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Speaker 1: This is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Investigators told us

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Speaker 1: Andresi Jr. Has been found. Unbelievable. There are no words

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Speaker 1: after taking his little boy, his namesake Peaky Aaron and

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Speaker 1: Rosia Jr. Taking him to a fun field trip to Disney,

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Speaker 1: he kills his own child. I Nancy Grace, this is

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Speaker 1: crime stories and I want justice. How dare he joke

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Speaker 1: his namesake Alan, What happened? It's unbelievable. The kid, Peaky,

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Speaker 1: to my son Papa. This message is for you, my love.

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Speaker 1: Be brave, Honey. I know that Mama and a lot

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Joe Mendoza. This is what

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Speaker 1: Where have we seen that before? When a missing child

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Speaker 1: like that before? Nancy? Yeah? So what what explained to

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Speaker 1: I'm sure we're gonna get him, and we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: is it? Nancy? The crime stoppers number for the Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles County Sheriff's Department is one eight hundred two to

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Speaker 1: two Tips one hundred two to two, eight four seven seven.

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Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is the latest and the death

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Speaker 1: and disappearance of Little Peaky Aaron Andressian Jr. Our prayers

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Speaker 1: with his mom today. Nancy Grace crime story signing off

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Speaker 1: Goodbye friend,