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Speaker 2: First of all, let me just say to the family
Speaker 2: of Jessica, I want to thank them for being at
Speaker 2: this place, at this site.
Speaker 3: I know it is not easy.
Speaker 2: I know every time they come anywhere close to this
Speaker 2: area they are reliving the worst moment of their lives.
Speaker 2: As many of you probably do know, two years ago,
Speaker 2: we unfortunately lost Jessica after going missing. Jessica's sisters found
Speaker 2: her deceased just steps away from where we're standing right now,
Speaker 2: And since that day, this family has had absolutely no
Speaker 2: closure in this case.
Speaker 3: They've gotten no answers in this case.
Speaker 1: This is from a press conference I attended that on
Speaker 1: August eighth, twenty twenty one. The man speaking is New
Speaker 1: Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams. The woman he just mentioned
Speaker 1: is Jessica Easterly Darning, the person at the center of
Speaker 1: this story. Jessica wasn't a New Orleans native, but it's
Speaker 1: where she spent a good chunk of her life, right
Speaker 1: here in the neighborhood of Lakeview, where this press conference
Speaker 1: was held. By appearance alone, nothing bad could ever happen
Speaker 1: in this charming Maybury esque setting. But on August twenty second,
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, this is where Jessica was found, just a
Speaker 1: stone's throw from her own home. And who made that
Speaker 1: gruesome discovery not trained investigators nor innocent bystanders, but her
Speaker 1: own family.
Speaker 2: Of today's press conference on these railroad tracks, however, is
Speaker 2: to make a very clear and a very direct.
Speaker 3: Public appeal to this community.
Speaker 2: We need you to speak up, because in order to
Speaker 2: solve cold cases and unsolved murders, all of.
Speaker 3: The law enforcement community needs your help.
Speaker 2: This city, the five thousand plus unsolved cases, needs your help.
Speaker 3: This family needs your help. I need your help, and.
Speaker 2: I want to say to this family, just like I
Speaker 2: said to Jessica's mother, this is important for the folks
Speaker 2: behind me, but this is important to every single family
Speaker 2: that has lost a loved one and has not had
Speaker 2: the closure of having that case solved. You have our
Speaker 2: thoughts and prayers, and you know that, but this family
Speaker 2: needs more than that. This family needs us to work
Speaker 2: and work together. This family needs just to be a team.
Speaker 2: This family needs closure and deserves justice.
Speaker 1: Some people in this neighborhood didn't even know this case existed,
Speaker 1: didn't even know that Jessica went missing or that she
Speaker 1: was found dad. So it all comes back to did
Speaker 1: the police do the footwork to ask people around here, hey,
Speaker 1: did you see anything you know? Did you see this girl?
Speaker 1: And if they did, how hard did they canvas. My
Speaker 1: name is also Jessica, Jessica Nole. I'm an investigative journalist
Speaker 1: and I've been covering this story for some time now,
Speaker 1: but I didn't go it alone. With me is my
Speaker 1: partner and good friend, Todd Macomas, a retired detective who
Speaker 1: brings his own set of skills, ones that can hopefully
Speaker 1: help make a difference in this case, a case that
Speaker 1: sits in limbo with the New Orleans Police Department growing
Speaker 1: colder with each passing day.
Speaker 4: If I'm one of the detectives called out here, I'm
Speaker 4: immediately gonna just say out loud, what a weird place
Speaker 4: to dump a body?
Speaker 5: What a weird place to find a body?
Speaker 4: Just because I literally can go forty yards over here,
Speaker 4: and I have a tree line that's very still overgrown
Speaker 4: that I could tuck anything in there and no one
Speaker 4: probably find it for a.
Speaker 5: Very long time. So it's just weird to me. I know.
Speaker 5: The location of where she was found is just it's troublesome.
Speaker 5: It's troublesome unless it was by design.
Speaker 1: When we first visited the site where Jessica was found,
Speaker 1: admittedly we knew very little about her story, our questions
Speaker 1: were simple and straightforward. How about what you would expect
Speaker 1: given the circumstances.
Speaker 5: I just keep going back to, what are the odds?
Speaker 4: What do you? What are you doing back here? Why
Speaker 4: is your life in? Why does your walk in if
Speaker 4: no one brought you here? Why this spot? Why this
Speaker 4: side of this neighborhood?
Speaker 1: And that's the undetermined question. Jessica's case it's not just
Speaker 1: a question of who's responsible for her death. It's also
Speaker 1: a question of how she died, questions that emerged when
Speaker 1: the corner listed both her cause and manner of death
Speaker 1: as undetermined, a catch all when there's insufficient evidence to
Speaker 1: say it's homicide, suicide, accidental, or natural. The word undetermined
Speaker 1: has loomed over this case, sparking outrage and Jessica's loved
Speaker 1: ones leaving. Investigators don't that's why we are here searching
Speaker 1: for answers. Answers about Jessica's life.
Speaker 6: But I think it's part of what held her in
Speaker 6: place after she was ready to leave, is she had
Speaker 6: this dirty secret.
Speaker 1: I just wish I would have known then better before
Speaker 1: we really got involved with their lives and about her death.
Speaker 7: Her C four vertebrae as well as her grip was broken,
Speaker 7: and there's a post motive.
Speaker 5: I might have some information that y'all would find helpful.
Speaker 1: From resonate recordings and Tenderfoot TV. I'm your host, Jessica Nole.
Speaker 1: This is undetermined. From time to time, Jessica's family travels
Speaker 1: from Mississippi to the New Orleans neighborhood of Lakeview, where
Speaker 1: Jessica lived and where she died, or at least where
Speaker 1: her body was found. With a freshly printed stack of flyers,
Speaker 1: they move from street signs to telephone poles, hanging them
Speaker 1: one at a time in Jessica's name, making sure that
Speaker 1: people here don't forget about her. The flyers read what
Speaker 1: Happened to Jessica Easterly. Jessica's family has always been of
Speaker 1: the belief that someone in this neighborhood has information that
Speaker 1: could help solve her mysterious death. Since day one, the
Speaker 1: family has done everything in their power to keep this
Speaker 1: case alive. They're a dedicated group, and it's their dead
Speaker 1: vction that brought me to Biloxi, Mississippi, where Jessica was
Speaker 1: born and where our story begins. Fifteen. To understand more
Speaker 1: about Jessica and her life, I started with those who
Speaker 1: knew her best, Jessica's sisters, Amanda and Audrey.
Speaker 8: I'm Amanda Barnes, I am Jessica's little sister.
Speaker 1: I'm Audrey, and I'm Jessica's older sister.
Speaker 8: Audrey and I are half sisters. Our father married Jessica's mother.
Speaker 8: Jessica's our stepsister.
Speaker 1: But in our family, if we don't say half sisters.
Speaker 1: That's not our thing, Mamma day.
Speaker 8: I got married in April of eighty nine, just before
Speaker 8: I turned ten. They were only together for about a
Speaker 8: year before they got married.
Speaker 1: So we'll just say I was sixteen, so that would
Speaker 1: have made Jessica eleven or twelve at the time. A
Speaker 1: photo of the three sisters together depicts this day of celebration.
Speaker 1: They're all smiles and we're matching formal lace dresses with
Speaker 1: poofy sleeves. While becoming a blended family is etched into
Speaker 1: their memories the first time the sisters met. He is
Speaker 1: a little bit hazy, But one thing Audrey also known
Speaker 1: as Audre, does recall is Jessica couldn't take her eyes
Speaker 1: off her I used.
Speaker 7: To wear black lipstick, holy jeans, and my hair stick
Speaker 7: up away high.
Speaker 1: All she ever did was stare at me.
Speaker 7: I think she might have said hi, but she just stared, like,
Speaker 7: oh God, what is that?
Speaker 1: Growing up, Audrey was admittedly a rare sighting at the house.
Speaker 1: I didn't really stay home. I was always out and
Speaker 1: about I was a teenager, I was gone. I just
Speaker 1: want to get the hell off the house and go
Speaker 1: be with my friends. Amanda and Jessica were only a
Speaker 1: couple years apart and had a closer relationship at the time.
Speaker 8: She was my older sister in high school whenever I
Speaker 8: was just getting into high school. Didn't have a lot
Speaker 8: of the same friends because of the age difference. But
Speaker 8: if she had someone over, I was welcome to go
Speaker 8: hang out with them. You know, as you get older
Speaker 8: and you're not that pesky little sister anymore. And said,
Speaker 8: you're someone that she could show me how to do
Speaker 8: my makeup, because God knows that I had no idea
Speaker 8: how to do any of that, you know, getting dressed
Speaker 8: for like homecoming or something. She would help pick out
Speaker 8: that type of stuff. She was a typical older sister.
Speaker 1: Eventually they meshed as blended families often do, but it
Speaker 1: was deeper than that.
Speaker 5: It was love.
Speaker 1: There was love there, like you could tell you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: I mean, no family is perfect. I'm not trying to
Speaker 8: say that we're the white picket fence to story house
Speaker 8: kind of people, but it was pretty typical childhood.
Speaker 1: After graduation, Jessica started her journey into adulthood. In the
Speaker 1: summer of nineteen ninety four, she left home to attend
Speaker 1: the university of South Alabama for speech pathology and audiology,
Speaker 1: and that's when Maria, her friend of twenty five years,
Speaker 1: came into the picture.
Speaker 6: My name is Maria Kreole, and I was Jessica's best friend.
Speaker 6: We met when Jessica was in college. She was dating
Speaker 6: the boy that lived across the street from me, whose
Speaker 6: younger sister I was best friends with at the time.
Speaker 6: You couldn't not hit it off with Jessica. She was
Speaker 6: just such a quick wit, like she always had something
Speaker 6: funny to say, like just off the cuff, like quick, quick, quick,
Speaker 6: like if you had something to say, she had a
Speaker 6: funny response, and you couldn't just not enjoy being around her.
Speaker 6: She was four or five years older than me, so
Speaker 6: maybe not so much in common, but maybe I was
Speaker 6: just like the annoying little kid. Well we first met,
Speaker 6: you know, she was in college and it was like
Speaker 6: fifteen or sixteen, so she tolerated me, and she was
Speaker 6: like the cool, you know, college chick that I was
Speaker 6: just like, you know, I just wanted to be like her.
Speaker 8: She's funny.
Speaker 6: She could just be so polished, just like in an instant,
Speaker 6: like pretty updoo and pearls, just so quick. She could
Speaker 6: turn around on Audrey Hepburn looks so fast. She was
Speaker 6: always down for like a little adventure. She was quick to,
Speaker 6: you know, grab a bottle of Frensia or a box.
Speaker 6: That was a running joke. Hey, I got a box
Speaker 6: of wine with your name on it.
Speaker 1: Jessica was already in college and living with her boyfriend
Speaker 1: when she took in the then rebellious teenager low as
Speaker 1: Jessica lovingly nicknamed her. Maria lived with Jessica for about
Speaker 1: six months before making a college cheer squad and moving
Speaker 1: into the dorms. After a year and a half in Alabama, Jessica,
Speaker 1: now twenty three years old and single, moved back to Mississippi.
Speaker 1: She began working at the nearby casinos as a server,
Speaker 1: bringing her and her younger sister Amanda closer together, and
Speaker 1: shortly after the two sisters moved in together in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Jessica found work on casino boats along the coast and
Speaker 1: did well with her outgoing personality, and it wasn't long
Speaker 1: before she locked eyes with a man named Justin Derning.
Speaker 1: At the time they met, Justin was married to Jessica's
Speaker 1: friend Lauren.
Speaker 8: She was talking about Justin and her friend about them
Speaker 8: having problems whenever I was still living with her. Part
Speaker 8: of our problem with piecing together Jessica's timeline about exactly
Speaker 8: when and how Justin and her were together. She kept
Speaker 8: a lot of things secret for a very long time.
Speaker 8: She painted things in positive ways that as we learn
Speaker 8: things from her, either we thought this doesn't sound like
Speaker 8: it quite adds up all the way over to oh,
Speaker 8: this is bullshit.
Speaker 1: Her sister says. Something in Jessica changed after she met Justin,
Speaker 1: But what that was they couldn't quite put their finger on.
Speaker 1: One thing was for sure. They had some pretty serious
Speaker 1: reservations about Jessica being with Justin from the beginning.
Speaker 8: The beginning of their relationship was shrouded in mystery for
Speaker 8: a long time, and a lot of things we did
Speaker 8: not know the truth of until after she died. Whenever
Speaker 8: I first met him, shook his hand, he seemed okay.
Speaker 8: Within about thirty minutes of us sitting in there is
Speaker 8: when I started getting the this isn't right. There's something.
Speaker 8: I don't know what it is, but my hackles are up.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but you know what they say,
Speaker 1: love is blind and had found her prince charming. She
Speaker 1: was ready to settle down. She wanted a family. On
Speaker 1: July fifteenth, twenty eleven, Jessica announced on Facebook that she
Speaker 1: and Justin had moved in together. She joined the home
Speaker 1: he shared with his elderly father, Justin Senior, and teenage
Speaker 1: daughter Grace. Jessica posted a photo of the two of
Speaker 1: them with the caption it was love at first sight.
Speaker 1: We met on a boat and have been together ever since.
Speaker 8: I think that Jessica hit a point in her life where.
Speaker 1: She wanted to believe in love.
Speaker 6: Does she feend love Love conquers all and everyone's yay?
Speaker 8: And she'd be the stay at home mom bringing her
Speaker 8: kids up and the husband high honey, how was your day?
Speaker 1: The beaver cleaver type thing.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what she wanted in life.
Speaker 1: On February twenty fifth, twenty fifteen, at sunset, Justin and
Speaker 1: Jessica tied the knot at the hard Rock Cafe Hotel
Speaker 1: and Casino in her hometown of Biloxi, wearing a halter
Speaker 1: top white satin dress adorned with a silver jewel embellishment.
Speaker 1: It was the day Jessica had dreamed of, the day
Speaker 1: she became a wife and a stepmom, Jessica's friend since childhood.
Speaker 1: Erica Badard Russell, was one of the few invited to
Speaker 1: the intimate nuptials and described the tone of that day.
Speaker 7: It was very small, not plan. The only thing plan is.
Speaker 7: They rented a room. It wasn't even like a ballroom
Speaker 7: or anything. It was like a suite with a little
Speaker 7: living room and a kitchen. She wasn't even ready for it.
Speaker 7: They had a preacher. I helped her make her bouquet
Speaker 7: when I got to the room before the ceremony even started.
Speaker 7: I believe that was her only friend there. It was
Speaker 7: a weird day. How they got married on the little
Speaker 7: balcony and then that was it. I don't even remember
Speaker 7: an official ceremony. I don't remember a wedding cake. It
Speaker 7: may have been, but I don't remember it. I just
Speaker 7: remember feeling uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Erica remembers that Justin seemed nervous and didn't seem to
Speaker 1: share the same enthusiasm as Jessica, which makes sense. For
Speaker 1: Jessica it was her first marriage. Justin, on the other hand,
Speaker 1: had been married twice before, but all that was easily
Speaker 1: overshadowed by Jessica's sheer joy.
Speaker 7: She was giddy she was absolutely giddy. Her mom was quiet.
Speaker 7: She was like, I can't believe I'm going to marry
Speaker 7: the love of my life. I'm so lucky.
Speaker 1: And just like that, Jessica had her own little family.
Speaker 1: In the days following the wedding, Erica got to know
Speaker 1: Justin a little better.
Speaker 7: It was just I mean, the way he acted, the
Speaker 7: way he tried to control everything, the way he would
Speaker 7: talk down about her family to make her hate them more.
Speaker 7: I feel like he was the reason why her mother
Speaker 7: became a little bit different. I mean, he would tell
Speaker 7: her things that would make her so angry. A lot
Speaker 7: of times he would answer her phone and start talking.
Speaker 7: I'm like, well, where's Jessica. Well, she just ran out
Speaker 7: to go get Gracie. She ran out to do this.
Speaker 7: She ran out to do that. Okay, I don't know
Speaker 7: why he had her phone. He wouldn't necessarily call me.
Speaker 7: We would end up talking because I would be calling
Speaker 7: for Jessica or I would be talking to Justine. He
Speaker 7: takes the phone.
Speaker 1: Towards the end. This is how Erica remembers many of
Speaker 1: their calls going. It made her miss the way it
Speaker 1: used to be.
Speaker 7: I loved our little talks. She always would tell me
Speaker 7: love me. She'd just say love you, my Erica. I
Speaker 7: would tell her love you to my chest.
Speaker 6: I wish I could go back.
Speaker 7: I wish I wish I could relive one of those moments,
Speaker 7: I mean, some of the good times again.
Speaker 1: And as the years passed, friends and family felt more
Speaker 1: and more distant from Jessica. Their concerns about her mounted,
Speaker 1: and it would all come to a head in August
Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen. From here everything would start to unravel.
Speaker 6: She contacted me on the twelfth, The thirteenth came and
Speaker 6: went without contact. So then on the fourteenth she didn't
Speaker 6: call me, and I didn't hear from her. My phone
Speaker 6: dinged it's justin but it's from Jessica's account, and he's
Speaker 6: saying he doesn't know where she is. And like, my
Speaker 6: whole body just went cold. I don't know how to
Speaker 6: describe it other than that, but I just felt a
Speaker 6: chill all over. And so I texted him back and
Speaker 6: I was like, okay, well, what about her phone like
Speaker 6: and he was like, nope, phone, ID everything, it's here
Speaker 6: with me. I was like, okay, well I'm calling the police.
Speaker 6: He was like, well, uh, you're just gonna freak grace
Speaker 6: out as like you just said. She was already worried,
Speaker 6: Like what is there to freak out about? What do
Speaker 6: you mean her mom is missing? She's already freaked out.
Speaker 6: And I said, if Jonathan came home and my cell phone,
Speaker 6: ID vehicle was here and I was missing, and the
Speaker 6: kids were here by themselves, he would already be talking
Speaker 6: to the police, Like right now, I'd be standing in
Speaker 6: the yard talk to the police, Like I shouldn't have
Speaker 6: to send them to your house. So I called the police,
Speaker 6: and the dispatcher that answered I was trying to explain
Speaker 6: to her. I was like, look, I need y'all to
Speaker 6: go over there and figure out what's going on. And
Speaker 6: then I got like a message from him came down,
Speaker 6: and I was like, he just told me that he
Speaker 6: called y'all, but I'm on the phone with you. He
Speaker 6: just said he called y'awn and you said you had
Speaker 6: he had to wait to file a missing person. I
Speaker 6: was like, but I'm not saying file a missing person.
Speaker 6: She was like, oh, hang on, because we wouldn't tell
Speaker 6: him that. She suddenly was hearing me loud and clear,
Speaker 6: and so she was like, Okay, we're on the way.
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, August fourteenth, twenty nineteen, just after ten pm.
Speaker 1: Two officers pull up to the Derneys home. This is
Speaker 1: audio from the ENERPD body cam footage we obtained from
Speaker 1: Jessica's family. As the officer approaches the one story brick house,
Speaker 1: he shines a flashlight ahead of him to light his way.
Speaker 1: He cautiously approaches and illuminates the front storm door, but
Speaker 1: an interior door blocks any view inside. Shifting to the left,
Speaker 1: he sheds light onto the brick, revealing the address placard,
Speaker 1: verifying he's in the right place. But before he can
Speaker 1: knock or ring a doorbell, a man walks over from
Speaker 1: the side of the house to greet the officers, along
Speaker 1: with his leashed German shepherd.
Speaker 9: Oh did you live here? We're told? Is no one
Speaker 9: ill here? Someone sick here? He'll we got a call though, Yeah,
Speaker 9: I know my.
Speaker 1: Wife, Justin's dog is inconsolable the moment he sets eyes
Speaker 1: on them.
Speaker 10: Let him just say hi. So he's not far to
Speaker 10: these you guys.
Speaker 11: You go see how over?
Speaker 10: Okay, So all right, we're just exciting.
Speaker 11: Hey baby, Yeah, he's rambling.
Speaker 10: He's going through a bunch of training right now. Yeah,
Speaker 10: basically service anyway.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so, yes, So what's going on with my wife?
Speaker 12: About twelve o'clock I came home and we sat and
Speaker 12: talked and I lay down to good nap.
Speaker 10: And the car's here, her wallet's here, everything's here. And
Speaker 10: I'm not trying to freak my daughter out because.
Speaker 12: She's fifteen, just started anyway, I'm freaking because this is
Speaker 12: not indicative of my wife. So I called everybody I know,
Speaker 12: and I know I know called for the well check
Speaker 12: a friend of hers in Alabama.
Speaker 10: And I mean, you guys are well, come in if
Speaker 10: you want to take a look.
Speaker 11: At Sure you called? No, they call because she's what
Speaker 11: are missy? I'm sure your wife she's gone, her car's going.
Speaker 10: Now, cars here, a wall, it's here. How long ago?
Speaker 11: How long she's been going?
Speaker 10: Like twelve thirty, twelve, fifteen, day thirty. I fell asleep,
Speaker 10: So I don't today. Yes.
Speaker 1: Initially, Justin describes a situation as unusual, not indicative of
Speaker 1: his wife, but as their conversation continues, he starts to
Speaker 1: switch gears a bit.
Speaker 12: She's depressed, bipolar, but she saw meds and stuff and
Speaker 12: it's it's normal.
Speaker 10: I mean, she she handles it. She's five five six
Speaker 10: five seven, one hundred and fifteen pounds, dark brown hair, preddy.
Speaker 10: Her birthday Saturday.
Speaker 11: She's taking medics.
Speaker 10: Yeah, she's on medicine.
Speaker 12: But I mean it's not even it's not like I mean,
Speaker 12: we've been through the ring with the sex stuff with her,
Speaker 12: and she's a psychologist by trade, so not to show.
Speaker 11: Yeah, she says she left before like this is the
Speaker 11: length of time.
Speaker 10: Never, never, and that's what's got me concerned.
Speaker 11: But I mean since twelve thirty dight.
Speaker 9: She just apparently warned it off and we're just now
Speaker 9: getting a call.
Speaker 12: I mean, well, no, what happened was is I woke
Speaker 12: up about four oh, I came home from school.
Speaker 10: I woke up round.
Speaker 9: Okay, piece was made and a piece of was made, okay,
Speaker 9: and she's gone right.
Speaker 12: And the car is here, the keys are here versus here,
Speaker 12: so you know, and she doesn't go wandering off.
Speaker 10: She's not from here. She's lived here seven years, six
Speaker 10: six years, so you.
Speaker 12: Know, I was kind of giving it and you know,
Speaker 12: another hour or two yeah, before I called you guys,
Speaker 12: because let's.
Speaker 11: See if she wondered back. I mean, she's never done
Speaker 11: that anymore.
Speaker 10: No, no, no, no, and that's that's my concern. And
Speaker 10: you know, we've we've been a little bit.
Speaker 12: This has been real resposed out for a couple of
Speaker 12: reasons because like a fifteen year old since uh and
Speaker 12: she got overwhelmed right before going to high school for
Speaker 12: the first time.
Speaker 9: Man, okay, well you you you checked off some good
Speaker 9: places that that you need to check, the hospitals in
Speaker 9: the jail.
Speaker 11: I would never put anything like it in the.
Speaker 9: Jail, you know, but at this point, I think of
Speaker 9: could people were required?
Speaker 10: Of course they told me twenty four hours.
Speaker 9: Now, well the circumstances though, twenty four hours another coming
Speaker 9: to play. She just she disappeared. I mean, right, you
Speaker 9: could have done this for four dollars ago. I mean
Speaker 9: it's it's suspicious due to her medication and all that
Speaker 9: other stuff.
Speaker 10: I would think she's been she's made complain I mean
Speaker 10: I checked it.
Speaker 9: Right, right, Well, there's reason for alarm, yeah it is.
Speaker 9: But you you you know made those checks. That that's good.
Speaker 9: That's that's pretty fanty.
Speaker 10: What else to do?
Speaker 12: I mean I left the phone best because I started
Speaker 12: to do GPS, you know, to see if I can
Speaker 12: find out the tablet, the phone, the first everything she.
Speaker 10: Made a pizza.
Speaker 11: Oh, she left phone, everything, the nothing to trace her.
Speaker 12: Well, what happened was my phone blew off my motorcycle.
Speaker 10: Yeah that was great.
Speaker 12: Fifteen hourd bucks fly off the handle bars for my
Speaker 12: fault anyway.
Speaker 10: So we're kind of sharing a phone, but usually if she.
Speaker 12: Goes somewhere, she'll take the phone because I had the
Speaker 12: iPad at home.
Speaker 1: As officers are wrapping up their wellness check, the conversation
Speaker 1: turns a little more casual.
Speaker 9: The thing is, if she wondered about in Lakeview, Lakeview,
Speaker 9: people are.
Speaker 12: Going to call that and that's just eighty four. Yeah,
Speaker 12: so yeah, oh, oh my goodness. Yeah, I got the
Speaker 12: house the old fashioned way. Oh yeah, my mother passed away.
Speaker 11: Oh I know. Yeah, I've seen this house for years.
Speaker 10: My dad. My dad's eighty six.
Speaker 11: I've been seventy nine.
Speaker 12: I've been seventy nine. John, oh, forty four, forty forty Wow,
Speaker 12: before I thought you about to see your forty four,
Speaker 12: I'm I'm forty seven. No freaking way, I'm looking at
Speaker 12: Jpso right now I gotta get out of the house.
Speaker 11: Yeah. Yeah, that's a good work, that's a good quace
Speaker 11: to work. It is.
Speaker 12: I'm just forty six. I'll be four six, your first
Speaker 12: time law enforcement, the first time law enforcing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just before leaving, the other officer times in and
Speaker 1: let's justin know that another n OPD unit will be
Speaker 1: coming out soon and they'll call ahead of time so
Speaker 1: we can put his dog away before they arrive.
Speaker 10: My name's j Justin, brother by Valery Jay, I'm a junior. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 10: I mean time.
Speaker 12: Yeah, here, thank you, brother Michael on all right, your
Speaker 12: name Jay Darny.
Speaker 1: It's important to know that no police report is created
Speaker 1: from this wellness check, per our public records request. But
Speaker 1: as promised, approximately two hours later, another unit from the
Speaker 1: n OPDS Third District would return to the home, this
Speaker 1: time to open an official missing person's investigation. And let's
Speaker 1: just say this visit would be quite different from the first.
Speaker 13: Hey, we're on this twenty one m it's actually my neighbor.
Speaker 13: They live three houses away from me. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 13: strange individual to the husband. I've lived here for three
Speaker 13: years now and I see him outside all the time,
Speaker 13: but I have never seen this woman ever. I've always
Speaker 13: wondered where his wife is because I knew that he
Speaker 13: was married, but I've never seen him to me, It's
Speaker 13: just like someone's.
Speaker 11: Not ready here.
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