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Speaker 1: Murder line. Over the past five years of making my

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Speaker 1: getting suspicious because he had dents in his truck and

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Speaker 1: he was acting weird. So long story short, it was

431
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Speaker 1: not long before they pulled him in for questioning and

432
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Speaker 1: he confessed to raping and murdering Sidney. He was charged

433
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Speaker 1: with Sydney's rape and murder, in addition to kidnapping and

434
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Speaker 1: abuse of a corpse. In the end, before his trial

435
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Speaker 1: was due to start, his attorneys made a deal. The

436
00:26:20,685 --> 00:26:23,165
Speaker 1: death penalty was taken off the table and he was

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Speaker 1: sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parroll.

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Speaker 1: After Quake's arrest, Brooks family started to wonder about the

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Speaker 1: things she said about being followed by someone in a truck.

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Speaker 1: Especially after some of Quake's acquaintances started to come forward

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Speaker 1: and talk about his creepy behavior. People started to wonder

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Speaker 1: if he could be a serial killer. Today in Fort

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Speaker 1: Smith also said they had reached out to someone who

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00:26:51,725 --> 00:26:55,085
Speaker 1: said quote he meaning Quake used to follow my friend,

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00:26:55,245 --> 00:26:57,805
Speaker 1: stalk her and try to get her to acknowledge him.

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Speaker 1: She was very uncomfortable around him. End quote. Today in

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Speaker 1: Fort Smith didn't name the person he made those allegations.

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00:27:04,685 --> 00:27:07,685
Speaker 1: But it did make me wonder if Quake Llewellen could

449
00:27:07,685 --> 00:27:11,285
Speaker 1: have about anything to do with Brooks disappearance. During that time,

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00:27:11,405 --> 00:27:14,125
Speaker 1: Quake became a member of a Facebook group dedicated to

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Speaker 1: finding Sidney. He inserted himself into the investigation several times.

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Speaker 1: He even helped the volunteer searchers. Quake showed up at

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Speaker 1: Sidney's funeral and he hugged her mother, Maggie Sutherland, which

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Speaker 1: I find horrifying. Maggie, who said she was her daughter,

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00:27:30,565 --> 00:27:33,365
Speaker 1: Sidney's best friend and the last person to see her

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00:27:33,445 --> 00:27:37,365
Speaker 1: daughter alive, confronted Quake at his sentencing hearing as she

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Speaker 1: made a victim impact statement for Sydney. Maggie said, quote,

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Speaker 1: the hands you hugged me with are the same hands

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Speaker 1: you killed her with. End quote. Since Brook's timeline is

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00:27:51,165 --> 00:27:54,165
Speaker 1: still vague, it's hard to rule anyone out, and we

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00:27:54,245 --> 00:27:57,005
Speaker 1: have no idea what Quake Lewellin was doing the day

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Speaker 1: that Brook went missing. It's been recorded that police did

463
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Speaker 1: question Quake about Brook's disappearance. They said they would continue

464
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Speaker 1: to question him until they were sure they could rule

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Speaker 1: them out. But again, since police understandably keep things close

466
00:28:10,925 --> 00:28:14,205
Speaker 1: to the vest, it's hard to see if and when

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00:28:14,285 --> 00:28:18,005
Speaker 1: that happened, if they did ever completely rule Quake out

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Speaker 1: as Brooks killer, and if they did, how they did it.

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Speaker 1: Now I should say that this FOG revealed technology is

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Speaker 1: not a magic bullet. I talked to a representative from

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Speaker 1: the company Fog Data Science. They said that this technology

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00:28:33,125 --> 00:28:37,365
Speaker 1: is not perfect. And I know from hard personal experience

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Speaker 1: if there is an area of the country that's going

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Speaker 1: to be prone to patche cell service and to technology

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Speaker 1: not working, it is rural Arkansas. But I have asked

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Speaker 1: myself many times if this same technology that helped find

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Speaker 1: answers in Sydney Sutherland's case could have been used in

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Speaker 1: Brooks case. A while back, I asked one of my colleagues, Mike,

479
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Speaker 1: who I've worked with on former cases, and you may

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Speaker 1: remember from season four of Hell Gone when we went

481
00:29:01,645 --> 00:29:05,765
Speaker 1: to Little Rock to work on Ebbie Steppeck's case, is

482
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Speaker 1: an expert in cell phone data and he's trained in

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Speaker 1: this type of technology. What he told me was that,

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00:29:12,245 --> 00:29:15,845
Speaker 1: unfortunately Brooks data was too far in the past to track.

485
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Speaker 1: And when I talked to the representative from the company,

486
00:29:19,365 --> 00:29:21,925
Speaker 1: they confirmed that. They said, now, because there is so

487
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Speaker 1: much data out there, they used to have information that

488
00:29:24,885 --> 00:29:27,445
Speaker 1: was a few years old, but now it basically stops

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Speaker 1: at three years. But Mike was able to run a

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Speaker 1: search on Quake Llewellen's phone from the time before he

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Speaker 1: was arrested, and he found some interesting data there. He

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Speaker 1: found that Quake llewellens regular route took him near the

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Speaker 1: neighborhood where Brook's father lived at the time. Does this

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Speaker 1: mean anything? Could it be a coincidence? Possibly? It's a

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Speaker 1: small town. But I keep coming back to that because

496
00:29:52,845 --> 00:29:56,205
Speaker 1: Brooks's sister claimed that she was being followed and Quake

497
00:29:56,285 --> 00:29:59,605
Speaker 1: did drive a truck, though not a brown truck. I'm

498
00:29:59,685 --> 00:30:02,925
Speaker 1: still looking for more information on Quake Llewellen's activities during

499
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Speaker 1: the weeks and months before Brook's disappearance. There is a

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Speaker 1: listener out there who has any of that information. Even

501
00:30:09,245 --> 00:30:14,165
Speaker 1: if you think it's something totally insignificant, Please reach out

502
00:30:14,725 --> 00:30:18,325
Speaker 1: back to Brooks case. In December twenty twenty one, there

503
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Speaker 1: was a new controversy involving a YouTube channel called Adventures

504
00:30:22,645 --> 00:30:27,445
Speaker 1: with Purpose or AWP. AWP is run by a dive team.

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Speaker 1: It's a really long story and I feel that it's

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Speaker 1: kind of a distraction from the investigation at this point,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just going to give a brief synopsis. The

508
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Speaker 1: guys from AWP came down and offered to search the

509
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Speaker 1: area for free to dive into the White River and

510
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Speaker 1: some other bodies of water. According to Kelly, there had

511
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Speaker 1: been some rumors that Brook's body had been dumped into

512
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Speaker 1: a barrel and left in what's called Before Ponds area.

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Speaker 1: Now I don't know where this rumor started. I've tried

514
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Speaker 1: to verify it and I cannot figure it out. But

515
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Speaker 1: since it's not totally implausible that Brook's body might be

516
00:31:01,645 --> 00:31:03,405
Speaker 1: in a body of water, I can see why her

517
00:31:03,405 --> 00:31:07,165
Speaker 1: family would want to investigate every possibility. Again, I think

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Speaker 1: the idea that she would have wandered in the river

519
00:31:09,045 --> 00:31:12,285
Speaker 1: herself is ridiculous. This was a woman who was making

520
00:31:12,325 --> 00:31:14,845
Speaker 1: plans to get custody of her son. She had just

521
00:31:14,885 --> 00:31:17,605
Speaker 1: seen her children, she was talking about the future, and

522
00:31:17,645 --> 00:31:21,645
Speaker 1: had literally just gotten her hair and nails done. A

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Speaker 1: family friend of Brooks said that while the Arkansas A

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Speaker 1: Police had searched the White River, they weren't sure if

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Speaker 1: any other bodies of water had been searched. So the

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00:31:32,005 --> 00:31:36,525
Speaker 1: divers from AWP came down. They dove the four ponds area,

527
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Speaker 1: and also another nearby lake called Bergen Lake. They made

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Speaker 1: a video and released it in late twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: At the time, the dive team said they had not

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Speaker 1: found anything of significance during their dive, but some people

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Speaker 1: who saw the video and saw the sonar review that

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00:31:53,725 --> 00:31:56,285
Speaker 1: they had taken apparently saw what they believed to be

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00:31:56,325 --> 00:31:58,565
Speaker 1: a barrel with a skeleton in it. Now, there's some

534
00:31:58,605 --> 00:32:02,805
Speaker 1: other controversy here. One of the divers, Jared, made a

535
00:32:02,925 --> 00:32:06,365
Speaker 1: video a follow up video where and this is just

536
00:32:06,365 --> 00:32:08,405
Speaker 1: from what people have told me, because I've not seen

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00:32:08,405 --> 00:32:11,925
Speaker 1: this video. In the end, it seems like Kelly and

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00:32:11,965 --> 00:32:15,125
Speaker 1: some other members of Brook's family felt that the whole

539
00:32:15,125 --> 00:32:20,205
Speaker 1: incident really just distracted from the investigation and started up

540
00:32:20,245 --> 00:32:23,685
Speaker 1: a lot of rumors but ultimately gave them no answers

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Speaker 1: in terms of what actually happened to Brook. I felt

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00:32:27,245 --> 00:32:29,885
Speaker 1: bad for the family because it just seemed like something

543
00:32:29,885 --> 00:32:33,285
Speaker 1: else that got their hopes up and in the end

544
00:32:33,525 --> 00:32:38,005
Speaker 1: turned out to provide no answers. Now, I do want

545
00:32:38,045 --> 00:32:41,525
Speaker 1: to make it clear that Adventures with Purpose has helped

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Speaker 1: on other cases. In fact, in twenty twenty two, the

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Speaker 1: team went down to Marianna, Arkansas to look for Annie Hampton,

548
00:32:49,565 --> 00:32:52,045
Speaker 1: a sixty six year old woman who'd been missing since

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00:32:52,085 --> 00:32:55,925
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, and they did find her car in Bear

550
00:32:56,005 --> 00:32:59,925
Speaker 1: Creek Reservoir, and there were human remains inside the car

551
00:33:00,005 --> 00:33:03,525
Speaker 1: that turned out to be hers. So it does appear

552
00:33:03,645 --> 00:33:07,525
Speaker 1: that adventures with purpose has helped in the past, unfortunately

553
00:33:08,165 --> 00:33:11,765
Speaker 1: just not in Brooks case. I have no idea if

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00:33:11,805 --> 00:33:14,965
Speaker 1: what we're doing here will help or provide answers, But

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00:33:15,765 --> 00:33:18,965
Speaker 1: I believe that we need to shut out all the

556
00:33:19,045 --> 00:33:21,885
Speaker 1: rumors and we need to go again back to basics

557
00:33:22,365 --> 00:33:25,645
Speaker 1: who had contact with Brooke last. We need to talk

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00:33:25,685 --> 00:33:27,325
Speaker 1: to them again and we need to find out what

559
00:33:27,365 --> 00:33:30,925
Speaker 1: happened to her and to people out there. He would say,

560
00:33:30,965 --> 00:33:33,965
Speaker 1: just let the police do their job. I understand that,

561
00:33:34,085 --> 00:33:36,765
Speaker 1: and I will be passing everything that I find onto

562
00:33:36,845 --> 00:33:39,685
Speaker 1: law enforcement if we get tips. But I just want

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00:33:39,725 --> 00:33:44,365
Speaker 1: to point out that in twenty twenty one, when journalist

564
00:33:44,445 --> 00:33:47,285
Speaker 1: Mitch McCoy did the Monday Night Mysteries program and talked

565
00:33:47,325 --> 00:33:51,325
Speaker 1: to Sheriff Sean Stevens, the sheriff talked about brook cell phone.

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Speaker 1: He talked about what steps law enforcement had taken. He

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Speaker 1: said that the department did not have the technology to

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00:33:58,365 --> 00:34:00,965
Speaker 1: dump cell phones, but he said they'd gotten search warrants.

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Speaker 1: He said they were in the process of executing those.

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Speaker 1: Why did they take three years? If I understood the

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Speaker 1: sheriff's statement correctly, that means in twenty twenty one, Brook's

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00:34:11,725 --> 00:34:15,845
Speaker 1: cell phone had still not been processed. And there was

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Speaker 1: also no mention of things like fog data services, which

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00:34:19,205 --> 00:34:24,325
Speaker 1: we know were around in twenty eighteen, even in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: after Sidney Sutherland's case. Because the technology goes back three years,

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00:34:29,085 --> 00:34:32,685
Speaker 1: the Independence County Sheriff's office probably could have asked for

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Speaker 1: it at that time. So if that didn't happen, If

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00:34:35,165 --> 00:34:37,365
Speaker 1: I were Brook's family, I would be asking why that

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Speaker 1: didn't happen. Why that same technology that was used to

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00:34:40,005 --> 00:34:43,925
Speaker 1: find Sidney Sutherland was not used to find Brook. I

581
00:34:43,965 --> 00:34:46,405
Speaker 1: also want to know what happened to those DNA swabs

582
00:34:46,885 --> 00:34:49,525
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, they were still being processed, were

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Speaker 1: they ever processed? Where they ever tested? Was it Brooks DNA?

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Speaker 1: Was there foreign DNA? There's so many unanswered questions about

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Speaker 1: this case, including did Brook drive her car to that

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00:35:01,285 --> 00:35:06,405
Speaker 1: location herself or was someone else driving it? Could the

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00:35:06,445 --> 00:35:08,805
Speaker 1: fresh mud on the car indicate that she had been

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00:35:08,845 --> 00:35:13,205
Speaker 1: driving through a different area. And again I keep mentioning

589
00:35:13,245 --> 00:35:16,245
Speaker 1: if Brooke was meeting someone there, like the police seemed

590
00:35:16,245 --> 00:35:19,085
Speaker 1: to believe, why would she get out of her car

591
00:35:19,245 --> 00:35:22,885
Speaker 1: and leave her money, her wallet, all of her credit cards,

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Speaker 1: and her cell phone inside. Kelly has always said this

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00:35:27,085 --> 00:35:30,725
Speaker 1: does not make sense to her. She said, quote, I

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Speaker 1: never thought she was in the area, meaning the area

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00:35:33,525 --> 00:35:36,445
Speaker 1: where the car was abandoned. Either she was meeting someone

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00:35:36,485 --> 00:35:40,965
Speaker 1: there or her car was put there end quote. Brook's

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00:35:41,005 --> 00:35:44,445
Speaker 1: family and friends continue to search for answers. They've held

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Speaker 1: candlelight vigils on that same boat ramp several times since

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00:35:47,645 --> 00:35:51,405
Speaker 1: she disappeared. Whatever happens, they just want to know what

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00:35:51,565 --> 00:35:53,245
Speaker 1: happened to Brook, and they want to be able to

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00:35:53,245 --> 00:35:57,205
Speaker 1: bring her home. They posted a statement that was published

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00:35:57,205 --> 00:36:00,725
Speaker 1: on White River Now. It reads, in part quote, we

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00:36:00,845 --> 00:36:04,085
Speaker 1: continue to search for Brook and search for answers. There

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00:36:04,125 --> 00:36:06,445
Speaker 1: are no words that can expel us the sorrow and

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00:36:06,565 --> 00:36:09,885
Speaker 1: chaos that clouds our hearts and minds. The day to

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00:36:09,925 --> 00:36:12,045
Speaker 1: day routine of our lives will never be the same

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00:36:12,525 --> 00:36:16,325
Speaker 1: from this day forward. We are committed to finding this beautiful, vivacious,

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Speaker 1: compassionate mother. We are committed to never allowing Brook's voice

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00:36:20,525 --> 00:36:23,485
Speaker 1: and contagious spirit to be lost beneath the weight of

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Speaker 1: time or hidden from view as old news. We ask

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Speaker 1: that you will continue to help us search, continue to

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00:36:29,805 --> 00:36:32,285
Speaker 1: help us cling to hope, continue to help us love

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00:36:32,325 --> 00:36:36,285
Speaker 1: our daughter, mother's sister, and friend. Above all, our prayer

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00:36:36,365 --> 00:36:39,325
Speaker 1: is that wherever Brook finds herself, that she's overwhelmed by

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00:36:39,365 --> 00:36:42,565
Speaker 1: the assurance that she is so loved, so completely and

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00:36:42,605 --> 00:36:47,165
Speaker 1: deeply loved by so many. If you're out there and

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00:36:47,205 --> 00:36:50,765
Speaker 1: you had any contact with Brooke Allensworth, if you have

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00:36:50,965 --> 00:36:55,405
Speaker 1: any piece of information, no matter how insignificant, please please

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Speaker 1: reach out. Police have asked anyone with information about Brooks

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Speaker 1: whereabouts to contact the Arkansas State Police at eight seven

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Speaker 1: zero nine three five seven three o two, and you

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Speaker 1: can also contact us anytime at the Helen Gone Murder Line.

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Speaker 1: I know when we hear about these cases in the news,

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Speaker 1: it can be easy to depersonalize them, to think of

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00:37:19,045 --> 00:37:26,565
Speaker 1: it as just another mystery. But this is someone's mother, sister, daughter, friend.

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Speaker 1: She was just gone and they have no idea what

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Speaker 1: happened to her. Just imagine if someone in your family disappeared.

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Speaker 1: Imagine how much that would torture you. Please, we are

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Speaker 1: asking anyone with any information to reach out. I'm Catherine Townsend.

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Speaker 1: This is Helen Gone Murder Line. Helen Gone Murder Line

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Speaker 1: is a production of School of Humans and iHeart Podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Gabby Watts. Music is by Ben Sale and this episode

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Speaker 1: was scored and mixed by Miranda Hawkins. Executive producers are

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Speaker 1: Virginia Prescott, Brandon Barr, and Els Crowley. If you have

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