July 28, 2026

What Happened to Yolanda Evette Panek? W/ Missing in the PNW

What Happened to Yolanda Evette Panek? W/ Missing in the PNW

Key Takeaways

  • Yolanda Evette Panek was a brilliant honor student, star athlete, and Rose Festival princess from Portland, Oregon, whose bright future was tragically cut short.
  • Though her husband, Abdur Rashid Alwadud (also known as Darryl Devreaux), was convicted of her murder in March 1996, Yolanda remains technically missing because her body has never been found.
  • Yolanda's two-year-old son, Sayid, was found locked and unharmed inside her abandoned car at a local bus station alongside gruesome bloodstains.
  • Despite a blood-soaked hotel room at the Capri Motel and an overwhelming amount of evidence pointing to her husband, Yolanda's killer continues to maintain his innocence to this day.
  • Yolanda's legacy continues to help others through the Yolanda Project, a shelter-based program established by the YWCA of Portland in 2014 to support survivors of domestic violence.

Today, you'll hear the story of Yolanda Paneck, brought to you by Carmita from Missing in the PNW.

A beautiful young mother is brutally murdered after last being seen at the Capri Motel in Portland, Oregon. The day after her locked car was found abandoned with her two-year-old son inside, alive and a maid at the motel who cleaned her room found the mattress stripped of its sheets and soaked in blood.Though she has never been found her husband was charged and convicted of her murder in March 1996

If you have any information on the whereabouts of Yolanda Evette Panek please call the Portland Police Bureau at 503-823-0418.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What happened to Yolanda Evette Panek?

Yolanda Evette Panek was brutally murdered in July 1995 at the Capri Motel in Portland, Oregon, by her husband, Abdur Rashid Alwadud, though her body was never recovered.

Who was convicted of Yolanda Evette Panek's murder?

Her husband, Abdur Rashid Alwadud (also known as Darryl Devreaux), was convicted of first-degree murder in March 1996 and sentenced to life in prison.

Where was Yolanda Evette Panek's son found?

Her two-year-old son, Sayid, was found locked, unharmed, and alone inside Yolanda's abandoned Dodge Spirit at a local bus station the morning after the murder.

How can I share information about Yolanda Evette Panek's case?

If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of Yolanda Evette Panek, please call the Portland Police Bureau at 503-823-0418.

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today that we're going to discuss is on Yolanda Evet panic. Now.

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like there's stuff that her husband did that, like I

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about the husband? And I know you're already asking, like,

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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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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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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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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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him because he was physically abusive towards her and he

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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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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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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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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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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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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.