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Speaker 1: Today we are taking a look with the hopes of

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Speaker 1: re igniting the search for a beautiful young girl. Her

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Speaker 1: name many of you will know Lindsay Bomb, and joining

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Speaker 1: joining us, Melissa Bomb. Melissa, thank you for being with us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having me, Nancy. I appreciate your interests.

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Speaker 1: You know, Melissa, it's never easy to talk about losing

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Speaker 1: I know Lindsay disappeared a while back, but that people

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Speaker 1: don't understand that does not change your feelings about Lindsay

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Speaker 1: Doesn't get easier, It doesn't. Why is that. I think

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Speaker 1: this was a very close family member. Um. We had

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Speaker 1: And I hate to use the word closure, but you know,

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Speaker 1: It was June two thousand and nine, nine fifteen pm.

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Speaker 1: Now tell me if I've got this right. Because things

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Speaker 1: There's a certain nuance it's missing. It's my understanding. Lindsay

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Speaker 1: how far away was the home? And we're not talking

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Speaker 1: It was the same street, two different names, but it

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Speaker 1: Now you're telling me if she had walked normally from

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Speaker 1: of men. Uh, different kind of vehicle, different this, different that. UM.

428
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Speaker 1: The FBI assured me that they had traced that story

429
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,639
Speaker 1: back to a drug dealer who had been arrested and

430
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 1: who had made those claims trying to get his competition

431
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: in trouble. UM. I was assured by the FBI that

432
00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 1: they sat down face to face he admitted to them

433
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 1: making up the story. UM, and the they you know,

434
00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,199
Speaker 1: informed him of you know, did you not think of

435
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 1: what it would do to her family? Hearing this? And UM,

436
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 1: but again the story keeps coming up. There's always some

437
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 1: different version of the story. Why when that skull was

438
00:24:55,600 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: down last year, that was a dream about Lindsay. Not

439
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,800
Speaker 1: so much anymore. Um, I don't really dream much anymore.

440
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: If I do, I don't remember them. I rarely ever

441
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,719
Speaker 1: remember dreaming at all. I used to dream about her

442
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: all the time, I will. I had nightmares for two

443
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:23,439
Speaker 1: or three years at least. I don't even They'd just

444
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: be there. Was never the same one, just be random nightmares, um,

445
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,199
Speaker 1: just of her missing, you know, just different scenarios. But

446
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,240
Speaker 1: every dream I ever had of her, that that was

447
00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 1: the majority of my dreams, was of her coming home.

448
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 1: Never in my dreams was she found, not alive. Every

449
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,639
Speaker 1: dream I've ever had of her was us being reunited,

450
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:47,120
Speaker 1: her being found. The night she disappeared, I was standing

451
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 1: in my driveway. Law enforcement was out, and at that

452
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,360
Speaker 1: point they were having me stay close, and I had

453
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: my cell phone, and I had Lindsay's cellphone and my

454
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:57,399
Speaker 1: house phone, and I'm standing at the end of my

455
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 1: driveway looking down the street, thinking, oh my god, somebody

456
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: really took my child. And I just heard this voice

457
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 1: somewhere inside me say, Elizabeth Smart came home, Lindsay will too.

458
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 1: And uh, I can't explain it. I can't explain. I'm

459
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: not saying that was God speak to me. I don't

460
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: know who it was. It was just I heard this,

461
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 1: whether it be in my mind or wherever I heard

462
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 1: this voice saying, Elizabeth Smart came home, Lindsay will too.

463
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 1: And from that moment, I've I've never believed that she

464
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: wouldn't come home. Do you remember the feeling. I mean,

465
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,400
Speaker 1: I would I believe that I would feel as if

466
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: it weren't real, that it really couldn't possibly be true,

467
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 1: that my child was really missing. M hmm. What were

468
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: you thinking when all of this was happening. Honestly, that night,

469
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: I kept thinking that she was just going to show

470
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 1: back up, and that I was gonna get mad, Like

471
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 1: I was gonna be so mad at her. I'm like,

472
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 1: what am I gonna do? Am I gonna ground her?

473
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,160
Speaker 1: Am I gonna whip her? Like I'm I was at first, um,

474
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,239
Speaker 1: But then when it really hit me standing there at

475
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: the end of my driveway that somebody took her, I

476
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't I can't describe how I felt.

477
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: I felt like I couldn't breathe. It felt like all

478
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: of the air was being sucked out of my lungs

479
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: and I still feel that. Okay, if you've ever lost

480
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 1: your child or lost sight of your child in a

481
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: grocery store or a shopping mall, that panic feeling you get.

482
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:28,239
Speaker 1: I that's like a norm that's become a normal occurrence. Um,

483
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: you forget how to breathe. And that sounds funny, but

484
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: literally you just like I will find myself, especially thinking

485
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 1: about Lindsay, like I realized I've been holding. Do you

486
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:42,199
Speaker 1: ever wake up or did you ever wake up in

487
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: the mornings and you you think it didn't really it

488
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:53,880
Speaker 1: didn't happen, and then you realize it did happen. It's real. Yeah, Yeah,

489
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 1: I realized it when I walk out my bedroom door

490
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 1: and see the police tape overheard. I used to do that.

491
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 1: I would wake up in the morning and think, if

492
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: you think everything was fine, then it would hit me

493
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:09,199
Speaker 1: everything that had happened, that the crime really did happen.

494
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,719
Speaker 1: And then it's like you relive it over and over

495
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 1: and over again. Every morning when you wake up, it's

496
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 1: like it happens again. Yeah, and that continues. That really

497
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: doesn't go away. It may not be every single morning,

498
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: but there I never lay down at night without wondering

499
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: or thinking I all day long, Lindsay probably comes into

500
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: my mind a thousand times a day. What triggers it?

501
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: Anything can trigger it? Anything. It can be something as

502
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: simple as um, a little girl wearing her hair the

503
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 1: way Lindsay wore hers, or just being in the store.

504
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,400
Speaker 1: I can hear a kid calling mom that might sound

505
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 1: like Lindsay. Or I can see kids walking down the

506
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: street and think, I wonder what Lindsay looks like now,

507
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: or I mean, anything can trigger it. That that's the

508
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: That's the thing, like I never know. I keep thinking, Okay,

509
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: I know my triggers now, I can watch for them.

510
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: But the next thing I know is something pops up. Um.

511
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 1: If you're familiar with Walmart's UH code adam, I'm sure

512
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: you are. They have a lost lost childcat Adam. There's

513
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: been two or three code atoms in my Walmart that

514
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: I've been there for, and they just one time in particular,

515
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: I actually had to leave the store. I just kind

516
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 1: of had a meltdown because I was standing there when

517
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: the woman came to report that her child was missing,

518
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: and she was so like panicked and hysterical, and of

519
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: course we found him. He was a little it was

520
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: a little like a he was four. Um, he was found.

521
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: But it was that sheer panic on her face. It

522
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: just I felt it for her, and it was like

523
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: reliving it all over again. And I'm thinking, God, I

524
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 1: know how she feels. I just my heart, you know,

525
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: bled for her for that moment. If you could speak

526
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: to Lindsay now, if she could hear your voice, what

527
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 1: would you tell her that I love her and I

528
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 1: want her home. I will never give up on her.

529
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 1: I will always be waiting for her. Um. There's nothing

530
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: that that should ever make her fear coming home, or

531
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: nothing that she should be afraid of. UM if whoever

532
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: has her is telling her they will hurt her or

533
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: her family. She just needs to get home, She needs

534
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:31,120
Speaker 1: to get away and um, come home. We were We

535
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:35,479
Speaker 1: love her and we're waiting for her, and just hang on,

536
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 1: just hang on. Amanda Barry makes me think of Lindsay

537
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,200
Speaker 1: a lot. When I heard her nine one one call,

538
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 1: I just remember saying to my friend, that's Lindsay. Lindsey

539
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,719
Speaker 1: would do that with us today. Our sponts were simply safe.

540
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: We've gotten this for a lady in our neighborhood, Miss

541
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: Shirley Hey, who has been our lifelong friend, is the

542
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: age of my mom. As a recent widow, she did

543
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 1: not have an alarm system, and she's had some scary

544
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: incidents just recently, and there have been some break ins

545
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: in our neighborhood, and I think about her being there

546
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 1: alone without an alarm. My mom has an alarm. We

547
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: have an alarm. But we got simply safe from Miss Shirley.

548
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: And even I'm sleeping better. Much less you know her,

549
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: you get tempers in off everybody simply safe dot com

550
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: slash Nancy. You just can't be safe enough, That's what

551
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: I think. Guys joining me. Melissa Bomb Lindsay's mother. Lindsay

552
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: went missing at just ten years of age. She was

553
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: about to turn eleven. It was a summer evening, it

554
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: was still light outside, it had not even turned dark,

555
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: and a town of less than fifteen hundred people early

556
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: summer two thousand nine, five minutes from home. She never

557
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: made it. If you know anything about the disappearance of

558
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: Lindsay Bamb or you think you may know something, please

559
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: contact authorities at three six zero two four nine three

560
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Speaker 1: seven one one. Thank you, friend,