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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Greece.

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Speaker 2: How does a mom and all of her children just

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Speaker 2: disappear vanish drive off in the mini van and they're

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Speaker 2: just never seen again? And why is the husband slash

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Speaker 2: father saying he's quote not concerned about his missing wife

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Speaker 2: and children.

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Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation

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Speaker 2: in series six, sem one eleven. Where is she? Where

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Speaker 2: is Lauren Cook? Where is seven year old Benjamin? Where

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Speaker 2: his five year old Hannah?

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Speaker 1: Where's two year old Elijah?

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Speaker 2: How and why do they just drop off the grid,

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Speaker 2: off the map, seemingly poof.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friends at w d B Jay.

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Speaker 3: We are starting tonight with breaking news. The Franklin County

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Speaker 3: Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help and locating

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Speaker 3: a missing woman as well as her children. Lauren Cook

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Speaker 3: and her children were last seen on September fifth in

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Speaker 3: Franklin County. Since then, communication efforts with Lauren have been unsuccessful.

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Speaker 4: According to officials, Communication efforts since then have been unsuccessful.

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Speaker 4: Officials ask if you know the whereabouts of Lauren Cook

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Speaker 4: and her children seven year old Benjamin, five year old

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Speaker 1: Year old Elijah.

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Speaker 4: You're asked to contact the Franklin County Sheriff's.

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Speaker 2: Office and guys, that tip line is five four zero

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Speaker 2: four eight three three thousand. Repeat five four zero four

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Speaker 1: It's very unusual.

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Speaker 2: We hear about missing children or a missing mom or

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Speaker 2: a missing person, and every day I hear that ten

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Speaker 2: times a day. But a whole family, and apparently the

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Speaker 2: sheriff agrees.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friends at w SET.

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Speaker 5: The Sheriff's office tells me that this case is unusual.

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Speaker 5: They say that families don't often go missing when both

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Speaker 5: parents have custody of the children. Take a look at

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Speaker 5: your screens. This is thirty year old Lauren Cook and

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Speaker 5: her children, seven year old Benjamin, five year old Hannah,

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Speaker 5: and two year old Elijah. The Sheriff's office started this

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Speaker 5: investigation this week after family expressed concern. They said Cook

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Speaker 5: missed a meeting with a family member. No one has

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Speaker 5: been able to contact Cook since September fourth.

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Speaker 1: Okay, right, that just told me a lot.

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Speaker 2: A family member expressing concern, not the husband, but a

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Speaker 2: family member that tells me the husband knows something that

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Speaker 2: makes him quote not concerned, but the rest of the

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Speaker 2: family doesn't know what that is. Nobody is named a suspect.

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Speaker 2: Nobody body is named a person of interest. We don't

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Speaker 2: know where they are. We don't know if they're dead

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Speaker 2: or alive.

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Speaker 1: There hasn't been a body found, nothing like that.

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Speaker 2: But it's extremely bizarre that a whole family just disappears.

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Speaker 1: What more do we know? Take a listen again to

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Speaker 1: w set.

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Speaker 6: Lauren Cook and her three children have been missing since

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Speaker 6: September fourth. Well tonight, Lauren's husband, Jordan Cook, is releasing

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Speaker 6: a statement on the whereabouts of his family. It reads,

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Speaker 6: in part, contrary to what has been reported, my wife

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Speaker 6: and children are not missing. I have no reason to

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Speaker 6: be concerned about their safety or well being. I have

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Speaker 6: heard from my wife and I'm sure she and my

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Speaker 6: be respected at this time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, wait, why does the privacy need to be respected?

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Speaker 1: Yet?

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Speaker 2: Nothing is wrong? Joining me in all star panel to

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Speaker 2: makes sense of what we know right now. Listen to me,

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Speaker 2: Alexis us Chuck, longtime colleague and friend. Crimeonline dot Com

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Speaker 2: investigative reporter Alexis, I'm not saying that the husband, dad

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Speaker 2: had anything to do with this.

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Speaker 1: I just want to be clear on that.

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Speaker 2: But when somebody goes missing, a wife, a lover, a girlfriend, children,

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Speaker 2: the first place you look, statistically is at the male figure.

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Speaker 2: It could be the husband, it could be the lover,

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Speaker 2: it could be the ex.

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Speaker 1: It could be the handyman. That's who you look at first.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I've gotten a lot of grief in

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Speaker 2: the past on this very thing. But the fact is,

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Speaker 2: and you know, hold on, fran Longwell first to you,

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Speaker 2: former Deputy State's Attorney out of Calvert County, former Assistant

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Speaker 1: Just like this.

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Speaker 2: Of course, right disappearance is just like this and more Frank. Statistically,

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Speaker 2: that's where you look first.

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Speaker 1: If you want to find the people and you want.

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Speaker 2: To find out if they're safe, you look to the

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Speaker 2: male figure first, and then once he's cleared, move on

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Speaker 2: and move on quickly. Don't dwell on him. Move, move, move,

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Speaker 7: That's true and we saw that in the Chris Watch

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Speaker 7: case in twenty eighteen when the wife, Shannon, and the

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Speaker 7: two little girls were missing and they kept watching the

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Speaker 7: husband and he actually is the one who killed them.

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Speaker 7: But in this case, the thing that bob was my

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Speaker 7: mind is she was supposed to go to the juvenile court,

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Speaker 7: not her and the husband, just her. He missed the

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Speaker 7: court date, then she had the second one. Is it

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Speaker 7: possible that someone reported her as being an abuser of

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Speaker 7: one of the children and the husband and her maybe

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Speaker 7: that's their way of parenting. They decided they'd leave, she'd

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Speaker 7: leave and take the kids somewhere. I mean, they could

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Speaker 7: do using burner phones and being in contact with each

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Speaker 7: other every day. Nobody's going to know. And that's and

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Speaker 7: the comments that I saw, I think it was on

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Speaker 7: the Facebook from people saying that the child protective services

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Speaker 7: in that county was not very good, that they would

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Speaker 7: leave people leave kids with the abuser, and that kind

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Speaker 2: Hey, you know what, though, fran Longwell, I like your thinking.

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Speaker 2: We don't know enough to know if any of your

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Speaker 2: right on truck. And when you say defects apartment Family

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Speaker 2: Children's Services also known as CPS Child Protective Services in

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Speaker 2: different places, that get me set across the country. Let

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Speaker 2: me use a legal phrase you may or may not

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Speaker 2: be familiar with fran Longwell. I don't know if they

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Speaker 2: taught you this in your law school, but they suck

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Speaker 2: defacts and cps are the worst, the worst.

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Speaker 1: Children die under their watch all the time.

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Speaker 2: Guys, you just heard fran long Oil, who is an

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Speaker 2: incredible prosecutor former prosecutor, describing what she thinks may be happening.

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Speaker 2: But I want you to take a listen. You just

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Speaker 2: heard fran Longwell mention Shanan and her two little children,

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Speaker 2: Celestin Bella. Take a listen to our friends.

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Speaker 8: Head Nicole Atkinson knew something was wrong when her best friend,

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Speaker 8: Shanan Wants didn't turn up for a doctor's appointment.

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Speaker 1: She immediately called police.

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Speaker 9: Because I can't get a hold of her.

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Speaker 10: I called, I texted her cars in the garage, her

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Speaker 1: Every single day around the front door.

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Speaker 8: The police bodycam video shows Chris Wants arriving home. Imagine

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Speaker 8: his surprise at finding comps already at his house. He

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Speaker 11: they're not safe right now, that's what's That's what's tearing

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Speaker 11: But if they're not, this this this has got to stop.

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Speaker 11: Like somebody has to come forward, just come back. Like

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Speaker 11: if somebody has her, just please bring her back. I

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Speaker 11: need to see everybody. I need to see everybody again.

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Speaker 11: This house is not complete without anybody here.

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Speaker 12: Please bring it back.

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Speaker 2: If somebody has her, please bring her back. If they're

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Speaker 2: if you're out there, just come back. That's why we're worried.

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Speaker 2: Nobody is claiming this father, husband, dad, has anything to

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Speaker 2: do with the family just vanishing. But that's what is

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Speaker 2: always set uh. There you hear Chris Watts, who has

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Speaker 2: disposed to their bodies. So again, husband, not a personal advent,

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Speaker 2: just not a suspect. I can't stress that enough. And

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Speaker 2: there's many reasons I say that, But all avenues must

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Speaker 2: be investigated. Back to Alexis Tereschuk joining us I Investigative

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Speaker 2: report Crime online dot com. Tell me what you know

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Speaker 2: about this family. I've learned a lot about them. They

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Speaker 2: seemingly live off the grid to a certain extent.

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Speaker 1: What do you know.

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Speaker 9: Well, they live in Franklin County, Virginia, which is kind

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Speaker 9: of southwest Virginia. It's far from the capital, it's far

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Speaker 9: from any of the big cities in North Carolina. It's

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Speaker 9: fairly rural area. Only you know, about fifty thousand people

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Speaker 9: She is thirty years old and has these three children,

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Speaker 9: you know, seven, five, and two, and they have been

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Speaker 9: under her care this whole time. Now here's the thing.

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Speaker 9: She was required to appear in court on September fifth.

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Speaker 9: She had a court date and actually a juvenile court

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Speaker 9: So they trans to continued it to September thirteenth, just

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Speaker 9: this is juvenile court. This isn't for her, This isn't

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Speaker 9: We don't know what it is. Because the juvenile court

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Speaker 9: find her. She's missing. They want her to be in court.

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Speaker 9: The judge wants her to be there. She needs to

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Speaker 9: be there, and the police have gotten involved. They say

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Speaker 1: Interesting. Interesting, We don't know what it is because it's.

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Speaker 2: Juvenile crime stories with Nancy Grace. What more do we know?

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Speaker 2: Take a listen to our friend Dave Matt.

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Speaker 13: Lauren Cook was born in Texas, moved to North Carolina

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Speaker 13: at age five, and was there until she moved to

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Speaker 13: Utah to attend college. She married Jordan Cook and they

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Speaker 13: moved to Oregon for a few years before moving back

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Speaker 13: to Utah, where Lauren Cook began offering doula services in provo.

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Speaker 13: A doula is a person who provides emotional and physical

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Speaker 13: support to a woman before, during, and after pregnancy. Lauren

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Speaker 13: and Jordan Cook run a nonprofit that is dedicated to

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Speaker 13: helping people get medicine and food. The Cooks believe good

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Speaker 13: food is medicine and in using herbs to heal everything else.

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Speaker 2: They believe good food is medicine and using herbs to

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Speaker 2: heal everything else. Hey, you know what holistic healing? Not

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Speaker 2: throwing a stone at that, but listen to more.

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Speaker 13: Lauren and Jordan Cook have three children, seven year old Benjamin,

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Speaker 13: five year old Hannah, and two year old Elijah, and

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Speaker 13: they all live together in Franklin County, Virginia. A couple

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Speaker 13: of years ago, Lauren Cook posted on her Lavender Doula

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Speaker 13: blog that they don't own a TV and don't watch television.

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Speaker 13: At that time, Cook said she and her husband loved

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Speaker 13: homesteading and thought they might do that again on property

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Speaker 13: they own in Oregon. Lauren Cook said her favorite hobby

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Speaker 13: at the time was cooking, saying quote, I love making

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Speaker 13: healthy and delicious food. I love anything that has to

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Speaker 13: do with being in nature.

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Speaker 1: Okay, joining me.

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Speaker 2: Karen Stark, renowned psychologist, TV radio trauma expert consultant at

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Speaker 2: Karenstark dot com.

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Speaker 1: That's Karen with a C. Karen. They seem like they're

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Speaker 1: off the grid. Now.

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Speaker 2: I don't care who's on or off the grid. I

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Speaker 14: That Why would he do that. There's something very suspicious

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Speaker 2: Another issue she liked home steadying a according to Dave

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Speaker 1: Which is, how should I put this?

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Speaker 2: A lifestyle of sorts, it's self sufficiency, living off the land,

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Speaker 1: Alexis, let me ask you a lightning series of questions.

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Speaker 2: Lightning around means yes, no, yeah, okay, don't shrill off, okay,

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Speaker 1: We know there was a juvenile court hearing? Yes, no, yeah?

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Speaker 1: When was the court hearing?

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Speaker 9: September fifth?

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Speaker 1: And she last seen.

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Speaker 2: September fourth with the children, correct, the day before the

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Speaker 1: That's not a coincidence. That is not a coincidence.

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Speaker 2: Right there, she's got a court hearing, it's been reset,

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Speaker 2: and now she doesn't show she takes the children with her.

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Speaker 1: Now, Fran longwell, jump.

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Speaker 14: In Nancy, she who is this?

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Speaker 9: It's Alexis still Alexis?

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Speaker 1: Did we not say? Yes?

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Speaker 9: But I want to tell you where she said she was,

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Speaker 9: high killed it. According to her high kailed it out

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Speaker 2: Now, thank you for violating the lightning around Sanctisy fran

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Speaker 2: longwell a juvenile court hearing. And I'm sure this has

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Speaker 2: really driven you crazy, because it did me. As a

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Speaker 2: we never know anything about it because the child is

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Speaker 1: So you're sitting there.

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Speaker 2: With all this knowledge about what a pos a defendant is,

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Speaker 1: So I don't suspect that.

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Speaker 2: Here, Frand let me be clear, that was just an

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Speaker 2: Was he part of the juvenile proceeding. Was he supposed

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Speaker 9: It does not appear, so it just appears that it

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Speaker 1: Yes no, no girl, yes no, no. Okay, fran Longwell, listen, Alexis.

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Speaker 2: I have X amount of minutes to get all of

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Speaker 2: It tells me a lot. What does it tell you?

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Speaker 7: And it tells me that she's probably the person that

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Speaker 7: and he's protecting.

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Speaker 1: Can now wait a minute.

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Speaker 2: If it was something she was doing, that would have

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Speaker 1: If the child abuse.

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Speaker 7: What well, no, not necessarily. If it's a child Protective

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Speaker 1: And not in my world.

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Speaker 7: If it's abuse, well, no, no, is it charge or

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Speaker 7: just criminal abuse. If it's charged criminally, yes, she goes

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Speaker 7: But if it's the child Protective Services reviewing this, like

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Speaker 1: Could be anything. It could be nothing, or it could be.

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Speaker 2: Something as simple as a teacher thinks a child is

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Speaker 2: malnursed because they're only feeding it holistic food that they grow.

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Speaker 1: In their backyard. It could be anything. We don't what.

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Speaker 14: Yes, it could be medical. It could be that, Yes,

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Speaker 2: According to the authorities, but according to mom and dad,

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Speaker 2: maybe they are. Maybe they're trying to heal them for

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Speaker 1: So we're not casting guilt.

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Speaker 2: On anyone right now, we're trying to figure out where

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Speaker 1: Why am I so agitated? In my world, when a

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Speaker 1: come on, Michael G.

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Speaker 2: Harris, own your senior investigator, Black Feather Investigations, former Virginia

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Speaker 2: State Police special Agent. Find them at Blackfeather Investigations dot com.

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Speaker 2: Do you agree with me? Are you with me on this?

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Speaker 2: When a mom and children disappear into the air, that's

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Speaker 15: It's very concerning, and especially since the husband has made

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Speaker 15: The fact that they live off the grid. I'm wondering

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Speaker 1: Oh no, I han't even thought of that. Now, thank

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Speaker 13: Go ahead, okay.

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Speaker 15: You know, in Virginia, juvenal courts deal with custody support, visitation, abuse, neglect,

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Speaker 1: Are you worried?

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Speaker 15: But what I'm most concerned about, one of the most

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Speaker 15: And if we're wasting our time, then you know, I'd

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Speaker 15: that it's nothing to be concerned about, give us some verification,

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Speaker 1: Exactly, Michael G. Harris. He's saying, Hey, I'm not worried.

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Speaker 2: Okay, share with me why you're not worried, Share forget

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Speaker 2: about me and us, share with authorities so they're not worried. Guys,

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Speaker 2: take a listen now to our coach. Twelve ws LS.

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Speaker 16: The search for Lauren Cook, two year old Elijah, five

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Speaker 10: It was presumed that she may have been in New

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Speaker 2: That makes no sense last in New York, but hey,

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Speaker 2: of the state. All right, that's a problem. Mike hat Sell, President, founder,

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Speaker 2: Peace River Canine Search and Rescue is p r s

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Speaker 12: Well, it's a bit confusing. There's some very concerning facts

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Speaker 12: It should be very easy to see that rest areas, hotels,

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Speaker 2: And speaking of that ping, my thinking exactly. Take listen

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Speaker 17: Maybe one of the biggest pieces of evidence in this

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Speaker 17: pinged around September seventh in Lexington, Virginia. Deputy say There's

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Speaker 16: It says they were last seen with their mother and

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Speaker 16: Virginia Tax Deputy Say. Cook is married and lives with

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Speaker 10: He's upset, as any parent would be of where my

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Speaker 2: Okay, Yet he also says, quote, I'm not concerned according

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Speaker 2: I Search and Rescue. That's like a parade, should be

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Speaker 9: Well, the police have said that she missed her court

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Speaker 9: they moved to court date and September thirteenth.

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Speaker 1: Well, who spoke with what family members?

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Speaker 9: Law enforcements spoke with family members, and that's when the

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Speaker 9: no contact with her since the fifth or the sixth

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Speaker 9: when she said she said she was in New York

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Speaker 9: visiting family. Now there is no They have not said

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Speaker 9: there's any proof that she was in New York visiting family.

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Speaker 9: That's just what the police have said. She has said,

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Speaker 9: and this may have come from family members that have

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Speaker 9: spoken with her, but people are very concerned. She has

447
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Speaker 9: disappeared with the children. She was supposed to be up

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Speaker 9: here at court.

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Speaker 1: She did not do that.

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Speaker 9: But didn't just say, oh, I'm visiting family, I'm out

451
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Speaker 9: of town. It's supposed to be the following week and

452
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Speaker 9: then she's completely off the grids, literally.

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Speaker 1: But why no pinging? Is that correct? Alexiswim was the

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Speaker 1: last ping on her phone?

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Speaker 9: The police have said the last ping on her phone

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Speaker 9: was on the seventh in Litchfield. I'm sorry, in.

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Speaker 1: Lexington, Lexington, Kentucky, Lexington, Virginia.

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Speaker 9: Lexington, what I believe it was Lexington, Virginia. And then

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Speaker 9: they said that was lasting to her phone. And then

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Speaker 9: unfourteen she was confirmed to be in Illinois. So that's

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Speaker 9: in Lichfield, Illinois. So I looked this up. That is

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Speaker 9: an eleven hour drive. Eleven and a half hour drive.

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Speaker 9: It is almost eight hundred miles away from Virginia to ill.

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Speaker 2: I'm very curious how in the world they have spotted

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Speaker 2: her pinpointed her being in Illinois.

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Speaker 1: That's eleven hours dry from the ping and like seeing

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Speaker 1: to Virginia. Guys. Take a listen to Hour cut twenty

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Speaker 1: two from The Independent.

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Speaker 18: A Virginia mother and her three children, who have not

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Speaker 18: been seen for more than two weeks, were believed to

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Speaker 18: have been in Illinois not long after she missed a

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Speaker 18: court date, but authorities say they have been unable to

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Speaker 18: pin her down. Lauren Cook, thirty, and her children, Benjamin seven,

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Speaker 18: hand of five, and Elijah two, have been missing since

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Speaker 18: September fifth, according to the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, who

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Speaker 18: asked the public for help in locating the family on

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Speaker 18: September thirteenth, authority said investigators were able to track the

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Speaker 18: mother and children down in Lichfield, Illinois, but were unable

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Speaker 18: to make contact to check on their well being. To

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Speaker 18: clear Lauren and her children from being missing persons, a

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Speaker 18: law enforcement agency must make in person contact with them

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Speaker 18: in order to confirm that they are okay and not

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Speaker 18: under duress. Until then, they will remain in local and

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Speaker 18: national databases as missing. The Sheriff's office set in.

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Speaker 1: A statement, Okay, what does that mean? Let me go

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Speaker 1: to Michael G.

487
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Speaker 2: Harris, owner of Black Feather Investigations. What does that mean?

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Speaker 2: Did they speak to her? Was there a siding? Because

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Speaker 2: the phone hasn't pained again at all.

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Speaker 15: I'm wondering if they got a hit off of the

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Speaker 15: license plate reader or whether or not they're using some

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Speaker 15: sort of telematics from the vehicle. If she has a

493
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Speaker 15: navigation system, they could possibly backdoor into the vehicle that way.

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Speaker 2: Interesting, Auntie you Mike Hatzhill Peace River Canine Search and Rescue.

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Speaker 2: Why are they saying they believe she's in it was

496
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Speaker 2: in Illinois.

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Speaker 12: Well, that information came from the sheriff of Franklin County, Virginia,

498
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Speaker 12: so apparently at some point the law enforcement received this information.

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Speaker 12: She was confirmed to be in Illinois on the fourteenth,

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Speaker 12: so that's all they said. We don't know who, or

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Speaker 12: what or where or how That confirmation came.

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Speaker 1: Prime Stories with Nancy, Grace, Lauren and Elizabeth Cook, aged thirty,

503
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Speaker 1: last seen with their three children in the family's Fereom home,

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Speaker 1: southwest Virginia, and of August.

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Speaker 2: She spoke apparently with her mother September five. We also

506
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Speaker 2: know that she has been placed on the missing.

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Speaker 1: Roster. So why is she on the missing roster if

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Speaker 1: she's not missing? That tells me a lot. Fran Longwell,

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Speaker 1: what's your interpretation.

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Speaker 7: I truly believe that she's basically because of this, you know,

511
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Speaker 7: herbal stuff and living off the grid. I really think

512
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Speaker 7: they're trying to protect that life style and the government

513
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Speaker 7: was looking into that lifestyle, whether the one and children

514
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Speaker 7: were malnourished, or the children had been abused, whatever, And

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Speaker 7: I think that's where the whole thing started, and that's

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Speaker 7: why she didn't go to court.

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Speaker 2: Guys, we're just trying to cobble together the pieces of

518
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Speaker 2: the puzzle that we have to make sense of.

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Speaker 1: Where is this woman and her three children?

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Speaker 2: Police say a Virginia mom and her three children are missing.

521
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Speaker 2: That's what police say, but her husband says he's not concerned. Okay,

522
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Speaker 2: take a listen to our seven wsls.

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Speaker 19: The Franklin County Sheriff's Office has released new information about

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Speaker 19: a missing mother and her three children. We're told the

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Speaker 19: sheriff's office started a missing person's investigation because the mother,

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Speaker 19: Lauren Cook, did not show up for scheduled appearance in

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Speaker 19: the Franklin County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court on September thirteenth.

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Speaker 19: Deputy say, this court date had been originally scheduled for

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Speaker 19: September fifth.

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Speaker 2: It's very interesting to me that they are not authorities,

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Speaker 2: are not canceling the missing person's alert.

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Speaker 1: Okay, take a listen now, our cut eight WSLS.

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Speaker 19: Investigators talked with family members who have not been in

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Speaker 19: contact with Cook and the kids since September sixth, when

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Speaker 19: Cook told them that she would be visiting family in

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Speaker 19: New York. Deputy say. On September fourteenth, five days ago,

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Speaker 19: investigators confirmed that Cook and her children were in Lichfield, Illinois.

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Speaker 19: They say, in order for them to cancel a missing

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Speaker 19: person's alert, a law enforcement agency must make in person

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Speaker 19: contact with them in order to confirm that they're okay.

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Speaker 1: Okay, right there.

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Speaker 2: Alexis trusshat crime online dot Com investigative reporter that just

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Speaker 2: answered a lot. They haven't spoken to her. They are

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Speaker 2: placing her in Illinois in some other way, but not

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Speaker 2: by speaking to her. And from what we've been told,

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Speaker 2: it's not a ping on her phone.

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Speaker 1: So what is it? Was her car spot?

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Speaker 2: Is she caught on surveillance cam, because typically if that

549
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Speaker 2: were true, that would be released, like if she's going

550
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Speaker 2: into seven eleven. Remember Brian Coburger when the search was

551
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Speaker 2: on for what happened to the.

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Speaker 1: Four University Idaho students. A clerk and I'm calling.

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Speaker 2: Them generically seven to eleven. It could have been a

554
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Speaker 2: quick trip, it could have been anything right there at

555
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Speaker 2: the corner, and it's very quiet and isolated that that's there,

556
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Speaker 2: especially with all the snow. A clerk goes through days

557
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Speaker 2: and days of surveillance vill video on her own and

558
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Speaker 2: spots the white Elantra belonging to Brian Coburger zipping by

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Speaker 2: a like three three point thirty in the morning at

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Speaker 2: the time of the murders. Generally, I haven't seen the

561
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Speaker 2: video yet to timestamp on it. But generally speaking, so

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Speaker 2: is that what they saw. Has somebody seen the van

563
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Speaker 2: or as I think Michael G. Harris said earlier, did

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Speaker 2: a tag grab her, grab her license?

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Speaker 1: Someone? But boto line, They did not speak to her exactly.

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Speaker 9: They have not. They have confirmed that they were in Illinois,

567
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Speaker 9: but they have not spoken her. And in fact, they

568
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Speaker 9: need to see her in the person. It's not enough

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Speaker 9: to just talk to her on a phone maybe use

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Speaker 9: you know, her family member's hellphone. They have to see

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Speaker 9: her in person, and they have been unable to do that.

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Speaker 9: All it would take would be just you know, they

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Speaker 9: come to the house, they see you can have the

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Speaker 9: kids out in the yard, and they can see that

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Speaker 9: everybody's okay. But this is they are unable to do so,

576
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Speaker 9: meaning that Lauren has obviously not come forward and said

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Speaker 9: I am here, I am totally fine. We're on a

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Speaker 9: vacation because it's you know, the best fall foliage that

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Speaker 9: we can see in Illinois right now, and this is

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Speaker 9: what's important for my kids. She has not done that.

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Speaker 9: They want to see her in person.

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Speaker 1: What about school? What about school? Friend? Longwell joining us

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Speaker 1: Forming Deputy State's Attorney Karen Start Michael Harris, Mike hatsell

584
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Speaker 1: jump in when you have an idea, and I know you.

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Speaker 2: Are having ideas. Fran longwell, what about them missing school?

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Speaker 2: Nobody's even commented on that. Maybe that's why. Maybe it's

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Speaker 2: something as simple as hey, they've had too many absences

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Speaker 2: on what's going on, why aren't you going up to school?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, they talked about homeschool and the kids.

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Speaker 2: You know what, let's clarify, Alexis terrestut crime online dot Com.

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Speaker 2: We have found out nothing about homeschooling. Although I understand

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Speaker 2: the line of reasoning that if they're into holistic living

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Speaker 2: and they want to live out in the country and

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Speaker 2: they want to homestead, that would logically suggest their homeschool.

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Speaker 2: But we don't have any indication they are, which makes

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Speaker 2: me think they're not. And fran longwell, if they're missing

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Speaker 2: school consistently, that would be a reason for them to

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Speaker 2: be dragged into juvenile court, as it should be.

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Speaker 7: That's true, that that would be a.

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Speaker 15: Bring them in.

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Speaker 2: It could be something that simple. Okay, I want to

602
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Speaker 2: circle back with what we know. Mike Hatzeill joining US

603
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Speaker 2: president founder Peace River Caenine Search and rescue authorities, for

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Speaker 2: whatever reason, are not taking them off the missing person roster.

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Speaker 2: They're still there, they're still asking for the public's help.

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Speaker 2: Piece is together for me. You have searched.

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Speaker 1: And rescued hundreds and hundreds of people children. What do

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Speaker 1: you make of this?

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Speaker 12: Well, it's obvious that no one from law enforcement has

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Speaker 12: made contact with her yet, and that's why she's still

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Speaker 12: on the list. Either in Illinois or New York. We

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Speaker 12: have not had a law enforcement officer interviewer, so she's

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Speaker 12: going to stay on the list until somebody in authority

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Speaker 12: can have a chance to talk to her. She's appears

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Speaker 12: to be experienced living off grid. The fact that we

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Speaker 12: have not seen her or those kids anywhere tells me

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Speaker 12: that she's something either has happened to her or she's

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Speaker 12: purposely living off grid somewhere. And at this point, the

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Speaker 12: best we can do is just keep her facing this

620
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Speaker 12: story out there and hope somebody will see here walking

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Speaker 12: out of the store or do something. When when you're

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Speaker 12: packing three kids around, it's not easy to hide things

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Speaker 12: because kids have needs and you've got to take care

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Speaker 12: of them. So it would seem to me that she's

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Speaker 12: going to be seen fairly soon. I would hope.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, the husband again, Jordan Cook says, contrary to what's

627
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Speaker 2: been reported, my wife and children are not quote missing.

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Speaker 2: I have no reason to be concerned about their safety

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Speaker 2: or well being. I've heard from my wife. I'm sure

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Speaker 2: she and my children are doing well. When we ask

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Speaker 2: our final families, privacy be respected at this time.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: If you want privacy, and you want authorities and media,

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Speaker 2: including me to leave you alone, then show us where

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Speaker 2: she is. Let law enforcement make contact with her. It's

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Speaker 2: very very just terming to me, Michael Harris. No pings

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Speaker 2: on her cell phone, no bank activity. How's that van running?

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Speaker 2: Are they pushing it? I mean, none of this is

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Speaker 2: fitting together.

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Speaker 15: I'd be curious as well. What's the father do for

641
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Speaker 15: a living? How much money was in their bank account?

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Speaker 15: How much money did she pull on?

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Speaker 7: What was it?

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Speaker 15: The fifth it's the last time that there was any

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Speaker 15: activity on the I'm sorry, the seventh and last time

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Speaker 15: there was any activity in the banking account. I'm looking

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Speaker 15: at the picture of Benjamin and I don't know whose

648
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Speaker 15: house he's in, but that looks like a fairly high

649
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Speaker 15: end kitchen. The picture of Lauren, the background in the van,

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Speaker 15: the van, it's not much there but the van seems clean.

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Speaker 15: It just it doesn't look like the kids are unhealthy

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Speaker 15: in these photographs. But you know that's not telling the

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Speaker 15: long term.

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Speaker 2: Karen started joining us a psychologist joining us out of

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Speaker 2: manhatt Today. Listen to this, Karen, the husband is saying

656
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Speaker 2: everything's okay. However, her other family, her other loved ones,

657
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Speaker 2: have unsuccessfully tried to contact her and have finally turned

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Speaker 2: to police for help.

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Speaker 1: That's inconsistent.

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Speaker 14: It's inconsistent, and it's concerned to me, and I think

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Speaker 14: it is to you as well, Nancy, because why is

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Speaker 14: he making that statement, And it's pretty simple. It's just

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Speaker 14: to show that she's alive. And the police are saying

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Speaker 14: that they are not taking her off that list until

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Speaker 14: they get to see her, not if they hear from

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Speaker 14: her on the phone. That's suspicious to me. It's like

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Speaker 14: someone will have her, will force her to make a

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Speaker 14: phone call. They're not going to believe that they actually

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Speaker 14: need to have eyes on her. So something is wrong.

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Speaker 14: She's missing the fact that he's like being so blase

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Speaker 14: about like, you know, leave us alone, we're okay. I

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Speaker 14: know they're okay, but the police don't agree. And that's

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Speaker 14: the concern.

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Speaker 1: Guys. You may think, well, they're fine.

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Speaker 2: The husband says they're fine, he's heard from them.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you're right, and I hope you're right.

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Speaker 2: But I have visions of other families just disappearing and

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Speaker 2: it never turned out well.

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Speaker 1: Take listen our cut twenty one NBC.

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Speaker 20: Friends and family of nineteen year old Suzanne Streeter and

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Speaker 20: eighteen year old Stacy McCall say it's not like them

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Speaker 20: to just leave and not tell anyone where they're going.

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Speaker 11: She calls and lets me know where she's going to be.

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Speaker 16: She's never missed work.

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Speaker 20: She's a very conscient, she's young. We're questioning everybody at

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Speaker 20: this time, friends, relatives, anyone that has information, anyone that

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Speaker 20: may have seen them, last neighbors, We've done neighborhood canvas.

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Speaker 20: How We're just checking every lead we can at this time.

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Speaker 1: And more from NBC.

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Speaker 20: Thist is Suzanne Streeter's mom, Cheryl love It. She's also

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Speaker 20: a last scene at her daughter's graduation ceremony at Hammond

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Speaker 20: Student Center on Saturday. She lived in this house on

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Speaker 20: East Delmar in Springfield. That's where police found the three

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Speaker 20: missing women's cars. Authority say there was no sign of

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Speaker 20: a struggle in fact, the front door was unlocked, the

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Speaker 20: TV was on, Their clothes were still there, their purses

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Speaker 20: and personal items untouched.

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Speaker 1: Still unsolved.

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Speaker 2: A mom and the two girls gone. I don't want

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Speaker 2: this mom and these three children to disappear into thin

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Speaker 2: air and we never know what happened. Are they dead?

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Speaker 2: Are they alive? Are they missing? Are they off the grid?

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Speaker 2: Why isn't the one childhos school age seven years old

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Speaker 2: in school?

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Speaker 1: Why does the dad say they're fine? I heard from them.

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Speaker 2: Leave us alone, but the rest of the family or

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Speaker 2: other family members called. Please if you know or think

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Speaker 2: you know anything about Lauren Cook, Benjamin, Hannah live Elijah,

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Speaker 2: please call five four zero four eight three three thousand.

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Speaker 1: Goodbye friend,