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Speaker 1: Northern Territory police have announced a two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars award for information to help find missing woman

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Speaker 1: Angie Fuller. Miss Fuller was last scene traveling on the

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Speaker 1: Tanami Road, about fifteen kilometers west of the Stuart Highway

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Speaker 1: intersection on the evening of January nine this year, so

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Speaker 1: nine months on. Police are hoping that the reward will

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Speaker 1: generate fresh leads and information regarding miss Fuller's disappearance, which

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Speaker 1: is being treated as homicide. Now joining me in the

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Speaker 1: studio to talk more about the reward and about the

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Speaker 1: situation is Acting Commander Peter Cannon.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Katie, Thanks so.

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Speaker 2: Much for your time this morning.

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Speaker 1: Commander, Now, can you tell me when was the last

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Speaker 1: sighting of Angie?

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Speaker 4: Andrew was last scene on the ninth of January this year,

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Speaker 4: exactly nine months the day yesterday since she's last seen.

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Speaker 4: We are quite concerned about aaron who are treating her

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Speaker 4: disappearance as a homicide investigation.

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Speaker 1: There has been extensive searches for her. As I understand,

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Speaker 1: where have the police searched So some.

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Speaker 4: Of your listeners might not be familiar with the location.

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Speaker 4: So the Tannai Highway turn off is just north of

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Speaker 4: Alice Springs. About ten kilometers north as a turn off

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Speaker 4: to the west and about fifteen kilometers along the Tanemi

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Speaker 3: Where Angie was last seen. So when it was the matter.

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Speaker 4: Was initially reported, it was reported as a missing person

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Speaker 4: and an extensive search of the area was conducted both

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Speaker 4: on foot and by helicopter over a number of days,

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Speaker 4: and without finding any trace of Angie. We have gone

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Speaker 4: back since, acting on other information and using some experts

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Speaker 4: around locating missing people, and conducted further searches the ara,

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Speaker 4: both on foot and using our horses.

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Speaker 1: What other efforts have been made by the police? I

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Speaker 1: know it's like you guys have done an extensive amount

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Speaker 1: of work here to try and locate her, massive search areas,

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Speaker 1: But what other work has been done and what the

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Speaker 1: other leads I guess have been followed.

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Speaker 4: So concurrently with the search and rescue operation, as I described,

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Speaker 4: we were conducting an investigation into her disappearance which used

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Speaker 4: all the tools available to us from policing and speaking

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Speaker 4: to a wide number of people, obviously those people that

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Speaker 4: were close to her and with her at the time,

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Speaker 4: with her family, and with other people who lived nearby

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Speaker 4: and those people we could identify in transit the area.

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Speaker 4: And so I guess as part of announcing this reward

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Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, we're really trying to

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Speaker 4: prompt people to contact us who might have information that

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Speaker 4: they might not think was relevant. But we really urge

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Speaker 4: people to contact this with information, no matter how small

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Speaker 4: or irrelevant they think it is.

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Speaker 3: And obviously they can contact us.

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Speaker 4: On thirteen fourteen forty four, or if they wish to

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Speaker 4: remain anonymous, can contact crime Stoppers on one eight hundred,

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Speaker 4: triple through triple zero.

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Speaker 1: I mean you've said there that it could be any

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Speaker 1: little piece of information. Do you think that someone may

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Speaker 1: have seen her after she's gone missing, or do you

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Speaker 1: think that you know there could be I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I guess what type of information it may be.

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Speaker 4: Sure, So, yeah, Potentially it's people who were transiting the

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Speaker 4: area that may have seen her or seen something that

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Speaker 4: they thought was suspicious, or maybe heard some heard some

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Speaker 4: noises in the distance. It may be friends and family

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Speaker 4: or extended friends and family who we haven't identified.

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Speaker 3: Yet who may have some information.

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Speaker 4: They may have spoken with someone, there might have been

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Speaker 4: a conversation there might be something about her movements in

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Speaker 4: the days or weeks prior to her disappearance, or if

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Speaker 4: they've seen anything since. Anything, no matter how small, we

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Speaker 4: urge people to contact us.

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Speaker 1: Commander, can you just jog my memory when when she

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Speaker 1: was last seen or when she went missing? I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously she was on her own when she went missing,

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Speaker 1: but was she with other people sort of in the.

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Speaker 2: Lead up to that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, shortly before she went missing.

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Speaker 4: She was with her partner at the time, and we've

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Speaker 4: spoken with him a number of times since he disappearance.

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Speaker 4: He reported her missing initially. We've also spoken with some

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Speaker 4: other people that had an interaction with the couple in

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, it looks at such a it's a terrible situation.

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Speaker 2: I cannot imagine how her family must feel.

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Speaker 1: Nine months on and now the police issuing this reward

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So if anybody's got

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Speaker 1: any kind of information that might be able to help,

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Speaker 1: they might think it's something small, but it could actually

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, And if I could just put out there that

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Speaker 4: Angie is described as being a be Asian heritage, about

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Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty five centimeters tall, medium bill with

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Speaker 4: long black hair with purple streaks through it. And she

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Speaker 4: was last seen wearing a black T shirt and a

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Speaker 4: beige skirt. Just putting that out there so jogs anyone's memory.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Commander, people can jump on the police Facebook

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Speaker 1: page as well, can't they.

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Speaker 2: And there is a photo of her on there, I believe.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, And we've produced a number of posters that will

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Speaker 4: be put up in the vicinity that she was last

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Speaker 4: seen and also around Alla Springs which have a picture

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Speaker 4: of her on there, and just reminding people of that reward.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I know our audience is certainly far and wide.

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Speaker 1: We also have lots of people that listen to the

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Speaker 1: show that travel around the territory, you know, truckies, all

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Speaker 1: that kind of thing. So if there is any info

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Speaker 1: one three one, triple four, or you can call crime stoppers. Now, Commander,

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Speaker 1: I do just want to ask you about about a

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Speaker 1: couple of other incidents that have occurred over recent days,

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Speaker 1: and there was indeed that tragic incident at the Botanic

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Speaker 1: more detail that's come through. Was actually a couple that

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Speaker 2: Is that correct?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so their husband and wife who were who are

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Speaker 3: In the territory.

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Speaker 4: Minderstanding is about four months and we're here for work

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Speaker 4: and yeah, as you said, a very tragic incident. Understanding

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Speaker 1: And at this point in time police investigating the incident.

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Speaker 1: I know the area was cordon door for the gardens

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Speaker 1: were closed yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Is there an update on that?

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Speaker 4: Yes, I certainly incidence like this where a person has

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Speaker 4: died in sudden circumstances, police do conduct an investigation on

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm not sure if you're aware or not. Is

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Speaker 2: With some areas still.

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Speaker 3: I haven't got an update this morning.

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Speaker 4: I certainly know it was closed this morning and certainly

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Speaker 4: that's a jurisdiction of.

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Speaker 3: The parks department.

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Speaker 4: Okay, as to what they do there, and they had

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no worries. We can follow up with them now.

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Speaker 1: I do just want to ask as well, in regard

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Speaker 2: Are police looking into this?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly so.

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Speaker 4: Detectives have attended Tenant Creek and locations nearby and are

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Speaker 4: investigating all the circumstances of it.

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Speaker 1: Do we know if there's context around this video? Was

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Speaker 1: he restraining the child after a break in? That is

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Speaker 1: what That's what he said. I'm not sure whether you're

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so only in very broad terms, that miunderstanding.

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Speaker 4: As he's said that he's apprehended the child using the

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Speaker 4: which is one of the requirements of a citizens arrest,

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Speaker 4: and police have attended shortly thereafter. However, any more detail

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Speaker 4: and that will be subject to the investigation.

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Speaker 1: It's sort of started, I guess a bit of a

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Speaker 1: discussion or some people are saying that it may you

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Speaker 1: know that video like this, I know the National Children's

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Speaker 1: and she also referred to video that was released of

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Speaker 1: the police making an arrest earlier this year and vision

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Speaker 1: that was shared that it you know that it could

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Speaker 1: encourage vigilanteism. Are the police concerned that that's the case

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I'm not.

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Speaker 4: Sure about the connection between sharing that footage and vigilantism.

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Speaker 4: Certainly it's something that police actively discourage people taking matters

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Speaker 4: into their own hand. Having said that, we do rely

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Speaker 4: upon the public to be active partners with us in

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Speaker 4: crime prevention, and so certainly that's about encouraging people to

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Speaker 4: report matters through to us as soon as possible, and

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Speaker 4: also not tolerating social disorder.

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Speaker 1: Essentially, Well acting Commander Peter Cannon, we really appreciate your

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Speaker 1: time this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining me on the show.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Katie, thank you