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at True Crime garage and that is enough thank you Captain everybody gather around grab a chair grab a beer let's
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talk some true crime [Music] okay foreign [Music] there are stories that the older kids
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tell us supposed real life terrifying stories handed down from teenagers to smaller
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children and then the small children get a little older and then they tell the same stories they
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once heard much of these are simply folklore and urban legends stories of an escaped violent mental
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patient stalking lovers Lanes with a hook for a hand or one I heard in my hometown
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about a certain Hill that if you park your car there on a certain night the ghost of someone having died in a
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car accident many years earlier would throw your car down the hill into the tree-lined Ravine below
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killing you and later giving the appearance that you suffered the same car accident
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and death as the ghost so many years before this week's case is much like these urban legends
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in a sense that the story has been repeated for decades and like any good urban legend
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this is a cautionary Tale about the horrific and tragic death you could have if you don't listen to
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your parents obey the rules or if you talk to strangers for kids growing up in parts of Wyoming
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and Oklahoma they heard stories of what could happen to you when you do talk to a strange man or accept a ride from
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someone you don't know you don't come back no one sees you alive again what was and remains different for those
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kids compared to other children in other neighborhoods when these kids grew up they learned the stories they were told
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about missing children and a killer Cowboy were real this week we discussed the Rollins Rodeo
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murders [Music] this case has several names but the one I find used most commonly is the Rollins
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Rodeo murders this case may have and may have are the key words to pay attention
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to here and that will become clear as we dive into this thing but this case may have
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or seems to have started in Rollins Wyoming back in the mid-1970s now Captain a lot of people don't know how
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we go about our business behind closed doors here in the garage but about once a month you and I have a case scheduling
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meeting and I love these times that we spend together you come to the table with uh
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cases that you have in your Arsenal and I have some cases in my backpack as well
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and we sit down and we discuss what cases should we cover for the next several weeks and I got to give you
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Kudos my friend because you came up with this case and I find it to be extremely
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fascinating well you can thank the listeners yes most of our cases whether it be cases you bring to the table or
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that I bring the overwhelming majority of the cases that we cover are listeners suggestions so we're very thankful to
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all of you out there for providing those to us and we receive a overwhelming number of these case suggestions yeah my
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list is over a thousand now so I kind of framed that in there at the beginning because coming up with this case I had
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never heard of this one and look there are obviously many cases I have never heard of but just like the boys on the
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tracks and the missing Fort Worth Trio cases that we covered of course all available on the very free very awesome
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Stitcher app these are cases that have fascinated me ones that I was not familiar with in cases that unless you
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were around in that area around the time of these cases you didn't know about them either
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and the Rollins Rodeo murders is exactly like the boys on the tracks in the Fort
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Worth Trio cases when you learn more about this you will be asking yourself why have I not heard of this one why is
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this case not more well known and I say not more well known but I found evidence to suggest that people
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even living in the area had not known about these cases the some of the locals around these Rodeo murders cases I found
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one post on Reddit where someone was saying they grew up in the area of one of these cases saying they didn't
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believe it was a true story until they got older and learned that in fact it was
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some thought it was just a fictionary cautionary tale told to kids you know don't get into
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cars with strangers like an urban legend yes so to get started let's go back to July 4th 1974 Independence Day in
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Rollins which is in Carbon County Wyoming Rollins back in the mid 70s the population is less than 8 000 people and
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I've never been to Wyoming but the town of Rollins is in the southern portion of
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Wyoming in fact Carbon County is on the state's Southern border so touching the North Colorado border
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on July 4th 1974 the weather was pretty much average at least historically with a high of 84
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degrees nineteen-year-old Carlene Brown and her good friend also 19 years old Christy gross visited the little
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britches Rodeo that day in Rollins Wyoming later they were reported missing when both young women failed to return
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home very little information is available regarding the circumstances of their disappearances but neither are
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considered to have run away to start a new life somewhere else in fact according to the
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charlieproject.org website Carlene's case his classification is endangered missing and many believe she was
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murdered many years ago probably shortly after she was abducted authorities could
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only Trace back their whereabouts to the little britches Rodeo as that was the last confirmed sightings of either woman
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after they disappeared the car they were traveling in was found abandoned in Worland Wyoming so this is over 200
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miles away North we will come back to this vehicle later trust me there's there's some issues
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with this vehicle authorities initially believe that both Carlene and Christy left on their own leaving the rodeo on
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their own but the investigation as it began and carried on they started coming up with
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some other possibilities As Time passed and this was when no one had heard from either woman you know as the time was
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going on they thought at some point they might resurface but they never did according to the Charlie project website
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Carlene Brown is missing from Rollins Wyoming since July 4th 1974. her date of birth is January 14
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1955. so she would have just recently celebrated her 64th birthday if she was alive today she was 19 years old when
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she was last seen she was approximately five foot to five foot three inches tall
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and weighed between 100 and 120 pounds her distinguishing characteristics she is a Caucasian with brown hair brown
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eyes and she has surgical scars on her big toes on both feet now regarding Christy gross
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her skeletal remains were found but this wasn't until over nine years later there
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was no sign of Carlene at the scene and as stated before she has never been seen
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or heard from again Christy gross had been killed by two heavy blows to the skull
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her body was found October 27th of 1983. three miles south of Sinclair Wyoming okay so for those of us not super
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familiar with the great state of Wyoming the two disappeared in Rollins and then their vehicle was found in
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warland Wyoming so roughly over 200 miles or so north of where they were last seen yeah then nine years later
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Christy gross's body is found three miles south of Sinclair this is nowhere near where the vehicle was found in fact
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this is much closer to where authorities believe they may have been abducted from
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Rollins yes so Sinclair is roughly just seven to ten miles east of Rollins so just three miles south of that is
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where the body was found right the information out there does not provide a great description of the state of the
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body although no one anywhere is saying anything like Christy was alive for years after her abduction so I'm
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guessing the state of the body would have been extremely decomposed so possibly they're abducted from the rodeo
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she is murdered seven miles outside of the rodeo their cars found 200 miles from there and
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possibly the other victim is murdered somewhere else or is still alive correct we also don't
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have a great description of where her body was found but we already said Rollins was a small town well Sinclair
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is significantly smaller than Rollins in fact I couldn't find any record that suggests Sinclair ever even had a
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thousand people living there the description does say three miles south of Sinclair and there are Open Fields
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Creeks plenty of Wide Open Spaces it looks like we have probably oil fields refineries pipelines that sort of thing
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so the Great Wide Open so what we have here is a small town and a mysterious disappearance of not one
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but two 19 year old girls they went missing together the car is found and then not until nine years
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later is Christie's body discovered but still to this day Carlene has never been
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located so before we get too deep into some other stuff I have to mention a newspaper article I found from November
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11 1983. this is when they are announcing that they have identified the unidentified body that was found and
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that we now know to be the body of Christy gross according to this article they are interviewing deputy sheriff
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Jeff fakosh and I don't know what to think of this I I truly don't as this one article completely contradicts some
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other information that I have found and that we have by this point in the story already covered before we get to the
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contradictions there are some somewhat more detailed information in this article Christie's body was identified
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using a partial dental records match so just a a partial match Jeff fakosh says her death was caused by at least two
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blows to the head so maybe more now for the contradictions which I find this to be huge first this says the body was
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found a few miles north of Sinclair so exactly the opposite direction of what all of the other information States next
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and this is even more aggravating in this article Jeff fakosh says a van that the women were driving was found at the
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fairgrounds well that's different completely different than all the information that is current that is out
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there we're talking about a car that was found 200 miles away he's referencing a
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van that they were driving found at the fairgrounds where they were last seen hashtag Bay in the van but also you just
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wonder is this just bad reporting or does fakosh not have the right information right because we're talking
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about he's he's talking about a case that they find the body nine years later he's being interviewed because they just
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found the body he may be unclear as to what took place nine years later and I say this frustrates me to no end and
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it's not so much that the information contradicts itself so much it's more so that I spent a hell of a
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long time trying to figure out which one was correct right and I couldn't determine so you're hearing both of them
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only one of them is correct we know that Janet fransen who has worked Carlene Brown's case says quote let's be clear
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No One Believes Brown's case will have a happy ending we are pretty sure Carlene
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Brown is a homicide case Franson worked for the national missing and unidentified person system name us
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for short and had this to say of her work and the cases that came with it quote a lot of these cases are homicides
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without bodies when they happen local law enforcement didn't have any idea what to do with it it wasn't that they
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were neglectful it's just they didn't have the kind of expertise Franson has worked very hard in her
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capacity to help close Carlene's case but there are complications says the problem is we can't find her
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family see Carlene was adopted and investigators don't know the Identity or whereabouts of her birth family those
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records are gone her adoptive parents divorced prior to 1974. Carlene lived in Rollins with her adopted father and
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brother at the time of her disappearance her adoptive mother lived in Colorado Carlene graduated from Rollins High
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School in 1973. today her adoptive mother father and brother are all now deceased Janet Franson keeps searching
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for any of Carlene Brown's family that may be out there so that she can get DNA samples to build a profile so we have to
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think about this for a second here Captain the situation is this we have a missing woman who's been missing for a
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very long time should they find remains will they even be able to connect it back to Carlene because we don't have a
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DNA profile of her now what I have found and this is in the records but once again I'm I'm once bitten twice shy
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about this because we've already seen discrepancies in these records what I've found is that regarding Carlene Brown no
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fingerprints are on file for her but what is listed is that there are dental records on file right and I say that
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I say that with a little hesitation because we've seen other cases that state that there are dental records on
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file only to find out later that is not the case on Sunday August 4th 1974. 14 year old Deborah Ray Meyer went missing
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Deborah actually lived in Red Lodge Montana at the time of her disappearance she and her family were visiting
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relatives in Rollins Wyoming on the day she went missing Deborah was last seen departing from a family member's
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residence near the intersection of 7th and Spruce streets she planned to walk to a local movie theater by what remains
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on the record these days there is not anything to suggest that she ever arrived at the movie theater then she
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never returned back to the home this area though seems difficult for me this is very much the downtown area and
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if in fact she was on foot during daytime hours there is something I think very fishy about her having last been
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seen in this area she likely traveled more on foot than where she was last seen okay uh she probably traveled a
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little bit further than the last time she was seen But there are no witnesses there aren't any witnesses that saw her
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interacting with anyone right or anyone snatching her up I mean depending on which direction she was walking there
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seems to be a lot of houses and businesses throughout that whole area you know our
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minds often will go immediately to a vehicle was used in an abduction at least my mind does you know and
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rightfully so because often that is the result what the result often shows yeah however in this particular story I
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wonder about the businesses and houses in the area this this case I wonder so much about because there is simply no
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good public information out there so that I have to question this myself we have a situation where a young girl
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goes on vacation with her family to visit other family members in this area and we don't really have any public
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record of this disappearance the only thing I could find was her parents stating that she was a good kid and she
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would have never run off but no description of anything that could have happened to her that day we don't even
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know roughly about what time of day she was last seen or by whom right we don't know how long until she was reported
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missing but we have a sighting of her going downtown that's that's what the information States and all we can gather
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is that it would appear that police were unable to find anyone at the movie theater that reported seeing her that
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day so she's 14 years old so roughly 14 19 victim's age would be similar in both
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cases and be too far off and if she's 14 and looks 16 then it's even closer in age Deborah has almost no digital
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footprint and her case is almost in oh by the way type case right just tacked on to these other cases according
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to an organization near and dear to my heart the national Center for missing and exploited children Deborah at the
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time of her disappearance was Caucasian with brown hair and eyes five foot four and weighing about 115 pounds so a very
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similar General description as Carly brown right according to find the missing.org's Facebook page Deborah
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has some distinctive features and they are as described she has a pencil eraser size growth on her left ear and she has
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a full set of Dentures her clothing and accessories worn on that day are listed as unknown her fingerprint information
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is not available her dental information and charting is not available but on the
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brighter side it does say that her DNA status sample submitted test complete so it looks like at least they have DNA on
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file wait go back to that you so the full set of Dentures correct at 14 correct well that's pretty strange so
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we have two 19 year old females that go missing a month later in the same area yeah we have a 14 year old go missing
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yes so you're talking about we have a similar description of two of the victims here same similar General
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description anyway we also have potential crimes of opportunity abductions of opportunity somebody spots
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these girls right uh these young women and decides to pounce well the 14 year old would be walking and she was walking
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by herself from what little information is out there right and then you have the
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19 year olds they could be walking to their car we don't know where they would have been abducted from
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right well and here's the thing too you got to consider with the 19 year olds the 1974
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what if and I I'm not saying that that year plays much into it but just kind of that's what it sounded rolling through
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this in my own mind here you have to wonder with the vehicle being found that's that's why it's so
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aggravating where the hell this vehicle was actually found because one thing I wonder about in a
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crime of opportunity do we have someone saying hey could you give me a lift I mean that seems like the most
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plausible thing to me especially if you find the vehicle 200 miles away a lot of
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hitchhikers yeah and they may have felt a sense of safety in numbers because there's two of them and maybe just one
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man or one young man or somebody asked for a ride hey could you give me a ride just two miles up the road sure no
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problem we're leaving anyway and then boom you're never seen again one I would think of it in those terms then we'd
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have to look at the perpetrator being somebody that doesn't live in the area but possibly works in the area
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and so you could take like the rodeo there they normally have like at convention centers or whatever where
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people work there periodically so they might not live they might live pretty far away but they work in the area so I
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wonder also the day that the 14 year old goes missing was there something in that town happening
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was there another Rodeo or was there some show or play or whatever there could have been I mean these rodeos
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happen frequently in this area and you'll see that as we continue on through these cases
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but the there's some very difficult things here with with this case with with Deborah's case in particular for me
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um and you had asked me just briefly before we flipped the mics back on do I think the cases these cases are
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connected well I think the time frame I mean we have one month to the day between the abductions
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so that plays a factor in in a in a pro for yes they're probably connected two you have the area we have a small area
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where these two abductions take place right so another another check in the yes box for are they connected I
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hesitate to say that they are connected because of this with Deborah's case there is no information out there and
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what I mean by that is as stated her digital footprint is extremely small if you find some
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information about her on the Charlie project or you know missing persons websites so on and so forth It's all
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pretty much the same information regurgitated over and over again and it's basically a short little paragraph
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where I find problems with her case is the lack of evidence the lack of information about this little girl okay
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so or the fact that she had a full mouth of Dentures okay well this is strange it's it's Unique yes and we don't know
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why she had a full set of Adventures but here's what I question further if if she has Dentures why are there no
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dental records and and I know somebody's laughing right now going well that's because she doesn't have any teeth well
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you would have some information you paid somebody paid for those Dentures right somewhere there's a record of those
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dentures and even if it's in her home state of Montana why don't we have that information you
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know we're talking about could her remains have been found between when she went missing in current day possibly I
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don't know what it means to say that they have DNA tests submitted and that they have something on file I don't know
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if if throughout the course of the years the decades that have gone by if certain remains were tested that were
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found what I'm getting at is the the problem I have here is look we have the one single
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statement by her parents that say she was a good kid she wouldn't have run off right
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I have a huge problem that they there's no damn information about this kid it's almost like she went out for a walk one
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day while on vacation with her parents she disappeared and it's almost like she never even existed but her parents
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weren't from the area correct they lived in Montana they were visiting relatives
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in Rollins Wyoming so I think that makes it difficult because we also don't know
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the financial status of her parents so they could have just not had enough money to stay in the area and keep
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looking for her and also during the 70s with all the the the gas shortage and all that stuff maybe they just couldn't
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afford to keep traveling back and forth well I get that and and I'm I don't want to
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sound like I'm blaming the parents here because I think where my my anger should
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be directed is maybe there's just a lack of good record keeping right maybe that
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information was submitted but again I question this whole thing like we said Dentures were made no dental records on
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file seems strange seems fishy nobody gives a time of when this girl was last seen seems strange also what clothing
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was she wearing what articles accessories did she have on her person at that time
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we don't know it says unknown why would it be unknown how much stuff did she pack to go on this trip and you can't go
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even if you didn't see her I get it maybe you're busy hanging out with relatives that day you didn't actually
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physically see her leave the home and walk away but you can't go through the suitcase
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and go well it looks like this is missing and this is missing she probably had that on her that day well and again
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it's not like today and age where you can have somebody go missing let's say in Cleveland and then I live in Columbus
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well I can do a bunch of work on the internet to keep the story alive or you know make some phone calls so again it's
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it's almost like this person disappeared but we don't even know anything about her other than
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that she had a full mouth of fake teeth at the age of 14. and two the the other very sad part of her her very short
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story is I almost feel like if there weren't these other cases these other abductions
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right she she may have no record of her at all at this point very likely her parents have passed away I would love
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you know we even did a shout out this week to someone a great listener in Wyoming in the state of Wyoming I would
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love if somebody in the area has information or has old newspaper articles or something to expand her
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story more so that we can learn more about her possible disappearance right again it could be like some public
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records there might be a bunch of articles on this it just never made it online yeah all these decades later all
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these miles away and here's the other thing too that's a little weird captain we do see this once in a while but it's
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not extremely common we have covered a lot of missing persons cases a lot of homicide cases but very few cases have
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we covered where a person a child is on vacation or visiting another state or someplace else with their parents and
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then they go missing there before they return home [Music] [Music] all right we're back Cheers Cheers
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captain and usually I don't get frustrated or angry until the second episode of a case but while I'm voicing
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and venting my anger regarding the lack of personal information about a missing child right I do want to discuss
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something that we have mentioned before on the show but a quick reminder you can
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download the free FBI Child ID kit I recommend doing this it's an easy way to store your child's most current
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information God forbid you need it for a missing child situation Not only would you have recent information of your
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child but if you are out and about and something should happen as long as you have your device that you have the info
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you have the info of the person your child that is missing you can pass that along and hopefully that comes to help
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now we got to talk about another case Okay Captain this is August 23rd so we're talking
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less than three weeks later ten-year-old Jaylene Baker went to the Carbon County rodeo with a friend after
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the second performance the two got separated at the fairgrounds Jaylene was to return home by 10 30 PM when she did
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not her parents notified police at 11 PM and reported her missing Jaylene Baker was just 10 years old missing Flyers
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were printed and distributed this providing a brief description of the young girl standing five feet tall with
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light brown hair brown eyes and she was last seen wearing an all-navy colored outfit it looks like authorities went
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all out on the search for her conducting door-to-door searches and even using two
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planes to assist in the search this took place on Saturday afternoon so less than
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24 hours after she was noticeably gone also they did one of my favorite tactics when you have a missing child and no
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real leads ladies and gentlemen it's time for the old pervert Roundup police announce that
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the investigation included the holding and questioning of sex offenders believed to have been in the area at the
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time but they were eventually all cleared authorities did announce publicly that
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they did not rule out the possibility of the child being kidnapped however no leads would indicate such that turned up
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in the early investigation by the Thursday after so just about a week after she went missing the
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authorities announced that any leads that local searches provided were followed but they went nowhere and now
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they were bringing in the FBI for fear that the girl may have been abducted and transported across the state line
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then eight months later on April 23 1975 a man out walking his dog discovered the partially nude
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lifeless body of Jaylene Baker this was near the city's Gravel Pit about two miles west of Rollins Wyoming her body
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was found in the face down position she was wearing only tennis shoes socks and a t-shirt laboratory analysis of the
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girl's clothing failed to produce any evidence what they did learn is the cause of
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death was a head injury likely caused by a severe Blow To The Head the county sheriff went on record
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stating that he has no doubt in his mind that the girl died where she was found he said evidence at the scene told them
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so though he would not specify as to what that evidence was so even though we now know that two bodies of the missing
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girls would be eventually found the the thing to hone in on here before we venture further is that looking back at
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1974 we had four missing girls in just seven weeks in Rollins Wyoming so closing out the year of 1974 they still
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hadn't found any bodies yet it wasn't until eight months later that the first body was found and then the second
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bodies found nine years later four missing people in a small area in seven weeks is just I mean it's incredible one
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the fact that three of the victims were last seen at a rodeo so that it's it's strange yeah and it that's what's
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troubling too is the okay we're talking about rodeos here there probably would have been a lot of people at both of
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those events yet we don't have any eyewitnesses saying that we saw any of these missing people speaking with
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somebody or at least anybody that was investigated at the time then we have the young girl who was abducted very
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likely in a busy section of town in broad daylight right I so would like to know what was happening in that town the
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days she went missing her yeah and so it's almost like do you have a person that is if it's one offender
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is it someone that is seeking out crimes of opportunity seeking out targets of opportunity taking themselves putting
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themselves in a situation where there's a lot of people there's a lot of potential victims to choose
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from at these rodeos and then do we have somebody that's driving around downtown
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looking for a potential victim or is it just something that this person stumbled upon
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throughout the course of their day it also seems like the victims have similar looks as well yeah a lot a lot of even
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though you have a varying a age range here right you have varying by not some few years yeah so you have a similar
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height similar appearance Caucasian brown hair brown eyes right um regarding these cases though looking
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at them as if they were a whole being that they would be all connected it seems kind of very obvious to me you
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know you mentioned the rodeos those ones seem obviously to be likely connected again I'm still
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out in left field regarding Deborah's disappearance as we know so little about that case
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now are you ready to open up the floodgates captain am I yes I'm the captain all right I don't like floods
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so we'll wait till next week okay all right but I do have to warn you open you can open them up I do have to warn you
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before we move forward you might want to put on your raincoat because there's going to be some [ __ ] all right well
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maybe I should put on my [ __ ] coat we are going to fast forward to September 26 1981 and move our location to
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Oklahoma City Oklahoma so seven years after the four disappearances in Rollins and many miles Southeast of Rollins
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right 13 year old Charlotte June Kenzie and 13 year old Cinda Jean pallet attended the Oklahoma State Fair in
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Oklahoma City both girls were accompanied by their boyfriends they were dropped off at the fair around noon
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on that Saturday at about 5 PM Charlotte called her family and told her family that she and Cinda were offered a job by
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a Carney to help unload plush toys from a truck at the fair it was then that all four the two girls
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and two boys left with an unknown man right this guy was sporting a yellow identification workers badge now he took
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them to a truck stop off of I-40 to meet the truck that they were going to unload
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right but the truck was not there it was nowhere to be found so the man then gave
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the boys the two boys ten dollars and told them to wait while he went to get the truck the man drove off with
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Charlotte and Cinda the two 13 year old girls were waving out the back window of
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the car to the two boys as the vehicle drove off the two girls promised to call home again when it was time for them to
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be picked up from the fair but that call would never come but here we have something captain that
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we didn't have in the cases we have previously discussed here we have potential eyewitnesses the
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two boys right and these kids have some information to offer up to the investigators
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first the man had shown the kids an ID badge and the ID badge had the man's photo and name printed on it got him
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second before stopping off to as you know they were told to unload this truck the man stopped along the way and
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purchased two pairs of gloves and two rolls of duct tape and more importantly the two boys remembered the name on the
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ID badge it was Donald Michael Corey by Wednesday September 30th with the girls still nowhere to be found and Donald
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Michael Corey also nowhere to be found the police along with the FBI secured an arrest warrant for Donald Michael Corey
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charging him with two counts of kidnapping and the teletypes were sent out to police stations throughout
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multiple States as The Manhunt for Donald Corey was now in full swing police could prove Corey was in the
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Oklahoma City area this is as late as the day before the kidnapping When Corey checked himself into a hospital in that
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area now Corey suffered pretty badly from an ulcer hospitals were a regular thing for him and we would see this as
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authorities began to track Donald Corey's movements hoping to catch up with him as he seemed to be getting
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further and further away from Oklahoma City Oklahoma State Police and the FBI got
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news from Jackson Mississippi that Donald Corey had surfaced just briefly there where he used his ID and
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information to get Demerol injections a painkiller he was using in regards to his ulcer then on Friday October 9 1981
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Oklahoma State Police they get the big break that they were looking for this is a call from the Greenville police in
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Alabama they wanted to know if the warrant for Donald Corey was still standing well yes
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they were told and why are you asking they responded because we have Donald Corey here at our police station he
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walked in earlier today and gave us his information Corey was arrested now this is how this whole thing went down so
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yeah this is confusing yeah Corey went to a First Baptist Church okay this was to apply for some assistance as he was
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not working and he's suffering from this ulcer at the church Donald Corey provided all of his information using
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his real name driver's license and real information well they have a system with
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the rules in Alabama and if you are applying for assistance and you have an out-of-state driver's license or ID you
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then must go to the local police department where they will run a background check right and then send you
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back to the church with the proper paperwork so that you then may file for assistance well of course they didn't
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send Donald Corey back instead they called Oklahoma City and they very shortly afterwards sent him to jail
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got him again got him again okay so Donald Michael Corey the man with three first names yeah never trust a man with
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three first names or a guy that goes by a nickname or only one name right I don't know what that means or well you
00:42:01
could just go by a name and it could not be a real name okay so just because we have this guy and it has the same name
00:42:07
as the name tag is this our guy because we do have two eyewitnesses that they can put them in a lineup and say
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hey is this the Donald this is the Donald Duck that you're looking for well and remember police could prove that he
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was in town in Oklahoma City the day before less than 24 hours before the Abduction of these two girls
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so now we have Oklahoma who wants to interview this guy either in Alabama but most likely they want to bring him back
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to Oklahoma Corey seems somewhat Cooperative at first but tells the investigators yes I was in Oklahoma City
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yeah and we will just say OKC yeah is that what the kids say going forward so on September 25th he says he was in OKC
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when he went to the hospital for Demerol injections for that ulcer but he says after the hospital he left the state
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that same day according to Donald Corey he was not in Oklahoma City on the 26th when the two girls were abducted do we
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know if he works for like the State Fair that's what's tricky regarding this identification badge it seems to be that
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it was some type of work identification badge right but some information that I found
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stated that it wasn't for that Fairgrounds that it wasn't in regards to that exact area Okay police want to
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question him more but Corey gets a court appointed attorney and he tells Corey to
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shut his mouth and no longer speak with the police then quickly something started to fall apart for the
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investigators first When Corey is arrested his vehicle does not match the vehicle the boys say the abductor was
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driving so to be clear Donald Corey's vehicle that he's driving at the time of his arrest it's his vehicle it's titled
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to him it's registered to him it's not like he's driving a stolen car or anything and the description of the
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abductors vehicle it went it wasn't even a close match to Corey's car Donald Corey drove a green Oldsmobile station
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wagon the boys said the abductor drove them to the truck stop in a 1980 or 1981 model Pontiac beige Grand Prix
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police in Alabama analyzed Corey's vehicle and there's also no indications that the two girls were ever in this
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vehicle it takes a couple of days but Donald Corey is sent back to OKC there during the course of a lineup both boys
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failed to correctly identify Donald Corey as having been the man that the two boys saw driving away with the girls
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don't got him don't got him then to make the case against Corey even weaker he finally tells police he was in Dallas
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Texas the day the girls were abducted receiving a Demerol injection from a doctor so not only does it appear that
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Donald Corey has an ulcer or maybe he doesn't that is unclear however what is clear this is by Corey's own admission
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he is addicted to Demerol and he's looking to get one or two Demerol injections a day that's his thing and it
00:45:25
sounds like he was fairly good at achieving this goal because he is getting doctors to give him these
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injections and often it's not all on the up and up and even though it was on the
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down low these illegal injections in Dallas the day of the abductions Corey's attorney gets the doctor in Dallas to
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back up Donald Corey's story providing him an alibi for the day and with that the charges against him
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and rightfully so are dropped and he probably has no explanation of why this person would have a name tagged with his
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name on it other than he didn't have it in his possession he wasn't sure of when
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he had lost the ID badge right what a smart idea grab a name badge with a picture
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and I'm going hey I'm going to hire you guys and then you take off with these girls who cares that they saw you I mean
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they might be able to pick you out of a lineup but they're remembering that badge they're remembering the name yeah
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and it's surprising too if it's actual if it was actually Donald's picture on the badge which it was lucky for him
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that they didn't remember that picture to pick him out of the lineup yeah they could have not even remembered the
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face and just remembered the picture and then went it's that guy and then what do
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you do if you go well we got two people pick them out of the lineup but we have a doctor that's given them Alibi yeah
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and the thing here is it sounds like there was trouble getting that the doctor wasn't very forthcoming you know
00:46:58
it took some convincing by the attorney to get the doctor to come forward with this Alibi I wonder if that's because of
00:47:05
how much Demerol they're giving him well it was an illegal injection right well to this day send a pallet in Charlotte
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Kinsey they've never been found at the time of her disappearance Cinda palette was five foot tall and 88 pounds she is
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part Caucasian part Hispanic and has brown hair and brown eyes Cinda has a small scar below the corner of her left
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eyebrow her collarbone was previously broken but healed at the time or before the time she vanished at the time of her
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disappearance she wore a dental retainer behind her lower front teeth she was last seen wearing jeans a white T-shirt
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jersey with dark blue sleeves and the words ZZ Top on the front and 88 on the back she was also wearing Nike sneakers
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at the time of Charlotte's disappearance she was five foot to five foot one inches tall and weighed 100 to 105
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pounds she had blonde hair and blue eyes she has a small dot shaped scar below her left eye caused by pencil lead
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Charlotte has silver caps on her lower front teeth and pierced ears she also has a triangular shaped birthmark on her
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lower back near the waistline she was last seen wearing a white blouse with maroon Stripes blue jeans and sneakers
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if you have any information regarding the whereabouts of Cinder palette or Charlotte Kinsey please call the
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Oklahoma Police missing persons unit at 405-297-1129 or call Crime Stoppers at 405-235-7300 callers to Crime Stoppers
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can remain anonymous and may be eligible for cash Rewards [Music] please join us back here in the garage
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tomorrow for the conclusion of this case until then be good be kind and don't litter
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thank you [Music]