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Speaker 1: Crime Alert I Nancy Grace breaking crime news. Now Oakley

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Speaker 1: Carlson has just been declared dead. Little Oakley's body has

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Speaker 1: never been found lasting alive by someone other than her parents.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, her Washington State disappearance finally reported

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Speaker 1: by a school principal who overhears Oakley's sister say her

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Speaker 1: mom told her Oakley had quote gone out into the

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Speaker 1: woods and had been eaten by wolves. Our Drew Nelson

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Speaker 1: joins us with the latest hert nancy.

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Speaker 2: Even as detectives continue to treat her case as an

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Speaker 2: open homicide investigation, a judge declared Oakley Carlson legally dead.

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Speaker 2: Her mother, Jordan Bowers, who was released from prison just

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Speaker 2: weeks before the ruling, remains a suspect. Records show the

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Speaker 2: death declaration came in Pacific County Superior Court nearly four

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Speaker 2: years after Oakley was last seen at age four. The

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Speaker 2: petition filed on behalf of her siblings. The ruling follows

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Speaker 2: years of unanswered questions since Oakley disappeared from her parents'

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Speaker 2: home in Oakville. The child had once lived safely with

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Speaker 2: foster parents, but in twenty nineteen, the Washington Department of

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Speaker 2: Children youth and families returned her to her biological parents,

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Speaker 2: Bowers Andrew Carlson. Detectives said the couple gave conflicting and

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Speaker 2: false statements when asked about their daughter's whereabouts. Both were

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Speaker 2: later convicted of child and nagement for exposing their other

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Speaker 2: children to meth. More recently, Bowers was sentenced in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty three to forty three months in prison for identity

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Speaker 2: theft and released last month. She remains on community supervision

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Speaker 2: for one year. Detectives from the Grays Harbor County Sheriff's

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Speaker 2: Office confirmed both parents are still considered suspects in a

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Speaker 2: so called no body homicide case. Jamie Joe Hiles, who

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Speaker 2: was Oakley's foster mother, says the declaration of death came

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Speaker 2: as a shock. She spoke to Komo.

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Speaker 1: I hope that they just keep seeing Oakley's face and

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Speaker 1: maybe they just are like, okay, I need to come

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Speaker 1: forward with what I know.

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Speaker 2: Yles says she still speaks often with investigators and finds

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Speaker 2: Bowers really unnerving. According to records, Oakley's six year old

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Speaker 2: sister told investigators that their mother had told her not

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Speaker 2: to talk about Oakley and that she had quote gone

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Speaker 2: out into the woods and had been eaten by wolves.

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Speaker 2: Detectives described that as one of several disturbing comments that

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Speaker 2: made them fear Oakley had been killed. No physical evidence

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Speaker 2: ever supported that claim, but it helped establish what investigators

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Speaker 2: called suspicious circumstances around the disappearance and led to Bowers

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Speaker 2: and Andrew Carlson being treated as persons of interest. Hiles

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Speaker 2: continues to advocate for Oakley. I think that just keeping

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Speaker 2: her relevant just kind of refreshes everybody's memory that yes,

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Speaker 2: she is still out there, and it's important to keep

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Speaker 2: her name alive. Oakley would have turned eight years old

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Speaker 2: this year. The reward for information in her case has

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Speaker 2: grown to one hundred thousand dollars. Anyone with information has

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Speaker 2: urged to contact the Gray's Harbor County Sheriff's Office at

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Speaker 2: three six zero nine six four, seventeen twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Drew. More crime and justice news after this.

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Speaker 2: Virginia Giuffray's memoir Nobody's Girl is released six months after

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Speaker 2: her death, describing how she was trafficked and raped by

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Speaker 2: powerful men while trapped in Jeffrey Epstein's sex ring. She

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Speaker 2: wrote that she feared she might quote die a sex

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Speaker 2: slave Geffray says she was trafficked to quote scores of wealthy,

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Speaker 2: powerful people. In one section, she described being taken to

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Speaker 2: a quote well known prime minister, who she said, quote

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Speaker 2: raped me more savagely than anyone had before. She wrote

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Speaker 2: that he choked her until she lost consciousness and laughed

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Speaker 2: at her, becoming fearful of him. Afterwards, she said she

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Speaker 2: begged Epsteine not to send her back. Quote. I got

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Speaker 2: down on my knees and pleaded with him. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if Epstein feared the man, or if he owed

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Speaker 2: him a favor, but he wouldn't make any promises, saying

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Speaker 2: coldly of the politician's brutality, you'll get that sometimes. The

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Speaker 2: book also describes abuse that began when she was seven

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Speaker 2: years old. Giffrey alleged that her father molested her as

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Speaker 2: a child and traded her to a family only friend.

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Speaker 2: Her father denied the claim. Her brother told NBC News

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Speaker 2: that he confronted him, saying, quote, you sexually abuse your daughter.

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Speaker 2: It's absolutely heinous what he did. Geffrey says she was

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Speaker 2: groomed by Glaine Maxwell and trafficked by Epstein starting at

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Speaker 2: age sixteen, forced to have sex with men, in politics

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Speaker 2: and business. She mentioned a quote gubernatorial candidate who was

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Speaker 2: soon to win an election in a Western state, and

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Speaker 2: also quote a former US senator. She also described to

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Speaker 2: being trafficked to Prince Andrew before they had sex for

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Speaker 2: the first time. She said he guessed her age correctly

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Speaker 2: seventeen quote. He was friendly enough, but still entitled, as

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Speaker 2: if he believed having sex with me was his birthright.

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Speaker 2: His lawyers later paid her to settle her civil case.

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Speaker 2: In another part of the book, she wrote that Epstein

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Speaker 2: and Maxwell bragged about their friendship with former President Bill

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Speaker 2: Clinton and how easily Maxwell could reach him. Geffrey also

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Speaker 2: said Epstein quote love to boast about his friendship with

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump and kept a framed photo of them together

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Speaker 2: on his She wrote that quote the powerful men who

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Speaker 2: used me were never punished, but she wanted her story

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Speaker 2: told so others would know what she endured. Prince Andrew

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Speaker 2: is under mounting pressure to leave public life forever as

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Speaker 2: the new allegations deepen the embarrassment for the royal family.

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Speaker 2: The book mentions Andrew eighty eight times. It also alleges

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Speaker 2: his team tried to hire internet trolls to harasser. Andrew

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Speaker 2: denies all wrongdoing. The pressure is also mounting over Prince

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Speaker 2: Andrew's home at Royal Lodge and Windsor. A lease signed

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Speaker 2: in twenty oh three says he paid a million pounds

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Speaker 2: for a seventy five year lease and spent seven point

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Speaker 2: five million dollars on renovations. In return, he has paid

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Speaker 2: quote one peppercorn if demanded in rent each year. The

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Speaker 2: Crown Estate would owe him about five hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: eight thousand pounds if he gave up the property before

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Speaker 2: his lease expires in twenty seventy eight. MPs from multiple

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Speaker 2: parties have called for an inquiry into how the arrangement

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Speaker 2: was handled, since Crown Estate profits go to the Treasury.

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Speaker 2: Royal biographer Tina Brown says Prince William and Princess Kate

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Speaker 2: quote can't abide Andrew and want him and Sarah Ferguson

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Speaker 2: to quote disappear from Windsor. Brown wrote that their presence

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Speaker 2: near the new home of the Prince and Princess quote

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Speaker 2: spoils life at their forever home. The King is said

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Speaker 2: to have quote acted decisively, removing Andrew's remaining titles from

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Speaker 2: the palace website and urging him to live quietly Scotland

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Speaker 2: Yard has confirmed it as investigating claims that Andrew asked

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Speaker 2: a police officer to quote dig up dirt on Virginia Gufrey.

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Speaker 2: Her co author Amy Wallace says Guffrey quote would have

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Speaker 2: viewed it as a victory that he was forced by

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Speaker 2: whatever means, to voluntarily give them up. She called it

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Speaker 2: quote a step in the right direction and said Prince

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Speaker 2: Andrew should finally share what he knows about Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Drew for the latest crime and justice dease. Go

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