Intent to Kill | The Murder of Tristyn Bailey

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to another episode of Unspeakable. This
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of the cases that really interest you, because hey, after I all at

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your show, right, I just
love doing true crime. So if you

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follow me on Facebook, by the
way, you saw that there was an

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absolute tragedy that unfolded in my app. You know where I live. We

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have an officer here. His name
is Sean Kelly, and he was doing

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what officers do every day and putting
his life literally on the line to go

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help somebody in a disturbance call.
He showed up right here at the Petco.

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Literally, my daughters and I were
turning in to go buy some stuff

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for putty jail. Y'all know my
squirrel, right, We're going in to

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get some stuff. And it turns
out a woman had gotten into a dispute

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with an absolute nut job who was
chasing her and had chased another female earlier

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that day, and he just has
a history of being a idiot. And

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Officer Kelly showed up to try to
help this woman and ended up taking multiple

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rounds in his legs, as abdomen, and ultimately through his neck. And

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y'all, if I'm being honest,
he's not doing too well. He's in

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the hospital right now. There's been
no change in the days since this has

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occurred. And I don't know what
you think it is to be someone who's

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willing to just put down your life
for a stranger. But he absolutely met

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that challenge and he took that call, and honestly, the woman survived,

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and we don't know what would have
happened if he hadn't shown up. So

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I had thought about, you know, maybe putting my own thing from a

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podcast where we might could donate to
the cause, to his family, because

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I know they're going through a lot. I know his wife is dying inside

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right now. But I think what
I'm doing instead is on my Facebook page

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if you feel so inclined to go
help support this family during this time and

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to do what you can, and
if you can't do anything, that's fine

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too, but maybe a prayer.
But if you financially would like to support,

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send some support or love his way. I'm going to put a link

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on my Facebook page that you can
click. It's going to go directly through

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the police department, and you can
go help to support Officer Sean Kelly in

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this time of need. So I
just want to say right now on an

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open forum that my thoughts and my
absolute genuine prayers are with him, with

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his family, and I pray that
he survives this, and that he survives

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this with a quality of life that
we would all hope upon someone who who

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answered the call to help someone when
they were in need. So keep him

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in your prayers, y'all. Go
check my Facebook, like I said,

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and I'll be putting some updates on
there, and just keep him in your

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prayers, because he's the reason that
we live in a society where we have

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safety and that we can make a
phone call. We can dial three numbers

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and someone will show up with no
questions asked to try to come and assist

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you. And I think that's a
beautiful thing. Now that said, y'all

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blowing me up for some of this
merch that I'm creating, And oh my

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goodness, I'm so thankful. Good
Lord, have mercy. But guess what

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Facebook is tripping? Facebook. I
don't know what they're doing, but something

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is wrong in the algorithm. I've
had my it people check it on my

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end. It is not me.
Okay, I'm trying, but look,

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if you're having some trouble, just
send me a private message. I will

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make this happen for you. I'll
need your email address if you have shirts

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or cups or anything you want.
Mama's gonna make it happen, just like

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I said, send me that message, I'll take care of it. Don't

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forget. I still work full time, so I'm checking these messages at night.

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But mam will make it happen.
So get in touch with me.

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If there's something you want and you're
struggling, don't give up because I'm so

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appreciative of the support that y'all continue
to give me. And hey, if

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you're watching, if you're a patron
member, look at this shirt. I'm

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posted this one yet. Can y'all
see it? Youah boy? It's got

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the chick with the crime scene,
you know, tie on her hair and

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the sunglasses, the aviators with the
blood spatter, and I think it's kind

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of cool. So I'll be putting
this one on the website soon too.

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All right, lots of messages for
the case that I'm about to do.

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Lots of people wanted me to do
it, and I said, well,

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hell, let me give the people
what they want, So I'm gonna do

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this. I'm recording now. This
is Mother's Day weekend that I'm actually recording

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this, and I thought, well, how fitting because this case actually started

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on Mother's Day, which is horrific
in and of itself. But this is

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going to be the case about Tristan
Bailey. And this one, I know

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has been big. It's been all
in the news. A lot of people

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have been watching it, but I
don't know that a lot of people went

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back and investigated or did research on
the entirety of what went down in this

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case. I did it for you, so we're gonna back it up.

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Okay, This case starts on Mother's
Day, May ninth, twenty twenty one,

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and of course in Florida. It
seems like everything happens in Florida.

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Man. But Tristan Bailey was thirteen
years old and just y'all, a little

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teenage girl, everything that you expect
a teenage girl to be. I've watched

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lots of videos and pictures and really
tried to check her out and see what

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she was about. And she's a
thirteen year old white female. She's got

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brown hair, she's got a mouthful
of braces. Honestly, when I looked

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at her, I almost saw my
own daughter. She was the run of

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the mill. And I don't mean
that in a negative way, but she

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was your girl. Chasing her American
dream at thirteen and what that looks like

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for a thirteen year old. She
was one of five children, so she

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came from a big family. Her
parents' names were Stacy and Forest Bailey.

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And she lived in Durban Crossing in
northwest Saint John's County and she was a

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student there. But mainly what really
took a lot of her time was she

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was a cheerleader and a comp heditive
cheerleader. So if you go look up

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any pictures of her, you're gonna
see in her sparkly little outfits and her

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little high ponytail, and her and
her big bows and the glitter and the

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pomp and circumstance that goes along with
being a competitive cheerleader. And when her

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family was describing her, and a
lot of videos that I watched, this

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chick, this little Tristan was a
little ball of fire or a little spitfire.

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She had no fear. She was
a go getter. She was she

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was out there. She was in
your face, but just a positive kid

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embracing the life that was that she
was given. Her family was everything that

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you would expect to see in a
Hallmark movie. You know what I mean?

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Just mom, is this tiny little
thing with her little glasses and her

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blonde hair. Dad's super tall.
All of her siblings well put together people,

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just what you you know, just
everything you would want a family to

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be. Their tight knit, they
love one another, they support one another.

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It's a two household that gave hugs
and love and sugars and kisses and

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told everybody how proud they were of
one another. Now, Tristan went to

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Patriot Oaks Academy, and based on
everything that I saw about her and that

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her research, she was a kind
girl. She was described as a kid

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that was always willing to defend her
teammates and her cheer squad, and if

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someone got hurt, she would step
up and be there to support them and

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tell them, look, it's gonna
be okay. You know. She was

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in seventh grade and she was doing
well in school academically, she was doing

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good, and she was involved in
multiple of those cheer teams. Now where

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this all started was they all the
Bailey family went to dinner on Saturday evening,

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May eighth, twenty twenty one,
And after they went to dinner,

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they went as a family to visit
the oldest daughter and at her adult home.

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And you know it was just a
couple hours later they were at home.

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Tristan's sister last saw Tristan speaking with
an unknown white male wearing a backwards

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white baseball cap on a video chat
in the garage at approximately midnight. So

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she's up, she's snapping, she's
chatting, she's doing all those things that

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kids are doing these days. Nothing
out of the ordinary. Now, her

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sister and her family said the last
thing that they saw her wearing was what

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they believed to be a white cheer
skirt and dark shorts, and the siblings

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said that nothing. Again, nothing
seemed strange. They go to bed that

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night, she's being a little typical
teenager. And then they wake up Mother's

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Day morning. So the siblings go
in and they say, hey, we're

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gonna make breakfast for mom, and
they start working in the kitchen and that's

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when they go to wake up Tristan. Now, Tristan was the baby of

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the family and they treated her that
way. Okay, she probably got a

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lot. I got the gist that
she got away with more than what you

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know, the older kids probably got
away with. But she was sleeping and

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they go to wake her up.
When they went in her room, they

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couldn't find her, Like, what
the hell is Tristan? Right, So

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they start the house. They go
all throughout the house. They can't find

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her anywhere. They start panicking,
right, where is she? She's not

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outside, she's not in any closets, she's not in the bathroom. They

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can't find her on the grounds.
And you know, nowhere seemed disturbed or

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that there might have been any type
of foul play. So Tristan's dad,

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his name again is Forrest. He
searched the immediate immediate area of the North

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Amenities Center, but did not locate
Tristan. So he then created a social

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media post requesting the community's assistants with
finding Tristan, where is my daughter?

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And looking at it, they did
everything I think a family would do.

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I don't think they did anything strange. I think they were, like,

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you know, just wanting to find
their baby girl. So when they weren't

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able to find her, it was
roughly one fifty nine PM on Mother's Day

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that they called and said, hey, we can't find our daughter. Now.

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Her mom, Stacy is the one
who made the nine one one call

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and said, look, we need
an officer out here and we need her

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fat and need one fast, we
can't find our daughter, and she did

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identify it as Tristan. She said, my daughter's thirteen years old. She's

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approximately five foot four and one hundred
and thirty pounds, So you know this

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wasn't some you know, ginormous girl
running the streets. I mean, she's

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a little girl, you know,
that's not a big person. And she's

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in school. She's a kid.
She's attending her seventh grade class. And

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the last time that we've seen her
is midnight that, like I told you,

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her siblings saw her and she was
supposed to then go to bed and

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be asleep in her room. But
she's not there. She told the dispatcher.

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According to her best knowledge, that
Tristan had not snuck out of the

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house the night before, but her
cell phone wasn't there, and when they're

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trying to call her phone, it's
going straight to voicemail. That right there,

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as a mama, just made me
get a pit in my stomach.

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Whenever you know your baby's not where
they're supposed to be and then that is

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going straight to voicemail. If you
know anything about a teenager, their phone

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is their life. You know they're
not going to go somewhere without their phone,

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and they're certainly not gonna let it
die and not have a charger on

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them. I mean, good god, I'm a teacher. You should see

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the kids. They may not have
their homework, they may not even know,

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you know, what day it is
or the last time they ate,

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but by god, they know their
phone and where it is. So that's

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just that's that's alarming. Now.
Something that was additionally alarming was that she

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said Tristan's cell phone locations like to
follow her, and her snapchat locations were

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turned off. And this is kind
of weird. And I only know this

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because of my own kid, but
kids these days follow one another like their

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locations. So I know we'll be
sitting at the table, you know,

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eating or something. I'll here due
to dude on my own daughter's phone,

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and I'm like, what is that? Because it sounds like whenever, you

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know, I track my family members
and she'll say my daughter will be like,

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oh that's that's you know, easy, or one of her friends,

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that's easy. She just left her
house. She's got, you know,

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something to go do. I'm like, how do you know she left her

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house? Oh, I'll follow her
on snapchat. It tells me her location

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update, like, are y'all stalking
each other? It's weird. We didn't

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do that back in my day.
But the fact that this was turned off

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it was alarming too. Now.
Tristan also, according to her family,

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had a Life three sixty app but
she had stopped sharing her location. Not

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good, right, So the dispatcher
said, you know, miss Stacey,

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I need you to go room by
room while you're on the phone with me,

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and I need you to go check
the house. And her mom is

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emphatic, We already searched the house. We looked everywhere. But hey,

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you remember that John Beday Ramsey episode
where they swore they searched the house and

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then lo and behold, there's the
baby dead in the bottom of the house.

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You know, it doesn't hurt to
go check again. So I thought

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I would stop real quick and teach
you all a little something about something.

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anyway, when you call nine one one,

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I thought i'd explain this to you, so I teach nine one dispatch

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certification. But you know, when
you call in, we have to determine

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first of all, is this a
lost person, a runaway? What exactly

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is going on here? And so
there's a lot of questions that are going

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to be asked. And as I
go later on in this episode, I

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actually have the transcript of what was
asked of the mom stacy. But you

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know, the thing is when it
comes to a missing person, especially when

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they're a juvenile. You know,
kids are not allowed to disappear. Adults,

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you absolutely legally can disappear and nobody
can say anything about it. But

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a kid, a thirteen year old
no freaking way. They can't take care

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of themselves, they don't have money, they can't drive, so it's very

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odd when they go missing that it
would be just normal, right, There

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was no foul play or there wasn't
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So I will go over it,
like I said, a little bit

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later, I'll go on and tell
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one is going to process that call. But when further questioned, Stacy gave

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more information about Tristan and said that
she had begun hanging out with friends in

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the neighborhood and that she had participated
in cheerleading for three different cheerleading squads.

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I mean, this was like her
life dream, you know, it was

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to be as competitive as she could
in this cheer in this cheer world.

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And when questioned about hey, how
was Tristan acting before she went to bed

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or that night, and mom said
she was fine, nothing seemed out of

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the ordinary. She said, you
know, she was a little bit standoffish

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lately, and that she had been
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I mean, hell, if you're
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you know exactly what that's about.
They got hormones going on, and

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they get sassy, and they get
snotty, and they get you know,

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they want their alone time and they
go up in their room and you're not

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cool enough to hang out with.
I don't find that to be out of

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the ordinary, that she was behaving
that way, And according to her mom,

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Tristan never said anything about wanting to
leave or wanting to harm herself.

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She simply was just gone and there
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nothing that would have even tipped the
parents off that hey, maybe she ran

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away. So the only thing that
the mom could come up with was that

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Tristan said that she felt like she
couldn't do anything right and so maybe she

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felt like she was being a failure
of some sort. But Tristan did not

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take any medications for depression, no
anxiety, nothing. Mom advised that Tristan

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did not have a steady boyfriend either, so it wasn't like there was some

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male that might have just swooped in
and took her, taken her, took

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her tooking her. Good God,
y'all, thank god a podcast and I'm

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not of any importance. But when
asked about her friendship group, mom said,

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look, she communicates with several friends
from school, but again nobody on

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the radar that would be conceived considered
dangerous of any type. The last thing

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that Tristan had done was she went
with some friends and attended this neighborhood thing

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they called food Truck Friday, and
the friends parents had driven them to the

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event, but the parents had also
picked them up, so it wasn't like

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they walked to this and then left
on their own accord and nobody knew what

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happened to them. Tristan simply up
and vanished and was not discovered as gone

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until that morning when they were doing
their their breakfast cook for the mom.

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So more personal information, you know, came about after that phone call law

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enforcement arrived. That's pretty much the
end of the nine one one call.

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And whenever law enforcement got in there, they started asking more questions, more,

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you know, a little deeper,
a little more leading, so that

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they could find out more about what
Trisan was like. So after leaving her

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house, Tristan was said to be
hanging out with this kid named Trey Absher

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And I'm going to say the second
because there's a father and there's a son

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with the same name, and so
I don't want to become confusing. So

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after a little bit further investigation,
the police identify a friend by the name

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of Trey Absher and the first name
of Trey is Doaphus. I believe d

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o f fis not a real traditional
name, So if I've said that differently

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than you've heard elsewhere at my apologies. But Deputy Maloney, who was one

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of the deputies that was helping to
investigate where Tristan could possibly be, went

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and met with Trey and he says, Tristan, Yeah, Tristan was actually

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at my house the night before she
disappeared, and she had shown up with

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another boy named Aiden Fuci, and
they came over, we hung out,

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and then about one o'clock in the
morning they left. Trey also said that

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when Tristan came to his house,
she was very tactical, if you will,

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right. She snuck around the north
side of the house to avoid the

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security cameras that they had at their
residence. And he said that Tristan and

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Aiden left the house together and at
the same time. Now, I don't

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find that to be extremely horrific.
Okay, that's what kids do. They're

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going to try to avoid the cameras
because they don't want to be in trouble

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and they don't want to get caught. Now, when asked what was Tristan

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wearing when he saw her, he
says, Tristan was wearing a black and

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gray T shirt with the word pink
across the front and black sweatpants, so

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a really good description of what she
would be wearing last time she was seen.

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Deputies went now and said, Okay, we're gonna go meet with this

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Aidan guy at his residence and let's
find out what he's got to say for

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himself. So they show up at
the house and they ask Aidan some questions.

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So he says he and Tristan were
at Dauphus or Trey's house and they

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left together around one o'clock like the
other friend had said, So their stories

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line up with the consent of his
mother and that her name was Crystal Smith.

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Aiden showed Deputy Maloney where he and
Tristan went after leaving Dopphus's house,

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because they went on a walk.
Now, Aiden said that after he and

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Tristan left Trey's house, they walked
to North Durban Parkway and then he said,

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so he's kind of like walking it
out for them, giving him a

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map, right, and he said
that Tristan then turned onto Cloisterbain Drive to

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go to her house, and he
said he walked around North Durban Parkway and

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he arrived home around three to three
thirty that morning. Now, I'm going

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to kind of throw this out there. I find it weird that these young

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kids are walking around three o'clock in
the morning, so just outside looking in,

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I'm kind of starting to get the
picture here that the parents of Tristan

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didn't know that she snuck out of
the house. They didn't strike me as

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the kind of family that would allow
that. They didn't let her just be

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this latchkey kid running around, But
obviously she got out of that house and

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they didn't know about it. Now, about the time this questioning is happening,

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there's also a search that's going on
around for Tristan. And remember she's

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a juvenile. We handle those differently
than adults. Adults can disappear. Juveniles

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cannot. They cannot take care of
themselves. They're considered kind of at risk

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individuals, if you will. So
unless they are considered you know, at

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risk, like severely at risk,
meaning a five year old, right,

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a five year old can't take care
of themselves in any way, shape or

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form. A missing person is more
of what we were dealing with at this

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point with Tristan. So she's not
really young, she doesn't have any medical

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problems, she doesn't have any mental
problems, but she's certainly too young to

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be out on her own to disappear
without any questions. So Deputy Maloney asks

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Aidan, Hey, man, I'm
gonna need you to clarify something about your

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timeline. It kind of seems odd
that it would take you two hours to

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walk from Trey's house to your house, because when you're looking at where he

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says he was walking, if you
look at Google Maps, the walking distance

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would have been about one point four
miles, and if you're walking, that

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would relay relate to about a twenty
eight minute walk. This took him two

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hours, So they're like, man, can you kind of can you kind

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of clarify that a little bit?
Right then, though, Aiden changed his

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story. Rut Row, Right,
here's a clue. Why would you change

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your story? So now he says
that he and Tristan continued walking north along

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North Urban Parkway, but they actually
got into an altercation because Tristan grabbed his

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penis while they were walking. He
says that he forcefully pushed Tristan to the

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ground, which caused her to strike
her head. Okay, well that's way

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different. Right at first, we
were just walking around. Now all of

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a sudden, oh yeah, I
forgot she grabbed my penis and so I

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had to push her to the ground
again. A thirteen year old boy here,

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we're talking about our fourteen Actually she's
thirteen. So when asked where did

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this happen aiden, he says,
this happened near the six hundred block of

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North Durban Parkway, just north of
Leith Hall Drive. So m I don't

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know much, but I know bullshit
when I hear it. Y'all stay tuned.

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I might get me a singing contract, but I'm gonna go ahead and

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call bullshit right here. Let me
tell you why a young boy, a

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fourteen year old boy, is getting
his junk grabbed by a teenage girl and

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he gets so mad that he pushes
her down. I'm not buying that.

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Sorry, I'm not buying that.
And I don't mean to be ugly,

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but come on, your fourteen year
old boy walking around at three thirty in

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the morning with a girl of the
opposite sex, and she grabs your junk,

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according to you, and you get
so offended you shove her to the

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ground. Sorry, that dog ain't
hunting for me. I don't believe that

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for one second. It just doesn't. That doesn't jive for me. So

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it just seems really convenient to go
from walking right, they're just walking.

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Now he's a victim of sexual assault, and about three minutes of an interrogation

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that gets me a little bit of
an attitude. There, have you ever

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been around a thirteen year old boy? Hell? Have you ever been a

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thirteen year old boy? I mean, hey, Jemothy, you're in here.

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Lean into the camera, say hi
to the people. Jem Yeah,

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get on the micro quick. I'm
doing this. I didn't plan it.

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Hey, Kelly, Hey, I've
never been a thirteen year old boy,

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have you? Yes? Okay,
you're thirteen years old. Okay, you're

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walking in the dark with a girl
who has snuck out, and you have

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snuck out and she grabs you're willy
wonka, what is your reaction? Actually,

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at thirteen, I've been freaked out, but I'd have tried to like

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play it off like I wasn't breaked
out. Yeah, I'd have been pretty

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freaked out. Yeah, but you're
gonna push a girl to the head violently,

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I mean, push your girl to
the ground violently. No, No,

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I know you're not. You're gonna
be like Na, she just grabbed

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me. I'm not even gonna Yeah, I mean that would have you know.

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This never happened to me. I
mean, I know, but I'm

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just saying, you're thirteen years old. I'm not pushing her down at that

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point. No, And if you
are, it ain't violent. No,

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you're gonna be a Romeo. That's
right. Okay, if you're listening right

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now, thank you. So I'm
getting off all right. So you know,

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and I know that you're like Jesus
Kelly, their kids, I know

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that. But I'm just telling you, I'm you're out with a chick when

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you're not supposed to be beyond the
means that your parents know where you are.

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It's not like y'all are out on
a Sunday walk headed to church,

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you know what I'm saying, Like
you had intentions to be a little bit

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sneaky while you're out there. I'm
just I don't know, I'm just it

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doesn't fit for me that you would
be just abhorred by the fact that she

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would touch you sexually and then you
throw her to the ground. It just

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doesn't fit for me. Maybe you're
different than me. It doesn't fit.

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And then he goes from just walking
with her and taking her home to becoming

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a sexual assault victim so violated that
he threw her to the ground in minutes

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of an investigation at the first second
that hey, your story's not quite lining

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up. Okay, sure if you
were an innocent bystander who was sexually assaulted

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by this girl, I feel like
that would have come up first in your

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discussion with the police. Look,
I don't know what happened to her.

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All I know is that we were
walking. I thought we were friends.

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She grabbed me in my private area. I was super uncomfortable, and so

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I was like, look, we
gotta go, we gotta separate out,

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and we went our separate ways.
I just don't see you violently throwing her

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to the ground and then what like
put yourself then what Okay, you threw

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her to the ground. She touched
you know, she touched your dang,

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you threw her to the ground,
and then what you just it's like snap

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two and walk the other direction.
And y'all don't say anything else to one

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another. It's just the touch and
go like whatever, bro, no,

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no, you know. And this
is probably why no one will ever let

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me be a detective, because I
would be like, all right, bullshit,

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sign next, let's try again.
I don't believe it now. Something

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that's made me jump that quick to
that conclusion too, is honestly, I

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do know more about him right than
these investigators would know. And I know

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that this is not you know,
this isn't some some choir boy. Okay,

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and I'll admit that total transparency.
I know more about this kid than

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than these investigators did. But again, I've also been around thirteen year old

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boys, and I just I'm not
I'm not buying buying that bill, that

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bill of goods there, it's just
not working. So you know. Also,

405
00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:45.559
and I know this is ugly.
I'm an adult, so I'm don't.

406
00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:49.079
I don't know how to say this
nicely, but like he was not

407
00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:56.599
as he was esthetically challenging to look
at. I just don't find that women

408
00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:00.759
would be or girls would be flocking
to him for I mean, he's covered

409
00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:04.720
in pimples, he's got acne everywhere, looking straight up like his mama fetting

410
00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:07.400
with rocks with a slingshot. I
mean, like, come on, this

411
00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:14.720
is not some some you know Rico
swabe here. And when he's prodded further

412
00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:18.440
with questions, they're like, okay, so you pushed her down, and

413
00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:22.599
then what he says, Oh,
he's not sure if she got up because

414
00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:26.559
he was actually really dizzy too at
that time. He was super dizzy,

415
00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:30.519
right, And they're like, you
were dizzy, Yeah, I'd been smoking

416
00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:37.920
smoking weed at Tray's house earlier.
Okay, all right, so now you

417
00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:41.960
snuck out, you went to Tray's
house, you got high, and then

418
00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:45.440
you went on a walk, and
then she touched you, and then you

419
00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:48.119
threw her to the ground. But
you don't remember any of it. Sounds

420
00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:52.319
like a solid story. Sounds like
a kid that's about to get to tension

421
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:55.640
and he's just grasping at straws right
to try to get himself out of trouble.

422
00:28:55.720 --> 00:29:00.359
Denial, denial, denial. So
you know, you're high enough to

423
00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:03.680
not remember what happened after you shoved
her to the ground, but you're not

424
00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:10.599
high enough to forget that you were
super disturbed that she supposedly grabbed your penis

425
00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:14.920
randomly while you were walking, right, And so they're like, okay,

426
00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:18.359
well, then what did you do
afterwards in this high state that you were

427
00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:22.559
in. Oh, he just walked
around a while alone. He was quote

428
00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:30.799
looking at the stars. What like, just what? What? In the

429
00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:34.039
actual fuck? I'm just gonna say
it. This is the part of stories

430
00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:37.680
that people leave out that it's just
like and then he went for a walk

431
00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:41.599
and we don't know what happened.
No, he's an idiot. He says

432
00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:45.119
he pushed a girl down, and
then he wouldn't he went stargazing. You

433
00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.599
went stargazing, Like, oh my
god, get the f out of here,

434
00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:52.640
all right. So remember the search
that was going on during this investigating.

435
00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:57.240
This investigating involved the Saint John's County
Sheriff's office, and they had their

436
00:29:57.279 --> 00:30:03.319
aviation unit out when they started bringing
out choppers and stuff to look for somebody.

437
00:30:03.519 --> 00:30:07.359
It's serious business. I don't have
this to be a one hundred percent

438
00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:12.640
stat but I do know this,
financially speaking, minimum, it's gonna cost

439
00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:18.279
roughly four hundred dollars minimum. And
that was years ago to even lift a

440
00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:22.240
chopper off the ground to go do
a search. For somebody taxpayer dollars,

441
00:30:22.319 --> 00:30:25.759
you got overtime, you got fuel, you got the equal you know,

442
00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:29.279
if you were like putting it all
in there. So they're really worried at

443
00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:33.599
this point if they've got aviation looking
for her. Now they also had an

444
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:36.119
additional other resources out, but they
were just fine. There was just a

445
00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:40.720
negative result. They weren't finding her. And so what happened next was there's

446
00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:44.680
a sergeant, Sergeant Gams. He
ordered what we would call a ping order

447
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:47.880
for Tristan's cell phone, and they're
like, we need to try to figure

448
00:30:47.880 --> 00:30:51.960
out where was she geographically the last
time that she was seen, because they

449
00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:55.000
believed, hey, she's gonna be
with that cell phone, even if it's

450
00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:57.279
not turned on, even if she
stopped doing her location. Where was her

451
00:30:57.359 --> 00:31:00.279
last location? Right, let's find
her? All right, I want to

452
00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.720
teach you a little something. What
is a ping order for a cell phone?

453
00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:06.559
Now again, y'all know I'm a
nine one one girl, right,

454
00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:11.119
So basically a ping is what you're
going to see in the movies. And

455
00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:12.680
they do it totally dumb because it's
not how it really works, right,

456
00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:15.960
nine one one. They're in the
dark, which is weird, but they're

457
00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:18.480
in the dark, and where is
she? Let me just press a button

458
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:21.920
and ping. Here she is,
and it's gonna flash, and oh my

459
00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:25.119
god, she's standing right there next
to that rock. Okay, it doesn't

460
00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:26.960
work like that here in the real
world. It's a little more difficult.

461
00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:32.160
So we have different types of pings
that can happen, but this one would

462
00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:36.480
be probably done as an emergency ping, and so these are done whenever life

463
00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:38.440
is considered to be in danger.
We got a kid telling a story that's

464
00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:42.079
not jiving. We can't find the
girl. Notifications are turned off, all

465
00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:45.440
right, this rut row right,
we got a red flag here. Now,

466
00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:51.000
if you do an emergency ping,
you know that's because we think life

467
00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:53.640
is in danger here possibly, But
beyond that, you would have to have

468
00:31:53.720 --> 00:32:00.279
a court order or a subpoena to
be able to just ping somebody's phone.

469
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:04.920
Luckily, today, with the advancements
in technology, warrants and all of that

470
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:08.000
are done electronically, so detectives don't
have to go back to the office,

471
00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:10.599
type up a warrant, find a
judge, get them to sign it.

472
00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:15.720
Now they can really just send it
electronically and within minutes, really a judge

473
00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:17.880
can read over and decide, yeah, we're going to go ahead allow this

474
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:21.960
or not. And y'all that's a
good thing if you know your rights.

475
00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:24.400
People love to say they know their
rights, but then when you question them

476
00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:27.680
on them, they don't know them. They have no clue what their rights

477
00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:30.079
are. They just know that they
don't like the police getting to do anything

478
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:36.400
right that might get them in trouble. But in this situation, this was

479
00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:38.880
an emergency. They couldn't find her. But you don't want people the police

480
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:43.880
being able to just search and find
you at whim. And I'm pro police,

481
00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:45.799
but I'm also pro rights right and
so you should be able to live

482
00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:52.200
your life without being you know,
tracked. So these pings are covered by

483
00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:54.480
search and seizure laws. So that's
why those steps would have to be taken.

484
00:32:54.519 --> 00:32:59.079
And usually if you're wondering, we
can't you know, in the movies,

485
00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:00.440
it tells you exactly where they are
and you can just see the dot

486
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:05.559
moving. In real life, we
can only get within twelve hundred and fifteen

487
00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:08.240
hundred meters of where this person might
be or where the phone might be.

488
00:33:08.519 --> 00:33:12.160
So if you wanted to kind of
put that into perspective, you're looking at

489
00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:16.839
three like linear football fields. Okay, the of the area that they could

490
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:20.759
be. Put yourself in a place
like New York. By the way,

491
00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:23.240
you're not how difficulty they're like just
paying a phone. You always hear people

492
00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:27.559
say that, why don't they just
ping the phone? Okay, three football

493
00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:30.240
fields, y'all. You also can
go up, you know what I'm saying.

494
00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:32.559
So they've got these tall buildings and
places you don't know where the hill

495
00:33:32.759 --> 00:33:37.359
somebody is. That's not a lot
of that's a huge area to search when

496
00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:44.359
you're looking for a cell phone.
So how does this happen really physically?

497
00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:46.799
And I'm gonna make this kind of
simple, but it's gonna be done through

498
00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:51.359
cell phone towers and through cell service. So we call it triangulation. And

499
00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:52.319
I don't want to get all deep
into it, but if you want to

500
00:33:52.319 --> 00:33:55.119
know, I'd like to teach you. But we call it triangulation obviously the

501
00:33:55.119 --> 00:34:00.359
shape of a triangle. And basically, you've ever been driving down the road

502
00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:05.039
and you're talking to someone on the
phone, life is good, and all

503
00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:08.639
of a sudden, that's your conversation
because what's happening is you're losing the connection

504
00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:13.039
to the tower and then you have
to move forward and then boom, you're

505
00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:15.840
back up again, right and you've
got full service and you're able to talk

506
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:20.920
to somebody. That's because your cell
your cell phone is jumping from tower to

507
00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:23.639
tower to get your service. And
that's how we can hone in on your

508
00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:30.119
location through a three point you know, a three point check, and obviously

509
00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:34.280
we'd be able to tell what direction
you were traveling because of which tower you

510
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:37.639
were jumping to. So it's more
than just press a button in nine one

511
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:39.159
one. It actually takes a little
bit of work, but we can get

512
00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:45.679
it rather quickly with today's technology.
Now they're doing the ping check on the

513
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:51.840
phone. And based on Aiden's statements
of FUCI statements, Detective Maloney's here said,

514
00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:53.159
look, I think we have a
crime here. I think I need

515
00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:57.239
to go ahead and advise him of
his constitutional rights. So you have the

516
00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:00.239
right to remain silent. Anything you
say cannon will be used against in a

517
00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:01.480
court of law. You have the
right to an attorney. If you cannot

518
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:05.679
afford one won't be provided for you. Do you understand these rights? Now?

519
00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:08.039
It probably read to him in juvenile
terms here in Livingston. You know,

520
00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:10.679
we have like juvenile ways of saying
and adult ways of saying it.

521
00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:13.920
I don't know. They don't have
it written down. They just said that

522
00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:16.119
they were a advise of their rights. So instead of a saying you have

523
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:20.000
the right to remain silent. Anything
you say, Kennon will be used against

524
00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:22.840
you in a court of law,
they could kind of dump it down a

525
00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:24.079
little bit, right, So listen, you don't have to speak to us

526
00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:28.559
right now. If you don't want
to. Anything you do say, we're

527
00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:30.880
gonna take it and we can use
it against you, you know, kind

528
00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:34.960
of make it easier for them to
understand. Now. Aiden decided he would

529
00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:37.760
invoke his rights and he declined to
provide any further statement at that point,

530
00:35:38.199 --> 00:35:42.679
and his parents now were like,
we want an attorney. All right,

531
00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:45.599
hey, I'll give you this.
If it's your kid, you'd want an

532
00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:49.360
attorney too, because this ain't looking
good. But I also know this.

533
00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:52.400
Parents know their kids. If they're
actually parenting, you know your kids.

534
00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:55.679
I know when my kids are not
up to snuff one hundred percent on what

535
00:35:55.719 --> 00:36:01.000
they're telling me. I think the
parents apply knew that something was up at

536
00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:04.559
that point. I think they were
like, uh, oh, our little

537
00:36:04.599 --> 00:36:07.719
bastard is showing his true colors.
Here. So at this point, there's

538
00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:10.079
another detective that's helping out, and
her name is Kimberly Paluso, and she's

539
00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:15.440
with a special victims unit, and
she arrived to the scene where you know,

540
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:20.840
all of this was going down,
and Detective Paluso advised that she spoke

541
00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:25.440
with Aiden food she and she spoke
with that friend Trey absher and learned additional

542
00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:32.119
information, she says. Aiden stated
that Tristan could be with a drug dealer

543
00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:38.079
who was in his twenties that she
talks to through Snapchat, or she could

544
00:36:38.079 --> 00:36:43.280
be on a path by the North
Amenity Center where teens are known to go

545
00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:49.119
use drugs. Wow, what a
jump here, What an exponential jump.

546
00:36:49.159 --> 00:36:52.400
We went from just hanging out to
smoking front dope at our friend's house to

547
00:36:52.639 --> 00:37:00.360
now getting our willie pulled, to
throwing her down, to not knowing what

548
00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:05.320
happened to now she's hanging out with
a drug dealer that she met through Snapchat.

549
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:10.400
Wow. Talk about a wild goose
chase. All right. So Aiden

550
00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:16.599
also stated that Tristan's friend, who
he identified as Shilah, would have more

551
00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:22.199
information about this. Done right,
go check with Shilah now right. Then,

552
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:27.679
Aidan tried to call Tristan several times, but her phone was going straight

553
00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:31.320
to voicemail. I'm calling bullshit there
too. You threw her down, you

554
00:37:31.400 --> 00:37:35.480
never checked on her. But now
that we know she's missing, all of

555
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:38.760
a sudden, now you're gonna try
to call her now, I don't know

556
00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:45.440
all right now. When talking to
Trey, Detective Peluso got this information that

557
00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:51.519
they showed up at the house and
that Tristan didn't stay very long and then

558
00:37:51.559 --> 00:37:55.679
they left and Aiden went with her. He also said that he thought Aidan

559
00:37:55.760 --> 00:38:00.360
dropped Tristan off at the front of
her neighborhood and continued walking to his house.

560
00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:04.719
Now why he would think that,
I don't know, other than he

561
00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:07.679
just like, oh, I guess
this happened, or if Aiden had said

562
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:12.440
no, this is what happened.
Right, So Tray believed that Tristan got

563
00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:16.480
caught outside of her house by her
sister and then left to go meet with

564
00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:21.840
a drug dealer. Do you see
how like this is getting completely whackado Like

565
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:25.719
it's totally going off into left field
from a missing person to now we have

566
00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:30.599
drug dealers and sexual assaults and all
this other crab all right. He did

567
00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:35.679
say that that drug dealer was in
the early twenties, and so the detective.

568
00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:40.360
Tray allowed the detective to review his
Instagram and his Snapchat accounts to access

569
00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:47.360
Tristan's profiles, but whenever she looked, she wasn't able to see any recent

570
00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:52.920
postings to Instagram, but she did
notice that Tristan's last Snapchat post was approximately

571
00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:58.000
sixteen hours prior. Well, you
know, these kids, they're snapping everything

572
00:38:58.119 --> 00:39:00.920
everything, you know, every few
minutes, there's pictures and snaps and all

573
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:07.840
that. But sixteen hours have now
passed and there's no communication. We need

574
00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:12.559
to remember that. So Corporal Justin
Ackerman, who was also of the Special

575
00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:16.480
Victims Unit, was also working that
case, and he attempted to make contact

576
00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:22.519
with two other friends that they found
of Tristan's, and their names were Samantha

577
00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:28.119
and Lena Creole. So Ackerman advised
that whenever he went to the house,

578
00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:30.480
nobody was there, but he was
able to get in touch with a man

579
00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:35.360
named Jerry Creole, who was Samantha
and Lena's father. He was able to

580
00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:44.800
get him on the phone. Jerry
tells the detective that Lena contacted Trey earlier

581
00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:47.679
and was told Tristan and another boy
snuck out in the middle of the night

582
00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:52.239
and were hanging around the North Amenity
Center. So we do know now multiple

583
00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:57.840
kids are saying, yeah, they
snuck out together. He also said that

584
00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:02.719
the two boys went home, but
Tristan went somewhere else because she was wanting

585
00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:06.519
to go hang out with this twenty
two year old drug dealer and got a

586
00:40:06.639 --> 00:40:12.480
name. Now the name was supposedly
Carlo. Now you see how it takes

587
00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:15.000
time to get all these little pieces, and I wanted to do this story

588
00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:19.800
kind of an investigative standpoint, not
just blanket over kind of what happened.

589
00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:23.800
So now we've got a name,
Carlo. But also remember they were getting

590
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:30.679
that that ping and that subpoena on
Tristan's cell phone to figure out, hey,

591
00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:34.960
what's the last bit of communication where
could she possibly be. So the

592
00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:37.719
investigators identified Tristan's cell phone number,
which I actually have here. What her

593
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:40.000
number was, I'm not going to
read it out in case the family still

594
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:43.800
has it by some chance, but
it ended an eight one two five,

595
00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:47.239
And they figured out that her cell
service was through AT and T. So

596
00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:52.880
Sergeant Alexander had previously requested that her
phone was to be pinged, and so

597
00:40:53.079 --> 00:40:58.880
the communications shift leader. Her name
was Ramona Davis. She forwarded the mobile

598
00:40:58.920 --> 00:41:01.119
locator results, which is the pings
for the cell phone, and he got

599
00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:06.599
those by email. The email said, all right, we have results of

600
00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:08.960
the last ping of the phone.
And it y'all, it's not a map.

601
00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:12.559
Okay, it's going to give longitude
and latitude. We're gonna go straight

602
00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:16.280
Lewis and Clark here, okay.
But it gave the actual location of where

603
00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:21.079
the phone, you know, last
was, and they said the accuracy of

604
00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:25.719
this they believed to be twenty five
hundred meter radius, okay. And when

605
00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:30.239
they located where the center of that
radius would have been, it would have

606
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:35.840
been within a wooded area south of
this nursery called Loop Nursery, which was

607
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on Racetrack Road. The data source
for this was also historical, which means

608
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that the cell phone was no longer
actively sending signals, so it was not

609
00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:50.679
tracking anywhere. It was dead or
it was off because the phone was no

610
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longer being located. Now we have
what's called exigent circumstances, which means that,

611
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okay, let's say we go up
to a high house and we're let's

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say we're looking for somebody I don't
know, and we walk up to a

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house to knock on the door,
and right when we're knocking on the door,

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were hear help, help, Help
from inside of the house. We

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as police do not have to go
get a warrant, okay, to go

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try to help this person. It's
called an exigent circumstance. We can go

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straight into that house to go help
that person based on the screams of help.

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Well, that's kind of what this
report was. Was called it's an

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exigent request, And they wanted thirty
days of Tristan's cell and call text detail

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records because what they were going to
try to do is an attempt to find

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a pattern in her communication. Because
patterns tell us a lot, right of

622
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who do you normally talk to?
Hey, what if she spoke to Aiden

623
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every day and then randomly sixteen hours
ago they stopped communicating, that would be

624
00:42:49.719 --> 00:42:52.519
a clue, right, because she's
always talking to this person now silence.

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So if there was a deviation from
the pattern, then they might could go,

626
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you know, go forward and see
who was she talking with and where

627
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might she have been between May eighth
and May ninth. All right, So

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when they got the report, the
text detail records from at and T.

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They were unable to actually open them
due to technical complications. And I know,

630
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because of the movies, we like
to think everything is like click and

631
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boom and there it is, but
it doesn't work like that. Technology fails

632
00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:24.199
sometimes you just can't get what you're
looking for. They could not get into

633
00:43:24.440 --> 00:43:29.159
into the messages. So the detective
at this point said, you know what,

634
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I'm gonna go ahead and relocate myself
and he went back to what's called

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the unified Command Center. And if
you're not familiar with that, if we

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have multiple agencies working on something,
there's going to be one area that we

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go to where everybody can kind of
meet up and can exchange information and kind

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00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:47.559
of go from there. About that
time, the detective that I'm discussing received

639
00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:52.719
an email from the Sheriff's Office communications
and it had a photo attachment of a

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Snapchat message and in that message there
was Aidan Fucci in the backseat of a

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patrol car. And I know you're
thinking, Okay, dumb kid, right,

642
00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:08.840
they must have put him in the
back of the police car and he's

643
00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:15.079
trying to be cool with this picture
or he's scared with this picture. Well,

644
00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:17.320
no, that's not what happened.
Yeah, he was in the back

645
00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:22.400
of the police car, but he
was taking a selfie in the police car

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00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:30.400
and holding up a peace sign.
A selfie and a peace sign. He

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00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:36.840
seems really disturbed, right that his
friend is missing selfie in a peace sign

648
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:39.159
and you can kind of see it
reflected in the control of the patrol car

649
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divider. And within the snapchat message
there was a banner. You know,

650
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he can type through a message,
and it said, Hey, guys,

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00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:53.519
has anyone seen Tristan lately? You
want to talk about a punk ass bitch

652
00:44:53.639 --> 00:44:58.360
move, that's one of them.
I don't even care if you're fourteen years

653
00:44:58.400 --> 00:45:02.519
old. What are you doing?
You're that cool, You're that cool.

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00:45:04.239 --> 00:45:07.880
Five minutes ago you were a victim
of her sexually assaulting you. Now you're

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in the back of a police car
throwing up a peace sign. Hey guys,

656
00:45:09.639 --> 00:45:16.239
anybody's seen Tristan? Jesus now.
That message appeared to have been forwarded

657
00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:21.119
a couple of times. I know
they said at least twice, and kids

658
00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:24.760
the same age started responding to that. One of them and I'm quoting,

659
00:45:24.800 --> 00:45:32.440
said wtf Aiden Like even other kids
recognized this was ridiculously horrific. Another one

660
00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:36.559
said, you were with her aiden, and you know what happened to her.

661
00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:39.320
You want to talk about other kids
holding the kid's feet to the fire.

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00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:43.239
They were straight and blasting him on
snapchat. He thought he was being

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00:45:43.239 --> 00:45:45.559
cool and the other kids were like, not cool, bro, you were

664
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:50.280
with her? Where is she?
I like that. I like when kids

665
00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:52.079
freaking half grow a set and they're
like, no, bro, you're not

666
00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:57.119
cool. You were with her?
Last Oh my god, not only did

667
00:45:57.159 --> 00:45:59.559
they throw him under the bus,
they went the doom, the doom and

668
00:45:59.599 --> 00:46:01.639
then put that bitch and reverses said
cuckoo ka kink and ran his ass over.

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00:46:01.960 --> 00:46:06.199
Okay, because they were like,
you were with her. Now at

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this time, investigators are like,
all right, we need to go ahead

671
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:09.880
and get aid and cell phone.
We gotta seize it because I bet you

672
00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:14.679
there's gonna be more more information for
the investigation right there in that phone.

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00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:16.760
All right now. I know you're
like, oh my gosh, you know,

674
00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:20.599
keep going. I want to know
more. Well, I would love

675
00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:22.000
to, but there's so much more. I swear to you, I have

676
00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:25.639
probably thirty eight more pages of stuff
that I want to get through because I

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00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:28.679
want to give you the nitty gritty. I want to tell you all of

678
00:46:28.719 --> 00:46:30.800
it, the stuff that's good,
the bad, the ugly. We're gonna

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00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:35.000
get there, all right. You
just gotta give me some time, like

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00:46:35.079 --> 00:46:37.599
a like a fine wine. It's
gonna take some time. But there's a

681
00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:42.039
whole lot more to this case.
I'm gonna give every bit of details to

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00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:45.599
it, and look, there's a
lot. I don't like this kid.

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00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:46.920
I think you can tell by my
attitude. I don't like this kid,

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00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:51.920
and I don't think you're gonna like
him either. But look, I'm no

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00:46:52.039 --> 00:47:00.400
cactus, but I know a little
prick when I see one. W