Aug. 12, 2025

SERIAL MURDERER: Israel Keyes

SERIAL MURDERER: Israel Keyes
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Season 7

In this episode of Unspeakable, KJ explores the tragic case of Samantha Koenig, an 18-year-old barista who disappeared from Anchorage, Alaska, on February 1, 2012. KJ details the events surrounding her abduction by Israel Keyes, offering a chilling narrative of her last moments at the coffee shop and the investigative journey that ensued. 


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Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell

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stories of real crimes with real victims, whose cases are

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so shocking that many are left wondering how is this

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evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning. Unspeakable as intended

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for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm

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not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey, y'all, it's

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kJ You're back for another episode of Unspeakable. How's your

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week going. I hope it's going great. I'm doing wonderful.

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I didn't have to go back to school this week,

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so I got to write and record and do all

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the fun things that I love to do, including I

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looked at my shout out list that I need to

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catch up on and it was really kind of cool

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because some of these names, y'all. I talk to y'all

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on Facebook and everything all the time, and now you're

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actually joined in and you're part of my crime family.

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So all the way out in Tyler, Texas, Gina Smith, girl,

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you know, we talk all the time. You're always sending

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me suggestions of cases to do, and I really appreciate

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you for that. But now you've joined, and so it

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means a lot to me and I appreciate you. Then

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I've got niche b Now, Nisha. I've been talking to

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you some here lately, and you sent me a really

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cool case actually yesterday as at the time I'm recording this,

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but I wanted to tell you thank you for joining,

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and also make sure you go update your address because

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I don't have your city or state, and I want

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gift when the next gifts go out. Then we've got Belvedere, Illinois,

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and this is Crystal Britain. Hey Crystal, how are you

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doing all the way over there in Illinois. I hope

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it's going fantastic for you. Thankful to have you. And

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then someone right here, literally down the road right now,

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working at our city police station I know she is,

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is miss Stacy Finch. She joined, and Stacy, you've been

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a friend now for a while. I really really love

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when my friends think enough of me to join, and

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so I wanted to thank you personally for that. In

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North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Laura Gibvens, what is up? How

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are you doing, Laura? I'm waving at you. I hope

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that you can see me here. I've never been is

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Chapel Hill? Is that why the singer is named Chapel Hill?

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I'm not sure. Is she from North Carolina? Did I

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make that up? I don't know if I did. Sorry,

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that's a rumor. So thank you so much to all

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of you. Hey, this is the first week. Couldn't go

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back to school, like I just said, And it's because

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I have supporters of the show that are helping me

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to be able to make more content. So y'all hang

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in there. We've got some great things in the works,

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advanced things and stuff like that. But let's jump into

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this episode, which I it was another request that I got,

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and I think it is one that you're gonna be

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very interested in if you don't know it. But let's

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get started. So I was thinking back about man to

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be eighteen years old again. You know, what would I

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do differently because I didn't realize just how how free

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I was. At eighteen. You know, the world is at

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your fingertips, your life has yet to unfold. Your biggest

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decision is basically what college do I pick? And do

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I have enough money to buy beer and fill up

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my gas tank. That's pretty much where I was whenever

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I was that age, And that's exactly how old Samantha

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Koenig was in February of twenty twelve. Now Samantha had

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these big brown eyes, tan skin, long auburn hair, just

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very fresh faced girl. Super optimistic too. You could see

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it in her face that this is just a very

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optimistic girl. And she had some edge to her as well.

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She rocked up, piercing right below her bottom lip. She

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would put smoky eyes on her makeup, but she could

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also switch it up and she could be clean cut,

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she could be sultry, she could do whatever the hell

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she wanted. Y'all. She was alive, she was free, and

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she was young. She had it going on. She was

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born in Anchorage, Alaska, in the month of August. And

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if you don't know, that makes her a Leo. And

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you know about us Leo's, don't you well, look up

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the horoscope if you don't, because it really plays into personality. Hell,

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y'all know, don't go look up shit. Y'all know I

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got it for you. Okay, quit playing. I looked it

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up for you. So a leo, I want you to

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know what type of personality that is that They are

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described as warm, artistic, and protective of the ones that

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they love. Leo's make great friends and are often thought

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of as larger than life in the eyes of others.

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They possess a charm that many are drawn to, but

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they can get fierce when and they are disrespected. And

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I want you to know I'm a Leo, Samsey's queen. Okay,

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I am Aleo, and I've been known to be spicier

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time or two, all right, But I think that the

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Leo plays an important role in society and the power

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that they possess whenever they want to go after the

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things that they love or the things that they hate.

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But Samantha was an embodiment of all of these attributes.

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This girl had fun written all over her. She had

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a strong work ethic. She actually held multiple jobs, including

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she made sandwiches at Subway, but she also worked as

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a barista, which was something that she had been dying

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to do. It was a job she really wanted, and

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she was really good in the service industry too. Customers

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loved her bubbly personality. She was brilliantly sarcastic and super witty.

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But she also, on the flip side, had a deep

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love for animals, which makes her a girl after my

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own heart. Her future goals were that she was kind

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of all over the place.

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Really.

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She wanted to work in the equestrian world with the

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with the horses, but she said, ob or maybe I

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want to work with wild animals in some way. But

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for now, she enjoyed fishing with her papa. She loved photography,

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and she loved playing Call of Duty. I love that game.

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But speaking of Call of Duty, her immediate considerations were

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leaning towards joining the navy. She wanted to become a

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nurse in some way, and she just had this low,

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this growing list of dreams of just all these random

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things that she wanted to achieve. And I think there's

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a sweetness to that. It's all over the place. I

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want to work with wild animals and be a nurse

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and put me on a boat, you know. She was everywhere,

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And Samantha was also one hundred percent a daddy's girl.

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And as you can imagine, this adventure of possibly joining

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the military that had him a bit nervous, because daddies

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don't care how old you are. Their baby girls are

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always going to be their babies. And to the world

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they have been looking at this eighteen year old young lady.

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But to him, when he looked at her face, he

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still saw that tiny girl grinning up from a car seat,

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looking at him with the funniest giggle snort ever. But

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his honey bunny, that's what he called her. His honey bunny,

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was destined for nothing but an amazing life full of adventure,

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no matter where it took her. But I guess well,

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as long as she kept her head on straight, because

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you know how those girls are whenever they fall in love.

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And Samantha had found her keeper.

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Now.

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His name was Dwayne, and he flat out made her

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melt with every single hug. But make no mistake, when

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they sat down together and they put on those headsets

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to play call of duty, it meant war, and Dwayne

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was going down all right. This girl was fierce in

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her competition, but she also had great friends and they

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they were tight. These were such good friends. She loved

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him so much and she could confide in them. Every girl,

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I don't care what age you are, I'll say one

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and two. Everyone really hopes to get a girlfriend that

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they can lean on and that they can grow with

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through the times. And Samantha was blessed with not one,

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but two very good girlfriends Ashley and Kelsey. They made

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the remaining two of this terrific trio. And after all,

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girls just want fun, right, but first they have to

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have money. So it was February first, twenty twelve when

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Samantha was working at a roadside coffee shop. Now shop

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in this instance really means like a small portable building

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and it was in a parking lot. It was super cute.

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It was where drivers could pull up. There was a

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window on the side of it, they could make their order,

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wait for their drink, and then it would be handed

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to them right there. So there's no inside seating or

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anything like that. Kind of think of a snowball stand

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set up, brightly colored teal building. It had I think

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it had spots on it, and it just was super cute. Well,

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she was working the evening shift, so it was from

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one pm to about eight pm, and then she would

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have to do her closing duties. So Dwayne was supposed

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to pick her up whenever she was done. So he

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was calling and she wouldn't answer the phone. But that's

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okay because when she's busy making all of these drinks,

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there's no other employees. It's just her. The customers come first.

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So when he arrived to pick her up from the

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coffee shop later that night, she wasn't there, and so

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he was kind of confused and really a little hurt

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that she wasn't even telling him like why she wasn't

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going to be there, And so he ended up leaving

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the shop, but he continued to text her, you know,

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what are you doing? Where are you Why won't you

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answer the phone? Well, these text messages and these calls

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really remained unanswered. But after a while, when none of

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his continued calls were answered, he kind of became alarmed

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that this seems like it's gone too long. So after

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pla seeing a series of calls to her that would

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go ignored, she then texted him that she was mad

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at him, and he knew what he did. She then said, look,

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I'm going to stay with friends, leave me alone. You

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know exactly what you did, basically, f off. And so

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Dwayne reads this message and he's like, yeah, right. He

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couldn't even make it make sense. What are you talking about?

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They had literally just made plans for Valentine's Day. They

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were just excited talking about the reservations that had just

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been solidified. Dwayne was literally confused, and he knew he

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hadn't done anything. He loved his Samantha and she loved him.

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It was odd to say the least, So what was

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going on? Well, Dwayne knew, all right, I gotta go

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talk to her daddy, okay, So he goes home to

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talk to the dad. Now he actually did live with

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Samantha as well, so it was his home too, but

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he also wanted to go talk to Samantha's daddy. The

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thing was, when they started talking, Samantha wasn't even answering

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her dad's messages or calls. So that scared them and

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they knew that this was completely out of the norm.

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So Samantha's daddy called the owners of the coffee shop

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to say, she hasn't come home yet, it's getting late.

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What is going on? Have you spoken to her? Well,

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they in turn turned around and they pulled security footage

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and cameras that were stationed around the coffee shop as

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well as inside the coffee shop, and they were horrified

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at what they saw. That's whenever they decided they had

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to place a call to nine one one.

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It's just that fan healthy. Hello, I'd been calling from

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out of state, or I would have called the emergency line.

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One of our coffee shops last night at a.

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Period got From what we can tell, it looks like

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it got robbed.

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And we're just all now starting to figure this out.

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Okay, when you say rob did somebody come there with

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a gun and demand money or did somebody break into

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it after it was closed? Well, while still was there,

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it looks like it was right about eight o'clock. The

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pammer's time is off. I'm gonna have to ask you

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to confirm what I just deaff. Was there a person

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that walked up to the coffee stand and held it

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up at some point as far as I can tell

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from my camera, yet when it came while we were

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at the police department last night, it looks she left

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with this person.

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So we're assuming she's in danger.

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So where is the person we're going to go talk

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To about this.

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Well, it's also place at common Ground Espresso on Tuotor

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the father there's the mission, Marissa's father and boyfriend is there, Okay,

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so they're all there at the address on Tuoter Roads.

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So in just that snippet you can hear that they

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they actually know that something is wrong, and they're out

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of state. That's why they didn't just rush and go

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straight to go check on her or go to the

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coffee shop themselves. Because they're out of state. I guess

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they own multiple little little shop around the US. So

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police respond, as you can imagine, and they know immediately

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this situation is bad. It's bad, bad because in reviewing

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the surveillance video from the shop, at first, nothing really

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looks a miss. So starting at about eight pm, that's

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whenever the business was supposed to close, you can see

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Samantha is just doing her little cleanup tasks. She's dressed

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very comfortably. She's got on this green T shirt, black

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yoga pants, tennis shoes. She's very calmly, just going about

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her little routine and doing her closing duties. Well, this

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coffee shop was open later than many of the surrounding

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stores around it, So that was a perk for somebody

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that may want a late caffeine pick me up. So

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as she's cleaning, someone does in fact approach the drive

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the window and orders a coffee. So she makes this coffee,

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takes her us a little bit, and then she leans

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out the window slightly to hand them the drink, when

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suddenly her body language shifts. You don't have to hear

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a thing, you can see it. Her body language immediately shifts,

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and you can sense the terror in her stiff reaction

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to what she does. She immediately pulls her hands up

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kind of at her shoulders, and her hands are up

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in this like don't shoot position, I surrender. That was

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what she looked like. And all you can do is

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just watch as you see a gun come through that

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window and she desperately backs away, but there's nowhere for

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her to go. This building is so small. It's just

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a little, tiny portable building. It's lined with drink mixes

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and machines. It was basically like being in a large

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walk in closet. So obviously, while you're watching the video,

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because there is no sound to it, you can tell

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that she's being told what to do, and she's following

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those commands, so she's got her hands up and you

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can tell she's just standing there looking at this person,

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wide eyed. And she is then told go turn off

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the lights, so she reaches over she turns out the lights,

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and this is obviously a clear thought out plan to

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make it very difficult for any cameras to tell what

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is going on inside. There's only literally one light bar

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up there. You turn that off. There's no light in

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this building. So when she did that, it became very

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very dark in this small building. Only the glow of

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the cash register screen gives a slight hint of some

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lighting and you can kind of pick up the movement

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in there. Nine minutes, that's all it takes. The next

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nine minutes of surveillance video are is going to change

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a ton of lives forever. So the attacker has all

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dark clothing on, a hoodie up and a ski mask.

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There is no chance of identifying him by this grainy,

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poor video. But what happened is right there for everybody

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to see, but it's through strained eyes and you have

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to watch very closely. Samantha, it was obvious did not

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know her attacker, nor did he know her, and I'm

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sure her mind was racing and it went straight into

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survival mode, her inner voice saying, just do what he says.

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Everything's gonna be okay. I just have to do what

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he says. So she stood there in front of the

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window for nearly a minute, maybe a minute and a half.

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Her hands are still up, and she's seemingly listening to

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this gunman talking to her through this window. She then

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rushes to the opposite corner of the building and grabs

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what appears to be a step stool, and she places

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it right underneath the window. And she's then directed to

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open the cash register, which she does, and you see her.

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She's calm, but she's nervous, and she presses the buttons.

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It pops open. She flips up each plastic arm that

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presses down on the bills to keep them in their slot,

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and she stacks that cash in her hand, even grabbing

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all of the change, and she gets it all together.

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She then bends down underneath one of the cabinets and

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she grabs what I think is a bag, puts it

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in there, and then she hands it to the gunman

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out the window. So now that he's gotten what he's

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come for all he's got to do is turn around

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and run. He can get out of there, hopefully. You know,

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she won't be fired for giving all the cash away,

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but hell, at least he didn't shoot her. She did

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the right thing. She just followed commands. But after a

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moment or two, he's still in the window and he

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tells her to sit down, and she does immediately boom,

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she just drops down to her butt. She's still in

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that surrender position, and she drops straight down to her butt,

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and her inner thoughts have to be somewhere along the

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lines of, okay, maybe now he's gonna run off. Yeah,

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I did what he said. I'm gonna sit down. I

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can't see where he goes. That's what he wants, and

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he's gonna run off and it's gonna be okay. But

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he doesn't, and for what seems like forever, he continues

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talking to her as she's nervously just shifting on the floor.

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And I told you, nine minutes is all this all takes.

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It is the longest nine minute I've watched in a

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while on security camera. But what Samantha didn't know was

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that he had additional plans and running away was not

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part of it. So he grabs this wooden dowl like

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a wooden stick and jams it in the window to

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hold it open. So money and gun in hand. You

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then see a ski mask covered man begin to climb

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into this small open window, bending his slender body almost

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unnaturally to fit through that small space with this helpless victim.

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She's just a foot in front of him. She's shaking,

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but she's not moving, and you can just feel the

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fear that's radiating her body. Well, there's another camera angle,

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even though it's a very small building, there's another camera

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angle that shows right outside the coffee shop, and while

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this young girl's life is literally in the balance, you

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can also see people in the other camera and they're

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just walking about in the distance, going about their evening.

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I believe it was a home depot. It was just

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yards away, but no one notices what's happening right there

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in the parking lot. So when he finally makes it inside,

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he closes the window behind him, Samantha never moving from

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that position on the ground, and then it takes a

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little while to figure out what's happening. There's a bunch

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of this movement and he's bending down but you realize

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that he is zip tying her hands together. Once he

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does that, he gets her up to her feet, much

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like when an arrested person is assisted their handcuffed and

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they get assisted up to their feet, and he gets

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her up and then he stuffs napkins in her mouth.

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This is an impromptu silencer of sorts because what she

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doesn't know is that she's leaving with him. So while

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her daddy was at home awaiting her return and her

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boyfriend is texting her with no response at this point

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in time, they have no way of knowing. That was

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when sami Antha was in dire need of help. It

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was cold outside, and the attacker at least put her

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jacket over her shoulders. But do not get this twisted.

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The coat was not for her comfort, It was for

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him because he didn't want the people outside to see

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that she was bound. That would have drawn attention, so

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he draped it over her shoulders. And then the side

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door of that small little coffee shop opens and the

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two walk out together, and as you watch them, they

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disappear in the distance of the camera, walking into that

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busy parking lot. No one even aware that she is

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a captive and actively being kidnapped. So once outside and

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off in the distance, the kidnapper asked her, where is

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your car, and she said I don't have one, which

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he scoffed at. He didn't believe her, but it was

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actually true. In the back of her mind, I know

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she was thinking, maybe Duaye's about to pull up and

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he's gonna he's gonna stop this. He can come save me.

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I know he can, but that wouldn't happen. It just

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was not the right time for that. So so whenever

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she had to explain to this kidnapper, look, I share

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a car with my boyfriend. He's supposed to come pick

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me up. The kidnapper realized, Okay, I've got to switch.

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I've got to switch plans real quick, and I've got

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to improvise. He says, fine, let's go get in my car,

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because he may have attacked her on foot, but he

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had driven to that scene and he had parked a

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way further away in the distance. So amongst all of

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these demands and these questions that were thrown Samantha's away,

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what the attacker never asked her in all of this

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time was what is your horoscope? Because remember, Samantha was

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a Leo, and that meant she was a fighter. She

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was a warrior. She was a fire sign. But he

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was going to have to find that out right about now.

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And Samantha decided in that moment that she was going

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to get away. She jerked as hard as she could,

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and she broke free from her captor and she ran

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with everything that she had. She was off balance though,

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because of the zip ties behind her back, but fuck it,

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she was running for her life and she was not

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going down without a fight. Her feet pounded that pavement,

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and whether it was her heart beating that loud in

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her chest or it was the sound of her shoes

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on the ground, she didn't know. But she was running

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for her life. But it felt like slow motion. It

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was horrifying. It felt like slow motion. But she dug in,

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and she dug in, but it was like she was

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getting nowhere. Her hair was blowing, her jacket fell off

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her shoulders, and she thought, oh my god, you know,

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I may fall over, but I'm gonna fight. And she

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dug in and she ran. As awkward as it was,

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she wasn't going with this man. She was going away

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from him. When boom, she wasn't sure if she had

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been shot or what exactly had just happened, but she

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felt the brutal force of something slamming her body to

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the ground, but she quickly realized she was not shot.

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She had just been tackled by the gunman who chased

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her down, and he tackled her to the ground, and

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she had no way of catching her fall. She slammed down,

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her face slid a grint against the concrete, and the

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weight of him on top of her was just too much,

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combined with the awkward tying of her hands behind her back,

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and he put one arm around her, and he slammed

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the gun back at her, and he said, you better

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comply if you do not cooperate with me. This gun

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has very quiet, ammo, and I have no problem killing

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you none. He then slowly lifted off of her and

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resigned to the fact that this would not be a

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way that she could ever get away from him. She

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nodded in sweaty fear, but she silently nodded at him,

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and she was gonna have to think of another way

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to get out. So he got her back up to

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her feet and they walked up across the parking lot

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in between an ihop restaurant and a dairy queen, eventually

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approaching a white truck inconspicuously parked hidden right there in

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plain sight, in front of everybody, while taking his own

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vehicle from the scene of the kidnapping had not been

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his original plan. We'll have to give him a little

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more credit than that, because evil may not be nice.

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But unfortunately, evil does seem to be prepared. Because Samantha's

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captor had prepared his own truck ahead of this abduction,

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just in case, because he didn't know exactly at that

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time who he would be abducting, but he knew that

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someone someday would be with him in that truck against

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their will. He had already removed the mounted toolboxes off

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the back of the bed, and he took the time

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to bend down before he even abducted her, and he

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had taken off his front license plate and his back

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license plate. This truck was ready to take someone against

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their will. So he opened the door and he forced

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Samantha inside of his truck. Now, he also had zip

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ties with him. They were about thirty six inches long,

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and so he took these zip ties and then zip

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tied her to the seat belt that was inside of

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his truck, so that even if she opened the door,

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she could not bail out of the vehicle. She was

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stuck in this car. So once he had her tied

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up where he felt like she wasn't going to be

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able to move or get away, he shut the door,

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walked around, jumped in the truck himself, started it, and

468
00:25:39.839 --> 00:25:43.799
they drove off together, right in front of everybody in

469
00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:47.279
the parking lot. Her daddy's still at home waiting on

470
00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:50.359
his honey Bunny to return from her shift, and Dwayne

471
00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:54.079
now pulling up to get her, but she was long

472
00:25:54.119 --> 00:25:58.880
gone by now and they had no clue. The abductor

473
00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:02.559
now drives away and, feeling confident in what he had done,

474
00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:06.039
had a captive audience, and he decided that he was

475
00:26:06.079 --> 00:26:08.559
now going to unravel his grand plan to her. And

476
00:26:08.599 --> 00:26:11.160
it was much like a villain in a movie who

477
00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:14.160
details his evil plan before the good guy swoops in

478
00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:16.960
and saves the day, except this time there was no

479
00:26:17.079 --> 00:26:21.359
hero to save the day, because Samantha was alone with

480
00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:26.559
her captor. What he explained to her was this, you

481
00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:30.160
do what you're told and you will live. I'm just

482
00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:33.319
taking you because I want you for ransom money. But

483
00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:37.200
when I'm paid, you are released. Well this sounded good

484
00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:42.200
to Samantha. Why because her daddy would pay. She knew it.

485
00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:45.119
Her daddy would storm the gates of Hell with only

486
00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:47.960
a glass of ice water for protection for her. Devil

487
00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:51.920
be damned. So yes, please, yes, call my daddy, Please

488
00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:57.640
call him. Okay, and he'll pay the money. But until then,

489
00:26:58.759 --> 00:27:02.160
Samantha decided to start working on Plan B. It was

490
00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:06.119
the age old I've got a p plan and I'm like, girl,

491
00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:08.119
we're with you on that one, because hell, what do

492
00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:09.799
we ladies always have to do when we get in

493
00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:12.759
that car. We've got a pe. So she tells him

494
00:27:12.799 --> 00:27:15.119
I've got to use the bathroom. I know in the

495
00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:16.880
back of her mind she thought, yes, so he'll have

496
00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:18.720
to untie me, he'll have to take me into a

497
00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:20.799
burger king or something so I can go use the bathroom.

498
00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:23.880
But unfortunately, he says, fine, you got a pee, let's go.

499
00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:27.839
But he takes her to a park area at night

500
00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:30.799
that people aren't at the park at night. She didn't

501
00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:34.480
get taken to an actual store, so he takes her out.

502
00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:37.960
She does use the bathroom, but this Plan B also

503
00:27:38.279 --> 00:27:42.240
did not go as planned in her mind, so they

504
00:27:42.279 --> 00:27:45.720
get back in the car, And meanwhile, Samantha is now

505
00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:49.640
talking with her abductor, and she explained to him, Look,

506
00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:52.640
my family doesn't have a lot of money, so maybe

507
00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:54.279
you should let me go. Maybe you need to go

508
00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:57.240
get someone who's worth more, because I don't think that

509
00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:00.880
they can pay probably what you want. Now, I'm gonna

510
00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:02.759
let you know something. Her daddy would have scoffed at that,

511
00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:05.920
because she was priceless to him. There was no amount

512
00:28:05.960 --> 00:28:07.680
of money that man would not have paid for her.

513
00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:10.880
He just didn't know she was gone yet. So the

514
00:28:10.920 --> 00:28:13.559
abductor replied, Yeah, that's okay if you don't have a

515
00:28:13.599 --> 00:28:16.240
lot of money, because when the public finds out that

516
00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:20.200
you're missing, he'll be able to raise money through the public,

517
00:28:20.559 --> 00:28:21.960
and then I'll be able to get a good chunk

518
00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:25.599
of change for you. And that's when he says, where

519
00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:27.079
is your cell phone? I want your cell phone, I

520
00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:30.640
want your keys, and I want them now. Well, sorry

521
00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:32.279
to break it to you, man, but you scared the

522
00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:34.559
everloving shit out of her. Whenever you put a gun

523
00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:37.039
in her face. Back at the coffee shop, she never

524
00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:40.839
grabbed anything. The keys and the cell phone were still

525
00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:43.359
back on the counter. He didn't see them whenever they

526
00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:45.960
were walking out, and she never grabbed them. So this

527
00:28:46.039 --> 00:28:48.680
really messed up his next portion of his plan because

528
00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:51.799
he was gonna be texting her family and her boss

529
00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:56.880
from her phone to demand the money. Another phone. Now

530
00:28:57.160 --> 00:28:58.839
he can't use his own. Obviously, even if you went

531
00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:00.880
and got him a prepaid or something like that, he

532
00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:02.680
can't text from that because that's not going to be

533
00:29:02.680 --> 00:29:05.400
as believable. They may not believe that she's even alive.

534
00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:08.359
He had to have her phone, so he drove back

535
00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:11.039
to the area of the coffee shop, but he was

536
00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:13.880
fearing that the police may have already been there. Turns out,

537
00:29:13.880 --> 00:29:16.680
though he was wrong, no one actually knew that she

538
00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:20.559
was missing yet. Dwayne hadn't yet received that text message,

539
00:29:20.599 --> 00:29:23.440
and he had shown up to go pick her up.

540
00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:26.839
She wasn't there, and then he left, and he had

541
00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:29.400
gone back to the house to talk to her daddy.

542
00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:32.640
No one knew yet exactly what had happened. So since

543
00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:36.039
there was no police, he knew that they knew that

544
00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:41.000
she wasn't missing yet, and so he brazenly just got

545
00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:43.720
out of his truck, broke back into the coffee shop,

546
00:29:44.359 --> 00:29:47.319
picked up Samantha's keys, and her phone. Samantha was still

547
00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:49.880
bound in his truck, and then he got out, jump

548
00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:52.119
back in, and he sped away. He was at his

549
00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:56.279
own crime scene twice with nobody seeing a thing. So

550
00:29:56.400 --> 00:29:59.400
after they left that second time, he drove around with

551
00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:03.400
Samantha for a while. And the reality was that when

552
00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:07.240
the kidnapper prepared for this event, he had also gotten

553
00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:10.839
a police scanner, so it wasn't just that he had

554
00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:14.119
to look for police. He actually knew that there probably

555
00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:16.640
would be no police there. Why he had an ear

556
00:30:16.720 --> 00:30:20.359
piece in while he was robbing her, and he was

557
00:30:20.440 --> 00:30:23.880
monitoring the police radio to ensure that no one was

558
00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:26.039
responding to the coffee shop while he was there, no

559
00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:28.960
panic button or anything like that. He was ten steps ahead,

560
00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:32.200
and he was listening. After he got her, he was

561
00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:36.599
listening when he pulled back up. He knew that nobody

562
00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:39.880
was responding because they had no idea yet. He literally

563
00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:43.519
seemed to have everything mapped out and this is unfolding

564
00:30:43.559 --> 00:30:46.599
in front of Samantha's eyes, and she's realizing, my god,

565
00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:49.559
you know, this is bad, bad, this is really bad.

566
00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:53.839
The radio was calm, and there was nothing pointed to

567
00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:57.079
that she was even gone, so it was now that

568
00:30:57.119 --> 00:30:59.559
he had gotten her cell phone, that he drove off

569
00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:03.960
to another area and he sent those text messages that

570
00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:07.240
her boyfriend Dwayne at the very beginning of this episode

571
00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:10.440
I mentioned to you had received. He sent two messages

572
00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:13.960
actually from Samantha's phone. The abductor sent the first message

573
00:31:13.960 --> 00:31:16.799
to Dwayne about this her being mad at him and

574
00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:19.039
she was going to go stay with friends. And then

575
00:31:19.079 --> 00:31:21.880
the second message he sent from her phone was to

576
00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:24.599
the owner of the coffee shop, basically saying, I've had

577
00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:26.680
a really rough day. I'm just going to be going

578
00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:29.839
out of town for a couple of days. So the

579
00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:33.039
goal here was obviously to explain her absence in their lives,

580
00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:35.359
but I guess he didn't quite account for the fact

581
00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:38.960
that she had a parent who would be just beside

582
00:31:39.039 --> 00:31:43.839
himself shortly when she didn't go back home. So roll

583
00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:47.519
fast on the family dynamic. Samantha's dad was a single

584
00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:51.680
dad that raised Samantha her entire life. The mom I believe,

585
00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:53.920
I don't know exactly what date at this time of

586
00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:56.319
this recording, but her mom wasn't much in the picture

587
00:31:56.640 --> 00:32:01.400
as far as her steady parent. Well after the messages

588
00:32:01.400 --> 00:32:04.400
were sent by the abductor, he removed the battery from

589
00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:08.200
her phone, so now she was gone and her phone

590
00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:11.559
could not be tracked either. But now he had to

591
00:32:11.559 --> 00:32:14.759
do something with her until he was prepared to demand

592
00:32:14.759 --> 00:32:17.720
his ransom money, but he also wanted some cash, so

593
00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:20.119
what he told her was give me your debit card.

594
00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:24.720
But she was smart. Remember Samantha is a fighter. She

595
00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:28.799
was really smart. She had a debit card, but she

596
00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:32.319
told him she didn't have one on her. He would

597
00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:34.960
have to go get the one that was in Dwayne's truck.

598
00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:38.759
Dwayne was coming to pick her up. It fit the

599
00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:41.519
story perfectly. She said, you're gonna have to go get

600
00:32:41.519 --> 00:32:45.119
it from the truck, and the truck is probably at

601
00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:50.400
my house where I live. Clever girl, so she explained him, Oh,

602
00:32:50.440 --> 00:32:53.039
we share a bank account and me and my boyfriend

603
00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:55.839
and we keep the debit card in the truck, and

604
00:32:55.920 --> 00:32:58.079
so you're gonna have to go get it from there.

605
00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:01.799
Well he was and even deterred a bit by this.

606
00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:07.119
He says, fine, what's your home address? So, unfortunately for her,

607
00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:11.400
she gives it to him and then finds out she

608
00:33:11.480 --> 00:33:16.039
will not be accompanying him to her home, so instead

609
00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:17.799
of bringing her in the car while he goes to

610
00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:21.240
go get the debit card. He actually continues driving and

611
00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:24.440
he pulls up at another home, one that she is

612
00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:28.519
very unfamiliar with. Why because it was her captor's home

613
00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:33.240
and now there was a new issue. There was still

614
00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:36.440
a whole lot of people moving about in this neighborhood

615
00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:39.440
where her captor lived. He couldn't just get out with

616
00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:42.599
this girl that's zip tied up and bound in the

617
00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:45.839
back of his truck without somebody seeing. So that's whenever

618
00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:48.920
he made an adjustment. He told her, you are going

619
00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:51.519
to stay in this truck. You're going to stay in

620
00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:53.759
this truck, zip tied, and I'm going to cover you

621
00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:57.759
with some drop cloths. You better not move, You better

622
00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:00.960
not make a sound. If I see your head pop up,

623
00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:05.480
it's over for you. And so she complied. She laid

624
00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:08.760
in the back of that truck, zip tied, bound and

625
00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:14.320
covered until two o'clock in the morning, when all was quiet,

626
00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:19.800
all was still. There was little to no movement outside

627
00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:23.400
of any others minus the random barking dog off in

628
00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:26.519
the distance from time to time. And that's when the

629
00:34:26.559 --> 00:34:29.840
captor returned to his vehicle and removed her from it,

630
00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:34.000
and together they walked up towards the house. It was

631
00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:37.039
a modest, middle class home, looked to be in a

632
00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:41.280
family friendly neighborhood. And as they walked up the driveway

633
00:34:41.440 --> 00:34:44.800
towards the front, she wouldn't be so lucky as to

634
00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:47.880
enter through that front door. No, they would actually turn

635
00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:50.920
and make a hard right, and that's when Samantha lay

636
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:54.320
her eyes on her new home. In front of her

637
00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:57.320
was a metal shed, a small one that you would

638
00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:01.280
store lawn equipment in and such. So I'm sure you

639
00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:04.360
know where this is about to go. So go ahead

640
00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:06.119
real quick, I'll let you wherever you're listening to this,

641
00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:08.760
go ahead, say it out loud. I'm not kidding. Come on,

642
00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:10.960
right now, say it out loud. What is it? Did

643
00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:13.360
you say it? Did you say he's about to chain

644
00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:17.000
her up in that shed? Of course you did, and

645
00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:21.800
of course you're sicknically correct. So the man opened the shed,

646
00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:25.519
he shoved her inside, closing the door behind him. And

647
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:31.159
that's when reality really started to sink in, because Samantha

648
00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:35.599
watched as he walked over and he grabbed a rope.

649
00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:38.480
Her captor took that rope and he walked over and

650
00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:42.199
he explained to her, you will not be leaving until

651
00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:46.000
I get my money. He then tied that rope around

652
00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:52.159
her neck and bound her wrists and her ankles, so

653
00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:57.280
fearful that she may yell out or get somebody's attention,

654
00:35:57.400 --> 00:36:00.960
He threatened her if you yell out, if you make

655
00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:04.920
a sound, if you alert anybody that you are in here,

656
00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:09.760
I will kill you. Do you understand me? She shook

657
00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:13.320
her head in understanding, as she was shivering, probably the

658
00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:15.960
combination of the fear and the cold because it was

659
00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:19.679
snowing outside. This wasn't a insulated shed or anything like that.

660
00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:23.360
So she's now tied up by her neck and her

661
00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:25.599
wrists in her ankles, and he looks her in her

662
00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:28.880
face and he demands the pin the pin number for

663
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:32.119
the ATM card. So she gave it to him, and

664
00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:36.639
she verified her address again cool. The man then leaned

665
00:36:36.679 --> 00:36:39.840
over where he had her radio stationed right there, and

666
00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:42.239
he turned the volume up really high that would drown

667
00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:44.800
out any noise that she may try to make, and

668
00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:48.039
he reminded her of this too. I have a police scanner.

669
00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:52.599
I will know if you alert somebody. And guess what

670
00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:56.760
I now have your home address. Do not fuck this up.

671
00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:02.400
The man then casually turned around, exited the shed and

672
00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:05.480
locked her in it behind him, tied by her neck

673
00:37:06.239 --> 00:37:10.239
and bound by her wrists and her ankles. So address

674
00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:14.000
in hand. He was now en route to Samantha's house,

675
00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:19.239
where her daddy was and where Dwayne was. They knew

676
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:22.760
at this point that she was missing, They just did

677
00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:27.800
not know anything to this extent. So whenever he got there,

678
00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:29.960
he did see that there were cars in the driveway,

679
00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:33.000
including the truck that Samantha had described to him. She

680
00:37:33.079 --> 00:37:36.400
said the ATM card would be above the visor. So

681
00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:38.119
he sat there for a while and he watched to

682
00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:40.360
see if there was anyone moving about in the home.

683
00:37:41.159 --> 00:37:44.320
Everything was still, everything was calm, and that's when he

684
00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:47.039
decided he would make his move. So he quietly got

685
00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:50.480
out of his vehicle and then snuck up the driveway

686
00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:54.880
of Samantha's home. Remember it was still really early morning hours,

687
00:37:54.920 --> 00:37:58.199
so it was dark and it was quiet, and using

688
00:37:58.199 --> 00:38:03.599
Samantha's keys, he quietly unlocked the truck and he gently

689
00:38:04.199 --> 00:38:07.320
popped open the door. When he did so, that dome

690
00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:09.639
light popped on and he slouched. He kind of crouched

691
00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:13.159
slightly in reaction to that light, but nobody was around.

692
00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:18.199
He then reached up and he pulled down the visor,

693
00:38:18.559 --> 00:38:20.960
and sure enough, just as Samantha had said it would,

694
00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:23.840
a debit card dropped right out of the top of

695
00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:27.719
that visor. Bingo. He had what he had come for.

696
00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:32.119
So he then kind of backed out and he quietly

697
00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:35.320
shut the door, feeling accomplished. And right as he shut

698
00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:38.880
that door, to his shock, a young man was standing

699
00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:42.159
there and he started yelling at him. Who are you?

700
00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:47.119
What are you doing? Who are you? Y'all? It was Dwayne.

701
00:38:47.159 --> 00:38:50.400
It was Dwayne, her boyfriend. Because not only was he

702
00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:52.880
at the house because he lived there, not only had

703
00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:55.599
he been talking to Samantha's daddy because they didn't know

704
00:38:55.639 --> 00:38:58.320
where she was. But he was so upset that he

705
00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:01.320
had kept walking outside every thirty minutes. He kept going

706
00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:03.400
outside and looking at her truck to see did she

707
00:39:03.480 --> 00:39:05.639
come get the truck? What was she doing? Was she

708
00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:07.400
gonna take something out of the truck because she's mad

709
00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:08.840
at me for something? And he didn't even know what

710
00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:13.239
he did. Well deer in the headlights, the abductor just

711
00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:17.199
stood there staring at Dwayne. He never even said a word,

712
00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:20.920
and that's when Dwayne realized, oh shit, I gotta do something.

713
00:39:21.239 --> 00:39:23.360
So he tears off into the front door of the house,

714
00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:26.039
yelling for Samantha's dad, come here, Come here, come here.

715
00:39:26.039 --> 00:39:28.480
There's a guy breaking in the truck. But this gave

716
00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:31.440
time for Samantha's captor to turn and run for it,

717
00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:34.519
which he did. He got straight, he ran straight to

718
00:39:34.599 --> 00:39:37.320
his truck, he jumped in, and he sped away. All

719
00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:40.800
of this before any identifying information about him could be

720
00:39:41.119 --> 00:39:46.440
really obtained from him. So after that close call, the

721
00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:50.800
abductor made it away. He made his escape, and that's

722
00:39:50.800 --> 00:39:53.599
whenever he drove to a nearby atm he wanted to

723
00:39:53.679 --> 00:39:56.559
test that pin number and see if Samantha had given

724
00:39:56.639 --> 00:39:59.360
him the real pin number, and he would find out

725
00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:02.960
she did. He tested it and he was able to

726
00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:06.719
get some money, slide the money in your pocket, and

727
00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:09.880
then drive on back to his house as if it

728
00:40:09.960 --> 00:40:14.639
was just another regular day. Well, by now the police

729
00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:17.280
had been alerted to the situation, and they had now

730
00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:20.199
also seen that abduction footage that was obtained from the

731
00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:23.800
coffee shop owners, but they were no closer to knowing

732
00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:26.599
who had her or what was going on. I mean, hell,

733
00:40:26.679 --> 00:40:29.800
at this point you don't either. Nobody could even understand

734
00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:32.559
what was going on here. She had no known enemies,

735
00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:36.400
she did not live a high risk lifestyle either, who

736
00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:40.920
would have taken her? So police went and they interviewed

737
00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:44.920
Samantha's daddy. Now daddy's name is James Koenig, and they

738
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:48.559
recorded that interview, and I'm just gonna play a small

739
00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:52.360
snippet of that with you here. Now. Remember, he doesn't

740
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:54.960
know everything that you do at this point. All he

741
00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:57.360
knows at this point is that his daughter has been taken,

742
00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:00.800
and he's being asked kind of a about what was

743
00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:03.679
going on, and he's being asked about Dwayne and the

744
00:41:03.719 --> 00:41:06.840
relationship between him and Samantha. I want to tell you

745
00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:09.440
this too before I play it. The names are kind

746
00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:13.480
of muted by the original audio that was released, so

747
00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:16.360
you're not having sound problems. The names are just not

748
00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:17.239
able to be heard.

749
00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:20.719
And so when did you start to become concerned she

750
00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:23.000
obviously she didn't show up at eight o'clock one.

751
00:41:23.119 --> 00:41:24.960
Well, I was concerned when he showed up at eight

752
00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:28.039
fifteen to pick her up and she wasn't here, and

753
00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:31.039
she wouldn't return any of my phone calls or text messages.

754
00:41:32.719 --> 00:41:35.280
And I think at eleven fifty five he got a

755
00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:39.559
text message on his phone saying, you know, fu asshole,

756
00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:42.400
I know what you did or whatever, and I'm going

757
00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:44.199
to stay with some prims for a couple of days.

758
00:41:44.320 --> 00:41:44.960
Let dad know.

759
00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:48.880
And that's not her, that's okay.

760
00:41:49.639 --> 00:41:50.360
So then.

761
00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:55.199
What happens at three o'clock something about there's a.

762
00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:57.559
He went out to look and see if her truck

763
00:41:57.639 --> 00:41:58.679
was still in the parking lot.

764
00:41:58.960 --> 00:41:59.760
Why would he do that?

765
00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:04.079
He's worried about her. Okay, maybe she's gonna come by

766
00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:05.360
and get it or something. I don't know.

767
00:42:05.559 --> 00:42:06.079
I mean.

768
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:10.639
Where, I mean, I'm going out checking on it too,

769
00:42:11.159 --> 00:42:13.079
But it just so happens. He goes out and checks

770
00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:15.320
on it, and there's some guy in a ski mask inside.

771
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:15.679
Of her vehicle.

772
00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:19.199
And you guys called the police.

773
00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:20.920
No he had the key.

774
00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:23.360
I mean, you guys can't do anything if he ain't

775
00:42:23.400 --> 00:42:25.679
breaking an entering. And the guy already ran down the road.

776
00:42:25.679 --> 00:42:28.440
We didn't get into script. You know, a guy in

777
00:42:28.519 --> 00:42:32.079
a black ski mask didn't say anything when came out

778
00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:34.719
on the porch and asked him if you know what's

779
00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:35.960
what he's doing or whatnot?

780
00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:51.639
Uh huh, and he took off running or I don't know,

781
00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:54.119
was the key still in the vehicle or.

782
00:42:54.039 --> 00:42:54.800
Did he take the key.

783
00:42:54.920 --> 00:42:58.239
He took the keys, and apparently her driver's license is

784
00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:05.079
missing out of her now I don't know if anything else, okay,

785
00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:07.719
And I don't know if she had her driver's lice

786
00:43:08.079 --> 00:43:08.639
on her.

787
00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:12.119
And that's how I don't know if it's missing from

788
00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:12.800
the truck at.

789
00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:15.719
Yeah, I don't know. He's he thinks it was.

790
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:18.239
In there and that's normally where she keeps it, but

791
00:43:18.280 --> 00:43:19.800
I don't know if it was on her person.

792
00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:21.599
And that's how we found out where we lived.

793
00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:23.920
So how many keys to the vehicle?

794
00:43:24.519 --> 00:43:26.199
He has a set and she has a said, so

795
00:43:26.239 --> 00:43:27.000
they both have a set.

796
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:31.039
Okay, Well some people these days losing they you know whatever.

797
00:43:31.159 --> 00:43:35.280
So I was just wondering how the key thing was,

798
00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:37.320
and so we.

799
00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:45.039
Took off running, and.

800
00:43:42.519 --> 00:43:44.440
He went up running towards McCrae.

801
00:43:45.639 --> 00:43:53.599
Okay, And I got my dog out there and started

802
00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:54.360
going up the road.

803
00:43:54.440 --> 00:43:59.760
And he didn't think the police would help, not really.

804
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:03.840
I mean, you're strange person's in the car, they take

805
00:44:03.880 --> 00:44:05.199
off fronting when you confront them.

806
00:44:05.239 --> 00:44:07.159
You don't think that the police had come help.

807
00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:13.199
Maybe you know, sure you probably would, But like I said,

808
00:44:13.239 --> 00:44:14.760
I went up the road trying to find the guy

809
00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:17.280
and couldn't find them. I had my dog out there,

810
00:44:17.320 --> 00:44:20.559
she couldn't find them. My daughter has only been missing

811
00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:23.800
for a few hours, and as far as I know,

812
00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:26.280
forty four hours. You guys ain't gonna do anything.

813
00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:29.480
Now listen to what you just heard. I'm just gonna say,

814
00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:31.159
and I get to have my opinion. I was not

815
00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:35.840
a fan of this detective's style of interview. That was

816
00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:39.280
just a snippet of it, but it seemed very confrontational

817
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:43.639
rather than investigative. And the full interview, I've got it,

818
00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:45.320
the full interview. I'll put it on Patreon if you

819
00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:46.559
want to go listen to the full thing so you

820
00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:48.440
can get a full taste of what I'm talking about.

821
00:44:48.840 --> 00:44:51.920
But I just didn't like, really the way that that

822
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:55.760
was done. So were Daddy after this interview and now

823
00:44:55.920 --> 00:44:58.199
the day the next day is breaking and this is

824
00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:01.559
big breaking news. He did whatever he thought he could

825
00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:03.679
to try to help get the information out about his

826
00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:06.960
baby girl, and that included going to the media where

827
00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:11.360
he would beg for her return. He begged whoever took her,

828
00:45:11.440 --> 00:45:14.519
please do not hurt her. He asked that they please

829
00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:18.239
take care of her. Whatever, you know, whatever, We'll handle this.

830
00:45:18.599 --> 00:45:22.840
Just please don't hurt my child, please, But finding her

831
00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:25.960
was not only going to be, you know, a mental

832
00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:28.199
game of figuring of trying to solve this case, but

833
00:45:28.280 --> 00:45:30.719
it was going to be a physically hard thing to

834
00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:34.559
find her, considering they didn't have any leads at this point.

835
00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:40.159
Because even though Anchorage, Alaska is the largest city, it's

836
00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:44.320
got less than ten percent of the total square footage

837
00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:48.119
of the municipality actually populated. That means there is a

838
00:45:48.239 --> 00:45:53.239
vast area of just nature and a ton of room

839
00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:56.480
for people to travel without being able to be detected.

840
00:45:56.639 --> 00:46:01.280
She could be anywhere. So the FBI was now joining

841
00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:03.760
in and they were going to aid in finding where

842
00:46:03.800 --> 00:46:08.639
Samantha possibly could be. So while initially the police looked

843
00:46:08.639 --> 00:46:11.039
at those that were close to Samantha, you know, because

844
00:46:11.079 --> 00:46:13.480
that's common the perpetrators, people that want to hurt us,

845
00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:17.159
they tend to be, unfortunately, people in our inner circles.

846
00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:19.880
But when the FBI got involved and really started looking

847
00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:23.800
at this, they immediately ruled out Dwayne the boyfriend, and

848
00:46:23.880 --> 00:46:26.280
they ruled out Dad. They were not a part of this.

849
00:46:26.840 --> 00:46:30.280
And even with the video of the actual kidnapping, there

850
00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:34.960
were really no good leads to follow. They believed that

851
00:46:35.079 --> 00:46:37.960
she was not the one who sent those text messages.

852
00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:41.360
But now even though they think someone else, the abductor,

853
00:46:41.360 --> 00:46:44.719
probably sent those text messages. And they were right. The

854
00:46:44.800 --> 00:46:47.320
phone was not able to be traced. They couldn't do

855
00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:49.320
any standard things that they did because again he took

856
00:46:49.320 --> 00:46:54.239
the battery out. Well, ten days would pass. Ten days

857
00:46:54.679 --> 00:46:59.840
with nothing, no communication, no sightings of Samantha. She had

858
00:46:59.880 --> 00:47:04.440
just disappeared. So the community did what community does, and

859
00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:06.519
they decided they were going to hold a vigil. Tons

860
00:47:06.559 --> 00:47:09.760
of people showed up for this. Posters were put up,

861
00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:15.400
the media coverage was massive, but it resulted in nothing.

862
00:47:16.239 --> 00:47:21.000
There was no sign of her, and her parents and

863
00:47:21.280 --> 00:47:24.000
her friends and people like me that don't even know her.

864
00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:28.079
You really sit back and go, God, if she's out

865
00:47:28.119 --> 00:47:32.440
in the wilderness by chance, that's scary enough too. I mean,

866
00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:35.840
there's just nothing but remote land out there. The wildlife

867
00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:40.159
and the weather alike were of grave concern in terms

868
00:47:40.199 --> 00:47:44.679
of survival. What are the chances? Ten days and not

869
00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:49.679
a word, and then this extends to three weeks later.

870
00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:57.239
On three weeks without hearing another peep from her. Their

871
00:47:57.639 --> 00:48:00.880
hope was there, but it's starting to fit My god.

872
00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:04.400
Three weeks. Why did this person even take her? What

873
00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:09.679
do they want with her? But on February twenty fourth,

874
00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:14.119
at seven forty five pm, out of the blue, Dwayne

875
00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:19.199
received a text message from Samantha. All it said was

876
00:48:20.199 --> 00:48:26.239
Connor Park. Connor Park was a park nearby, and it

877
00:48:26.320 --> 00:48:29.239
was showing a sign. It was like a picture of

878
00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:33.400
a sign in Connor Park and on that sign there

879
00:48:33.480 --> 00:48:37.000
was a flyer for a missing dog named Albert. And

880
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:42.280
then the words were texted, ain't she purty? Question mark?

881
00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:49.079
What the hell did that mean? Ain't she purty? I

882
00:48:49.159 --> 00:48:54.280
know this. You take a girl and she's now missing

883
00:48:54.320 --> 00:48:56.800
for all of these days, and then your text message

884
00:48:56.880 --> 00:49:04.280
is ain't she purty? It sends a shock to your

885
00:49:04.360 --> 00:49:08.119
system because what does pretty have to do with anything

886
00:49:09.159 --> 00:49:13.079
about a woman unless you were having some very devious

887
00:49:13.119 --> 00:49:17.800
thoughts about doing things to her. So immediately though, when

888
00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:20.440
the text came through, he didn't know what it meant.

889
00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:22.960
But he got in contact with the FBI and was like, look,

890
00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:25.679
there's a picture. There's this sign, it's got a dog

891
00:49:25.719 --> 00:49:27.880
on it, and then it texted, ain't she purty? Well

892
00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:31.519
agents knew Connor Park and they ran immediately to that

893
00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:34.199
park and they went straight to where that bulletin board was,

894
00:49:34.280 --> 00:49:37.519
and there it was that missing dog poster with a

895
00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:39.960
picture it looks like a golden doodle or something like that,

896
00:49:40.119 --> 00:49:43.719
named Albert. He's missing. But it wasn't that that they

897
00:49:43.760 --> 00:49:46.039
actually needed to pay attention to. It was what was

898
00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:50.400
underneath it, right below it was a plastic ziplock bag.

899
00:49:51.039 --> 00:49:54.039
Now from the get go looking at it, what they

900
00:49:54.119 --> 00:49:59.400
thought that they were opening was a newspaper clipping with

901
00:49:59.480 --> 00:50:02.159
like a foe on it. But once they opened it

902
00:50:02.280 --> 00:50:06.760
up and they got it fully visible, they realized, no, no, no, no, no,

903
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:10.719
this is a ransom letter. So it was typed out

904
00:50:11.079 --> 00:50:15.480
on what looks like an old school typewriter, and it

905
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:18.760
had a picture of it, a picture of a newspaper

906
00:50:18.760 --> 00:50:22.519
on it for the date purposes, and a picture of Samantha.

907
00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:26.840
So basically the demand was go put thirty thousand dollars

908
00:50:26.920 --> 00:50:29.840
in Samantha's bank account and if I can use the

909
00:50:29.880 --> 00:50:33.079
debit card and get the money out, that's what I

910
00:50:33.119 --> 00:50:36.400
need you to do. And it wasn't that simple. It

911
00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:40.360
was way more taunting, and the demander said things like

912
00:50:40.400 --> 00:50:43.480
either you're with the pigs or you're not, which I

913
00:50:43.559 --> 00:50:45.559
take to be you're either with the police or you're not.

914
00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:47.360
You're going to do this or you're going to not.

915
00:50:48.599 --> 00:50:50.159
And then it also said things like this is the

916
00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:53.199
last you're going to hear from me, and then added

917
00:50:53.840 --> 00:50:59.159
she did almost get away twice, like taunting the person

918
00:50:59.280 --> 00:51:03.559
that would be reading this. But the photo showed Samantha

919
00:51:03.599 --> 00:51:07.599
holding a newspaper that was dated February thirteenth. Remember this

920
00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:11.599
is February twenty fourth, so that was well after the

921
00:51:11.719 --> 00:51:16.599
abduction date. And it's also after the date of the newspaper.

922
00:51:17.559 --> 00:51:21.760
So was this a proof of life photo? Maybe totally possible.

923
00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:24.239
Obviously he's got her in the photo and she's holding

924
00:51:24.320 --> 00:51:26.960
up the newspaper to say I'm here. This is the

925
00:51:27.039 --> 00:51:32.880
date for now, though, Daddy James was willing to do whatever, whenever,

926
00:51:33.199 --> 00:51:35.719
and however he had to do it to get his

927
00:51:35.840 --> 00:51:39.519
baby girl back. So following through with the request and

928
00:51:39.639 --> 00:51:42.719
also under the supervision of the FBI, he didn't go

929
00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:45.280
put thirty grand in there. He went and put five

930
00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:51.400
grand into the account. Now, all the FBI and Dad

931
00:51:51.400 --> 00:51:53.360
and all of them could really do was just sit

932
00:51:53.480 --> 00:51:57.440
back and monitor the account for any activity. But it

933
00:51:57.440 --> 00:52:00.760
would only take a few hours because later that evening.

934
00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:05.320
Once it became dark, a man tried to withdraw cash

935
00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:10.000
from an ATM from Samantha's account, and as soon as

936
00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:13.360
they got the alert, the FBI flew to that location.

937
00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:16.639
I mean they were on their horses rolling to the

938
00:52:16.679 --> 00:52:19.760
location of that ATM. But by the time they got there,

939
00:52:20.039 --> 00:52:23.719
the person was already gone. They missed the suspects captured

940
00:52:23.760 --> 00:52:26.760
just by minutes. He was gone before they got there.

941
00:52:26.960 --> 00:52:33.440
But there was a video, and as aggravatingly usual as

942
00:52:33.480 --> 00:52:39.280
this is, the video was piss poor quality real quick.

943
00:52:40.119 --> 00:52:42.239
If you were going to take the time to have

944
00:52:42.320 --> 00:52:45.920
security cameras, how about we make it the standard that

945
00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:49.360
you make the cameras worth a down. What good is

946
00:52:49.400 --> 00:52:54.119
a blurry, fuzzy, crappy video other than to verify yep,

947
00:52:54.199 --> 00:52:58.280
somebody was there. That drives me crazy and we live

948
00:52:58.400 --> 00:53:01.519
this is twenty twenty five that I'm recording this. Get

949
00:53:01.559 --> 00:53:05.599
good cameras. But even though it was terrible, the FBI

950
00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:10.119
was able to create a basic, confirmed now profile of

951
00:53:10.159 --> 00:53:12.719
at least the suspect getting the money out of the ATM.

952
00:53:13.039 --> 00:53:16.320
A thin, white male with dark clothing. It was a

953
00:53:16.400 --> 00:53:19.679
zip up hoodie. He was wearing gloves whenever he was

954
00:53:19.679 --> 00:53:24.320
taking the cash out using Samantha's debit card. Other than

955
00:53:24.360 --> 00:53:29.239
this nothing. He didn't drive up in a car. He

956
00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:32.960
walked up to the ATM and then he walked away.

957
00:53:33.599 --> 00:53:38.760
Another week would pass another Ya, we're over a month

958
00:53:38.800 --> 00:53:42.880
now that Samantha has been missing. But Samantha's card was

959
00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:47.559
used again a week later at another ATM, but this

960
00:53:47.679 --> 00:53:54.280
time it was nearly four thousand miles away in Willcox, Arizona,

961
00:53:55.480 --> 00:53:58.800
So again they were able to get video, and the

962
00:53:58.880 --> 00:54:01.239
video showed this seim what seemed to be the same

963
00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:04.679
man wearing a hoodie up, sunglasses, and this time he

964
00:54:04.719 --> 00:54:08.920
had a bandana covering his nose in his mouth. But

965
00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:12.800
when he did the withdrawal in Arizona, he fucked up.

966
00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:16.760
So he parked really far away from the machine and

967
00:54:16.800 --> 00:54:19.599
the like, over in the far end of a parking lot.

968
00:54:19.840 --> 00:54:22.719
But what he didn't think about was the atmy may

969
00:54:22.719 --> 00:54:24.840
not be able to see where I'm parked, but another

970
00:54:25.119 --> 00:54:28.199
camera was able to see him clear his day. And

971
00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:30.599
now they got a view of the vehicle that was

972
00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:34.519
being driven and the FBI was going to focus quite

973
00:54:34.559 --> 00:54:39.199
literally on a white Ford focus, but y'all, there's tons

974
00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:42.760
of those driving around the us at that time. Matter

975
00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:47.280
of fact, I can tell you shortly thereafter, there was

976
00:54:47.760 --> 00:54:52.400
definitely a white Ford Focus in New Mexico at an ATM,

977
00:54:53.079 --> 00:54:57.880
And then again there was one in Humble, Texas, white

978
00:54:57.920 --> 00:55:02.079
car taking money out of the ATM. So this dude

979
00:55:02.199 --> 00:55:05.480
seemingly was all over the place, but they were at

980
00:55:05.519 --> 00:55:07.119
least able to pick up a pattern, and he was

981
00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:12.440
definitely heading eastward in his travel. Patterns are good. Right

982
00:55:12.559 --> 00:55:15.159
direction of travel is great because that's kind of given

983
00:55:15.199 --> 00:55:16.760
a concept of where do we need to even be

984
00:55:16.840 --> 00:55:20.760
looking for this fella that's consistently withdrawing money from her account.

985
00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:24.280
Now I'll tell you this too. Some people are going

986
00:55:24.320 --> 00:55:25.480
to come out me and go, why didn't you say

987
00:55:25.519 --> 00:55:29.519
Humble Texas, not Humble Texes. My sister lives there, shout

988
00:55:29.519 --> 00:55:32.440
out Courtney, and it's umble, and so I'm gonna say

989
00:55:32.480 --> 00:55:34.480
it that way because that's how they announced it there

990
00:55:34.519 --> 00:55:37.079
whenever I pronounced it there actually when I went there.

991
00:55:38.159 --> 00:55:42.519
So on March thirteenth, some time later, which is actually

992
00:55:42.559 --> 00:55:47.880
my sister's birthday, state troopers saw a car matching the

993
00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:51.960
description of that white Ford Focus in a hotel parking

994
00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:55.920
lot in Texas, and I have to give massive kudos

995
00:55:55.920 --> 00:55:58.679
to this because, I mean, obviously a bolo had been

996
00:55:58.719 --> 00:56:01.360
sent out to all of these different agencies along the

997
00:56:01.559 --> 00:56:05.119
interstate corridor that they believe the suspect was traveling. But wow,

998
00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:09.400
like this state trooper man, he had it under control.

999
00:56:09.599 --> 00:56:12.400
He saw it parked and he noticed it. So what

1000
00:56:12.480 --> 00:56:14.719
did he do? Did he go storm up to the car? No,

1001
00:56:15.599 --> 00:56:19.400
he actually sat back and he waited and he watched

1002
00:56:19.519 --> 00:56:23.000
the vehicle, and after some time he saw a man

1003
00:56:23.239 --> 00:56:26.119
come out of the hotel and get into that car.

1004
00:56:26.719 --> 00:56:29.519
So the trooper just fell in line behind him and

1005
00:56:29.559 --> 00:56:31.960
he starts following down the road because he couldn't just

1006
00:56:31.960 --> 00:56:34.599
pull him over. You have to have probable cause. That's

1007
00:56:34.639 --> 00:56:38.159
the constitution. He had to get some type of probable cause.

1008
00:56:38.400 --> 00:56:41.880
And just so you understand, simply driving a white Ford

1009
00:56:41.960 --> 00:56:46.039
Focus doesn't meet the muster of probable cause here, especially

1010
00:56:46.280 --> 00:56:49.159
because it's in another state far away from where the

1011
00:56:49.159 --> 00:56:52.599
original kidnapping went. I mean, this could be anybody driving

1012
00:56:52.639 --> 00:56:57.320
this car. So the trooper followed him until that car

1013
00:56:57.639 --> 00:57:01.239
exceeded the speed limit and he had a reason to

1014
00:57:01.239 --> 00:57:03.719
pull him over, and he did. He turned on his

1015
00:57:03.800 --> 00:57:08.400
lights and he affected a traffic stop for speeding. So

1016
00:57:08.519 --> 00:57:10.920
the driver, whenever he got out of the vehicle, was

1017
00:57:10.920 --> 00:57:13.400
a white male. He looked to be in his late

1018
00:57:13.440 --> 00:57:16.320
twenties or early thirties. He had on a gray tank

1019
00:57:16.360 --> 00:57:18.880
top tucked into like a muscle shirt, you know, a

1020
00:57:18.880 --> 00:57:21.679
gray tank top tucked into his jeans, and he was

1021
00:57:21.719 --> 00:57:26.360
wearing a belt. He had short, wavy, dark hair, nothing

1022
00:57:26.360 --> 00:57:30.079
out of the ordinary, nothing that stood out. And the

1023
00:57:30.079 --> 00:57:33.000
officer asked him for his ID. He said, no problem.

1024
00:57:33.079 --> 00:57:35.519
He pulled out the ID and he handed it over

1025
00:57:35.719 --> 00:57:38.320
to the state trooper. And that's whenever the state trooper

1026
00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:42.800
read it and it had the name Israel Keys on it. Well,

1027
00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:46.119
who the hell was he? This was not a known criminal,

1028
00:57:46.199 --> 00:57:50.400
This wasn't somebody that the officer recognized. And looking at him,

1029
00:57:50.440 --> 00:57:53.480
he was a rather bony and dorky looking guy. To

1030
00:57:53.519 --> 00:57:58.480
be honest. He has almost this like Mark zuckerberg ye

1031
00:57:58.599 --> 00:58:04.000
type look, without those du those dumb bangs that Mark has.

1032
00:58:04.119 --> 00:58:06.679
But he just had that kind of Mark Zuckerberg look.

1033
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:12.480
And looking through additional photos of this guy, his look

1034
00:58:12.519 --> 00:58:15.599
did shift over time. Sometimes he would have long, curly hair,

1035
00:58:15.840 --> 00:58:18.960
then he would have really shortcuts. Sometimes he wore glasses,

1036
00:58:19.159 --> 00:58:23.199
sometimes he didn't but he did fit that basic physical

1037
00:58:23.239 --> 00:58:27.360
description of the person seen at those different ATMs using

1038
00:58:27.400 --> 00:58:30.840
Samantha's debit card. So police conducted a search of the

1039
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:35.719
vehicle and that's when the big discovery was made. Samantha's

1040
00:58:35.760 --> 00:58:39.800
I D and her car keys were in that white

1041
00:58:39.920 --> 00:58:44.039
Ford focus, so was her debit card, and so was

1042
00:58:44.039 --> 00:58:47.719
her cell phone. They also found a gun, and they

1043
00:58:47.719 --> 00:58:50.760
were able to locate the clothing that matched the clothing

1044
00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:55.000
of the person at the ATM, making all of those withdrawals.

1045
00:58:55.199 --> 00:58:58.880
So call me blue, but guys, I think we got

1046
00:58:58.920 --> 00:59:03.440
us a clue here. Israel Keys was promptly arrested and

1047
00:59:03.480 --> 00:59:07.159
he even smirked as he entered the police vehicle in cuffs.

1048
00:59:08.440 --> 00:59:12.719
Police though, were hard pressed to not believe that this

1049
00:59:12.920 --> 00:59:15.719
was the guy that they had been looking for. But

1050
00:59:15.800 --> 00:59:19.360
where was Samantha Because she was not in the car,

1051
00:59:19.679 --> 00:59:23.000
She was nowhere to be found. He was thousands and

1052
00:59:23.039 --> 00:59:26.599
thousands of miles away from Alaska, and he wasn't talking,

1053
00:59:27.519 --> 00:59:31.079
So was Samantha alive? That really became the pressing issue

1054
00:59:31.119 --> 00:59:34.639
at hand for now. Though they had Israel Keys in custody,

1055
00:59:35.159 --> 00:59:38.239
which is that was a great start, but he wasn't

1056
00:59:38.360 --> 00:59:42.280
what they were expecting. But that's the thing about scary people.

1057
00:59:43.079 --> 00:59:46.440
What does a kidnapper and an arm robber look like

1058
00:59:46.920 --> 00:59:51.320
when they aren't kidnapping and arm robbing? Could he really

1059
00:59:51.360 --> 00:59:56.519
be the one responsible for Samantha's actual abduction? You damn

1060
00:59:56.599 --> 01:00:00.880
right he could. The level of confidence he displayed wearing

1061
01:00:00.880 --> 01:00:04.239
a muscle shirt while being built dead ass like a

1062
01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:07.039
number two pencil shows you that there's more to this

1063
01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:10.280
guy than meets the eye. And police they were ready

1064
01:00:10.280 --> 01:00:11.320
to get straight to the point.