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Dark Cast Network. Out of the shadows come the best
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antie podcasts.
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Sometimes it's not the loudest stories to keep us up
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at night. It's the quiet ones, the ones that never
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quite made the headlines, the ones that left by more
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questions than the answers. The Final Trace is a true
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crime podcast about the strange, the unresolved, and the stories
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that slipped through the critics, from disappearance souls to mysterious
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debts to cases that were technically solved but still don't
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sit right. We dig into the overlooked, the eerie, and
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the human side of every story, because even when a
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case goes cold, there's always something left behind, a clue,
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a feeling, a final trace. Follow The Final Trace wherever
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you listen to podcast in come find with still lingers
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in the Silence. I'm your host Hopper Daily and this
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is the Final Trace.
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Hey everyone, it's Carmita and welcome to Missing in the PNW. Hey, guys,
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I am back and I have a couple of announcements
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to make I am really excited about. First of all,
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though I want to apologize because I didn't quite get
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to give you guys the three episodes that I wanted
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to last month, But I promise it was for a
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good reason, and that reason is because I was so
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busy working on and like coming up with new content.
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And that new content is in the form of a
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new podcast. But it's a podcast, that's it was an
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old idea that I'm making new again. So if you've
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been with me for a while, I don't know, you
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remember that a couple of years ago, I tried to
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start a spin off to Missing in the PNW called
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Murder in the Paw. And I did that because there
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are a lot of famous serial killers or you know,
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tragic murders that a lot of people may not know
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or may not realize actually happened or came from the
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Pacific Northwest. Of course, like one of the most famous
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would be like Gary Ridgeway, who's the great North of killer.
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Ted Bundy came through here, the Happy Face Killer. Other
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unknown ones or very not known ones would be like
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the Spokane serial killer. If I sniper, stuff like that.
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And you know, back then, I was in school full time,
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working full time. You guys know, I'm a full time mom.
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I just couldn't do everything by myself. Well, I am
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so happy and excited and blessed and grateful and all
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the things that my you guys know, I call her
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my dead mother. She is my sister an all things
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true crime, and she's actually, I guess had a nickname
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that I didn't know, our very pod mother, CJ, who
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is the leader of Dark Cast Network. She's actually going
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to be joining me on this journey. So we are
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collabing on Murder in the PNW. Oh my god, guys,
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like CJ has been putting in work. I am so
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so so grateful to her because she's gotten our logo,
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she's gotten an instagram, like, go look up Murder in
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the PNW on Insta. She has already been doing cases.
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And on top of you know, because she has another
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podcast to her podcast, it was called Beyond the Rainbow,
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she's rebranded to Rainbow Crime, so definitely go look up
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her podcast as well. And she's just you know, she's
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got her own thing, and she's willing to take the
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time to help me out with something that I've been
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you know, wanting to do for a couple of years now.
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So again, I'm so grateful for her, and we are.
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We don't have an exact day yet, but we're hoping
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by either the end of the year or beginning of
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you know next year, twenty twenty six, that we will
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get out some new content for you. We want a
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couple of episodes each kind of under our belt. And yeah, again,
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like I said, I'm just so excited for this because
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we want to bring our perspective. And if you've heard
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CJ CJ, I love her so much because she's so
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outspoken CJ oh Cij is a firecracker. I love her
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to death for that. But she just like CJ, is
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the definition of like, she don't give fuck all the
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time and you will say how it is all the time,
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and I love her for that. The other announcement that
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I want to say is I've also been so busy
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because dark Cast Network is doing a Halloween episode this year,
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which I don't know if I've talked about it yet,
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but I'm also so so excited about that I get
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to be a part of this. In the past, Darkcast
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Network hast done Halloween episodes. Basically, you know, whatever podcasts
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within dark Cast want to participate, they do wanted stories
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or haunted like tales like surrounding Halloween. It CJ compels
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it all into one episode and you get to hear
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stuff from all of the different podcasts, and I'm so
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excited that I finally get to be a part of
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that this year. So I've also been working on that episode.
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That episode will come out. I believe it's the week
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before Halloween, so definitely check, you know, look for that.
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And yeah, and then the last thing is we're coming
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up on Hispanic Heritage Month, guys. Hispanic Heritage Month, of course,
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we celebrate every year. We've been doing that since I
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started the podcast, and that is from September fifteenth to
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October fifteenth, So not this episode, but next episode, the
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next two episodes. Actually, of course, I'm going to dedicate
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to all my Hispanic people's out there. You guys know,
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I'm half Mexican. It's my heritage, my culture, everything I
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love about it, and definitely push those cases a lot
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because it is one of the marginalized communities that definitely
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does not get talked about enough at all. We are
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just gonna go ahead and jump into today's case, guys,
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and today's case is not like, yeah, definitely not like
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any case I've done before. And this one took me
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a minute too, because it was just it's it's a
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lot guys, it's a lot, and I know I said
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that before, but this one, yeah, this one is it's
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it's really sad, but you'll hear why. So this case
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today that we're going to discuss is on Yolanda Evet panic. Now.
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This case, guys, again, it's different from any case I've
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covered in the past, and it's a lot to talk about.
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It's hard to talk about, and I struggled with, you know,
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what to include what not to include, because I really
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want this case to focus on Yolanda, but I feel
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like there's stuff that her husband did that, like I
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just want to let you guys know, she's not getting out.
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He's he's locked up and he's not getting out. And
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that's one of the things that you're like, what what
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about the husband? And I know you're already asking, like,
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oh my god, what happened? And I'm going to tell you.
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So the first big thing, guys, is Yolanda was murdered
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and you're like, but this is a missing person case. Yes,
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Yolanda is technically a missing person case because her body
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has never been found. However, we know that Yolando was
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murdered and her husband is the one that has been
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convicted of her murder. But to get there, we need
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to start at the beginning of everything. Yolando was born
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in Portland, Oregon, my hometown, on June twenty fourth, nineteen
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seventy four. She was an only child. She was an
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honor student at Madison High School, which fun fat guys,
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my mom actually went to Madison High School. At Madison
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High School, she was a star athlete. She was also
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a Rose Festival princess, which if you're from Portland, guys,
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like I am, you know what a huge deal that
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is Rose Festival. It is Portland's like arguably biggest celebration
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of the entire year. Like we have three parades during
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Rose Festival. The Rose Festival princesses are part of all
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of them. Rose Festival, like Portland is known as the
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City of Roses if nobody knew that, Like Portland is
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the city of Roses, Okay. And every year the high
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schools in Portland, in and around Portland, they vote for
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Rose Festival princesses. So it's kind of like a pageant,
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kind of not. There's a lot of things now that
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you have to do. You have to have good grades,
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you have to be a part of the community. But
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to be a Rose Festival princess, it's like such an
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honor to report at your school, so it is a
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huge deal. In Yolanda was a beautiful Rose Festival Princess
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for Madison High School. Yolanda was also voted most Inspirational,
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and she was part of Portland's YWCA, which is Young
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Women's Christian Association. She ran a program there tutoring girls
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in math and science. In nineteen ninety three, Yolanda married
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a man named Abdur Rashid Alwadud. He also went by
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the name Darryl Devreaux now Abduorra was Muslim and the
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marriage was an unsanctioned Muslim marriage like that is a ceremony
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that wasn't a typical Muslim like ceremony. That same year,
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Yolanda gave birth to a son named Sayid. As you
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can already probably figure out, Yolanda's husband, Guys was not
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a good dude at all. Literally, just weeks after she
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gave birth, she ended up filing or straining order against
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him because he was physically abusive towards her and he
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tried to strangle her. He even went so far and
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threatened to slit her throat, but apparently was advised and
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like literally, I say that sarcastically and put that in
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air quotes because I'm like, you need to be advised
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by someone, Excuse me, Like, shouldn't that be common sense?
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Like you don't threaten to slip people's throats? But again,
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that's just me. But he was advised by some Muslim
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consultants not to do that. Again, why does he need
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to be advised not to do that? But again, this
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guy was a piece of crap. So I don't again
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know why I'm even asking myself that he was so bad.
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He actually bought a knife. Just days days before Yolanda
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went missing, he drove a rental car to Portland to
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meet her and her son. On July thirteenth, nineteen ninety five,
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at eleven pm, Yolanda and her son checked into the
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Caprime Hotel on eighty third Street in Portland. Another little
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kind of geographical fun fact for you guys, the building
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of the Coprimo Hotel is still there, but the Creamo
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Hotel is no longer a thing. The streets surrounding it
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actually have also been renamed and it's a whole different.
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Like I'm not sure if it's a hotel. It kind
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of looked like it was Tole hotel. Might be apartment
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buildings now, but the name Capri Hotel, it's that's not
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a thing anymore. But the building's still there. So Yolanda
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checks in, you know, abdoor goes to meet her there.
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Kind of after that, we don't know what happened until
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the next morning. At seven am. The next day, Yolanda's car,
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her nineteen ninety four Dodge Spirit, was found abandoned at
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a local bus station with her son locked inside of it.
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Thankfully he was unharmed. Now, there were bloodstains both inside
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the car, in inside the trunk of her car. I
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can't imagine what was going through that poor little baby's head,
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like he was literally I mean, if she had him
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in ninety three and this was ninety five, he was
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only a couple of years old, and he's in this car.
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He's alone, you know, I'm not even sure if he
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knew what blood was. Like, this thing happened and he's
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just in there by himself. We don't know for how long.
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Seven am was when they found the car going to
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the hotel. Now, a wake up call was placed to
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Yolanda's room when nobody answered. A maid was actually sent
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at ten am to chuckle on her. The room was
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found deserted, with the bedding stripped, all the child's missing,
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and one of the best was soaked in blood. So
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the police were called, of course, and upon further investigation,
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blood was found on the sidewalk outside of the motel
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window where Yolando was staying. Which this is crazy to me,
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Like at first, it is like so crazy when I
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read this because the hotel room, guys, where she was staying,
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it was on the second floor. Okay, so you're probably thinking,
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like I was, like, if there's blood on the sidewalk
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right outside the hotel window, Like, how did that get there?
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If if the window is on second floor, Like I yeah,
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obviously something bad, really really bad happened, Okay. On ponds
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for searching in the motel trash binds, they ended up
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finding the bedding, which of course was soaked in blood.
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They found the towels soaked in blood, and then they
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found Yolanda's shoes, her socks, and her tank top. They
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also found a section of an electrical court that had
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been cut from the room that was missing, and yeah,
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they started putting the pieces together from there. Within the week,
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a warrant was issued for the rest of Obdor, charging
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him with first degree murder of Yolanda. On July twentieth,
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so a week after Yolanda was last seen check in
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some motel, he was found at his mom's home in
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East Palo Alto, California. He was arrested and he was
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brought back to Oregon to face his charges. This is
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the part where I hate, like how long these things take.
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Her family had to wait eight whole months, Okay, Yolanda's
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family waited eight months for Abdoor's trial to begin, and finally,
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in March of nineteen ninety six, abdoors trial began. The
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prosecution had a theory on why and you know how
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they thought Yolanda was killed. She was killed for two reasons.
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And those two reasons were one because Yolanda refused to
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raise their son in the Muslim faith, and two that
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Yolanda had reportedly aborted a pregnancy without adoors consent. Why
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she needed his consent again, I mean, yes, they were married.
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That's I'm a woman. I'm you know, that's her choice.
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I get it, like they were married, but I'm yeah,
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we're we're not going to get into that. But she
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you know, it's her body, that's all I'm going to say.
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That's it. Now, this is where it. I can't even imagine.
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I cannot imagine what this woman and went through. Okay,
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this is how the prosecution believed that she was murdered
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that night when Abdor met up with Yolanda. They believed
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that abdoor slit her throat, threw her body out of
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that motel window, stuffed her into her trunk first, then
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the trunk of his rental car, and then took her
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body somewhere and disposed of it in an unknown location.
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I can't even like, I mean, her son was there, guys,
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the amount of blood. I mean, I work in healthcare.
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When you you know, cut that crowd of artery, that's
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a lot of blood that's gonna come out. Doing that
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in front of your kid, and then like having no
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respect for her body, like throwing it out of a
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second story motel window. I can't imagine, Like what kind
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of a person does that? And then like he just
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literally threw her away like garbage, and literally like he
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left his son too, just he left that baby that
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was still a baby. I mean, the only good thing
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and it's not even like, I mean, you can't even
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call it a good thing. I guess it was. I
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don't even know what to call it. I guess it
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was like something for the sun. Because the only thing
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that he did do was the reason there was blood
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in the car was because she then drove her car
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to the bus station. That's how her car got there.
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And when he left, you know, the son in the car,
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she made the anonymous nine when one call and that's
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how the cops found the car. And then you know,
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he just went about his day, went back to Cali
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where his mom is, and lived his life until they
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caught him a week later. Like the only even semi
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decent thing that he did was make that anonymous and
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I want one call. He had no regard for Yolanda's life,
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her son's life, Like he didn't care about anything. But
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the only decent thing he did was make and I
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want one call that a kid was in a car alone.
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That's still that's still no, I'm sorry. No. The way
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that he treated her, and that's this, this is the
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saddest part of the whole thing, guys, is like we
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don't know where her body is, and that is what
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hurts the most. We don't know to this day where
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her body is. The other thing that I can't for
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the life of me, like, no, this is not a defense.
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You cannot I don't care you cannot tell me. This
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is the defense. Abdor's defense lawyer literally tried to argue
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because to this day, guys, he'll tell you to this
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day that he's innocent. And his lawyer literally said that
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if he murdered Yolanda, it was because he was quote
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unquote under extreme emotional distrust. Really, what the hell kind
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of extreme emotional distress could you have been under? This
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guy was abusive to her from the beginning, there was
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restraining orders against him, So what the hell kind of
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extreme emotional distress could you have been put under? Sir?
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Please please explain that to me. No, you don't get
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to argue that you could have possibly killed her because
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you were under distress. No, that doesn't know. The other
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thing that literally the defense lawyer tried to state was
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that Abduer was also distressed because Yolando was a prostitute. No,
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you don't get to play that card. You don't get
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to do what you did to this poor beautiful young woman,
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woman who had her whole life ahead of her, who
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was a great mom, who was a great person in
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her community, who you brutally murdered. You don't then get
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to try to disgrace her name by saying she was
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a prostitute. No, sir, that's not happening. And thankfully, even
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though it took two freaking months, two months for this trial, guys,
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two months. Why this trial lasted two months, I don't know,
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but thankfully, it only took one hour, one hour for
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this jury to be like, no, he's guilty, so yes.
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In May of ninety six, two months after this trial started,
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after one hour of jury deliberation, of Doors found guilty
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of Yolanda's murder and sentenced to life in prison. But again,
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to this day, he still swears that he's innocent. That
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prosecutor did everything to make sure that he got that conviction, though,
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And Yolanda's mom, Susan, was so grateful and so moved
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by that prosecutor. She has Yolanda's son, and she renamed
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Yolanda's son after that prosecutor. His name is Rodney. And
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I really really hope that that little boy grew up
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to be something great there's a memorial called the Parents
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of Murdered Children Moore and Yolanda's name was included on
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that in twenty thirteen, also in commemoration of the twentieth
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anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act. In twenty fourteen,
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Obama administration actually published a report which included numerous programs
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supported by the Violence Against Women Act that included the
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Yolanda Project. And the Yolanda Project is a shelter based
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program that was established in twenty fourteen and it's affiliated
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with the YWCA of Portland, that same YWCA that Yolanda
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spent time at tutoring those kids. And again, guys, abd,
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I'm gonna let you know, he's tried. He tried to
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get out. He's tried to get his sentence either reduced
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or you know, tried to get it to where oh
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on a technicality, Nope, this man ain't getting out. He
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is sentenced to life, and life she will do, and
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life is what he deserves. But again, Yolanda is still
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technically a missing person. It has been thirty years, thirty years, guys,
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since Yolanda's murder, since her poor body was just left somewhere,
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and we don't know thirty years that her poor mother
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was not able to lay her to rest, and that's
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not okay. So if you have any information on the
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whereabouts of Yolanda, please please for this, I'm gonna say,
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call local police. Just try to get a hold of
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the police somehow. I know you can go online. I mean,
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if you if there's something urgent, group call NIMBE one,
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call nine one one if if you know where she is,
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if you have anything. The non emergency line though it's
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five three eight two three three three three three s
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where I hate that number because I feel like they
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don't do anything, but I gotta give it out. Y'all
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can text N one one to now that's the thing.
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It's been thirty years, guys, I can't even imagine like
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this poor lady, her soul needs to be at rest,
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Like I really really hope that so thing can happen,
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and we just I really hope she's at peace, I
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really really do, because she went through something just horrible,
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and I just hope that her son has found some piece,
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her mom has found some piece, and I just hope that,
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you know, Yolanda found some piece wherever she may be.
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This case guys, this is hard, and I'm yeah, maybe
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this is why I haven't done cases like these, because
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these ones are are This one was really really hard.
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I didn't I mean, researching it was hard, and like
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trying to figure out like I said, like just doing
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this whole thing was hard like these ones are. God,
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I don't know if these This was almost as hard,
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was almost harder than like not knowing what happened to
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a missing person, like we know what happened, but we
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don't know where they are. I don't even know what's
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worse right now. I mean, I have another case like this.
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I'm not gonna lie, I have another case like this
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where I'm considering doing but it's God, I hate this. Guys.
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Just please, Like I tell you guys all the time,
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you can remain anonymous if you see something, if you
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heard something, if you know something like thirty years is
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too long, say something. Guys. Just watch out for each other, guys, Okay,
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And yeah, I don't know what else to say. I'm
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still just in I guess kind of. I'm just sad.
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I'm just sad with this one. But yeah, guys, I'll
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talk to you next time, Okay. Just as always, remember
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have fun, but stay safe.
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