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Speaker 1: Crime a art hourly update, breaking crime news.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm Nicole Parton. On Monday, police in Michigan begin

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Speaker 2: a search of a landfill for a woman who has

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Speaker 2: been missing since earlier this month. For more, here's Crime

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Speaker 2: on Lines Dave Mack.

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Speaker 3: Ashley Elkins, a self employed single mother of two, works

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Speaker 3: hard to create a positive and secure life for her

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Speaker 3: young family. Elkins runs her hair salon from her white

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Speaker 3: Ranch home, setting appointments to match her family's schedule. Working

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Speaker 3: from home is better for her two young boys, ages

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Speaker 3: seven and ten. Elkins close family also helps fill the

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Speaker 3: much needed mail role model for the boys, often taking

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Speaker 3: them to play ball in the park.

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Speaker 2: It was Ashley Elkins's mother who first knew something wasn't

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Speaker 2: quite right when she reached out to her daughter and

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Speaker 2: the response was odd.

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Speaker 3: Monica Elkins arrives wanting to tell Ashley about a dream

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Speaker 3: she had. Having just missed Ashley, Monica sends a text

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Speaker 3: to her daughter about the dream she had involving Ashley

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Speaker 3: taking her mom's truck while leaving her car in the driveway.

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Speaker 3: Ashley replies to the description of the dream, writing aw man.

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Speaker 3: Monica feels this is a strange and uncharacteristic response for

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Speaker 3: Ashley and attempts a FaceTime call immediately upon receipt of

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Speaker 3: the text from Ashley's phone, but Ashley doesn't answer the

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Speaker 3: FaceTime Monica Elkins gets a text reply from her daughter Ashley,

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Speaker 3: but the text isn't consistent with the way Ashley texts. Later,

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Speaker 3: when another text is received from Ashley's phone, is not

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Speaker 3: sent in the way Ashley normally text. Family members are

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Speaker 3: concerned when they can't get Ashley to answer the phone,

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Speaker 3: so they use to find my iPhone app to locate

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Speaker 3: her phone, and the phone's last location appears that the

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Speaker 3: apartment of her ex boyfriend, DeAndre Booker.

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Speaker 2: Ashley's family rushed to the location of her last known whereabouts.

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Speaker 2: Holden Zapple explains what they found.

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Speaker 4: According to Ashley's phone, her last known location was her

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Speaker 4: ex boyfriend's residence in the twenty nine hundred block of

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Speaker 4: Pinehurst Street in Roseville. By the time family members drive

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Speaker 4: by DeAndre Booker's apartment, there is no sign of Ashley Elkins,

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Speaker 4: DeAndre Booker, or Ashley's twenty ten gray Chevrolet Malibu without

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Speaker 4: a license plate. Shocked at not finding Ashley Elkins, the

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Speaker 4: family reports her missing.

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Speaker 2: The investigation led authorities back to Ashley's boyfriend, thirty two

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Speaker 2: year old DeAndre Booker.

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Speaker 3: Officials say they believe there is a strong possibility of

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Speaker 3: foul play in Elkins's disappearance, and after meeting with authorities,

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Speaker 3: Elkins's uncle, Maurice Morton, highly regarded attorney, released the following

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Speaker 3: statement quote. What they indicated was that there was substantial

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Speaker 3: evidence collected at the home of the ex boyfriend, and

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Speaker 3: they also indicated that based upon that evidence, that Ashley

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Speaker 3: was murdered. They don't have her body at this time,

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Speaker 3: they do have good leads where the body is. They

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Speaker 3: also indicated that the boyfriend is in custody unrelated charges,

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Speaker 3: not for murder at this time.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Dave for an in depth look into the mystery

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Speaker 2: regarding missing mother Ashley Elkins. Tune in to Crime Stories

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Speaker 2: with Nancy Grace tonight six and nine pm Eastern on

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Speaker 2: Doctor Phil's Merritt Street Media, or download Crime Stories with

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Speaker 2: Nancy Grace on your favorite podcasting app or Crime and

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Speaker 2: Justice News.

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Speaker 1: After this, Lewis Devilla drives from Bentonville, Arkansas, to Monterey,

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Speaker 1: Mexico to visit his girlfriend. He spends a week in Mexico,

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Speaker 1: says goodbye to the girlfriend March twenty nine, planning to

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Speaker 1: drive straight home to Arkansas. About fourteen hours. When he

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Speaker 1: doesn't show up at work, he's reported missing. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: appear he ever made it home, his silver Nissan Ultima

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Speaker 1: also missing. His route would have taken him through Nuevo

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Speaker 1: Leon to the southern border of Texas on Mexico Highway

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Speaker 1: eighty five. The media's dubbed it the Highway of Death.

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Speaker 1: Thirty six people have disappeared in the last years. There

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Speaker 1: Bus Davila now missing nearly three years. If you have

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Speaker 1: info on Lewis de Villa, please call FBI one eight

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Speaker 1: three two four For.

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Speaker 2: Nicole Parton.