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Good morning, True seekers and true crime junkies. Welcome back
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to another episode of Hit the Roadjack Finding the Zodiac.
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We'll start the show this morning by introducing Terry.
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BATCHERI kids and all of God's children, which we all are.
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And Harriet ciche.
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I got my avatar going nice. I just wanted to
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say real quick, I was able to pick this avatar
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for the show, and it's the day I voted a
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few years back. So I'm in all red, white and blue.
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See the avatar that you're talking about. So I'm not
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sure what that is. I mean, I know is, but
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I don't see your avatar, So nobody knows what you're
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I think talking about. Okay, it doesn't it doesn't show
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up for some reason. Either way, that's fine, We'll keep going. Yeah,
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I thought at this point, it would kind of behoove
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me to kind of throw in that information that actually
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makes the proximity of Jack in Minnesota in this area
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that we're talking about as we continue with the Oakland
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County child murders. So I'm just going to flip over
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to the presentation at this point and kind of share
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some information that kind of led me back to this area.
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While we know that there were writings involved, and there was,
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you know, this huge hunch that these writings were from
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the same person, the Zodiac killer, I wanted to give
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everybody kind of an idea of how this this even entertained,
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how I even entertained this area in these particular crimes.
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So Dennis had indicated that they had left California in
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nineteen seventy six, and in his book he writes, in
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the spring of nineteen seventy six, we moved to Cotton, Minnesota.
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Just after we moved there, Jack bought several boxes of
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dynamite and began blowing stumps out of the ground. Now,
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the one thing that this crossed me is that he
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must have bought this place, right, I mean, you're not
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going to go buy dynamite and start blowing up your
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rental spot, right, does I mean does that? Does that
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make a little bit of sense in most people's minds?
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I mean, it doesn't make sense because where is he
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going to get the permit to set it off the
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blow up stumps?
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I don't. All he had to do was apply for
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the permit to purchase it. So we'll have that later
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on when we get to that point in Cotton, Minnesota.
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But we do have the actual request to the Sheriff's
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department to purchase the dynamite. But as far as you
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know blowing stumps out of the ground, that's just the
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only way we know that is by Dennis's recollection. He
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said that that same year, when cold set in, we
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had to sell everything and head to Texas. But I
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show that in the information and the stuff that we
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have that they did not actively move to Texas until
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seventy seven. So it may have been wintertime of seventy seven,
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but wintertime lasts all the way through March, so it
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sets up that timeframe that places them there from I
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want to say at least spring of nineteen seventy six
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through about February March of oh god, not February or
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March of seventy seven. And of course we know that
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even though Jack moves the family, he ultimately always goes
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back and grabs the stuff and comes back. He was
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always has an exit plan as well as he has
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an entrance plan. So when he's like looking at areas,
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I put in here, if they moved in spring of
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nineteen seventy six, then Jack has already been there to
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scout out a place that they're going to be moving to.
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So it says we would not have made it through
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the winner. But Jack brought all that dynamite with us
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to Texas. I didn't know what he planned on doing
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with it, which we find out later what he ends
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up having to do with it. Another thing that we
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found in Jack's belongings were these sets of keys. And
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of course we're going to be talking about Chris Bush
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as one of the number one suspects in the Oakland
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County child murders. And his father was a he was
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his dad was in finance for GMAC International.
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Hariot I think, so that's ringing a big bill there,
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A m is.
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It's the finance arm of it's the financial arm of
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that there. I'm sure you get your loans to buy
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your new cam vehicle.
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Gotcha, Okay, that makes sense. So he has this picture
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inside of here. It's a G M A C keychain
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and it actually has a return with a code number on it.
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It would be so interesting to research and see where
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this code went to. There must be some database or
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some information. Either way, it's the drop in any mailbox postage.
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Guaranteed it had two locker keys on it. I mean
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these clearly look like locker keys. Right, locker and lock right.
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I don't know. Suthfield, Yeah, Southfield Mission, Southfield, Michigan.
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That's spot on to where we're talking.
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About, so exactly, that's what I'm saying. So Southfield is
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literally smack dab within minutes of all the locations of
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the abductions and the sites.
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Well you know that when we get to it, that
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book you that address book.
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You got, we're coming to that. We're coming to that.
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I'm going to talk about that. I'm going to talk
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to that about that next. But literally speaking, this was
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found inside of that green army can for uh ammunition
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with the pilot blue pen that had the bent over tip,
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looking like somebody just went absolutely crazy using this pen.
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Pieces of grope that were cut to about two three
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feet rolls of film that were undeveloped, which Dennis believed
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that he had found images of black dahlia that had
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been rephotographed onto a newer film so that he could
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probably dispose of the older photographs and still maintain and
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keep that information. So there were a lot of very
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uh red herrings, a lot of red herrings inside this
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arsenal box, and these keys were one of them. Let's
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see here, one's Hudson and one's a Herd lock key.
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But I think when I tried to run these numbers,
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I came up with something either associated with a lock box,
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a or not a lock box, but something like a
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what was he stashing things in lockers, lockers at a
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train station or a post office boxer. I mean, there
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was just a few things that this could have been
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associated with. Undeveloped filmed and earrings from four different sets,
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so one earring from four different sets were also found
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inside this particular lock box. So again very interesting things.
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Now we already talked about the fact that Nora has
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family in Michigan, so I kind of mapped it out
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to show everybody where you know, the travel line would be,
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and we know that if they're on this side of
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the planet, that they're definitely visiting family. When I mapped
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this out the original time, I came up with a
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sixteen hour and thirty eight minute drive time from Cotton,
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Minnesota to Southfield, Michigan. There is a eat an easier route,
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I want to say, which was going this direction in
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from the top end, and it was only about twelve
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hours to that location as well, So there was two
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different ways they could go in, but this was the
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one that it populated first. And then I realized that
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there was actually a connective road up here at the
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top of Michigan to the top portion of Wisconsin. Wow,
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man too, Oh yeah, there's nothing. The thing is is
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that while they were in Cotton, Minnesota, Dennis said that
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Jack would take off for weeks at a time, purportedly
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hunting to feed the family.
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I guess what I failed to ask is did he
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actually show up with any meat?
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Jack is notorious for I'm taking off to get a
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pack of cigarettes and coming back three weeks later. And
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who does that in anybody's real life? Nobody does that?
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Can I say something really quick, real quick?
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Here?
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This is when him and his crew are working under
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Gerald Ford, who was I believe from the Michigan area, right,
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Gerald FORDY. So he's now the president and I've gotten
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several decodes where he's talking about it's an execute order
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from Gerald Ford. So they're positioned there, right, And it's
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not just Jack himself, but it's who they're working with.
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There's a whole bunch of stuff going on there, but
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this is under Ford.
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Well, there's a person that Dennis talked about that was
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with them when they left Cotton, Minnesota, and I don't
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know if he was staying with them in Cotton, Minnesota,
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but Dennis said that for whatever reason, this man moved
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with them to Texas, and the story became that after
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they got to Texas. I guess Jack felt that this
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guy was blabbing too much. I don't know about what
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he was making comments that maybe made him uncomfortable. But
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Dennis says that all he knows is that Jack beat
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this guy with a table leg and they never saw
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him again. But the kids had to come out and
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Jack paid them to clean up the blood around the
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kitchen and everything. So evidently it was just a complete
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madhouse inside of there, and they were stuck in the
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room while they were hearing this entire you know, beat down,
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go down, and I thought that was extremely interesting. And
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then he never saw the man again. So I don't
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know if Jack ultimately killed this man or what it was,
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but Dennis felt it was because he was saying too
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much or talking too much. But I can't unless Jack
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is into something, what could he had to say that
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would have upset Jack so much to cause him to
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beat him with a table leg. I have no clue.
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Anyways, the second guy that he was seen with, especially
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in the deduction of Kim King when we get to that.
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Right right, well, it's kind of making sense obviously if
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everybody's talking about other people involved you and Harriet as well,
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that this other person exactly, you know, Dennis doesn't know
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where he came from up out of the blue. Wasn't
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like it was some you know, best friend of Jack's
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that he'd ever met before, and all of a sudden
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he's moving to Texas with him. So that brings us
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to this phone book found in Jack's stuff and at
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nineteen seventy six nineteen seventy seven phone books, so the
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timeframe is absolutely spot on with the Oakland County child murders.
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This phone book belonged to a gull named Carol Settlemeyer,
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and at the time she lived in Southfield, Michigan. There
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was also a license plate, a Michigan license plate with
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this and the number was one two zero capital Emma's
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and Mary capital D's and Dog capital eas and Edwards.
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So there was a Michigan license plate found with this
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phone book until so evidently at some point in nineteen
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seventy seven, or at least as described by a family member.
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When I called and discussed it with a family member,
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they had indicated that they hadn't seen her for over
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thirty years until nineteen ninety or over thirty years, almost
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thirty years until nineteen ninety three, and in nineteen ninety three, well,
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they didn't see her then at that point, but the
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rangers had found her in California because her father had
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passed away, so they came looking for her now. They
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they had claimed that she moved when she left, although
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they didn't know it at the time. She had moved
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to South Lake Tahoe, which is basically where Jack was
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exiting out of I mean, we know he moved to
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North Highlands for a few months there in nineteen seventy five,
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but by nineteen seventy six he was on his way
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to Cotton, Minnesota. And then she is leaving and the
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family didn't hear boo from her, not a word gone
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for basically almost thirty years. I want to say it
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was the sister or something like that had said and
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no words from her. So it's not like she reached
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out and called back home or wrote letters or nobody
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knew what happened to her. She just right off the
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face of the earth. Then at that point she or
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at some point she had moved to the Bay area,
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because she had obtained a post office box in Portola, California,
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so that was the last address the face Emily had
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been given. Portola is the Santa Cruz area, and as
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well not too far basically from the San Jose Santa
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Clara area, so it's all still relative at this point
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either way. When I'm going through this phone book, I
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find receipts, and one of these receipts are dated let's
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see twelve, twenty seventy six, and then the other one
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is dated three three seventy seven. So and why these
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two receipts they don't look to be very important at all.
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They look like they could be food receipts that you
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know what I'm saying. They're not listed it says your receipt,
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thank you, and the other one doesn't really have anything
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on it, but there's small amounts, so it'd be interesting
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to see how that plays in. But I know that
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it is relatively close to the timeframes of some of
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these abductions and kills, and at least in the months
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we have one in December, we have one in March,
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and these receipts are inside of there. There's also not