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so [Music] this [Music] september 11 2001 it's not just a day that some people did
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something no the some people were al-qaeda terrorists the something that they did
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is one of the single most tragic days in the history of our country the greatest of nations
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on the morning of tuesday september 11 2001 four california-bound commercial airliners took off from three different
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airports these planes were hijacked mid-flight by 19 al-qaeda terrorists american
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airlines flight 11 was deliberately flown into the north tower of the world trade center complex in manhattan
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at 8 46 a.m 17 minutes later the world trade center's south tower was hit by united
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airlines flight 175. a third flight american airlines flight 77 was hijacked over ohio
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and at 9 37 a.m the terrorists crashed the plane into the west side of the pentagon
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the fourth flight united airlines flight 93 was flown in the direction of washington
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dc the plane crashed in a field near shakesville pennsylvania at 10 03 am after passengers forced their way into
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the cockpit and fought the hijackers over the controls the destruction of the world trade
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center and nearby infrastructure seriously harmed the economy of new york city and created a global economic
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recession the attacks resulted in 2977 over 25 000 injuries and substantial long-term health consequences
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september 11 2001 was the deadliest terrorist attack in human history and the single deadliest
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incident for firefighters and law enforcement officers in the history of the united states
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412 firefighters and law enforcement officers were killed and in the last 20 years al qaeda leaders have used the
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anniversary of this day to call for more attacks on the united states september 11 or 9 11 as people often say
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was an attack on all of us and nearly 3 000 people were killed when terrorists piloted planes slammed into the world
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trade center the pentagon in a field in pennsylvania it was also a day when our constitutional freedoms were attacked 20
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years have gone by we will not forget the date is also one of special remembrance and sorrow for one south
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florida family for personal reasons this date for them too is a sad anniversary of personal and permanent
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loss for the rice family the pain of that day started in 1995 when nine-year-old jimmy rice was
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abducted jimmy's mother the late claudine rice used to say god sleeps on september 11.
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in the days following jimmy's disappearance search helicopters filled the skies law
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enforcement agencies went through thousands of leads from all over the country jimmy's photo was all over the news
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and a missing person's flyer was being put up everywhere strangers offered up prayers for the
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little boy this is true crime garage and this is the case of jimmy rice [Music] miami-dade county 1995.
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our true crime story starts off on monday september 11. we're going to the city of homestead florida which is
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primarily a miami suburb and a major agricultural area we will also be talking about a
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neighboring unincorporated town called redland samuel james rice known to those close
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to him as jimmy rice was a nine-year-old student enrolled in the gifted program at naranja elementary school in the
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redland community of south florida jimmy was a very compassionate kid he was kind to others and wanted to help
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people when he grew up telling his parents that after a career playing in the biggs major league
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baseball that he wanted to cure diseases so he could help people jimmy as you can imagine was a good
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baseball player and he was a die-hard miami dolphins fan the rice family were season ticket holders to the
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dolphins games and jimmy was a true doll fan even saving up his money to hang a nice sized dan marino poster in his
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bedroom jimmy had a great day at school on this monday it's only september 11 so
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it's still very early in the school year jimmy's in the fifth grade at the end of his school day
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jimmy like his other classmates rode the bus home his bus stop was located at southwest
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232nd street and 162nd avenue this captain was just a mere five blocks north of his home now unfortunately
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captain this will lead to be one of the last known whereabouts for jimmy and we see this a lot in missing persons
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cases there is not a lot of information about what happened to the missing person well because
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if there were a lot of information and detailed background for the story well then we would know what happened and
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this kid would not be missing the short version of jimmy's story is he got dropped off at his normal bus stop
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at about the normal time and then he never came home on that monday after school the long version is jimmy gets
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off of the bus the bus stop is about five blocks from his house from my understanding captain there were
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several other kids that get off at this same bus stop yeah around 10. but they're walking in a different direction
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than jimmy jimmy will need to be walking southbound to get home now he's just about two
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weeks shy of his 10th birthday he's caucasian 70 pounds brown hair blue eyes and on this day it was reported that
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jimmy was wearing a white t-shirt blue jeans or blue shorts black and white high-top sneakers and
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jimmy was carrying a dark brown book bag when jimmy rice went missing after his school bus dropped him off at his usual
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stop around 3 30 p.m those who knew jimmy immediately suspected the worst friends said it's not like jimmy to get
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lost and a local minister and family friend bill baguette said the family feels that someone took him they are
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family in tears but they have not given up hope for his safe return a neighbor in homestead this is
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annabelle pomereyers said she thought she saw jimmy around 3 40 p.m south of southwest
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247th street and 162nd avenue she said she saw the boy walking alone he kept looking around like he was
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disoriented miss pomereyers was out picking up her stepdaughter at the middle school that
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is located in that very general area when she saw who she believes was jimmy rice walking alone okay so she
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thinks she saw the boy walking alone but looking around like he was disoriented or something
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and this to me captain seems like it was probably him that this was a good sighting because what we have here is
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the kid according to the witness fits his description jimmy rice's description and the time is right this would put him
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about halfway home and she says it was about 3 40 p.m so let's unpack this a little bit we have a
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kid that gets off the bus with at least 10 people it could have been more but they all go into different directions i
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i was luckily enough to just be dropped off right by my house and there wasn't a
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bunch of people on my bus stop and i didn't have to travel that far five blocks is not
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outrageous but i don't think he was probably disoriented he was probably just looking around being a young kid
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taking in his surroundings he's 9 10 years old who knows i mean i walk down the street grown man i'm disoriented
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right from my understanding there was a light rain that day but i don't get the vibe here captain that
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that this is the type of kid that's just going to go wandering off or because there's a light rain and he's going to
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allow that to affect his trek home and the sad situation is that it is only a five block trek for him but
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as you said we have other kids getting off we have kids waving goodbye they're chatting as they kind of walk and
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anybody that's had to walk home from school or has a bus stop that is any considerable distance from their home
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they know that at some point if you're the the last guy if your house is the last one on the route well at some point
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these friends and classmates start parting ways as you continue along on your journey but it seemed to me that
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there was nobody that went jimmy's direction it was just him correct at some point he's by himself
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walking by himself and this would be normal everything about this day so far is a normal day for jimmy rice when they
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don't find jimmy at home this is alarming because we we have patterns that we start forming when we're kids
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you know or especially with your parents if you're told hey when you get off the
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bus come right home start working on your homework or get a snack or whatever you could do
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but you're not playing with friends and it's not okay to go to your friend's house
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it's not okay to follow one of your friends back to their house and start playing at this point even though yeah
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he's young they probably already established a routine and a schedule with jimmy yes that's correct and a few
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things that are surprising here one that is not but surprising that jimmy doesn't
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show up at his house is he had things scheduled for later that afternoon so he had things that he would be either
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looking forward to or things that were in as you said his routine and routine is going to be broken by him
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disappearing the other thing that's surprising to me too is the fact that all of the friends and
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family immediately are going well something's terribly wrong and we think maybe somebody took him
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and it's not surprising that people make that leap that's not the surprise for me
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the surprise for me is i looked at that walk that he would have taken that that five block
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and one thing i do want to point out it i don't know five blocks does not mean the same thing to every person out there
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right that's a little loosey-goosey on that description but it's always been said that it was
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five blocks from his house that general area was a fairly busy area not like a lot of businesses
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and stuff like that but an area that i would expect to see a lot of traffic and so i'm a little surprised that what
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we have is just one eyewitness and if we do have a situation that leads to an abduction which we know that we do
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that means that it happened in broad daylight in an area that there's a decent amount of traffic well and
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another thing that's a little interesting is even with bus stops now if it's a busy area
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they're more likely to break up the stops and not just have a one dump off spot right because they don't want the kid to
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have to travel you know five to six blocks by themselves so we have this one witness
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miss pomeranz who says that she believes she saw jimmy walking by himself this would be about
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40 p.m now this area is semi-rural it's a very nice community though upscale the
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rice family lives in a big house on over three and a half acres of land this story is a little weird though because
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jimmy actually goes missing on a day when his mother and father are out of town they're both out of town
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for work jimmy's parents are donald and claudine rice it's a family of five now jimmy is the baby and he's
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considerably younger than his older brother and sister jimmy's older brother and sister are technically his half
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brother and sister as they are donald's kids from his first marriage claudine though raised the two like they
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were her own and jimmy was a welcome surprise because claudine in 1985 at the age of 43
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found out that she was a few months pregnant this is when she went to the doctor believing that she was having
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some kind of health issue she didn't feel right and they told her hey congratulations
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not only are you healthy but you're also pregnant well i'm a little confused because you say that this is a high
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traffic area but then you say jimmy lives on three acres yeah three and a half acres of land it looks to me like a lot
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of the homes out there back in 95 in the early 90s would have been on larger plots of land
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when i say a busy area again i specified and i don't mean lots of businesses or anything like that i when
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i view it on the map i see a lot of community type things in that area we have schools we also have again it
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because of it being a agricultural area i would expect there to be a lot of traffic not necessarily business and
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things like that but a lot of people driving through this area so basically you think that at this bus stop they're
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letting off these children at a a busier road instead of going back into the nooks and
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crannies of the neighborhood to drop them off that's correct yep so where is jimmy and where are his parents on this
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day as said they were out of town on business jimmy's parents are both attorneys
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donald is age 52 he is an attorney for the city of winterhaven and claudine was an attorney with the irs for years but
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retired she was retired by 1995. a family friend his name was fred and i failed to write down fred's last
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name here captain he's an 18 year old guy kruger his when we say family friend he's a yes a
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family friend but from my understanding it's actually his parents that were closer with the rice's than than he
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would have been he is left in charge of watching both the rice home and jimmy while they are
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gone because the parents were only to be gone a couple of nights and once it was reported that jimmy was
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missing they are back in town almost immediately because they were actually due to be back that very night anyway
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the way that this goes down is that jimmy is reported missing to the authorities
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a little after 4 p.m so this is because fred goes to the house to the rice house
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a little after three because he's going to be waiting there for jimmy when he gets home from
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school that day so he gets there at the house actually he may have been running late or
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whatever but he says when he got to the home he was expecting to find jimmy there or that jimmy would be there very
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soon instead he finds no jimmy he finds jimmy's music teacher who was scheduled to give a piano lesson
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that day these are regularly scheduled sessions claudine calls home around four o'clock
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just to check on everything you know hey how's it going how's the house how's jimmy is is he in the middle of his
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piano lesson normal stuff we're we're coming home tonight we're on schedule everything's
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on track we'll be home at this time you think it's going to be a normal phone call
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unfortunately claudine finds out very quickly from fred because fred says hey claudine
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was jimmy supposed to do something today that that wasn't on the schedule because
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his piano teacher's here and he's not here right and she goes no this is he should have
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gotten off of the bus walked home did the piano lesson and as you said they have this is a pretty well
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structured home and family dynamic here and immediately claudine says to fred what
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do you mean he's not there fred says he never came home claudine says hang up the phone
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call the police report him missing right now see this is surprising to me a little bit because
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what's the first thing that you would assume if he's not at home ready for his piano recital well his
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with his piano lesson i don't know because it's difficult to really hone in and analyze this very
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specific situation because i did not know jimmy and what his tendencies were and looking at it from my perspective
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though captain being a a guy and remembering how i was as a boy i was easily distracted
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it didn't take a whole lot to talk me into going over to a friend's home but again i'm not jimmy i'm looking back
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on my own experiences and i i'm a big believer though in gut feelings i've always said that on this
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show and i'm also a big believer in mother's intuition i'm really into butt feelings
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well that's disgusting but um i i'm a big believer in if you feel like something's wrong
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make that phone call at the end of the day let's say that let's say that you screwed up and the
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kid went off to somebody else's home just to goof off with one of his buddies for a little bit
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no harm no foul right maybe you're taking up a little bit of time of the police departments but
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if you think something's wrong don't hesitate because when there is something wrong
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the minutes and seconds are extremely valuable what i was getting at is the first conclusion i would jump to
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is jimmy never got on the bus he's still at school something something happened and he
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never got on the bus because there are occasionally not that often but there was a cup a couple times in my
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career as a student where i i missed the bus so that that's all i was saying is i
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mean crisscross you missed the bus jump jump uh but that's so all i'm saying is i think it's a
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little surprising that they're like hey get off the phone call the cops where i'd go call the school first see
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if he yeah got for some reason like missed his bus well or got on the wrong body that's an
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interesting point of view there because now when we talk about our own experiences i look back and i think of a
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few times where i miss the bus either way either coming home or going to school and being rather independent rather than
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mess up anybody else's day i just walked now it took me a lot of time to a long time to get there
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and i think every time i did that i ended up getting in in trouble with my my mother who said
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you know why wouldn't you just make a phone call and i'm like i thought i was doing you a favor i didn't bother
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anybody i was going with my gut feeling right but also like you said in any missing person case the the minutes and
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seconds are really valuable and a lot of times like you look at the shaffer case nobody really reacted for
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multiple days because there was nothing on his schedule that he needed to be there for
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so jimmy if he didn't have this family friend that came over to check in on him or be
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there during this piano lesson or have the piano teacher be there and the parents aren't home who knows
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how many hours jimmy would have been missing before he was even reported missing
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right and what we have here captain is we have parents jumping into action immediately claudine says that she knew
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instantly that something was wrong she says jimmy would never stray nor would he run away
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all right welcome back you filthy animals cheers to everybody in the front the back
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and cheers to you to the crispiest of the colonels cheers to you captain now we have a missing child situation
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and police firefighters family and friends will spend all of monday night and all of tuesday
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searching for jimmy or searching for any kind of clue that may lead to his whereabouts
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by first thing wednesday morning september 14th around 20 fbi agents are at the rice household so we have 20 fbi
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agents basically stationing themselves at the rice home this is less than 36 hours after the kid goes
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missing according to fbi spokeswoman lucy vanderhaar the fbi had no reason to suspect jimmy had gotten lost or run
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away but they also didn't have any evidence indicating foul play here and she said quote when it involves a
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child we meaning the fbi do become active in the investigation after a 24-hour period
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we initiated a kidnapping investigation and are working in conjunction with metro date police aggressively pursuing
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all leads we can to locate the whereabouts of jimmy police and fbi agents mapped grids of places to search
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and studied aerial maps of the area five german shepherd dogs who helped to search for victims in the oklahoma city
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bombing just earlier that year were brought in to help in the search effort and one chihuahua hundreds of people
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this included both first responders volunteers and even juvenile volunteers searched south dade groves while metro
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dade fire rescue set up a task force and command post at the redland elementary school to coordinate volunteers who
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scoured the area on foot on horseback and in all-terrain vehicles well like i said at first you want to make sure you
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got on the bus so they did that so we have a bunch of eyewitnesses that place jimmy on the bus
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but then you want to start questioning i mean one of the things that pops into my
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head is you got both parents gone on on a monday yeah this is a business trip it's something that would be easy
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to verify and as said they were planning on being back that night anyway yeah you're right you have a lot of
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people to talk to right you want to talk to everybody at the school you want to talk to the bus driver the other kids on
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the bus any kid that got off at that same stop just to see if they saw anything you want to know even what this
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kid's demeanor was what was his behavior that day was he acting abnormal was there something going on
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that maybe he was aware of that we could detect based off of the way he was acting that day and everybody on the bus
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says that he was his normal self he was chatty he was upbeat and it was really only that strange
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eyewitness situation of saying that they saw the boy walking alone and he appeared to be
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disoriented i don't know how much of an observation this is i don't know the situation did this woman see
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jimmy when she's out of her vehicle or was this just quickly in passing as she's driving to the school to pick up
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her stepdaughter the other thing too here is you're going to be looking to the public right we see this in so many
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situations it's so key and crucial and it will be in this case and it always seems to be when we have what
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appears to be a child abduction we need the help of the public and as said earlier this is an area that
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if he was abducted between point a and point b which is the bus stop and his home
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and if you put a lot of weight into this eyewitness and what they saw well now it's
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halfway between point a and point b that something happened to this kid and if he was abducted you're looking to the
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public for any information this was in broad daylight did anybody see anything at all out of the ordinary or anything
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that they questioned for any reason at all in this situation come forward let us know
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also asking the kids is there any little nooks and crannies in these neighborhoods that jimmy would want to
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go play down at a little creek or is there a little pond or something that jimmy liked to go to
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that they could go investigate there you're going to do all the normal stuff you know when you
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respond to this call you're checking the rice home immediately that's the first go-to for law enforcement and then
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you're spreading out from there where was he supposed to be last what would be the bus stop so you're checking all
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these known areas now by this point in our timeline we have the community that's really
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stepping up and getting involved very early on so of course we have missing posters or flyers going up everywhere in
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this area i saw a picture of a woman who made a sign out of one of those big this is probably like a six foot by four
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foot piece of wood this she spray painted saying please help find jimmy and setting this up at a
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a major intersection and it has several missing flyers already stapled to this piece of wood this sign that she created
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people were putting up yellow ribbons within two days of him being missing in hopes that he would return hundreds
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of people were volunteering their time to look for this boy even with these large party searches searching for kid
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or clue they don't find jimmy and they never find any of his belongings that he had
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with him that day like his clothing or his book bag and the book bag was something of major
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concern for his parents in fact i think it was this item here captain that claudine his mother says
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early on that she believed that someone took jimmy and the family stated that they believed it may have possibly been
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two people that were responsible for his disappearance so the parents are stating
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that they believe that someone took jimmy simply based off of the idea that both parents said
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jimmy would not have gotten into a car on his own he would not have strayed he would not have run away
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so they feared that it may have taken two people to abduct him because of a conversation that claudine had with
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him just about a week or so before jimmy went missing this is when jimmy told his
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mother that there were two men in a car that approached him and asked him for directions
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and she said it was then that the two had a serious talk about not approaching strangers not talking to strangers and
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if someone approaches you or tries to take you you should flee the scene immediately
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scream yell drop your belongings and run and it was even jimmy's own words that he promised his mother should that
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type of situation if he's ever presented with that type of situation that he would drop his book
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bag and he would run so not finding the book bag was a major concern for the parents as well and
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that's why they thought maybe this had to be two people he wouldn't have gone into a car this may have required
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whatever happened to him may have required somebody getting out and somebody throwing the kid or grabbing
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the kid and pulling him into a vehicle now or other possibilities that he knew the individual and that's why he would
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get into the vehicle with him or possibly by some kind of other force with a knife or a gun jimmy's
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disappearance shook the homestead community and indeed all of south florida a place where little boys didn't
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just disappear from one minute to the next janine reynolds the owner of a local sandwich shop in
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redland said this is serious this has never happened in our community this little boy is
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important people out here take care of each other law enforcement was running polygraph tests on those close to the
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case this would be people close to the family people close to jimmy at school i don't know who specifically
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was polygraphed but it does say that several people were polygraphed in the first 48 hours i'm guessing the parents
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no don and claudine were not two of the people that were polygraphed but wrong again captain both but both agreed
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saying that if asked they were happy to take the test what about the piano teacher or their
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the family friend that was there again they never specifically said who was polygraphed
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the statement that was released was that there were people that were polygraphed
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several people but the parents were not in that batch on day three of the search
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a small amount of blood was found in the general area of where jimmy was last seen
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so this is stemming from that tip that came in from a neighboring woman that lived in the
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area that said hey i saw the boy in this area again it's about the halfway mark of where he would be walking home
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and he looked to be disoriented they found a small amount of blood in this area these are listed simply as just some
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drops of blood found on a loading dock so they bring in the forensic experts and the blood is tested and very quickly
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they determined that this blood was not human it was in fact animal blood so even though this tip this eyewitness tip
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is a good one the blood has nothing to do with our case on day four a reward was put up by some
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local group offering 25 000 for tips leading to the missing boy and there was a tip hotline number that was announced
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and listed in several of the local papers and with jimmy gone most of the week and
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his parents saying unfortunately we believe he was taken on that friday we get a press conference
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where the metro dade police are saying quote there is no indication that jimmy is
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still in the area end quote short sweet and just absolutely heartbreaking a segment
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ran that friday night on america's most wanted that featured the boy's parents and
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wow how just how crazy is that we know that john walsh featured a lot unfortunately a lot of missing
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kids segments over the years on that great show but america's most wanted he's sitting there speaking with parents
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of a florida boy who are insistent that their child was taken it's really got to bring up all
00:36:31
kinds of memories for john walsh in that specific situation police took jimmy's bed sheets very
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early on when they were looking for the boy and in this missing child investigation i
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believe this was on day two but couldn't 100 confirm when that action took place
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in these situations captain as you know they take the bed sheets because this is
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a really good way for them to collect hair and skin samples should they need them
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at any point in their investigation by this time the hotline had received over 400 tips
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that the police were bringing in extra detectives and we already said that there were at least 20 fbi agents in the
00:37:17
area working the case so they're bringing in all kinds of extra help to really be efficient in their way of double
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checking these tips and tracking down each piece of information that is coming in from the public because
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as we know and as we've seen dozens of times on cases that we've covered here in the garage
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in cases like this you are very reliant on the help of the public well they're very reliant on the public and they
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continue to search for jimmy rice for months and months but they have no real big
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break yeah and i want to as we see here in most cases there's a lot of action a lot of activity early on within about
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that first week to 10 days of when a child goes missing and then from that point on it's very
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repetitive and things kind of just taper off as you're hoping to find that big clue
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or get that big break in your search for the missing person the miami herald captain did a fantastic
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job covering jimmy rice's case they were there from the beginning and they continued to give us updates in their
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story and in their coverage of this case for the next i mean up to this day we're sitting here
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25 26 years later and they've continued to cover the story throughout those years
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so if you will allow it i would like to read for everyone an article that came out on the sunday following
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his disappearance so right now in the timeline we are about six days six and a half days into this missing persons
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investigation and this article from the herald sums up what is going on in everything
00:39:08
that was going on looking for jimmy at this point very nicely read on colonel the article is titled parents and
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friends of missing boy cling to hope subtitled efforts continued saturday in what was the last scheduled volunteer
00:39:24
search and it reads newspaper clippings missing child flyers notes of encouragement jimmy rice's mom
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is saving them all in a scrapbook mementos of the nightmare she hopes will end soon with his safe return
00:39:41
quote it's for jimmy when he comes home claudine rice says matter-of-factly as there's no doubt he'll be walking
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through the door saturday marked the fifth day since nine-year-old jimmy vanished without a
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trace near his house in redland victim of an apparent kidnapping every minute that passes bodes poorly for his chances
00:40:02
but his parents refuse to give up hope they tick off the possible scenarios jimmy fell victim to family friend or a
00:40:10
business enemy of his parents he ran away from home he was kidnapped for ransom all of those options have been ruled out
00:40:19
his parents said leaving one inescapable conclusion we're just convinced it was a stranger
00:40:26
at random and that any child could have been the victim said don rice jimmy's father the problem is we don't know what
00:40:35
the motivation was we don't know who it was we don't know how it was done dozens of law enforcement officers
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want the same answers metro date police and the fbi reported no breakthroughs in the case despite an
00:40:52
offer of 25 000 in reward money jimmy whose full name is samuel james rice was last seen monday getting off
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the school bus at southwest 232nd street and 162nd avenue 3 tenths of a mile from his front door
00:41:11
he never made it home law officers are interviewing known child molesters and other sex offenders who live in south
00:41:18
dade they're also questioning all the children on jimmy's bus and the people who came to the rice home
00:41:25
which has been for sale during a real estate open house last sunday at night the fbi flies over
00:41:33
the area with an infrared camera looking for hot spots heat generated as a byproduct of a body that's decomposing
00:41:42
civilian efforts also continued saturday and what was the last scheduled volunteer search
00:41:48
a candlelight prayer service will be held at 7 30 pm at harrisfield in homestead with
00:41:56
generosity reminiscent of hurricane andrew recovery efforts more than 250 volunteer searchers broke into teams to
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comb fields canals and groves they were fortified by mountains of donated food and drink and by a sense of
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community that united even total strangers quote this community is a lot more bonded than others said liz minderman 24
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a family friend who coordinated the search i'm not saying bad things can't happen
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here but this is the first time this kind of thing has happened the outpouring of support has helped jimmy's
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parents make it through these agonizing days in limbo still no matter how much goodwill there is his mother feels
00:42:40
powerless like a rat in a cage running in the same spot she aches for her son the simple rituals they shared
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from bedtime prayers and piano practices to organizing his toys and carefully labeled storage bins
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how will i feel doing the things we do together how can i go out to dinner to monkey jungle
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to dolphins games without jimmy those are family activities where's jimmy [Music]
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like always want to thank you for joining us here in the garage so much more to get to in part two of the jimmy
00:43:34
rice case so make sure you join us back here in the garage tomorrow and if you'd
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