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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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even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections,
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and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator,
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dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so
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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, kJ
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You're back with another episode of Unspeakable, and I need
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you to know this. If you're a Netflix watcher, Okay,
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I'm going to put you on point for something you
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may want to go watch after you listen to this episode,
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because it actually ties in so right now, it's a
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newer episode as of the time that I'm recording this,
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but it's called Oklahoma City Bombing American Terror.
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So if you have time after you listen to this episode, go.
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Watch that because it ties in beautifully with this episode.
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It's related, but not directly, and so I was tickled
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when I saw it on TV and I said, dang man,
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the people might want to know that, So go watch
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that if you have time.
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After you listen to this episode.
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Now I have a couple of shout outs that I
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want to do, but this is a little bit different
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set of shout outs because this is not from Patreon.
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These are people that in the last couple of weeks
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have taken such good care of my mom at our
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lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center right there on
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Essen Lane, and I hope that everyone who works there,
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only Onlogy floor, who was in the ICU, all of
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these people get to hear this, and I hope that
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you'll share it if you know anyone that works there,
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because a lot of these nurses came forward to me
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after they saw my name as an emergency contact from
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a mom and just were so pleasant and said they
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listened to the show. So I specifically want to give
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first of all, the home health nurse that came today,
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Miss Melissa Jernigan. I hope that you know how much
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I appreciate everything you've done for me. And she's also
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a mother of I think she had six boys and
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all of them in different military so some of them
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were an army, Navy, she had marine. She has a
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son that's living in Guam right now, and that's just awesome.
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These are these people are the front lines of everything
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we need. We've got our military guys, and then we've
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got our medical people on the front lines, and I
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just think so much of them. So miss Melissa, I'm
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waving to you on camera right now and thank you
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so much for all that you did, as well as
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mister Paul and miss Lisa. Now Lisa's name, tax said Jennifer. Okay,
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she said her name was Lisa, so maybe she's in
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witness protection.
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I don't know.
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But mister Paul's from England and miss Lisa works. They're
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both occupational therapist and we just had the best conversations
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and he's going to start listening to my podcast. We
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had a long talk about JFK everything. So to all
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of those people, to everyone that's helped my mother, even
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if I don't say your name, thank you so much,
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and please share this episode so.
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They can hear me.
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Give you that shout out because it means a lot
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to me. So this episode, though, guys, we're going to Arkansas.
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We're gonna go to Tilly, Arkansas, and this is going
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to be in Pope County, which is at the time.
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I'm sure it's grown since, but a very small area
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and a place where everybody knows everybody. And I know
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that sounds cliche, but it's true. It's one of those places.
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And there was a woman that lived there by the
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name of Arlene Peterson, and she showed up at the
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police station because she was unable to find her daughter.
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She couldn't get her on the phone. Not only that
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it was weird, she couldn't get her daughter's family to
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make contact with her, try and call in and and
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it's just very, very odd. So her daughter's name was Nancy,
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and Nancy was married to her husband, William. He went
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by Bill, so you may hear me say William or
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Bill throughout this episode. And they had a daughter. She
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was eight years old and her name was Sarah. Now
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their daughter wasn't biologically, I guess a true statement, because
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Bill was Sarah's stepdad, but that was her dad. Nonetheless,
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because Bill and her mother, Nancy, had been together ever
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since Sarah was just an infant. Bill was working as
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an electrician when he originally met Nancy, who was the
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single mom that they worked together, and instantly he became
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smitten with Nancy. They got along really well, and then
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very quickly just became inseparable at the job and then
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off the job as well. Now there was a bit
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of an age gap between these two. Bill was fifty two,
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Nancy was only twenty eight, but it didn't bother them
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in the slightest. They would quickly get married and their
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life was one that I think we all would hope for.
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They were not rich by any means financially, but if
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you consider love and a house full of joy, even
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if you're not rich in finances, that's rich in and
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of itself a different type, and they had that. They
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were very responsible people, and so the fact that they
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weren't returning calls, the fact that Nancy hadn't spoken to
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her mother for an extended period of time, was very
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very telling that something was a miss and it hadn't
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just been a few days, one or two days. No
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police were told by this point that Miss Arlene showed
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up that it had been two weeks now that she
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had not been able to get in touch with them.
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So they immediately went to the home of the family.
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Now Nancy and Bill their last name was Mueller. Some
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people have said this as Muller. I'm gonna say Mueller
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because that's what majority of the time that I've done
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researching how it was said in some news articles and
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things of that nature. So they went by the Mueller
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home and they weren't there. They didn't answer. They were
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doing a welfare check.
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So police then went and spoke to neighbors that lived nearby.
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Nothing they had nothing to add. But whenever they spoke
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to close family friend, this was a doctor. Her name
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was doctor Denise Marx. She had a little insight that
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may assist in a better location where they may could
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start looking for this family. Because Denise looked at Nancy
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and Nancy's daughter Sarah as.
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Kind of her own kids.
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They were that close and the last time that she
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saw Nancy was on January the fifth, and during that meeting,
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when they were talking, Nancy said that they were planning
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to go to Springdale for a gun show that was
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being held. Now this wasn't out of the norm. This
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was actually quite common because Bill was a well known
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gun dealer, so they often would go and frequent these
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gun shows where he would buy guns, he would sell guns.
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He also traded weapons, and he sold other things to
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like ammunition and things that go along with guns, you know,
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gun accessories. And he was legit too. I want to
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make sure that I'm clear about that. He was a
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licensed dealer with the Feds and everything, so this was
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a legitimate operation that he did. So police decided to
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look in that direction, but no tips came from that,
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and no leads came from it as well, and a
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month would pass and the police were still now no
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closer to solving the just poof disappearance of an entire family.
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It was really.
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Just just odd, is not the right word. Families don't disappear,
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not whole families for sure. So that was until a
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local landowner who was working on his property contacted police
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because he was out in an area that wasn't quite
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one that he frequented, and he ended up finding a
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jeep as well as a trailer, like a pull behind trailer,
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hidden on his land under some brush. Now it's kind
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of weird to say a car and a trailer were
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hidden under brush. It was kind of a poor attempt
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at hiding him, but you know, there were big branches
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and stuff that were covering it. So when the police
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got there, they first recognized Okay, well, this is about
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forty five minutes from where Tilly is and that's where
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the Mueller's home was. But whenever they ran reports on
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these vehicles, it came back that this was the Mueller's
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trailer and their vehicle. So the area of the land
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was also noted to be off road and not an
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easily accessible area for someone to pull up and just park.
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And the trailer that was attached to the jeep, well,
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that was the one that Bill used whenever he would
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transport all of his gun inventory for the shows, whenever
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they would go to them. So first things first, they
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wanted to open up the trailer and see what all
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equipment was in there and see maybe had he sold
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stuff and then on his way back parked it or
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what all was was their equipment wise, but that would
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be just fruitless because whenever they swung the door open
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to the trailer, it was completely empty. There was nothing
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in it, It was absolutely wiped out. That being the case,
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this seemed to be proof that something was very amiss here.
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Because I don't care how good of a gun dealer
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you are, I don't care how good of a business
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owner you are. No one sells all of their inventory
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in one show. That just doesn't typically happen. So the
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police then said, all right, well, let's look in the
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jeep and see what we can find in there, and
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that would bring about another huge red flag, and that
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would be because it was Nancy's purse that was located
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in the vehicle. Now, no woman alive. Myself included, We're
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not going to leave our purse behind willingly, especially when
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it still contains our wallet, our cigarettes. Not I don't smoke,
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but I know smokers, and I ain't leaving those damn
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cigarettes behind. And all of her like daily things that
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she would use were still in the purse.
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That's not good.
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But it was important to note that the police also
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did not readily find any evidence of any obvious foul play.
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So I mean, there was no blood, there was no hair,
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no notable damage or anything of the property. So it
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was possible that the trailer had been cleaned out by
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the Mullers and then they parked it on this random property.
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Everything is open for possibility when you don't know what
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the hell is going on. Something about Bill too, that
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I want to note and I want to bring up,
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is that he had a very strong belief in the
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anti government mentality. And this was not just people who
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were like, I don't like the government. Okay, now, this
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is a pretty pretty strong anti government sentiment. And that
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being said, he was one that did not readily want
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his whereabouts nor his dealings to be tracked. He stayed
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very very private. He did not promote what all he did.
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You know, I'm guilty. We're all guilty nowadays of Facebook.
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I mean, you can find people these days. I don't
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care if you're you're not even good at being a detective.
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You can find.
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People these days because we're all so self absorbed and
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we think that people care about our lives and we
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post all the time what we're doing.
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But Bill would not have been that person.
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Now, this is back in the nineties, so Facebook wasn't
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a thing, but he still was not that person.
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So was it a possibility.
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That the Mulers had hidden their vehicle in an attempt
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to go really off grid while they were doing something else.
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It really was a possibility that dot was the case here.
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It was very much considered. But if so, even if
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they were going off grid, you still wouldn't leave your purse.
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That's just crazy.
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Something that would immediately also tie you to that vehicle
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if someone were to find it, would you wouldn't do that?
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Or would you maybe to stage your own disappearance or
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something along those lines, But then again, why would you
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want to stage your own disappearance? But either way, police
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knew that they weren't being found, and so these missing
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persons investigations for this family became official, especially since, like
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I said, it's an entire family that vanished seemingly without
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a trace up until now that they found the purse
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and they found the vehicle and the trailer, so they
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decided to look more intrinsically into these these people's lives.
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And what they found was that Bill and Nancy were
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very happily married. There was nothing found to even dispute
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that fact.
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Miracle.
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Marital discord was ruled out very very quickly when looking
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into their family. Also, Sarah was a very happy child,
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very happy, no known causes for concern in that realm either.
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She was described as energetic, very happy, curious kid, obsessed
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with horses, a horse lover, and she was your typical