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Speaker 1: Maxie Miles. It's a production of a typical artists and

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Speaker 1: Riley hasn't been seen since yesterday afternoon and his parents

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Speaker 1: don't know where he could be. He was last seen

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Speaker 1: at City Hall talking to our mayor for the school paper,

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Speaker 1: who said he was at city Hall until approximately four pm.

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Speaker 1: It's unclear where he went after that. Now you know

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Speaker 1: how this all works. The Volunteer Intervention Team will be

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Speaker 1: getting together this afternoon to organize search parties and pulled

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Speaker 1: together all the information we have about Riley's comings and goings.

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Speaker 1: So if anyone here knows anything, you come talk to

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Speaker 1: me today. I'll be in Principle Jennings office for the

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Speaker 1: next few hours. We have no reason to think that

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Speaker 1: Because we're not certain of the nature of the disappearance.

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Speaker 1: Will be postponing the Harvest Festival and enacting a curfew

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Speaker 1: of eighteen, and your parents will be getting a call

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Speaker 1: informing them of that fact. So don't you all try

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Speaker 1: your neighborhood's designated watch member. We've all got to look

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Speaker 1: out for each other now. Thank you From a typical

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Speaker 1: Artists and I hurt radio. You're listening to Maxie Miles.

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Speaker 1: It's this chapter two, The missing Friend. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, where do you think he is? Do

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Speaker 1: you think he's okay? THEO? Did you know about this? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my dad told me this morning. He drove me to

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Speaker 1: So he thinks it's a kidnapping. No, we don't know that.

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Speaker 1: Ross Well, I mean my dad basically said as much.

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Speaker 1: Riley's bike is missing and he didn't come home last night. Okay,

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Speaker 1: But but if his bike is missing, then then maybe

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Speaker 1: he has it. I mean, that would be a weird

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Speaker 1: just went for a ride somewhere and got lost or hurt,

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Speaker 1: or he fell down in a ditch or maybe or Maxine,

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Speaker 1: he's going to be fine. He has to be fine.

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Speaker 1: Whoa Max Do you want to slow down? Maybe? Max?

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Speaker 1: Where are you going? Sheriff Combs? Maxine, did Mr Jennings

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Speaker 1: Principal Jennings ran the other way when he saw me coming,

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Speaker 1: and there's no one else out there. Trust me, I

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Speaker 1: would have wanted to talk to everyone now, Maxine, and

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Speaker 1: I know you like to do your own little mystery solving,

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Speaker 1: but this is a serious investigation. It's not little. Look,

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Speaker 1: Hastings hasn't had a missing person's case since nineteen sixty

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Speaker 1: fifty four. I read remember a lot. I know how

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Speaker 1: information that might be pertinent, you've got to tell me.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I talked to Riley yesterday in the town

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Speaker 1: square around three fifteen. I guess it was right after school.

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Speaker 1: We'd both biked over to see the graffiti. Well, I

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Speaker 1: mean I biked over to see the graffiti, which I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty sure was spray painted by Cody Thompson. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I didn't mention it last night because well because I

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Speaker 1: didn't have enough concrete evidence. But today in home room

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Speaker 1: for Cody. Although I'm almost certain he had an accomplice. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: the time you need. Now, how did he seem? He

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Speaker 1: I'm sure THEO told you as much when you ask

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Speaker 1: may not have had about this particular topic. Fine, Riley

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Speaker 1: Why can't I remember the exact wording? Max, It's okay,

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Speaker 1: We're locker buddies? What our lockers are right next to

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Speaker 1: He wouldn't cause trouble and he wouldn't run away, not

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Speaker 1: he's been doing after school this week? Um, other than

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Speaker 1: on the next issue of the paper. He's really passionate

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Speaker 1: nature of the article he was writing? He said it

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Speaker 1: was just about the town, about the festival. Miss Honeywell, Honeywell,

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Speaker 1: Allana Honeywell. She's the new owner of the maple thorpe

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Did Riley mention when he was supposed to

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Speaker 1: just mentioned the inn. Maybe it's some kind of new

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the mining project? Anything in particular about it? No,

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Speaker 1: let's not get carried away, Maxine. The Hastings High Gazette

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Speaker 1: But if he was going around town talking to folks

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Speaker 1: his whereabouts. I don't want you going around school talking

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Speaker 1: mill or adolescent imaginings mutting this business up. You hear me,

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Speaker 1: I'll come right. You'll find me. I know you're a

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Speaker 1: good kid, Maxine. Thanks Mr Combs Sheriff. You'll find him right,

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Speaker 1: We'll find him. You didn't have to pick me up,

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Speaker 1: you know. I could have just biked home like usual.

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Speaker 1: But when we all got the call that they were

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Speaker 1: it's just terrible. His poor parents. Yeah. I know it's

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Speaker 1: is on top of it, and that curfew that's a

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Speaker 1: great idea. Sheriff Colmes has never worked on a missing

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Speaker 1: person's case before, Joe, no one in Hastings has. He

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Speaker 1: Just because he hasn't had a chance to exercise those

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Speaker 1: But I'm just it's okay to be scared for Riley,

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Speaker 1: you know. No, I'm not. That isn't It's just that

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Speaker 1: He could have been biking somewhere and gotten hurt. And

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Speaker 1: going to solve that. Maxine promised me, you aren't going

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Speaker 1: course not. I'm not stupid. But don't think I'm going

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Speaker 1: When Mrs Slotsky's dog went missing, they let everyone over

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Speaker 1: taking it off the table, Okay, we'll see. But until then,

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Speaker 1: no off roading into the woods or the mines. Of course,

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Speaker 1: have a death wish. Yeah, they are pretty creepy. Hey,

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Speaker 1: them for long. Mm hmm. I thought you would have

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Speaker 1: been over the moon about that, kiddo. No mining is

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Speaker 1: No mining would be good for the environment, but that's

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Speaker 1: not a happy to be very glad you're here. You know.

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Speaker 1: That's not what I mean. I know, but I also

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Speaker 1: that you're overreacting. Max. Yeah, yeah, I'll stay home. And

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Speaker 1: I told him Riley, I've been mayor of Hastings for

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Speaker 1: thirty five years, and I'm telling you this is going

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Speaker 1: to be the greatest harvest festival we've ever seen. You

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Speaker 1: That's really all he was asking about the harvest festival.

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Speaker 1: Oh you bet. He made it sound like the piece

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Speaker 1: or the town's future. Well, it is a fiftieth festival,

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Speaker 1: young lady. That's pretty historic. But he didn't ask you

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Speaker 1: about anything else specific. Well, no, not that I can remember.

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Speaker 1: I have many meetings throughout the day, you understand, and

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Speaker 1: not the mayor I used to be. Of course. It's

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Speaker 1: just well, the school paper doesn't have any of his

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Speaker 1: so I'm just trying to piece it together. Maybe he

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Speaker 1: Riley is missing. Well, we're not completely sure what is

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Speaker 1: going on with young Mr Stevens. What do you mean? Well, now, listen,

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Speaker 1: I already told this to Walton, to Riley's parents, but

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Speaker 1: I don't want you spreading any rumors around all right.

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Speaker 1: Of course, whatever you tell me is strictly between us Scouts, honor. Look,

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Speaker 1: I don't know anyone's business. I'm always here for the

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Speaker 1: But you don't make carpool plans with someone and then

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Speaker 1: It's nothing? Research note, it's nothing. Where were you yesterday?

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Speaker 1: I'm not spying on people. If they don't want to

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Speaker 1: That's not what I said. But it scared everyone. Those

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Speaker 1: he's up there with his dad anyway, speaking. Oh, I'm surprised, Joe.

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Speaker 1: to mean? Why are you here? Ross? Oh? What was that? Hello? Max?

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Speaker 1: It's probably just an animal. Max. Stop it could be

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Speaker 1: Maxim I really think we should turn around. You don't

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