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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 2: A beautiful young mother of four vanishes on foot walking

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Speaker 2: on a.

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Speaker 1: Rural road tonight. Where is Brittany.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for

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Speaker 2: being with us. A West Virginia mom of four works

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Speaker 2: hard to make a life for her children, but then

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Speaker 2: her home is mysteriously set on fire.

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Speaker 1: Is that a coincidence? Can that be a coincidence?

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Speaker 2: After having investigated and prosecuted literally thousands of cases, I

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Speaker 2: do not believe that there is a coincidence in criminal law.

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Speaker 2: But to her disappearance, this young mom, you just saw her, yourself,

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Speaker 2: beautiful mom of four, working, holding it all together, goes

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Speaker 2: walking down a rural road and then vanishes into thin air.

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Speaker 2: I'm not buying that. Then, after a string of let

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Speaker 2: me just say youphamistically miscommunications and jurisdictional back and forth,

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Speaker 2: her case seems to get lost in the sauce. Well,

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Speaker 2: guess what we found it.

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Speaker 3: Listen, there is a reward if you tell where she

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Speaker 3: is and we find her. That's my daughter, my baby,

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Speaker 3: and I would like to know where she is and

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Speaker 3: her little kids Christmas cried and.

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Speaker 4: One, and what their mom wants and if you even

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Speaker 4: cared about being at all your at least tell what

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Speaker 4: you know or tell where she is. At least to

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Speaker 4: that let us have her back.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine what her mother has been through? Much less?

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Speaker 2: The four children wondering where's Mommy? Joining me in Allstar

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Speaker 2: panel to make sense of what we know right now.

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Speaker 2: And I've got to tell you these facts are murky

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Speaker 2: at best. They need to be cleared up again. All

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Speaker 2: start panel joining us, But first I want to go

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Speaker 2: to Kevin Horn. This is Britney's brother speaking out. Kevin,

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Speaker 2: thank you for being with us. What has it been

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Speaker 2: like since your sister went missing? And what were you doing?

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Speaker 1: Let's start with this.

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Speaker 2: What were you doing when you learned nobody could find Brittany?

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Speaker 5: Who told you, well, my mom had called me and

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Speaker 5: said that, you know, she had come home and been

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Speaker 5: like two days or something, and she said she was

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Speaker 5: going to call and before a missing person.

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Speaker 6: They took the missing person's case, I guess.

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Speaker 5: And then we just started looking for ourselves, and we

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Speaker 5: asked the police assist us in a search, and they

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Speaker 5: would They said it was too big of area.

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Speaker 1: Oh wait, wait, wait, wait right there, hold on, hold on.

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Speaker 2: Kevin Horn is with me. This is Brittany's brother, also

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Speaker 2: with me, her cousin Sharon, also with me. The private

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Speaker 2: eye and lawyer the family hired. His name is Jeff

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Speaker 2: Lewis joining us multi jurisdictional, not only lawyer, but private eye.

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Speaker 2: We still don't have Brittany, and the facts are not

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Speaker 2: getting any clearer. And I would hazard to guess right there,

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Speaker 2: what you heard Kevin Horn say is part of the problem.

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Speaker 2: But Kevin Horn, let me understand something. Did law enforcement

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Speaker 2: tell you they were not helping you in the search

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Speaker 2: because it was too big of an area.

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Speaker 5: They said it was too much of an area because

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Speaker 5: it was like the hills look, and they said they

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Speaker 5: didn't have enough law enforcement to cover that. And we

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Speaker 5: asked them to just come and assist the family because

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Speaker 5: we have a big family and we was going to

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Speaker 5: do it. But they just wouldn't come and assist us.

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Speaker 5: They told us we could ask the people that the property.

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Speaker 5: I had to go look for it.

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Speaker 6: I had. I went looking for her on the ridge.

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Speaker 5: I went, I've literally crawled down in wealth and trying

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Speaker 5: to find her. And they actually told my mom that

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Speaker 5: they don't look for them look for the missing people

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Speaker 5: as they do is they go around and they ask

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Speaker 2: Now, let me understand something. Sharon Norris is joining us.

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Speaker 2: This is Britney's cousin, Sharon Norris. Do you remember when

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Speaker 2: you were told Britney's missing.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I actually was sitting at home and got a

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Speaker 7: phone call that she was missing. So I immediately reach

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm just trying to take in, Sharon, what

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Speaker 2: Kevin told me that you guys were told by law

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Speaker 8: All right, So, Kermit, West Virginia is very rural. It's

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Speaker 8: very close to the Kentucky border. Extremely small town. It

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Speaker 8: consists of only three hundred and seventeen people, which is

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Speaker 1: The two thousand and twenty census.

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Speaker 8: And then as of twenty twenty, in the County that

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Speaker 2: Now, when you say it's extremely rural, I'm very interested

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Speaker 2: and I'll tell you why. Joining me is Jeff Lewis,

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Speaker 2: the license PI and lawyer who is hired by the family.

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Speaker 2: He operates out of West Virginia, but also works Virginia, Kentucky, Florida,

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Speaker 2: South Carolina, even Oklahoma. Jeff Lewis the owner operator founder

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Speaker 2: of Alias Investigations in Criminal Law. Jeff, thank you for

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Speaker 2: being with us. What stopping me in my tracks, Jeff Lewis,

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Speaker 2: is that the family is told, yeah, we'd really like

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Speaker 2: to help, but we just can't handle that terrain. Describe

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Speaker 2: the area for me, Jeff, Why would any law enforcement

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Speaker 9: I mean, it's a it is a royal area, but

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Speaker 9: the region they gave the family to be blowning honest,

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Speaker 9: just aren't true. They have because Mingo County, Sheriff County

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Speaker 9: just West Virginia State Police find this woman and bring

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Speaker 9: her back to her family. And West Virginia State Police

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Speaker 9: would not allow them to get involved, and also wouldn't

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Speaker 9: let the Kentucky State Police get involved. And I worked

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Speaker 9: State Police for a couple of weeks, and he did

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Speaker 9: really he worked with me really well, and then all

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Speaker 9: of a sudden, he just stopped. He wouldn't return my calls,

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Speaker 9: he wouldn't return the family's calls, and basically he said

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Speaker 9: he was writing it off because they were closing the cases.

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Speaker 9: Brittany just walked off on their own, which we know

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Speaker 9: for a fact, didn't that.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm sorry, I didn't hear that last part. They're

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Speaker 2: saying that she just walked off on her own, correct.

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Speaker 9: That was That was the last thing that I got

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Speaker 9: the case because they determined that Brittany just walked off

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Speaker 9: for a fact that's not true.

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Speaker 2: To Kevin Horn and Sharon Norris, first, to you, Kevin,

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Speaker 2: do you believe at all Brittany just walked off on

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Speaker 5: No, she would come back to her kids, she would

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Speaker 5: come back to my mom or me, Like I mean,

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Speaker 5: she never would just well, I'll believe.

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Speaker 6: She would have no reason to. They told me it

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Speaker 6: was a voluntary missing person.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw that, Kevin, when I was researching the

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Speaker 2: case that they put that out on. I'm talking about

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Speaker 2: law enforcement put that out in their post and they

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Speaker 2: had her missing as volunteer. They had her listed as

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Speaker 2: missing voluntary. That's not what happened at all to Sharon Norris,

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Speaker 2: Britney's cousin. Why would law enforcement slate her as voluntarily missing?

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Speaker 2: I see it happen all the time, and you lose

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Speaker 2: precious hours, weeks, and months.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I have no idea.

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Speaker 7: What wouldn't make them in any way look at it

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Speaker 7: as she would voluntarily go missing. And the reason I

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Speaker 7: say that is because I had brought Brittany to Ohio.

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Speaker 7: Her brother was keeping her kids for a little bit,

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Speaker 7: and I brought her to Ohio and she got so

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Speaker 7: She didn't even stay the full amount of time she

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Speaker 6: So nobody whatever make.

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Speaker 7: Me, nobody's ever going to make me believe that Brittany

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Speaker 10: Nobody would ever make me believe that.

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Speaker 2: So Sharon Norris, after a few days she wanted to

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Speaker 2: get back to her children.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, she I think it was two days

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Speaker 7: and she was going to stay a week, but two

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Speaker 7: days she was ready to get back to her kids too.

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Speaker 2: Sharon and Kevin and Jeff Lewis as well the lawyer

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Speaker 2: slash Pi. I'm very curious about what I'm just hearing.

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Speaker 2: Brittany leaves home on foot wearing a pink shirt, jean shorts,

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Speaker 1: Recall those sneakers had a neon green.

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Speaker 2: Swoosh of the side. She had her hair in braids.

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Speaker 2: She was carrying a tan backpack. I know she was

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Speaker 2: going to college as well, at Regent College. I know

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Speaker 2: she was wearing a gold chain around her neck and

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Speaker 2: a bangle bracelet. That is what I know of what

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Speaker 2: she was wearing. And I want to analyze that why

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Speaker 2: because it might give me a clue. What was in

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Speaker 2: know she was taking classes, she was also raising for children.

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Speaker 2: What would be in the backpack probably school supplies, but

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Speaker 2: the outfit, the outfit, Kevin Horn for her to leave

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Speaker 2: on foot rural road, and I've looked at the aerial shots.

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Speaker 2: It's nothing but green, all green trees, very wooded. Where

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Speaker 2: would she be going dressed in shorts and nikes? Where

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Speaker 2: would she be going? She's certainly not going out for

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Speaker 6: Way in she was walking to her friend's house.

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Speaker 1: Okay, how far away was the friend?

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Speaker 6: It's about two miles.

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Speaker 2: About two miles so that would have taken her max

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Speaker 2: thirty minutes. Okay, question do we believe she made it

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Speaker 2: to the friend's house? Did not make it? You know?

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Speaker 2: That really narrows it down. Sharon Norris, Is that you're

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Speaker 2: understanding as well? Yeah, I don't get it. How could

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Speaker 2: this woman disappear and a two mile stretch wearing nothing

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Speaker 2: but jean shorts a pink top with a backpack that

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Speaker 2: it doesn't make sense to me.

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Speaker 1: But listen.

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Speaker 11: When Brittany has not returned in ten days and isn't

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Speaker 11: answering calls or text, Mary Horn reports her daughter missing

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Speaker 11: to West Virginia State Police. Mary and sons, Kevin and Neil,

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Speaker 11: spend days putting up flyers with pictures of Brittany. Britney

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Speaker 11: doesn't drive, so the family focuses on foot searches, starting

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Speaker 11: from her mother's home. They find no sign of Brittany.

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Speaker 11: The news of Britney's disappearance spreads, the family begins to

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Speaker 11: receive tips from Britney's friends.

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Speaker 12: Britney Horn confides in her mother that someone is out

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Speaker 12: to get her. Days later, where is Britney? Could that

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Speaker 12: be true?

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Speaker 2: No one in her family believes that Britney was suffering

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Speaker 2: any type of paranoia, But let's look at the Facts's

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Speaker 2: she right? She does a whole reno job on her

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Speaker 2: father's home that he leaves to her while she's the

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Speaker 2: way she comes back, the place is burned to the ground.

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Speaker 2: She keeps plodding forward, going to school, college at Regent College,

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Speaker 2: and raising four children. And then she disappears on a

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Speaker 2: rural walk just two miles between her mom's home where

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Speaker 2: she's now living at her friend's home. That's a thirty

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Speaker 2: So the family who's joining us tonight dig in, putting

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Speaker 2: Investigations joining me right now is a special guest, and

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Speaker 2: boy do we need an expert. Dave Moyer is with

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Speaker 2: And I'm not just getting this from the family, because

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Speaker 2: lot's happening while they're trying to find her. But there

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Speaker 2: have been no K nine searches. I've seen no extensive

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Speaker 2: facts as we have presented them now, Dave Moyer, they

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Speaker 2: She did not believe leave all of her belongings and

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Speaker 2: That didn't happen. Now, talk to me about the search

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Speaker 13: Yes, ma'am. First, I'd like to kind of introduce you

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Speaker 13: and as these biological items decomposed. That's what our dogs

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Speaker 13: a lot of guys from this port tracking community that

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Speaker 13: that's fine. We're using everything available to us as law

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Speaker 13: biological decomposition, at least that's a theory behind it, it

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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, Dave Lawyer, I believe you're putting the

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Speaker 2: cart before the horse. We don't know that we're did

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Speaker 2: you say biological decomposition, because if they had gone out

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Speaker 13: I would disagree with you there. I have been involved

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Speaker 13: I ran the tracking and trailing slashed at Averdog and

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Speaker 13: I was the only full time sworn dog in all

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Speaker 13: recent death has a very distinct odor all its own.

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Speaker 13: Involved with these canines, again, we're putting a lot of

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Speaker 13: things in theory. There's no room of computers anywhere in

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Speaker 13: doing is harnessing that behavior so we can read it now.

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Speaker 13: Based on what you're saying. With the environment, it's going

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Speaker 13: to keep that productive source alive a lot longer. But

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Speaker 13: after twenty four hours, it's very difficult to even search

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Speaker 13: those canine programs commonly take the cuts first when budgetary

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean, I know what you mean.

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Speaker 2: Everything I hear you saying I agree with except for

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Speaker 2: one thing. If the search had been conducted immediately, I

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Speaker 2: find a dead body. That changes things. Would you agree,

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Speaker 2: Dave Moyer as to what you're looking for? I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is just a two mile walk. That's a twenty

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Speaker 2: seven minute walk. This woman is young, She's perfectly capable

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Speaker 13: Well, I'm sorry, I think there was a miscommunication there.

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Speaker 13: What I meant by decomposition was the decomposition of the

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Speaker 13: up of biological matter. Now, could ever search dog's completely

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Speaker 13: different animal. We can talk about that until heads hit

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Speaker 13: the desk. However, that's not the point I'm even coming

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Speaker 13: to yet. A train tracking dog, if this had been

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Speaker 13: been some physical evidence in that immediate area of a scuffle.

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Speaker 2: Hold on day Moyer, and I don't like interrupting you

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Speaker 2: because I'm learning from everything that you're saying. Number one,

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Speaker 2: I now understand what you're saying. At the very beginning

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Speaker 2: when you started, when you were talking about biological matter,

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Speaker 2: I thought I misinterpreted. I thought what you were saying

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Speaker 2: Now I understand that you're talking about human biological matter,

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Speaker 2: Number two, let me just tell you that the single

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Speaker 2: he did really well on cross examination. But what you're

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Speaker 1: This was June thirteen in Kermit, West Virginia.

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Speaker 2: I've also got another site in Kentucky I want to

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Speaker 2: And last you stated that a dog could follow a

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Speaker 2: to jog your memory. Eloise Anderson, who is she? She

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Speaker 2: handled the dog Tremble in the Lacy Peterson murder case.

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Speaker 2: Scott Peterson, that dog Tremble followed Lacey's scent, had it

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Speaker 2: and then Tremble stuck at some pylons, looked out at

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Speaker 2: was done. Everybody always says why they convict Scott Peterson.

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Speaker 2: I can tell you right now because of Tremble, the dog.

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Speaker 2: That's why. So tell me how this would have worked

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Speaker 13: Dave Moyer, Well, let's propose that she's possibly picked up

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Speaker 13: which would have been her house as she's walking through

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Speaker 13: if you put them, I definitely raises my suspicion the

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Speaker 13: canines could have certainly helped out tremendously if they were

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Speaker 12: Where is Brittany a Virginia mom of four missing from

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Speaker 2: Her joining me in All Star panel to make sense

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Speaker 2: into thin air. All I'm hearing so far, not by

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Speaker 1: Bs. This woman did not vanish.

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Speaker 2: Off the side of the road, and she did not

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Speaker 1: It's not true.

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Speaker 2: Why this law enforcement always believe the woman just bugged

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Speaker 9: To be badly honest, Dantee, it's because they don't want

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Speaker 9: to have to work on the case. I mean, I

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Speaker 9: and he only stayed on them for two weeks and

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Speaker 9: closed it as a voluntary Basically, she just walked away.

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Speaker 9: We me and Kevin and Sharon have worked on this

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Speaker 9: she did make it to her friend's house in West Virginia,

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Speaker 9: But yet they wouldn't allow Mingo County Sheriff that was

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Speaker 9: they would not allow them to be involved with and

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Speaker 6: They wouldn't give it to them.

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Speaker 2: So it sounds like a lot of jurisdictional in fighting,

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Speaker 2: and it all seems to happen between these two homes.

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Speaker 2: Some accounts are she did not make it to the

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Speaker 2: I know this is a heavily, heavily wooded area. What

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Speaker 2: Because the family, Sharon Norris, Kevin Horn and others go

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Speaker 13: Again, There's there's a tremendous time advantage to our disadvantage

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately there are I've got another ranch to throw in

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Speaker 2: That didn't help anything.

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Speaker 13: Right, No, that certainly didn't help it at all. And again,

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Speaker 13: we affectionately refer to them, that'll tell you their bloodhound

437
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Speaker 13: can follow six month old year old trails. There's been

438
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Speaker 13: bad case law up down, left, right, and center on that,

439
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Speaker 13: and we're very cognizant of never teaching that and never

440
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Speaker 13: putting that into any of our students that we teach. Now,

441
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 13: that was beat into my head at a very early

442
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Speaker 13: age when I was running my dog out in southern

443
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Speaker 13: California for that reason. And of course I can't speak

444
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Speaker 13: to the jurisdictional infighting or other stuff that's going on

445
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Speaker 13: with the departments. But your standard patrolman are in their favor.

446
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Speaker 13: I was one for a long time myself. You're under

447
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Speaker 13: a lot of pressure to get to the next call,

448
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Speaker 13: to handle the next call for service, and some guys

449
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Speaker 13: just aren't able to put the time and effort into

450
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Speaker 13: this that you'd like to see I'm not defending anything.

451
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Speaker 13: I'm just saying that that does happen.

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Speaker 1: It happens. And back to Kevin and Sharon.

453
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Speaker 2: Also joining us Jeff Lewis and Jennifer Skowski investigative reporter,

454
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Speaker 2: Kevin and Sharon. I understand, was it you, Kevin that

455
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Speaker 2: actually went down wells looking for your sister?

456
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Speaker 5: Yes, several around the ridges, explain.

457
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Speaker 6: I just didn't nowhere else.

458
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Speaker 5: To look, and I was like, they maybe somebody's done

459
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Speaker 5: something to her, throw her down a well.

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Speaker 6: You know, there's something in them. So I was like,

461
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Speaker 6: I'm climbing down in there. I will look. I'm going

462
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Speaker 6: to try to find her. I just can't find her.

463
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Speaker 14: You know.

464
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Speaker 5: It was just us trying to find her in a

465
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Speaker 5: few others. We couldn't cover everything.

466
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Speaker 2: And here we are, Sharon Norris. It just it hurts

467
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Speaker 2: my heart to hear what the family has been going

468
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Speaker 2: through trying to conduct their own searches. You've got Kevin

469
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Speaker 2: actually going down wells, climbing into wells, abandoned wells, looking

470
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Speaker 2: for by that point, what he thought would be his

471
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Speaker 2: sister's body. I have no evidence she's dead or alive.

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Speaker 2: Sharon Norris, what have you been through? Trying to find Brittany.

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Speaker 10: There have been so many stories, just horrific, horrific stories

474
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Speaker 10: that have been sent as tips to me about her

475
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 10: being chopped up, about her being put through a wood chipper,

476
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Speaker 10: that we would never find her, just in that she

477
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 10: was kept for a week while they tortured her, and

478
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Speaker 10: then they tied her.

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Speaker 15: To four willers and took off both ways on the

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Speaker 15: four willers and decapitator. I mean, just the horrific things

481
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Speaker 15: we have been told.

482
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Speaker 7: And it makes it hard to sleep at nights sometimes

483
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Speaker 7: because you get those images in your head.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm really blessed. I am so blessed because

485
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Speaker 2: my fiance was murdered. I knew what happened. I knew

486
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 2: who killed him. I knew what happened. You guys have

487
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Speaker 2: no idea, I mean, Kevin, these tips, these people that

488
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Speaker 2: are stating that she was put in.

489
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Speaker 1: A wood chipper, that she was tortured for days.

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Speaker 2: I mean, how do you even put one foot in

491
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Speaker 2: front of the other one.

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Speaker 6: I can't even get out of bed some days.

493
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 5: But I'm not myself because I'm getting up every day

494
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Speaker 5: with it continuing.

495
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 6: And don't we don't get no closure.

496
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Speaker 5: It's just continues every day.

497
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Speaker 12: My sister would have called by, now, says the brother

498
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Speaker 12: of missing mom of four, Brittany, last seen by family

499
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Speaker 12: at her mother's house.

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Speaker 2: Now, let me just throw a wrench in the works,

501
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Speaker 2: a fly in the ointment.

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Speaker 1: So to speak, a new crime scene.

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Speaker 2: Remember we were in Kermit population twenty seventeen. Jennifer Skowski

504
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Speaker 2: told us about it, the hilly, heavily wooded terrain. Now

505
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Speaker 2: we have another potential crime site. Listen.

506
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Speaker 16: A friend of Britney's claims he gave her a ride

507
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Speaker 16: to a home in Luisa, Kentucky on June twelfth. The

508
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Speaker 16: homeowner goes by the Moniker Chicago. Britney's childhood best friend

509
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 16: also comes forward, telling police she's received a frantic voicemail

510
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Speaker 16: from Britney on June thirteenth. In the message, Britney says

511
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Speaker 16: she's scared, trying to leave Luisa to get back home.

512
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Speaker 2: Joining the investigative reporter Jennifer Skowski, Jennifer, what okay?

513
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Speaker 1: Now start with Kermit pop two seventeen.

514
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Speaker 2: Now I am in a completely different area, Luisa, Kentucky.

515
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 2: How far apart are these two?

516
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Speaker 1: Okay?

517
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Speaker 8: Kermit is located about twenty eight miles away from where

518
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Speaker 8: she was also reported last seen in Louisa, Kentucky. This

519
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 8: was supposedly with a man named Robert that a friend

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Speaker 8: had dropped off at Brittany at Robert's house. There was

521
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Speaker 8: no confirmation she ever left the area, according to Brittney's

522
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 8: missing Facebook page. But then there's also really no there's

523
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 8: so many unanswered questions.

524
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Speaker 1: I mean, did she really leave Kermit?

525
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Speaker 2: Is she and Louisa?

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Speaker 8: Louisa is another small town, not nearly as small as

527
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Speaker 8: the three hundred and seventeen in Kermit, what about twenty

528
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 8: five hundred on the crime rate is it's forty six

529
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Speaker 8: percent safer than than most neighborhoods in the United States.

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Speaker 8: So there's probably you know, some dangerous areas I'm guessing,

531
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Speaker 8: like everywhere else. But it's just really conflicting reports of

532
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 8: was she really last in Louisa or was she really

533
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 8: laughed in Kermit?

534
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 2: Wow, Jennifer, twenty eight miles apart, and what you're telling

535
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 2: me is as I said at the get go, it's

536
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 2: very murky. But we have to now investigate two potential

537
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 2: crime scenes very quickly. To Kevin Horn, this friend who

538
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 2: states she gets a voicemail from Brittany claiming she is

539
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 2: scared and trying to leave Louisa, and that's Kentucky, twenty

540
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 2: miles away, twenty eight miles away to get back home.

541
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Speaker 2: But we know Brittany did not have a cell phone

542
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 2: with her, isn't that correct?

543
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 5: That's correct, she says in the voicemail, I'm using this

544
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 5: girl's phone and to call you. She called her from

545
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Speaker 5: the Facebook on her phone.

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Speaker 1: Do you believe the friend, Kevin?

547
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 2: Do you believe the friend claiming that Brittany was in Luisa?

548
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 2: Do you believe the friend?

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00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 5: Well, I heard the three messages. I mean she was

550
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Speaker 5: in Louisa, she says, I'm in Louisa.

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Speaker 1: Got okay, So they're real, They're real.

552
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 2: Okay? That changes This is everything. To Jeff Lewis joining

553
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 2: me not only lawyer, but PI an Alias investigations, who

554
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 2: took the case on to help the family. Jeff Lewis,

555
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 2: that changes everything because if she really was in Luisa,

556
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 2: trying to get a ride, trying to get home, we

557
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 2: don't have to worry about the two mile stretch anymore,

558
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 2: except who picked her up in that two mile stretch

559
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Speaker 2: or who picked her up at the friend's home. To

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Speaker 2: Jeff Lewis, what can you tell me about Louisa, Kentucky.

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Speaker 9: I got contacted by the sheriff in Lorwigia that told

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Speaker 9: me if he caught me in Kentucky that they would

563
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Speaker 9: throw me in jail immediately. And me, being a private investigator,

564
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Speaker 9: I've never had a law enforcement threatened me for working

565
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 9: on their case in their area before. But their shriff's

566
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 9: department did let me flat out that if I came

567
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Speaker 9: over here o case.

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Speaker 2: Let me get that straight, Jeff Lewis, the sheriff's department

569
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Speaker 2: told you don't put your toe in Luisa, Kentucky or

570
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Speaker 2: will throw you in jail. Did they say that correct?

571
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 2: Which la wwitch? Ella? It was the sheriff of Mingo. No,

572
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 2: it was a Louisa Kentucky Luisa, Kentucky sheriffs. Okay, so

573
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 2: now I've got a potential double crime. Saying what more

574
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Speaker 2: do we know? I know?

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Speaker 1: The family immediately heads to Luisa.

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Speaker 17: Listen the Horns make the forty minute drive to Luisa,

577
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Speaker 17: Kentucky to report Britney missing from the area as well. Luisa,

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Speaker 17: Kentucky police take the report, informing the family that their

579
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Speaker 17: department can only help with the West Virginia State Police's investigation.

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Speaker 17: State Police Troop five refuses the help from Kentucky, saying

581
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Speaker 17: they have the investigation under control.

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Speaker 14: Brittany is the baby of the Horn family. She is

583
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Speaker 14: doted on by parents Paul and Mary Horn, and best

584
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Speaker 14: friends with older brothers Kevin and Neil. Brittany is bubbly

585
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 14: and funny, always surrounded with friends. She graduates from Tulsia

586
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,879
Speaker 14: High School in her hometown of Kermit, West Virginia.

587
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 2: And going on to college at Regent College, raising four children.

588
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 2: Listen to what the family says. This is from our

589
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,320
Speaker 2: friends at WSA twenty three.

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Speaker 6: We need the police to do something.

591
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 5: You know, we need answers because it's been a year

592
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 5: and they've not told us anything.

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00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 2: It has It's been over a year now, well over

594
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 2: a year. The family begging for help. You heard how

595
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 2: she was doted upon by her family. Bubbly, happy, but

596
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 2: listen to this.

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00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 17: Not long after graduating, Brittany Horn meets and falls head

598
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 17: over heels for Clyde Duff Junior. After a whirlwind romance.

599
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 17: Brittany and Duff Mary and are expecting twins, but their

600
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Speaker 17: fairy tale marriage has a dark side. Duff has quite

601
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 17: the rap sheet by the time of their vows and

602
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 17: is often violent towards Brittany. The couple stays together and

603
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 17: have two more children. During family visits, relatives notice Brittany

604
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,320
Speaker 17: has brewed and injuries more and more frequently.

605
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,800
Speaker 2: Domesticbees rears its ugly head listen.

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Speaker 16: At one point, Brittany tries to leave Duff. Brittany cuts

607
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 16: off contact and moves back in with her mother. One afternoon,

608
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 16: Duff shows up to Mary Horn's home demanding to see Britney.

609
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:21,720
Speaker 16: Britney's family members refuse to allow contact. Infuriating Duff, Duff

610
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 16: kicks down the front door brandishing a gun. Brittany's brother

611
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,240
Speaker 16: struggles with Duff over the gun.

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00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:35,240
Speaker 2: After that incident, Brittany totally distances herself from her ex listen.

613
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Speaker 11: A few months after the assault, at Brittany's mom's home,

614
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 11: Duff convinces Brittany to give him another chance, claiming he's

615
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 11: a new man. Duff's violent habits quickly return, and Brittany

616
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 11: finds herself looking for a way out again. When Duff

617
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 11: is arrested for theft, this time his sentence isn't so light,

618
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Speaker 11: and Brittany jumps at the chance to start fresh.

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Speaker 2: She does start fresh, she spends all of her time

620
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 2: all of her money working on her father's home. He's

621
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Speaker 2: left it to her her to move into with her

622
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:02,760
Speaker 2: four children, Listen.

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Speaker 11: Brittany works for months to fix up her late father's home,

624
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 11: then reaches out to her aunt in another state, hoping

625
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 11: some time away will help her move on. Brittany's aunt

626
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 11: is more than happy to help, and five months later,

627
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,959
Speaker 11: Britney feels ready to take on the world. Brittany makes

628
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 11: the trip back to West Virginia, excited to move the

629
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Speaker 11: family into her new home. Brittany is heartbroken when she

630
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 11: learns the home burned down in her absence. Brittany accepts

631
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Speaker 11: her mom's offer to live with her until she makes

632
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 11: new plans.

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Speaker 2: And that is where Brittany is when she goes for

634
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 2: that fateful walk that day in June. That's why she

635
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 2: was at her mom's house. Let me ask you this,

636
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 2: Kevin Horn, where was the X at the time Brittany

637
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 2: went missing?

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00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 6: Who was in jail at the time? Or I would

639
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 6: have thought it had been.

640
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: Him as I thought.

641
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 2: You know how much I would love to point the

642
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 2: finger at him. Statistically, it's always the ex, the husband,

643
00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 2: the boyfriend. But it's not this time he was where

644
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 2: near her. He was doing time on a theft. That

645
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 2: leaves me with a lot of unanswered questions to Jeff

646
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:13,720
Speaker 2: Lewis joining me, private investigator at Alias Investigations and lawyer

647
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 2: Jeff Lewis, what do you think happened to Brittany?

648
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 9: I believe that she manager of Frient's house and then

649
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 9: something happened there. I believe it was It may have

650
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:31,120
Speaker 9: been a farewell be an accident and her friend panicked

651
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 9: and instead of calling nine one morning, they tried to

652
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:35,760
Speaker 9: cover up what happened.

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Speaker 2: Kevin Horn, what is your theory? Because you've heard the messages.

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Speaker 2: You heard your sister state I'm in Louisa, I'm trying

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Speaker 2: to get home. You heard that and you believe it.

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Speaker 2: You heard it yourself. What do you think happened to

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Speaker 2: your sister? Any chance she's still alive?

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Speaker 5: I don't ever want to say that there's not chance,

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Speaker 5: but I have no deep down but she's gone. And

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Speaker 5: I do know she was going to her friend's house.

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Speaker 5: She didn't make it to that friend's house. She got

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Speaker 5: with some other friends. They went to Louisa. She was

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Speaker 5: down to Louisa and she was trying to get back

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Speaker 5: and she got a ride back and then that's when

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Speaker 5: after that ride back, she's gone.

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Speaker 2: If you know or think you know anything about the

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Speaker 2: disappearance of this beautiful mom of four, Britney Horn Duff,

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Speaker 2: please contact three zero four two three five six thousand.

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Speaker 2: The family is offering a reward. Please if you know anything,

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Speaker 2: contact police three zero four two three five six thousand.

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Speaker 2: You remain anonymous. Brittany missing from her four children, lies

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Speaker 2: seen on a walk on a rural road. Thank you

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Speaker 2: to our guests for being with us, especially the cousin

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Speaker 2: Sharon Norris and brother Kevin Horn of Brittany. Still searching

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Speaker 2: for answers. We wait as justice unfalls. Goodbye friend,