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Speaker 1: It's a Saturday night in two thousand three, eleven pm,

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Speaker 1: and when the coast is clear, I sneak out of

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Speaker 1: my parents house in the San Gabriel Valley waiting for

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Speaker 1: me and my friends and a few hundred other l

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Speaker 1: A teens. Is a party, A hot, sweaty, grinding party.

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Speaker 1: Would like everybody and their mother in the car, like

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Speaker 1: in the trunk, like everybody got smashed into like two

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Speaker 1: or three cars. We would come in like ten fifteen,

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Speaker 1: twenty girls deep at a party, all magic blocks of

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Speaker 1: grinding and lass and boody shaking, working music bangings out

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Speaker 1: the freon our dream. I don't even know how we

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Speaker 1: got the alcohol. Who knows. Welcome to the world of

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Speaker 1: party Crews. I'm Jane Amocha and when I was a

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Speaker 1: team in the mid two thousand's, I was part of

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Speaker 1: an underground party scene made up of hundreds, maybe thousands,

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Speaker 1: of mostly Latin X teams all across l A. We

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Speaker 1: called ourselves party crews, and we were on a mission

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Speaker 1: to have a good time here. We made the rules.

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Speaker 1: The party cuisine was our safe space, a place where

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Speaker 1: we could be ourselves without judgment. Just close your eyes

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Speaker 1: and just listen to the music and just dance away

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Speaker 1: with your friends just like you're free. But for other

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Speaker 1: people looking in, they often saw us as criminals. The

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Speaker 1: people who throw these kind of parties are called party crews,

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Speaker 1: but police say they're very similar to gangs. The parties

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Speaker 1: could get intense, sometimes even dangerous. Around the time I

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Speaker 1: was a part of it, the scene got blamed for

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Speaker 1: a murder of a fourteen year old girl named Emory Munos.

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Speaker 1: They made it more about the parties than her actual

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Speaker 1: murder and disappearance. To this day, her murder remains unsolved.

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Speaker 1: We want answers. We need to know why and and who.

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Speaker 1: When I started looking into Emery's unsolved case, it put

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Speaker 1: me on a journey to try to understand the bigger story.

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Speaker 1: And I also found myself going back to a time

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Speaker 1: in my life I had otherwise blocked out from my heart.

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Speaker 1: Michael through a podcast network Vice and Elliott Studios. This

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Speaker 1: is Party Crews The Untold Stories, a podcast about coming

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Speaker 1: of age and what happens when you're safe. Space isn't

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