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Speaker 1: It's horrific for anyone to go through that. And then

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Speaker 3: Beneath the folksy, postcard perfect surface of any small American

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Speaker 1: I've always carried hope.

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Speaker 3: No matter how long it's been an unsolved murder leaves

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Speaker 4: I think the one thing about Dana's case is that

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Speaker 3: Murder is such a profound tragedy it can take a

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Speaker 3: The true crime experience, rarely given more than a cursory glance.

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Speaker 3: The certainty of living with enormous loss. Murder moreover, divides

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Speaker 6: I'm going to tell you it can go either way.

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Speaker 6: I think you get more from a community when They're

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Speaker 3: I'm an investigative journalist and author of more than forty

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Speaker 3: the Ozarks. I arrived in Arkansas during the spring of

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Speaker 7: I just see good to me.

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Speaker 3: Benton County, Arkansas is a community of about three hundred

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Speaker 1: My name is Christy Smith. I am Dina Sidam's cousin.

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Speaker 1: We grew up together in our whole life. She was

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Speaker 3: At eighteen years old, during the summer of nineteen eighty nine,

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Speaker 3: Dana was at that crossroads stage of life we all

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Speaker 1: We would always go swimming together, and we went camping

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Speaker 2: Oh, she was good. She was just like any kid.

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Speaker 2: She was pretty quiet when she.

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Speaker 7: Was a child ten twelve that area. What did she

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Speaker 1: Oh, at ten and twelve, we really we really didn't

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Speaker 7: We lived in a moment.

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Speaker 1: We lived in the moment and just took every day

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Speaker 3: And Dana and Christie were raised in Gravit, Arkansas, in

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Speaker 3: Missouri by Gravit had a population of just fifteen hundred.

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Speaker 1: Back then, Gravit was not much different than it's now,

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Speaker 1: very small, very close knit community. We had a very

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Speaker 1: Very Small had a community swimming pool.

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Speaker 2: During the summer.

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Speaker 1: Her dad would after we cleaned the house because I

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Speaker 1: They lived in highwa See. So at the time they

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Speaker 1: There's one dairy queen there at the end of the

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Speaker 3: Dana Stidham was enthusiastic about that summer of nineteen eighty nine.

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Speaker 3: Just after high school, she'd moved out of her parents'

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Speaker 8: From what we know, and there's a lot of stuff

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Speaker 3: A dozen or more people saw Dana at the Phillips

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Speaker 8: We talked to a couple of those people. We know

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Speaker 3: That's hunt to portray a current lieutenant with the Benton

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Speaker 3: Petray's comments is that there's no solid evidence to prove

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Speaker 3: that last July afternoon Dana was seen. It's called Harps now,

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Speaker 9: She had an aura about her. She was beautiful, but

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Speaker 3: Dana was a beautiful young woman, which is important in

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Speaker 3: as several older men chasing after her. Her brunette hair

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Speaker 3: it was the eighties. Petit Dana was five to two

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Speaker 7: So what was it like around here back then in

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Speaker 9: Well, there's a lot of construction going on, and so

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Speaker 9: Then, yeah, I wouldn't want to be out here by myself.

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Speaker 3: I asked Lieutenant Petray what old meant in terms of

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Speaker 5: Fifty could be all.

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Speaker 8: It's all relative to the individual that you're talking to,

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Speaker 3: This location will become very important to law enforcement within

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Speaker 8: Parked on the side of the road, there's a white

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Speaker 3: Dana's cousin and best friend. Christy Smith remembers the events

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Speaker 1: She goes to the house and she is going there

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Speaker 3: Whenever you begin to reinvestigate an unsolved crime, particularly a

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Speaker 3: Christy Smith identified intimate details about Dana and her family

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Speaker 7: Tell me about Lawrence and Georgia.

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Speaker 1: They been together since Georgia was fourteen, I think Lawrence

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Speaker 7: How was Dana around them?

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Speaker 2: Dana was very good. She was spoiled.

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Speaker 1: She could do whatever she wanted, and as she got

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Speaker 7: And did she have a boyfriend in high school?

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Speaker 3: Dana had quit working there about three weeks before her

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Speaker 1: She talked about wanting to go to college or you know,

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Speaker 7: Was she into art.

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Speaker 2: She was. She did like to draw, She liked to paint.

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Speaker 1: Her dad did a lot of woodwork, so she would

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Speaker 1: I got married very young at sixteen, and my husband

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Speaker 3: Dana had July twenty fifth off from Kmart. Working had

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Speaker 1: Her parents, you know, didn't have a lot of money,

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Speaker 1: The only two things I remember was she would talk

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Speaker 1: No, there was a police officer, the officer that she

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Speaker 3: This was a piece of information that obviously needed to

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Speaker 3: Could these two pieces of information be connected? I was

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Speaker 3: She hadn't returned after going out to the store on

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Speaker 3: He says she's driving a gray Plymouth Horizon hatchback. The

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Speaker 5: There was an issue.

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Speaker 8: Larry gave the wrong description of the vehicle, again not intentional,

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Speaker 8: called Bellavista. Let all the patrolmen know up there. Hey,

442
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,159
Speaker 8: we had the wrong description of the vehicle. Here's the

443
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 8: correct description.

444
00:25:56,040 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 3: Dana was actually driving in gray nineteen eighty four Dodge Omni,

445
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 3: which was the sister vehicle to the Horizon, an easy

446
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 3: mistake to make. By this time, around ten thirty PM,

447
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 3: Larry and many family members and friends are themselves out

448
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 3: driving around, particularly north and south on Route seventy one,

449
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 3: the main thoroughfare running by the Phillips. The family knew

450
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 3: something was wrong. Dana was independent and would go off

451
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 3: on her own from time to time, but she would

452
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,320
Speaker 3: not blow her father off if he needed medicine or

453
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 3: leave her laundry at her parents, especially if she had

454
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,159
Speaker 3: a date. At the very least, she would stop at

455
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,680
Speaker 3: a payphone to call someone and let them know where

456
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:46,159
Speaker 3: she was.

457
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 8: They're making phone calls talking to friends, Hey have you

458
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 8: seen Dana. Nobody's seen her or her car. Larry specifically

459
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 8: says that, you know, we drove a seventy one to

460
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 8: the state line. We drove back. We did not see

461
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 8: her car.

462
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 3: I went back to something Christy told me that date

463
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 3: Dana had scheduled. Was she running late and decided to

464
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 3: stop at her apartment change and head out on her

465
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 3: date without telling anyone. If she was spotted one point

466
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 3: three miles south of Phillips on Route seventy one near

467
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 3: the Bella Vista Museum with the possible flat tire between

468
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,159
Speaker 3: what would have been approximately three twenty five and five pm,

469
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 3: she would have been heading in the direction of the

470
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 3: apartment she shared with Larry and her girlfriends. The flat

471
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 3: tire could have set her back. Moreover, who was Dana

472
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,679
Speaker 3: going out with that night? Had anyone tried tracking the

473
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 3: guy down to interview him. Turns out it was an

474
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,639
Speaker 3: older dude whose family owned a farm in Hahihwasse.

475
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 2: He still lives there.

476
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,360
Speaker 1: Parents are gone, but he's taken over the farm and

477
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 1: he's a little bit older than this and was just

478
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: the one time daything. They'd never been out before.

479
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 3: Dana's family calls the guy and he claims she never

480
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 3: showed up. He's also got an alibi. He's been home

481
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 3: all night with his family waiting.

482
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,679
Speaker 7: On her, and so they file the mists in personal report.

483
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 7: And you all are driving around right, yes? Are you

484
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 7: driving up and down seventy one?

485
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: Uh?

486
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 4: Huh.

487
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 2: We drove everywhere we could think of.

488
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: My first thought was did she have an accident, Did

489
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,679
Speaker 1: she go off of the side of the road in

490
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: a ravine or something? And nobody can see her car.

491
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 1: So we take the normal rask that she would have

492
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: taken to go to the store looking for her car

493
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: or anything that we might find, and we don't.

494
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 2: We can't find anything.

495
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 7: And you don't see her car.

496
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 2: Right, no, nowhere.

497
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 3: So Dana's family is out searching for her, and they

498
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 3: drive north and south on Route seventy one, which Dana

499
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 3: would have had to take in either direction, but don't

500
00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 3: see her car anywhere.

501
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 8: Family didn't see it. You know, you got a state

502
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 8: trooper people looking for it, just not there. And we

503
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,959
Speaker 8: know that she was supposed to meet an individual and

504
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 8: she never showed. So all this is adding up that

505
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 8: something's not right, like she didn't just go somewhere. Something's

506
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 8: not right. She's missing, vehicles missing, nobody's heard.

507
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 3: From her as friends, family, and law enforcement are out

508
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 3: looking for her. The first major break comes in the

509
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 3: form of a phone call. Someone had called a general

510
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 3: store in Haiwassee, a small local grocery that Dana had

511
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 3: once worked at.

512
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 5: It was four.

513
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 3: Pm, about forty five minutes after she left the Phillips

514
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 3: parking lot nine miles away. The caller is a young

515
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 3: woman and she says this quote, tell him I really

516
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 3: want to go home, and that's it. But then a

517
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 3: second call to that same small general store.

518
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 8: Around eleven o'clock that night. If you remember, I told

519
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 8: you that somebody had called the store. The store around

520
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 8: four something. Somebody calls at eleven and says that Dana's dead,

521
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 8: and Mike knows what happened to her.

522
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 3: At the time that second call was made to the

523
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 3: general store in Highwasse, Dana's brother, Larry Stidham, was out

524
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 3: driving around, anxious and desperate to find any sign of

525
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 3: his younger sister. Two miles or so up the road

526
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 3: from the Phillips grocery in Bella Vista, Larry turned off

527
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 3: Route seventy one and on to Wellington Road and began

528
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 3: driving slowly searching.

529
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: I believe Larry was driving around and he went up

530
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: the road in found some of her clothes that had

531
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: been in her car. So then he called me because

532
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 1: he couldn't be sure that they were her. So he

533
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: called me, and I went to my husband and I

534
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: went up there and looked and verified that they were

535
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: clothes of hers.

536
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 8: That point in time, it's gone from Okay, we don't

537
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 8: think something is quite right too. There's some worry going

538
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 8: on now because now we've we've found some of her clothing,

539
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 8: clothing she was wearing, clothing that she had in the car.

540
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 8: So they find the clothing, they pick it up, which

541
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 8: is not ideal, but at that time, nobody knows about DNA. Man,

542
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 8: it just doesn't cross anybody's mind. Again, it's just a

543
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 8: product of the time that they were in picks it up, realized, Hey,

544
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 8: this is Dana's clothing. You know, we got to report this.

545
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 8: They reported, the sheriff's office goes out there, collects the clothing,

546
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 8: and then just nothing. Man. You know, Dana hasn't been

547
00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 8: heard from, she hasn't shown up, nobody's seen. Everybody's panicking,

548
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 8: everybody's being interviewed. Hey, when's the last time you saw her?

549
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 8: You know, who was she with? All that type of

550
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 8: stuff was going on. So now it's like, okay, we

551
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 8: think we're pretty sure foul play.

552
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 3: That older employee from Phillips that Dana had once mentioned

553
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 3: was perpetually inappropriate, a guy several folks I spoke to

554
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 3: referred to as a perverb. Well lo and behold. He

555
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 3: lived in a small house just off Wellington Road, near

556
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 3: where Dana's clothing was found. Here's someone who worked with

557
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 3: the guy, a woman who doesn't want to be identified.

558
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 9: He was weird, just creepy. It was a tall, older man.

559
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 9: Heah six three six four, kind of gaunt, and he

560
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 9: was like in his fifties. I think back then, and

561
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 9: I was in my early twenties. But oh, everyone in

562
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 9: our department talked about how it didn't like him, gave

563
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 9: them the creeps.

564
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 3: Did he say things to the women or did he

565
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 3: do things?

566
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 5: Or was he just like a creepy dude.

567
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 9: It was is a creepy dude. But I do know

568
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 9: that some of the girls felt he was kind of handsy,

569
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 9: got in your space, just inappropriate behavior.

570
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 3: The Benton County Sheriff's Office had interviewed several people at

571
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 3: the Phillips that evening, including a young man who worked

572
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 3: there and had once dated Dana, a relationship that did

573
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 3: not end on good terms. While police are talking to him,

574
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 3: this older man, the pervert, his name comes up during the.

575
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 8: Interview, so you know, he talked about another individual that

576
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 8: worked there got with the last name of him, the.

577
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 5: Dirty old Man.

578
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 8: Yeah. From reports from people that were interviewed, Yeah, there

579
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 8: was an issue with grassing the females that worked there.

580
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 8: There was also an individual that supposedly called him out

581
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 8: in his truck masturbating reading a dirty magazine. But it's

582
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 8: real interesting because he lived at that time less than

583
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 8: a half mile off of Wellington.

584
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 3: With a growing list of suspects. Within that first night,

585
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 3: Bella Vista Police and the Benton County Sheriff's Office are

586
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 3: specifically looking for Dana's car. The thought is find the car,

587
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 3: find Dana, or at least begin to figure out what

588
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 3: might be going on. Law enforcement, family, and townspeople are

589
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 3: driving north and south on Route seventy one, snaking in

590
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,720
Speaker 3: and out of side roads, but nobody sees a car

591
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 3: even remotely resembling Dana's. The call that came into the

592
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 3: Highwassi General Store at four PM and the one later

593
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 3: on that night felt particularly important. There was something striking

594
00:34:56,080 --> 00:35:00,919
Speaker 3: about those calls. Remember this is nineteen eighty nine. There's

595
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 3: no instant reporting of anything. The only people who know

596
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,839
Speaker 3: Dana is missing are those involved in searching for her.

597
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 3: So whoever makes that call knows she's missing.

598
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 8: I hate to assume anything because I've been doing this

599
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 8: job for too long, but it's a red flag. Like

600
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 8: it's screams whoever made that phone call actually had some

601
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 8: type of knowledge about something going on, And then you

602
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 8: can combine it with the supposed phone call. It makes

603
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 8: your skin crawl.

604
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 5: And then what happens the next day.

605
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,280
Speaker 8: So the next morning, there's a lady named Karen Myers.

606
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 8: She was a sergeant there with Bella Vista, lived just

607
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 8: across the state line. She was on her way to

608
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 8: work that next morning around six six point thirty in

609
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 8: the morning, and she sees this vehicle on the side

610
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,800
Speaker 8: of the road there at Wellington in the southbound lane

611
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 8: facing south, and there was another vehicle that was parked

612
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 8: behind it. What kind of vehicle so initially it was

613
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 8: possibly a small truck or a larger car. Later it

614
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 8: changed to again small truck or possibly a station wagon.

615
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,240
Speaker 8: She doesn't know at that point in time that anything's wrong.

616
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 8: She proceeds on to work, and in fact, I think

617
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 8: she made some type of comment of the fishing must

618
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 8: be good in that area. So she proceeds on to work.

619
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 8: And it's from what I understand is like, those vehicles

620
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 8: are there, but there's really nobody outside the vehicles that

621
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,760
Speaker 8: she notices. She just notices the vehicles, so she proceeds

622
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 8: on to work. Later on she starts thinking, she goes

623
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 8: back and runs the tag the license plate. At that

624
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 8: point in time, we know for sure that it's Dana's vehicle,

625
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 8: and then all hell kind of breaks loose from there.

626
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:56,399
Speaker 8: She contacts Sheriff's office Sedoriac Barner. They go up there

627
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 8: and they process the vehicle.

628
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 3: Danny Varner, who went to school with Dana's parents, and

629
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 3: Mike Zadoriac are the two Sheriff's office detectives now taking

630
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,839
Speaker 3: control of the investigation. What they find when they look

631
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 3: at Dana's car begins to tell them that this case

632
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:18,399
Speaker 3: might not have the outcome everyone is hoping for.

633
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 8: Keyser in the ignition, vehicle is unlocked, driverside window is

634
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:32,399
Speaker 8: halfway down, rear tire is low but not completely flat.

635
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 3: Drivable, and what I find to be very important is

636
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 3: the driver's seat was adjusted pushed back for a much

637
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 3: taller person, so Dana wasn't the last person to.

638
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:45,760
Speaker 5: Drive the vehicle.

639
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 3: The cars parked on Route seventy one, heading south toward

640
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 3: the Phillips just north of this area, and the opposite

641
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 3: direction is the Missouri border. If you drove down Wellington

642
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,839
Speaker 3: Road toward Route seventy one, this area where Dana's car

643
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 3: is found would be directly across the north side of

644
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 3: seventy one a median, then the south side of seventy one.

645
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 5: What significant is.

646
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 3: That scores of people, police and Dana's family members traveled

647
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 3: by this area all throughout the previous night and early

648
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:26,879
Speaker 3: morning and no one reported seeing any vehicle. Now it's

649
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 3: there with a low tire.

650
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 5: Like somebody let the air out of the tire.

651
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 8: Maybe we know from the family that the tire did

652
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 8: have a slow leak that was later confirmed. So there's

653
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 8: the receipt from Phillips that's in the car with the

654
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 8: timestamp on it from the day prior. But the groceries,

655
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:55,359
Speaker 8: the alkacelser, the sugar, the laundry detergent is not in

656
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 8: the car. Again, there's a lot of different theories about

657
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 8: why was that not in the car? Did she go

658
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 8: somewhere take that out then something happened. Did she stop

659
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,280
Speaker 8: for somebody they give her a ride, she'd take them

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Speaker 8: with her. Again, like I said at the beginning, These

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Speaker 8: are some of the unknown things that we just don't know.

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Speaker 8: But all in all, the vehicle it doesn't appear that

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Speaker 8: any kind of struggle took place. It's disheveled, but we

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Speaker 8: know from talking to some of her friends that, you know,

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Speaker 8: if she had a drink she finished the dream, you know,

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Speaker 8: she'd throw it on the floorboarder, you know, just normal.

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Speaker 5: Any bottles or cans or anything found in the car.

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Speaker 8: There was a chip bag, a Muncho's hip bag that

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Speaker 8: we took again, could have been hers, could have been

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Speaker 8: somebody else. We sent fingerprints down and no fingerprints have

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Speaker 8: ever matched that chip bag. But the groceries itself, they

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Speaker 8: were not in the vehicle. Her person stuff was not

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Speaker 8: in the vehicle. But again the keys were in the

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Speaker 8: vehicle and it was unlocked, which was, according to the family,

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Speaker 8: not calmon practice something that she would have done. You know,

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Speaker 8: it's unusual.

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Speaker 5: And how is the family responding to this finding.

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Speaker 8: Well, from the time that she went missing that previous night,

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Speaker 8: they're distraught, you know, they know, you know, and I

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Speaker 8: don't want to speak for them, but you read through

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Speaker 8: the reports and stuff, you know that they know that

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Speaker 8: it's not good. The situation is not good one, because

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Speaker 8: she would have come back on her own that day,

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Speaker 8: and she didn't.

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Speaker 1: And then we hear that they found her car at

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Speaker 1: Bella Vista, and that's when it really hit me that

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Speaker 1: something was not right, because she would never just abandon

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Speaker 1: her car on the side of the road. She lived

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Speaker 1: for that car, so she wouldn't just leave it. And

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Speaker 1: if something would have happened, she would have called one

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Speaker 1: of us, because we would always we would have helped

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Speaker 1: her in any way. We would have came to god

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Speaker 1: her no matter what time of night it was. But

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Speaker 1: we hadn't heard from her.

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Speaker 7: And you you all had driven by that era where

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Speaker 7: the car was found and you didn't see the car,

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Speaker 7: and then all of a sudden it shows up. Yes,

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Speaker 7: So what are you being told by law enforce?

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Speaker 1: Well, all that we were told was that they had

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Speaker 1: driven that highway throughout the night and they hadn't seen it.

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Speaker 1: And then at six o'clock that morning or something, an

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Speaker 1: officer drove by, and once she got to work and

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Speaker 1: heard about Dana missing, she remembered seeing the car on

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Speaker 1: her way into work, and that's when they went back

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Speaker 1: and found her car there.

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Speaker 7: And so what happens next.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: I know that they went the Lawrence and Larry went

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Speaker 1: to where the car was while Mike Sedorac and Danny

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Speaker 1: Varner were out there doing you know, forensics on the

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Speaker 1: car whatever they did, and they just kind of stood

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Speaker 1: by the sidelines and watched what was going on. Then

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Speaker 1: they towed the car into the to the police department

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Speaker 1: or to the impound.

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Speaker 3: Still, that phone call to the general store near eleven

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Speaker 3: PM seems so important. Dana's dead and Mike knows.

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Speaker 5: What happened to her.

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Speaker 3: Who is Mike? Did Dana ever date or even know

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Speaker 3: anyone named Mike?

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Speaker 5: You guys have no idea who Mike is.

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Speaker 8: Well, initially we didn't, but later on we did. There

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Speaker 8: was a Mike that was associated with that store, whose

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Speaker 8: parents owned that store. So another thing that complicates the

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Speaker 8: case is you've got three or four different possible scenarios

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Speaker 8: and then you've got all of these people that supposedly

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Speaker 8: swear that they saw that day, you know, south of Center,

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Speaker 8: a van, a truck, No, it's a station wagon.

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Speaker 5: Maybe Mike had access to a truck.

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Speaker 8: Had access to his dad's truck.

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Speaker 3: There was one more important piece of information. The Sheriff's

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Speaker 3: office obtained that following morning. Mike, they now knew, was

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Speaker 3: a classmate of Danis and had reportedly been infatuated with her,

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Speaker 3: and she routinely rejected his advances, and the Sheriff's office

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Speaker 3: learned that Mike had been out all night long. He

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Speaker 3: was seen in his father's truck driving around Bella Vista

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Speaker 3: on Route seventy one as late as three am, and

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Speaker 3: as alibi that he was with a girlfriend all night

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Speaker 3: in another town.

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Speaker 5: The Benton County.

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Speaker 3: Sheriff's Office spoke to her and she says she never saw.

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Speaker 5: Him coming up.

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Speaker 3: Next on paper ghosts the ozarks.

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Speaker 5: You can actually put him in a store.

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Speaker 4: In the day of Fdaana's disappearance, so you can put

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Speaker 4: him with Dana right before she disappeared.

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Speaker 8: Wasn't there very long? I supposed to meet the people.

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Speaker 8: So I stopped there in bilis Quahan and then walked

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Speaker 8: around little bed and stood, and as if I was

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Speaker 8: walking out, I saw in the dregtory dead and saw

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Speaker 8: a skull and some rib bones.

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Speaker 1: Who there there?

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Speaker 8: Are you reading?

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Speaker 7: Boy?

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Speaker 6: What do you want?

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Speaker 1: Why?

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Speaker 8: Why are you calling me if you don't even know

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Speaker 8: who I am?

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Speaker 7: Thanks a lot?

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Speaker 6: Do you know who I am.

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Speaker 8: You don't know who I am, then, why are you

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Speaker 8: calling me?

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Speaker 7: Paper Ghosts?

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Speaker 3: Season four is written and executive produced by Me and

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Speaker 3: William Phelps. Script consulting by Rose Bachi, sound designed by

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Speaker 3: Matt Russell, executive production by Catherine Law, and audio editing

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Speaker 3: and mixing by Brandon Dicker. Series theme number four four

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Speaker 3: to two is written and performed by Thomas Phelps and

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Speaker 3: Thomas Mooney