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Every story has a beginning, but not everyone has an ending.
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In the shadows of headlines and buried police reports lay
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the voices of the missing, the murdered, and the forgotten,
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waiting to be heard and have their stories told. This
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is The Book of the Dead, a true crime podcast
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where we remember forgotten victims of heinous crimes, reopen cold cases,
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re visit haunting disappearances, and uncover the truths buried beneath
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the years of silence. I'm your host, Courtney Liso, and
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every week we turn to another chapter, one victim, one mystery,
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one step closer to justice. Brought to you by Darkast
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Network indep Podcasts with the Twist.
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You're listening to Psychology of the Strange, a podcast exploring
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the psychology behind fear, folklore, the uncanny, and the unexplained.
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This show is brought to you by the dark Cast Network.
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Welcome to the dark Side. This winter, the world gets
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a little stranger season two of Psychology of the Strangers.
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Here we're traveling into the season of long nights, distorted shadows,
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and the old stories people used to whisper to survive
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the dark. This time, bloring winter born omens creatures that
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came from the shoreline, mischief, spirits who slip into homes,
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and the ancient rituals that blurred the line between the
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living and the dead. And as always, we'll step inside
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the psychology beneath the folklore. Why certain stories survive, why
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winter changes perception, and what these legends reveal about fear,
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identity and the edges of the human mind. If you're
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ready for a season of liminal spaces, uncanny children, hollow shadows,
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and the strange logic of the cold months, then welcome back.
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Psychology of the Strange. Season two begins.
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Now, Hello, Hello, Welcome to the next chapter in the
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Book of the Dead. Sometimes, as I'm going going through
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different cases to cover, I come across ones with an
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alarming lack of coverage. In the past, I've told you
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the story of victims who have been killed or have vanished,
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and I've had very little to go on to tell
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you what happened or who the person was. Bonnie Elverton,
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Loretta Frank Tabitha and John Potter and Theresa br are
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all examples of this. And I'm always pretty clear about
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the fact that cases like this bother me. Why was
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the media coverage lacking Why are the same details reported
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over and over again year after year? Why is no
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one talking? What bothers me more than anything else, though,
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is when the victim is so young and I can't
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tell you anything about them. It bothers me because though
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they've only been on this earth for such a short time,
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their life, their personality, it all still matters. When a
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toddler vanishes without a trace from her front yard, it's
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hours before anyone starts looking for her because of an
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incorrect assumption being made, with no clear idea of where
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she could be or who might have taken her. Searches
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were conducted in a desperate attempt to find her, but
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to no avail. Every year since the community of Camden, Mississippi,
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honors the anniversary of a lost little girl, they have
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refused to forget. This is the disappearance of Myra Lewis.
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Myra Reina Lewis was born on November thirtieth, twenty eleven,
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to Erica and Gregory Lewis in Camden, Mississippi. In her
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two years of life before her disappearance, Myra was just
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beginning to grow into her personality. Her grandmother, Antoinette Lewis said, quote,
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she was a good child. She was very obedient, she
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was smart. She's two, but she has the mind of
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a three or four year old. Of course, at such
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a young age, there is not a lot of information
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about her. But by the time the story begins in
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March of twenty fourteen, Myra was a big sister, her
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parents having welcomed a fourth child, another girl, the month before,
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and she loved playing with her siblings, and she was
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rarely seen without butterfly barettes in her hair. On March first,
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two year old Myra was plying in the front yard
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of her home on Mount Pilgrim Road at around ten
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thirty or eleven in the morning. The area where the
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Lewises lived was very rural. There were very few homes
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near them and not many neighbors close by. Erica left
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the home that morning with her son to go to
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the store, and she told Myra and her sister to
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go inside. Gregory was in the back bedroom of the home,
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according to an article for The Clarion Ledger, taking care
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of the baby. Erica and her son get into the
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car and pull away from the house, never seeing if
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Myra and her sister made it back inside. As the
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hours passed, neither Gregory nor Erica realized that anything was wrong,
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Erica assumed that her daughter had gone back into the
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house like she had been told. In fact, she claimed,
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according to at least one article for the Clarion Ledger,
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that she did see Myra go back in, and Gregory
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assumed Myra had gone to the store with her mother.
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Erica returned home from the store, and when she and
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her husband realized that the little girl was nowhere to
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be found, they immediately began searching for her. According to
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the Clarion Ledger, Gregory took his ATV out to search
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the property and surrounding areas for his daughter, even trying
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to track her with the family dogs, though they had
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never been trained to do this. After an hour of
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the family searching for her on their own, the Madison
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County Sheriff's Department was called and she was reported missing.
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At the notification of a missing two year old, the
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police immediately began a search of their own, canvassing the
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four square miles surrounding the house, as well as the
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pond across the street. Mara's family was interviewed and they
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cooperated fully, all of them also taking and passing polygraph tests.
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Though police were transparent about the fact that every member
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of Myra's inner circle would be considered a potential suspect.
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It's important to point out, though, that, at least according
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to Erica's mother, Martha Sanders, in an interview on March ninth,
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twenty twenty six, Erica herself had a solid alibi and
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someone could account for her whereabouts for the entire day.
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As the search continued into the night, with helicopters taking
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to the air to cover a wider search area, and
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into the next day, Madison County community members joined in
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the search, over three hundred people assisting in any way
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they could to find Myra. That same day, on the second,
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and Amber Alert was issued with Myra's information, urging the
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public to be on the lookout for her. On the third,
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the Clarion Ledger reported that her case was classified as
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an abduction, though at a press conference held two days
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later after the FBI joined Madison County and the Mississippi
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Highway Patrol in their search for Myra, Madison County Sheriff
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Randy Tucker said of an alleged kidnapping, quote, We're treating
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it just as it was reported. She is missing and
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that's how we're going to pursue it. I've not specifically
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received a call that she was taken away from the house,
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An FBI Special Agent in charge, Daniel McMullin said, quote,
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whether we call it abduction, missing, what have you. We
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want to know where she is and we don't know
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that right now. So all of the resources of the county,
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state resources, and federal resources are being brought together to
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do this. Those resources included scientific and investigated personnel, as
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well as air patrol to help aid in the search.
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Sheriff Tucker did acknowledge that while they weren't investigating a kidnapping,
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they would be open to every possible circumstance. According to CBS,
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he said, quote, until we can prove or disprove one
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or the other, we've still got to consider every possibility.
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She may have wandered off, she may have been abducted.
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We just don't know what happened at this point. While
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Sheriff Tucker was optimistic that Myra would be found alive
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and well, the days had only grown colder, not warmer,
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as the investigation progressed, with temperatures in the thirties and
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low forties during the day and at night, it dropped
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to the twenties. Myra had last been seen in a
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sweater and khaki pants, not near leno. Protection against the
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cold for a little girl, and exposure to the elements
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was a very real concern. As the investigation continued, the
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focus on Myra's shifted from where she could be to
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charges against her mother, but not for anything having to
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do with her daughter's case. When the Lewis's home was
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searched for any evidence regarding what happened to Myra in
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the early days of the investigation, a firearm was found. Ordinarily,
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this wouldn't be that big of a deal, except Arica
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was currently serving a five year probation sentence per felony
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foodstamp fraud convictions. Of her daughter's arrest, Myra's maternal grandmother,
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Martha Sanders, said quote, I think they should have waited,
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considering she is a good mother now. While she was
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held without bond as the courts decided on whether or
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not she would be receiving an additional charge. Myra's case
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was further hindered by CPS getting involved and removing the
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other children from their father's care after the home had
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been condemned. According to an article for WAPT. Ultimately, Narka
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was released from prison without a felony weapons charge, and
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she and Gregory resumed the search for Myra and the
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battle to regain custody of their children. On March tenth,
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nine days after Myra had gone missing, the FBI announced
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they would be offering a twenty thousand dollars reward for
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information regarding Myra's whereabouts or her safe return. Agent McMullen said,
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according to WAPT, quote, we hope by offering this reward,
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we will oversee that information and bring her home. We're
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hopeful that she is still alive, and we're working day
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in and day out to bring her back home. We
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have received a number of different leads, but not the
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one we need to bring her home. One of the
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tips received was a rumor that Myra had possibly been
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hit by an SUV in front of her home. The
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theory running rampant on social media. Sheriff Tucker said, quote
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one of the scenarios was that Myra was possibly run
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over by that vehicle. Obviously, following my pledge to follow
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every lead, we impounded that vehicle. It is not charged
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with anything related to the child at this point. Now.
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The suv was forensically tested but no evidence tying the
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vehicle to Myra was found. As the weeks turned into months,
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the tips and leads dwindled, and while the investigation was
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ongoing and Sheriff Tucker was still optimistic, there was nothing
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for investigators to go on. Leads had initially come flooding in,
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especially after brief mentions of Myira in national media outlets,
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but by July, four months after she had first gone missing,
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those leads had dried up. Even still, until they had
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evidence to the contrary, investigators were operating under the assumption
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that Myra was alive. Seven months later, the investigation that
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had lost its momentum rekindled and a search was conducted.
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After a report was filed identifying specific areas where Myra
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might be found. This report was made by a volunteer
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organization called find Me that utilizes psychics to assist in
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finding missing people. Some of these areas, according to the Clarion, Ledger,
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had already been searched prior to this quote quote tip,
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but they were searched again just in case anything was missed.
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While he had never received a tip or a suggestion
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from a psychic that proved to be true in the past,
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Sheriff Tucker was hopeful enough to take a chance. He said, quote,
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what we've done to this point hasn't turned Myra up.
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And if they've got a suggestion or a scenario that
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could lead me to her, I'd be the first to
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be happy to believe in it. I hope we can
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find her. I go to bed thinking about her every night.
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Though Tucker was hopeful that something useful would come from
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the psychic suggestion, nothing was found that could aid in
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the investigation. One year after Myra disappeared, the tips stopped
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coming in and her family was heartbroken that she still
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hadn't been found. District Attorney Michael Guest said, quote, everyone's
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disappointed that we've been unable to bring closure to this
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case and bring justice to anyone who was responsible for
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taking and possibly harming Myra Lewis. I believe Sheriff Tucker
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and his department have done everything possible to try and
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bring closure to this case, but unfortunately we've been unable
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to locate Myra, and there are no individuals we have
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enough evidence yet to charge. A nonprofit investigative agency got
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involved with Myra's case two years after her disappearance, and
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while they claimed to be garnering some more activity, it
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didn't pan out into anything particularly helpful. Year by year,
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the police still held out hope that Myra would be found,
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but the tips all but ceased coming in, and by
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twenty nineteen the Lewises had disappeared. The house on Mount
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Pilgrim Road is now abandoned if it's still standing, and
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at least the media have been unable to find them.
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There's no evidence to suggest Myra's parents had anything to
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do with her disappearance, and it's likely that they left
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because staying was simply too painful Without Myra. Even twelve
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years after the fact, those in Madison County were remember
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the name Mara Lewis. They may not remember all the details,
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but they remember her, and they honor the anniversary every year,
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as Myra's case is still the longest running amber alert
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in Camden. Though Myra would now be fourteen years old,
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all grown up in a freshman in high school, community
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members are still looking for the two year old girl
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with butterfly clips in her hair, and no one is
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more dedicated to the search than Sheriff Tucker. He said,
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according to an article for dark Horse Press now quote,
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it's personal. I don't want it solved for me. I
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want it solved for Myra. The person that matters most
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is Myra. I can promise as long as I'm here,
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this case will still be open to anybody that abducted her.
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Please consider her need and her family and her right
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to be with her family. No one has ever been
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named a suspect or person of interest in Myra's disappearance,
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so her grandmother has her suspicions that someone in the
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family is responsible, at least according to the brief statement
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she made this past Monday for the anniversary. At the
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time of her disappearance, Mayra Lewis was two years old,
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a black female with black hair and brown eyes. She
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was two foot ten and approximately twenty seven pounds. She
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was last seen wearing a turquoise sweater with a bear
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on the front, off, whiter khaki pants, and pink tennis shoes.
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Anyone with information regarding her case is urged to call
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the Madison County Sheriff's Office at six zero one eight
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five nine two three four five, or you can call
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the Mississippi Highway Patrol at eight five five six four
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two five three seven eight. The FBI is still offering
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a twenty thousand dollars reward. As always, the numbers will
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be in the source notes below. This is a profoundly
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frustrating case. Mayra lewis seemingly vanished without a tree, and
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there's no witnesses to speak of, Like in the case
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of Wesley Dale Morgan, another two year old that disappeared
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from right outside his house. No one saw anything at all,
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and the houses were on rural enough land that it's
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likely no one outside of the area saw anything suspicious either.
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There's no evidence to point anyone in any direction as
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to what could have happened or where she could be.
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And that's the saddest part of all. It's very possible
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her family might not get answers for a very long
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time because there's never been anything substantial to go on.
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As always, I thank you so much for listening, and
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I hope you have a wonderful week. This is a
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shorter one, but these shorter cases are just as important
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as the longer ones. And stay tuned because you are
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getting an early episode next week on Monday, So stay
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tuned for that and I will see you in the
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next chapter of the Book of the Dead. Bye, guys.
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Another page closed, But the story isn't over for the
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families left behind. The pain doesn't end when the headline's fade,
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and for the victims, we owe them more than silence
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for our on solved cases. If you have any information,
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please reach out to local authorities or visit our show
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notes for links and resources. Someone out there knows something,
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Maybe it's you. Thank you for listening to the Book
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of the Dead. If this story moved or spoke to
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you in some way, talk about it, share it, keep
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their names alive. Until next time, I'm Courtney Liso. Stay safe,
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stay curious, and stay vigilant, and remember the dead may
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be gone, but their stories will not be forgotten.
