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Speaker 1: Friends and family are desperately searching for twenty six year

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Speaker 1: old mate Sella Garcia. I'm really terrified. I don't even

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Speaker 1: know what to think. This is Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 1: She's like all gray buck there, I'm sum old sighted

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Speaker 1: to smoke a cigarette and when I came out, she

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Speaker 1: was dead, so I was like, okay, let's not overact.

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Speaker 1: I stood in the rain and by her car for

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Speaker 1: like I don't even know. I lost check of time,

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Speaker 1: probably over thirty forty minutes waiting for her, and she did.

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Speaker 1: I come back. It is odd that she's walked away,

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Speaker 1: but we're still investigating it. And what I am saying

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Speaker 1: is that there's no evidence of foul play that we've

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Speaker 1: determined at this time. She would never leave me alone

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Speaker 1: like I was her younger sister. There's no way I

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Speaker 1: see her every day. She doesn't just wander off by herself.

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Speaker 1: This is Alan Duke, Nancy's co host and producer for

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Speaker 1: this Crime Stories podcast. Unfortunately, Nancy Grace is not with

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Speaker 1: us today because of the passing of her father in law.

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Speaker 1: I hope and expect her to be back with us

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Speaker 1: for the next episode tomorrow, but I wanted to share

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Speaker 1: some exclusive information that Crime Stories has received about missing

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Speaker 1: persons case Maricella Garcia. We've been following this case closely

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Speaker 1: in recent weeks, this mysterious disappearance of the twenty six

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Speaker 1: year old Southern California woman. On January twelfth, twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: Maricella was on a shopping trip at a Goodwill store

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Speaker 1: in Recita, California. That's a community in the San Fernando

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Speaker 1: was just stepping outside for a cigarette, but she never returned.

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Speaker 1: In fact, her cigarettes were found unopened in her pocketbook

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Speaker 1: followed Maricella's story on our previous podcast, you know that

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Speaker 1: a tracking dog indicated she'd walked into a nearby Catholic church,

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Speaker 1: You also know a cell phone believed to be hers

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Speaker 1: Maricella was wearing was found torn on the ground near

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Speaker 1: a dumpster in a parking lot. But now thanks to

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Speaker 1: a private investigator, Tanya Kitchen of Kitchen Investigations, Calabasis, we

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Speaker 1: now have new information which I expect would cause Nancy

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Speaker 1: Maricella has not been found. This new information has given

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Speaker 1: the LAPD detectives new leads to follow, possibly new persons

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Speaker 1: of interest to investigate. This is something with me now.

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Speaker 1: Misty Patten, who serves as a volunteer advocate for the

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Speaker 1: com slash Nancy. Misty, you have new information since we

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Speaker 1: last spoke, and we've been talking now a couple of

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Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. First of all, let's acknowledge

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Speaker 1: down the information. First of all, some information I've already

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Speaker 1: there for methodone treatment. Correct, she was discharged back in

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Speaker 1: but she broke up with him in the last year, right,

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Speaker 1: an untold story. Absolutely Unfortunately it's now being said about

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Speaker 1: Maricella Garcia. There is another theory, it's not necessarily that's

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Speaker 1: not the only one, but an easy check of the

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