were looking
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for Danny's keys now the keys would be noticeable because they had a yellow smiley face figurine
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on the keychain and they were also looking for her Samsung Galaxy phone which was in a rose-colored case so it
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appears that her keys and her phone and Danny are the only things that they believe to be missing so you know if
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they did any type of phone tracking yeah there was some phone information and we're going to get into that now when
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police are asking the public for help of course they release photos of all of these items so people could see exactly
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what they were seeking so this would be a photograph of the Jeep Renegade for its movements
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as well as a photograph of Danny of course but also a photograph of her phone and the keys and the police also
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referred to a ten thousand dollar reward that was put together by the family for information on Danny's
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whereabouts the description given of Danny at this time Captain was a young white woman with brown
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medium length wavy hair often worn in a bun she was five feet five inches tall and weighed about 120 to 125 pounds she
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was wearing blue jeans a black zip up shirt a blue Eddie Bauer coat and burgundy boots
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starting on Sunday morning okay so as far as we know here captain Saturday is when everybody starts
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getting really worried about Danny so now we are at Sunday morning about 24 hours after everybody is extremely
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concerned about where their daughter sister and friend could be starting on that Sunday morning searches
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of places that Danny was known to frequent commenced while detectives processed the apartment and Danny's
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vehicle looking for Clues Flyers with Danny's face and information were circulated it was confirmed that there
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were no there was no movement of any kind of her financial accounts during the time of concern and her phone
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continued to be off shut off right a massive snowstorm in the week after Danny vanished really really hampered
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early searches and this is just one of those unfortunate things that rarely occurs but we've seen this in some other
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cases where Mother Nature just does not agree with with allowing you to conduct a good thorough search this is some
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heavy snowstorms but over the next few months exhaust active widespread searches for her Incorporated aerial
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resources dive teams ground searches with canines and so on and the areas that they were looking for her included
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Detroit Livonia Highland Park Farmington Hills Berkeley Royal Oak and other areas
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of Wayne and Oakland County so we're talking about a massive area that was covered in the
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next few months and early on they were even checking dumpsters and following trash routes looking in landfills for
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Danny now unfortunately Danny's body has never ever been located and I wonder with law enforcement if they had
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some kind of lead or tip to look out into these areas or if it was just we don't know where to
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look so we will look everywhere that people will volunteer or we can get resources too yeah I don't know it could
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have been as simple as hey let's start with point a and then we expand from there and the search just kept growing
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and growing when they didn't uncover anything so what do we have well we have a caring
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beloved young woman who was reliable dependable and really just utterly normal in every sense with no known
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risky behaviors issues dangerous habits or enemies who uncharacteristically did not show up for
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an appointment with a friend in need and then the following morning missed work this is a person who is a constant
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texter and poster she was unheard of for over 24 hours and truly unheard of ever
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again her car was parked at her apartment but her keys her cell phone and Danny were all all missing
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[Music] thank you foreign [Music] all right we're back cheers cheers to you Captain long
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distance cheers to you my friend yeah all right where is Danielle stazlicky that's the topic of course one of the
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first things detectives did was try to track Danny's phone as you had suggested here is what they were able to determine
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on December 2nd Danny's phone pinged off of a tower indicating that at 4 47 p.m it was very likely that her phone was in
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or at the MetLife building where she worked on Telegraph Road ping showed that the phone then moved East starting
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at 4 48 arriving at a location in Berkeley at 507 p.m now we talked about those searches earlier
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and you wonder how quick they had this phone information when they were conducting their searches and
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determining what areas to search right the phone continued to Ping off of this same Tower okay arriving at that
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location in Berkeley around 507 p.m the phone continued to Ping off of this same
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Tower servicing this area of Berkeley until 7 53 pm so just a little shy of three hours they
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believe their her phone to be in this general area right so tell me when the it started pinging there at what time
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okay so they have her phone they believe her phone was at work near her work building at 447 and then it began to
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move away from the work building at 4 48 and arrived in a location in Berkeley at
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507 pm it stayed in this area until 7 53 p.m so just shy of three hours and we don't
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have any text message to her friend during that time period her last text message was
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in the 4 P.M hour right yeah that's the thing um her her last communication is to her
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friend saying hey I'm gonna get a bag I'm gonna swing by my house and then I'll I'll meet you at your place
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and that seems to be the actual last communication that Danny made with anyone and that would be communication
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she made to her friend as she's leaving work it seems like yeah later in the day
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shortly before leaving and so they're able to track her phone even though it does not appear that she's using it to
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communicate with anybody during this three hour time period now at 7 53 Danny's phone began to move again
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pinging off towers as it traveled Westward arriving in the area of her apartment building at 8 16 p.m and I do
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want to point some things out here we're citing these times right down to the minute but we're doing so because the
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times all match up with what would be a very direct route from each of these locations so when we cite a time of
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arriving in the vicinity of her apartment at 8 16. that means that that phone traveled in the direction that is
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the most common route the fastest route that one would go from that area in Berkeley over to her apartment it seems
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like the phone was shut off after arriving in the area of her apartment building at 8 16 p.m and the phone
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according to the records that were cited that I've seen was never it never came back online after 8 16 pm
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now we're going to save right off the bat here this is not one of those usual missing persons cases like some of those
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frustrating ones that we've covered for you know you could you could reference Brian Schaefer or Brandon
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Lawson where there are no clues whatsoever to what happened to the missing person and
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and Danielle says licki's case the police almost know exactly what happened to her and when it happened to her and
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maybe even how it happened to her and then of course who did it the only thing they do not know is where Danny's body
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is right right but it's also not a missing person case where they have to think did she
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run away did she want to start a new life you know do was she suicidal that was nothing that they had to really focus on
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from the beginning no because in this case as said in the trailer police arrived at the conclusion very
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quickly that this young woman vanished because Foul Play was involved right and the
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detectives and the police did some really great work investigating this case this is some of the better uh
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police work that that we've seen that we will be discussing as we go through this
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case now we should probably put in a caveat here because all of the things that we're going to state are they're
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simply alleged uh but thanks to a very thorough televised preliminary examination in this case we have a very
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good idea of what the state of Michigan's case is against the suspect whom they allege killed Danny with
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premeditation and then disposed of her body somewhere and we also believe that there's some more information that law
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enforcement has that they haven't obviously shared that will be positive in their case against this individual
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going forward yeah so here's what happened let's say right and this is again it's all alleged so at this point
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it's still Theory but as you will hear as we go through this there is evidence to back up certain items along the way
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on this Theory so let's all join hands and and walk together down this path in True Crime garage Army fashion
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Danny was at work on Friday December 2nd 2016. and she made plans with her friend
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Sarah to have dinner and sleep over at Sarah's place after work Danny usually got out of work between 5
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and 5 30 p.m but as we said it seems that on this Friday she managed to get permission to sneak out a little early
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her phone was in the area of her workplace at 4 47 but at 507 just 20 minutes later it was pinging off a
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different Tower several miles away in the Berkeley area then it returned to the area of her
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apartment before Vanishing from the network at 8 16 that night after Danny was reported missing police
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set about interviewing her friends family and colleagues this involved sending a team to her workplace Met Life
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Insurance they needed to determine whether she had left work that day as her phone
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indicated and then when she left and whether she was alone when she left at MetLife police interviewed a woman
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named Debbie I am she I'm guessing Captain she's related to the the much more famous Sam I am
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Daniel stazlicky either one of them like green eggs and ham right [Laughter] uh Daniel suzlicky was Debbie's trainer
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and according to Debbie was a bit of a mentor now Debbie told police that she and
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Danny left the MetLife building at the same time on that Friday afternoon okay so they're walking out of the building
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and this is a big beautiful building looks very traditional in the office sense and it spills out into this very
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large parking lot so the two of them leave through you know leave out the building at the same
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time and they parted ways out the front door but they both you know they're both
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walking toward their vehicles that are parked in the front lot of this building so even though they've parted ways they
00:39:03
can still see one another but once Debbie was at her vehicle she looked over and observed that Danny
00:39:12
did not walk to her Jeep Danny for whatever reason walked over to a vehicle that was sitting in the lot
00:39:20
and this vehicle had its Hood up so Debbie could see her friend Danny talking to a man who appeared to be
00:39:29
the owner of the vehicle they had the hood up right Debbie identified the car as a dark gray late model Buick
00:39:40
Debbie Walsh is Danny chatted with the man who Debbie described as a black man about five foot eight inches tall
00:39:48
dressed in a suit the two appear to know one another according to Debbie and in fact Debbie
00:39:57
recognized him from around the building this is also not a parking lot that just
00:40:04
random people would park in so you have a car with its Hood up you don't think that the person was there in
00:40:12
that parking lot to go to Walmart or to go somewhere else if you're in that parking lot you're pretty much going to
00:40:19
that insurance agency well and here's the difficult thing here as well Captain with this eyewitness statement and God
00:40:27
bless Debbie for her wonderful information this is a pretty thorough eyewitness account
00:40:34
she is saying to police that I recognize the man that Danny was talking to from around the MetLife building right what
00:40:46
is not what we cannot discern 100 from this is if she recognized him by name okay so what I
00:40:57
think we have here and I think this is is is very important to to key in on from all of the reports I saw
00:41:06
it does not sound to me like Debbie knew the name of this man other than saying I
00:41:13
believe I've seen him in the MetLife building or recognize him from work I just don't know his name again this is a
00:41:20
large office building there's a lot of people that work there yeah I I believe you said that the mother worked on the
00:41:26
sixth floor but I don't remember how many floors totaled they had in this building but from seeing pictures and
00:41:32
seeing video I mean this is a this is a complex right right and because Debbie said that
00:41:40
once she recognized the man and two the man and Danny appear to know one another this is she's just gauging this
00:41:49
from observing their conversation she decided it's okay to leave and head out you know she had places she needed
00:41:57
to go right so everything seemed to be fine and she said all right well I I took off that was the last time that
00:42:03
Debbie ever saw Danielle stazlecki a police spoke with a MetLife employee this is another employee his name was
00:42:12
Brandon Williams he was a co-worker of Danny's and said that the two were friendly they they
00:42:19
knew each other somewhat although they did not socialize outside of work he said that he left a few minutes after
00:42:26
Danny did on that Friday she said goodbye to him on her way out Brandon's car was parked in the back lot
00:42:37
behind the building so Danny's Jeep is parked in the front lot and remember she's last seen by her friend Debbie
00:42:46
talking to a man in the front lot right Brandon is parked in the back lot behind
00:42:51
the building so he leaves and by the time he got to his car and drove around to the road outside the front of the
00:43:00
building this this would be several minutes would have elapsed by this point he says that he pulled up to a stop sign
00:43:08
or stop light at the intersection I'm not sure if it's a stop sign or stop light but he pulls up to that
00:43:13
intersection now Brandon was in the left lane and next to his car was Danny's vehicle was also stopped at the same
00:43:22
intersection but she's in the right lane you know how you have uh two lanes and sometimes one makes you go One Direction
00:43:29
and the other lane will force you to go a different direction the cars are right
00:43:34
next to one another heading out of the parking lot the right lane headed north onto Telegraph Road and the left lane
00:43:42
headed south Brandon said Danny was driving the vehicle and a man that he recognized
00:43:51
from the MetLife work building was in the passenger seat Brandon the eyewitness says that this was sometime
00:44:00
around 5 00 p.m on that Friday Brandon is the last person who is known to have seen Danny
00:44:10
okay so police have two witnesses who saw Danny in the company of a black man they both recognized right as
00:44:20
someone they saw around their work building who was it so detectives said later that
00:44:28
they became aware of this man on December 6th by this time Danny was missing for four
00:44:35
days this likely means that by the sixth they had received the two witness statements
00:44:43
naming the man seen with Danny in the parking lot but they were left scratching their heads when they
00:44:50
discovered that the man seen with Danny was not an employee of MetLife and as the captain said this is not
00:44:58
really a parking lot where one would just find themselves you you this would be a destination you would expect to
00:45:05
only see people working in that building or working for MetLife in that large parking lot the man we're talking about
00:45:15
was once employed there but he no longer worked in the building there was no reason for this man to be
00:45:23
in the MetLife parking lot on December 2nd 2016. the man's name was Floyd Galloway Jr now
00:45:35
why did he stop working at MetLife so let's let's get into who he is and he did work there as you said what
00:45:45
he did while he worked there and then we'll we'll get through um the the short answer of why he no
00:45:51
longer worked there was these larger buildings are usually typically under under property management companies that
00:46:01
will manage the building the grounds and in the daily activities and such so he the company he worked for was
00:46:10
contracted to work in that building well when the building switched ownership or
00:46:15
management companies the company he worked for was no longer contracted to work in that building right so Floyd
00:46:23
Russell Galloway Jr was born on January 23rd 1987. he attended Shrine High School in Royal
00:46:33
Oak played basketball in football he was relatively quiet and did not get into any trouble at all that I could find we
00:46:42
know that at the time Danielle vanished Floyd was married for about four years to a woman named Eileen Galloway who was
00:46:52
a who was a mechanical engineer the couple lived at 2910 Oxford Street in Berkeley Michigan there's that
00:47:03
Berkeley again Floyd was employed by a security contractor and was either taking classes to become certified or
00:47:12
already was certified as an EMT and volunteer firefighter he was a pretty big guy pretty well in shape yeah he's
00:47:21
not he's not particularly tall described about five foot eight five foot nine but
00:47:27
yeah you're right he's in he's in very good physical shape and it appears that he you can you can look at the guy and
00:47:35
you have to believe he's got a gym membership now Floyd and Danny met through Floyd's employment as a
00:47:41
contractor for the company that provided security for the MetLife building Floyd's job was to man the desk and the
00:47:52
front entrance to the MetLife to sign in visitors you know you check IDs monitor
00:48:00
the parking lot and there's a lot of other duties that go in into that as well but that's a general description of
00:48:07
his job the various people told police that Floyd was interested in Danielle it seems that Danny was one of those nice
00:48:18
young women who is friendly to everyone you know that's just her nature and if he you know we have people saying
00:48:29
that he's interested in her if he made advances or flirted with her she very likely was too polite to shut down
00:48:39
unwanted intentions yeah and she had a nice smile and so you could see a guy go okay well this girl
00:48:50
they could have locked the eyes or something and she was just trying to be polite and maybe smiled at him and then
00:48:57
this guy goes okay well I'm a security guard here now I gotta pass by her desk as
00:49:03
many times as I can uh because a lot of those large buildings that you work in you never talk to the security guards
00:49:11
directly unless there's an issue well I always liked working in those large buildings because they feel like their
00:49:18
own small little version of a city you know they usually have some place to eat in there and you you have people that
00:49:25
work in all different areas but you're all forced to be in this building together uh at about the same time so
00:49:32
you you exchange pleasantries and niceties with people throughout your day that's that's part
00:49:40
of the the corporate game right now as all of our listeners will recall anstizlicky
00:49:48
Danny's mom worked in the same building she said that she found Floyd she she knew who
00:49:55
Floyd was to always be professional and friendly saying quote Floyd was very friendly and approachable to many many
00:50:03
people in that building and quote this is what she told the Detroit news as part of his job Floyd's job
00:50:12
he would watch employees particularly female employees as they walked to their vehicles at night to make sure that they
00:50:21
made it to their vehicle safely the only thing and Danny's mom thought that was odd about
00:50:28
Floyd was that he you know he's supposed to be Manning the desk but she said he was always kind of
00:50:36
wandering around particularly when she and Danny were having lunch in the fourth floor cafeteria right he was the
00:50:45
only security guard who ever came up there according to Anne and it happened so often
00:50:53
and it constantly seemed to be when Danny was on her lunch break Floyd was friendly and would come up and
00:51:02
make conversation but again Anne found this to be odd and noted an instance on October 28
00:51:11
2015 so this would be more than a year before Danny went missing when Danny had received a surprise bouquet of flowers
00:51:22
on her desk no there was a note written on a yellow sticky that said you know one of those yellow posted notes yeah
00:51:33
let's not call it a sticky that's what we used to call them at the office oh yeah hand me a sticky no thank you so
00:51:40
this said on the yellow sticky it said from secret admirer hope this made you smile today and it was unsigned and
00:51:51
thought it was a little creepy because outside deliveries to employees were not permitted at their desk so I'm sure a
00:51:59
lot of our listeners are very familiar with this setup if you work in one of these large buildings if a delivery from
00:52:07
outside of the building were to arrive it's usually kept and held somewhere for you to come down and pick up like it's
00:52:16
right it's held at the front desk and who is Manning the front desk or the mail room this building had a mail room
00:52:22
so it could have been held in the mail room right but somehow it got past security and who's most likely to
00:52:30
deliver this the guy that's stopping by her desk every day well and of course what Ann is going to put together
00:52:36
Captain is that the the flowers arriving to Danny's desk meant that someone in the building was Danny's
00:52:47
secret admirer right the the the the the the the flowers came from someone in the
00:52:52
building at the time no one including Anne suspected Floyd Galloway of being the person to
00:53:01
give these flowers to Danny but Ann said that Danny most definitely did not have
00:53:07
a relationship with Floyd Galloway in fact it sounds like Anne was made aware by Danny that Danny thought that he she
00:53:18
was a little creeped out by him she noted that he would loiter near her cubicle constantly trying to make
00:53:26
conversation with her which was not part of his job at all and this did not go unnoticed by Danny and at some
00:53:35
point she communicated this to her mother well and it's also weird when you're in such a big building like that
00:53:41
I used to work in a pre-sort mail building so everybody had their own stations and we worked pretty far from
00:53:48
each other I'd say 15 feet at least and you'd have stock people that would come up to the individuals throughout the day
00:53:56
and you might have a buddy that was became friends with the stock guy and the stock guy would just drop by to talk
00:54:03
about uh Monday Night Football or whatever and same way with security guards but if they stopped by a couple
00:54:11
times for friendly conversation not a big deal but when it's um a guy that seems to be flirting with you
00:54:21
um that would get pretty uncomfortable when police processed Danny's apartment they found some things of interest one
00:54:29
was this note from the secret admirer that was taken into evidence of course and they found Danny's old phone
00:54:39
so it sounds like Danny was in the habit of using prepaid phones it's not really
00:54:44
clear why but someone who knew her well posted that there was absolutely nothing
00:54:50
nefarious about this when when we think of people you know that when we talk True Crime captain and we think of
00:54:58
prepaid cell phones you usually don't think of good activities uh for that cell phone but
00:55:05
this was just a personal preference of Danny's I should point out you know some people have been burned by cell
00:55:15
phone companies yeah cell phone uh service providers where you get a bill for five
00:55:22
or six or seven hundred dollars that will break the bank so to speak and so to police themselves some people will
00:55:30
use a prepaid cell phone so they don't go over their limit or they don't find themselves in a situation yeah or if she
00:55:38
had really bad credit she might not have been able to get a phone so this is another way she could have got it so
00:55:45
this old phone that they find in her apartment it contained a series of text messages between
00:55:53
Danny and Floyd and this was from the fall of 2015. so again a little more than a year before
00:56:04
she went missing keep in mind Danny worked in this building for the same company for over nine years yeah here is
00:56:12
a shortened version of those texts this starts on October 23rd captain from Floyd to Danny
00:56:21
how is the new place coming along Danny responds good still getting settled in may I ask who this is
00:56:31
Floyd to Danny it's Floyd silly I thought you had me saved and then he sends a frown
00:56:38
uh face Danny says I did I lost my old phone one week later on October 30th Floyd to Danny hiya Danny replies hi
00:56:52
what's up Floyd says nothing just seeing how you are doing Danny says I'm good preparing for a
00:56:59
class tomorrow Danny says hey by any chance did you send me flowers Floyd says nope I don't know anything about
00:57:08
any flowers was it your birthday or something special happened this week Danny no just showed up on my desk and I can't
00:57:18
figure out who sent them hahaha Floyd well since it's Friday and I'm bored LOL you have any plans tonight question mark
00:57:29
Danny I'm supposed to go to a friend's 30th birthday party tonight but I'm not sure when I'm getting out of work still
00:57:38
frown face Floyd well tell work peace out and let's pregame before you go out he sends the
00:57:47
wink Emoji I I have this really neat drinking game you might like you're welcome to come over to my place if you
00:57:56
want to kind of tool I'd love to this is Danny we're playing I'd love to but I'm
00:58:02
already going to be late since I'm leaving now and it started at 6 30. October 30th
00:58:09
the day that Floyd was texting on this this same day on the 30th that Floyd invited Danny to come over to his home
00:58:18
to play a drinking game I I want to throw out there and note that that was Floyd's wife's birthday this guy's a
00:58:25
piece of [ __ ] sandwich so Floyd tried once more to text Danny according to the
00:58:32
old phone asking her on November 21st what she was up to that evening now there are no more texts between the two
00:58:40
of them that appeared on that old phone police were able to determine that on Danny's new phone which
00:58:49
we should point out has never been found there were four texts between Floyd and
00:58:55
Danny in April of 2016 however their content is unknown police may know what those messages were
00:59:06
we don't know it's not been released to the public but somehow they exchanged numbers or some at some
00:59:16
point they exchanged them yes and we don't know exactly how that came about did Floyd give her
00:59:23
his number you could you could imagine any number of ways that he could have gave her his number again it does not
00:59:32
appear that that if in fact Floyd was interested in Danny which it appears to be that way it does not appear that
00:59:40
Danny shared the same interest so clearly we have Floyd who's interested in Danny
00:59:48
there's nothing that look this would be nothing that every single young woman has not had to deal
00:59:56
with at the workplace or school or somewhere else you know someone who exhibits interest in her then she does
01:00:04
not reciprocate and she's too polite to firmly just shut it down well right and but but it becomes a
01:00:13
becomes a lot harder for her because of his position one if it was her boss would probably be even harder but he's
01:00:20
security guard um he's almost somebody that like he's obviously based on what her mother is
01:00:27
saying is not staying in his area so he can swing by and talk to her whenever he
01:00:32
wants yeah and to top that off I mean this is going to be somebody that you're going to see every day so being
01:00:40
outwardly rude to somebody usually isn't not a great idea for somebody that you're going to have to be around
01:00:48
day after day after day so a lot of our Our Lady listeners out there know exactly what we're talking about here
01:00:55
captain and 99 of the time the guy is harmless you know who's who's flirting or or whatever but the other
01:01:03
one percent of the time these seemingly harmless crushes well anybody that's got the ID channel
01:01:11
will tell you they can turn into obsessions look it happens to men too but the Threat Level isn't there you
01:01:20
know you might work in a an environment where some girl comes by your desk a couple times a week to say hello and
01:01:28
and and try to get her flirt game on but you don't feel threatened in any way but I couldn't imagine what women have
01:01:37
to go through on a daily basis at work and at gyms and everywhere else now one thing about Floyd that caused some
01:01:47
serious concern to investigators was in December of 2016 remember Floyd did not work at the
01:01:55
MetLife building any longer in fact he had not worked there since October when the building had been sold in the new
01:02:02
management company hired a different security company so they're asking themselves we got two people to say
01:02:09
Floyd was the man at the vehicle in the suit in the parking lot in December of 2016 what on Earth was Floyd Galloway
01:02:19
doing at MetLife as Danny happened to be walking out of work on that Friday on December 6th after having received
01:02:29
Floyd's name from the witnesses that MetLife police went to his home address again this is 2910 Oxford Street in
01:02:38
Berkeley no one was home so they went to his work he was contracted out by his employer the security company to provide
01:02:47
security at American Axle and rot in Rochester Hills on weekdays from 3 P.M to 11 pm
01:02:56
police went there and found Floyd there with his dark gray Buick parked in the lot now remind you that's the same
01:03:05
description that was given by uh our one witness Debbie who saw a man with the hood up at the MetLife parking lot
01:03:15
the car had a temporary plate I don't fully understand this portion of it Captain but I'm going to go through
01:03:23
it anyway the temporary plate police discovered that his wife had recently taken possession of this
01:03:31
vehicle at a dealership on November 28th uh the day she entered the hot okay so I I I
01:03:41
now fully understand it's just the wording is weird this vehicle did not belong to
01:03:48
Floyd per se it was in his wife's name the vehicle was used but it was new to the both of them and that's why it had
01:03:57
the uh temporary plate because she had recently purchased it from a dealer in late November now his wife went into the
01:04:10
hospital around the same time now Floyd told police that he did in fact know Danny but he hadn't seen her in months
01:04:19
which would line up with him not having worked it meant life for months damn but it doesn't line up with
01:04:27
the two eyewitnesses correct he said that a friend told him about her disappearance and detectives
01:04:35
noted that he would not look at them during questioning during this time where they they talked to him at his
01:04:43
work he would only glance at the flyer with Danny's photo and the detectives say that Floyd's hands were shaking
01:04:53
while he was talking to them when asked about his wife Floyd told them that his wife Eileen had cancer and she was in
01:05:02
the hospital for an Extended Stay receiving treatment at a Cancer Center in Detroit
01:05:10
and he called into his work on December 1st calling out sick calling in and saying hey I'll be I'm sick and I'm not
01:05:21
coming in the next day which would be December 2nd of course this is the same day that Danny stazlicky vanished
01:05:29
so he's unaccounted for as far as his work is concerned as you pointed out we have the eyewitness accounts of him
01:05:37
being seen at the MetLife building where he did not work around 5 PM on the day that Danny went
01:05:45
missing well it's a big red flag I mean if it's just like when they have a cell phone ping into somebody's house
01:05:54
and then the the girl goes missing but they have a cell phone ping into a guy's house and then they stop by the guy's
01:05:59
house and they go do you know uh Debbie and he goes no uh has she ever been to your house nope
01:06:06
that's the big red flag and here's this guy going I haven't seen her in months but we got two eyewitnesses that put you
01:06:13
in that parking lot um you're not looking at us in the eyes you're shaking these are these are big red flags well
01:06:22
and I like that you point out uh into someone's house that we have a cell phone that we can pinpoint to the point
01:06:30
of knowing that it was in someone's house that is not the case here in Danny's case because of of the time
01:06:38
frame that we're talking about but we've covered some cases and in certain areas
01:06:42
this is a this is a warning for any would-be attackers out there how good and how far advanced technology is
01:06:50
getting against these offenders and these horrible people there are certain areas that today have
01:06:58
technology that can triangulate and pinpoint a cell phone signal to the point of if if someone has
01:07:06
slightly larger than normal lot uh property size where they can go Not only was this cell phone on the property from
01:07:16
this time to this time we believe it was inside the home from this time to this time which is fascinating stuff as far
01:07:24
as how we are detecting offenders and preventing crime and and finding victims as well well and technology is going to
01:07:34
keep getting better so we're going to get more detailed reports in the future so after this conversation with police
01:07:42
Floyd immediately lawyered up and afterward he refused to talk about Danny at all all this was enough for police to
01:07:52
obtain a search warrant for Floyd's home which was executed the next day on December 7th
01:07:58
the search warrant was secret and not reported by the media at all a second search was conducted on the
01:08:08
same premises but this would be on December 22nd in this search the media was on site and articles started
01:08:17
appearing in the Press linking a former security guard to Danielle stezlicky's investigation so what does that mean
01:08:25
what it means is Floyd Galloway was not named by name in the papers at that time
01:08:31
they were simply referring to him as a former security guard has been linked to the Danielle stizlicki investigation
01:08:41
what was observed though Captain was police were seen removing a mattress and floorboards from the Galloway home they
01:08:49
impounded a total of three vehicles and collected close to 300 items of evidence
01:08:57
over the course of several searches as we now know upwards of 78 7 8 search warrants were granted and executed in
01:09:09
this case sources told the media that the searches were targeting areas that Floyd was
01:09:17
known to frequent like areas near his church school his parents home and so on the neighbors reported to police that
01:09:27
they had not seen Floyd or his wife much since around the time of Danny's disappearance
01:09:35
this is because as soon as the unannounced searches of their home started Floyd and Eileen who Eileen remember she
01:09:46
got out of she was in the hospital but got out of the hospital on December 9th they moved to her parents home in Royal
01:09:55
Oak and one wonders what Floyd told his family was the reason behind all of this
01:10:01
interest the police interest in him eventually both his home and Floyd's parents home were searched as well
01:10:10
but both families continued to support Floyd during this time meanwhile searches for Danny continued
01:10:20
all in all Farmington Police consulted more than 12 law enforcement agencies and this included but was not limited to
01:10:29
the FBI Michigan State Police the Secret Service as well as U.S Customs and Border Patrol so what they're doing here
01:10:40
Captain is they're really circling the wagons to make sure they leave no stone unturned because what they wanted to do
01:10:48
is to verify that Danny did not leave the country that in fact something had happened to her the foul play was
01:10:57
involved and that is the reason for her disappearance authorities assured everyone that they
01:11:04
were utilizing special resources offered by these larger more well-funded and resource Rich larger police policing
01:11:16
agencies in a December 7th press conference the Farmington Hills police stated that they did not believe
01:11:24
that Danny left of her own accord her parents pleaded for information they showed photos of Danny what she was
01:11:34
wearing that day her missing keys and phone and her Jeep in hopes that someone might have seen something the
01:11:42
independence Green Apartment Complex and MetLife company each put up a fifty thousand dollar reward for information
01:11:51
and by mid-December the reward was supplemented by the family and others to exceed 125
01:12:01
000 dollars but the news Unearthed by the investigation behind the scenes was not
01:12:08
good on December 19 2016 the Farmington Hills Police Department announced that based on
01:12:17
evidence gathered they believed Danny was the victim of Foul Play the original classification of the case
01:12:25
as a missing person was now a criminal investigation her family publicly stated that they
01:12:33
believed that Danny was abducted they were right and things were only going to get worse
01:12:40
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