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double S6. The

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stories about when known a rider are

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insane. She nearly

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drowned when she was only twelve years

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old. She once stole more than

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five thousand dollars worth of designer clothes

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on whim. She was raised

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by beat S6 off the grid

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in Northern California. Her godfather

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was LSD advocate Timothy

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Leary, AKA, the

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most dangerous man in America. Her

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unique upbringing molded her into an

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a list actress in America's endearing

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weirdo. Her weirdness drew

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from the deep fears that she experienced

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when assimilating from a sheltered early

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childhood to a more typical nineteen

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eighties media overload. When

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her family moved to Petaluma, California.

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When one of those fears came true in her

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adopted hometown, she found

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herself in an unlikely role. Trying

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to draw attention to a horrific crime

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to help solve kidnapping case. But

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before tragedy struck Petaluma, When

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known writer, made great films.

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Unlike that clip, I played a few at the top

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of the show. That wasn't from a great

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film. That was a fair use sample

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from the library of congress of the Saxo

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S6 Debt, performing my

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castle in the air in nineteen seventeen.

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I played you that clip because I can't

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afford the rights to Harold Becker's S6.

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And why would I play you that specific

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slice of God S6 cheese

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could I afford it? Because

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that was the number one movie in

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America. On October first

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nineteen ninety three. And that

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was the day Poly S6 was abducted

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from her home. Opening a kidnapping

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case that would rattle California and

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Winona a rider to their core.

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In this episode, near drowning,

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designer theft, a deadly kidnapping,

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and America's endearing weirdo

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when known a rider. I'm Jake

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Brennan in S6, his

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badlands. Season four,

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Hollywood. Winona

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Ryder had seconds to determine whether

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she was going to live or die. The

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seconds ticked by S6, and

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the undertale moved quickly. A

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cart would flow known as body around the

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garage door. It jagged her in

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S6, shook her like a snow globe,

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and the ocean closed in on her from every

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angle. It dragged her farther into

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the deep five feet below. Ten

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feet below. WOW, wasn't sure.

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But she knew she was fully submerged.

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Down was up, left S6 right.

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She S6 until she had no clue which direction

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would lead her to safety. This

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was not a Winona

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rider could not calmly bob the

3:33

surface of the water and flag down help and

3:35

someone who could pull her back up to shore.

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She was caught in the undertale. In

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the incoming ways, bent Winona to

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their will. Winona thrashed

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her arms and mics. She was motivated

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entirely by desperation. She

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struggled to wriggle free from the ocean's grass,

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and the more she jerked her body around.

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The harder it was to focus keeping her mouth

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clamped shut. She held out

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as long as she could. She clung to

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one thought. Don't breathe. Don't

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breathe. And the sudden yank

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of the undertow pry it over your lips anyways.

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A silent scream, a stream

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of air but from her mouth more

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than she ever knew she had in her. Her air

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supply was racing towards the surface

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and there was only water now. A

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surge of seawater gushed into her

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mouth. The salt seared her windpipe

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as it forced its way into her lungs. Winona

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couldn't stop the flow and borrowed into

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her chest deeper and deeper until

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it felt like her lungs would pop. She

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choked as her body tried to cough, tried to pute

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tried to do anything that would stop her from sinking

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to the ocean floor, prudy and ragged

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lungs ready to rupture. Woonoona's

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limbs slipped away. She lost

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all feeling in her arms and legs. She

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surrendered to the ocean. She surrendered

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to the ability to feel much of anything

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at all. Her peripheral vision darkened.

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Black curtains shrouded her S6. Her

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view narrowed to a fine tunnel,

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thousand yards long, and she

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stared down the corridor empty, quiet.

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Numb. She didn't feel it

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when a lifeguard hoisted her from the water

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and later down on the sandy beach. Her

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body was limp. Her skin

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a ghastly shade of porcelain. She

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had no pulse. Twelve

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year old Buenoma rider was

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dead. The

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lifeguard started to perform CPR even

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though she looked like a lost cause. It

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was what he was trained to do. He pushed

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down on her chest over and over.

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He tilted her head back, pinched her nose

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tight with his fingers, put his mouth on

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her blue S6, and tried to breathe life

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back into her. S6, she

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twitched to life. She shot salt

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water into the sand by the mouthful. We're

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known as friends watched from the sidelines,

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stupid fives, or too S6 to understand

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the severity of what had just happened, what

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almost happened. In their glazed

5:54

eyes, watched the vomit bring a blush of color

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back to a S6 peaks, and then a

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thought dangled in the back of their day's minds.

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Our parents are going to fucking

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kill us. S6

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was the mid nineteen eighties. There

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were no S6. There was no Internet.

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It was easy for pre teens to go missing

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for few hours. In fact, it

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was expected. Legions

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of suburban masking kids went to school,

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came home if they felt like it fucked off down

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to the river or into the woods or into the beach,

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and just be home by dinner. Looking

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back at the eighties from the two thousand twenty

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two point of view, it might seem like disconnection

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was standard operating S6. And

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it Winona was. You might not even

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notice if the kids were missing until the street

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lights came on. That

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what Winona Ryder and her friends were counting

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on when they cut S6 earlier that day.

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The group left the drama of junior high

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in their lockers and rolled up to Dylan Beach

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instead where they rolled a skinny

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joint and S6 their stone cells on the

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shore. Yamuna declined

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the drugs. She embraced the

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ocean in dead. Right until

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the undertow hugged her back so tightly

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that it almost didn't let her go. When

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S6 arrived that day, bear The

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cold clench of death lingered in her bones

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later that evening. She felt it

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prying at her skin, pulling her under.

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Fresh S6 of fear followed her own petaluma,

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trailed her like a shadow, climbed into

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bed with her, laid by her side like an old

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friend right next to all her other old childhood

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fears, And the tally

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in her head was impressive. There

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was the Holocaust for one, the horrors

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of Nazi Germany that claimed so many of our

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ancestors. No one could convince

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when none of those ghosts weren't real.

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There was also the ever present fear of

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nuclear annihilation. But that

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was nothing bad out of the ordinary for all

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kids in the nineteen eighties. Then

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there were the neighbors. She wanted

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to get inside their heads. Know

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what they thought when her parents hippie van

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pulled into the driveway every day. What

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they thought of this new family, some S6,

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plucked from progressive commune in Northern

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California. Well, commune

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wasn't even the right word, but that's it everyone

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kept calling it. Commune sounded

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like a cult. And there was no cult

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where Winona came from. That was a

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flat out misconception. Other

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details were correct though. It

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was true that her last home had no

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electricity No phone, no

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TV. One owner's hippie parents

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replaced technology with free thinking,

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traded the paranoia of broadcast news

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with nature It was idyllic. Idyllic

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until you tried to explain it to anyone else.

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When no one worried the neighbors would misunderstand

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their family. S6 against

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them. She wondered if they would connect the

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dots that her godfather was, quote, the most

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dangerous man in America, unquote, well,

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according to Richard S6 Emily. Winona

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parents pointed psychologists S6 LSD

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advocate Timothy Leary as her godfather,

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the guru of turning on, tuning in, and

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dropping out. He told Winona

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to question everything, so

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she did. Just like she was in bed

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right now, wide eyed staring

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at the ceiling. Driving herself right at

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the wall S6. Sleep

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frequently escaped her. One owner

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didn't know the word insomnia yet.

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What if the neighbors turned on us, she thought?

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What if they tried to lock us away? There

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was another question burning a hole in one owner's

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rest of his mind. Why did children

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keep disappearing in California? That

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was the one fear that dwarfed all the

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others. The one that tortured her

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every time she indulged in the new luxury

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of watching television. Woonooner

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riders' worst fear was getting kidnapped.

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Gone with the days of living in a secluded

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bubble and cozy amongst the company of her

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parents and their fellow free thinking friends.

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That one owner lived in Petaluma, California,

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she heard everything. There was no

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shelter from reality. Now TV

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and now a S6 tour at all hours.

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Kidnappings S6 the screen on a regular

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basis. Some cases went in circles

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for months until they reached S6 tragic dead end.

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Emphasis on dead. Others

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never entered at all. We don't

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renew some of the victims' needs by heart. Tarraburk,

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three years old, held in captivity for

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ten months by sexual predators. Steven

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S6, seven years old, trapped

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for seven years by a child molester.

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He only escaped because sick bastard

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who abducted him, wanted to lure in another

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boy. And the two kids made a mad

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dash together. Then there

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was Kevin Collins, ten years old.

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He was from the same neighborhood as Winona. Her

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older sister even baby sat at once.

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His buck two smile was printed across billboards

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and national magazine S6, a literal

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milk carton kit. He was still

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out there somewhere dead or alive. Nobody

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knew, no one might never know. And

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the chill of fear borrowed deeper into

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an earnest bones. She pulled the

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covers over her head, her fingers

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trembled, but no one could convince her she

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was overreacting, that her fears were

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unrealistic or childish. She

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almost died today. Anything could

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happen to anyone without rhyme

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or reason, and that might be the

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part that scared her the most.

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His blood ran cold when he saw the red

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blue flicker against the trees. The

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colors were getting brighter and deeper.

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He knew the cops would show up eventually. It

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wasn't a matter of S6, it was matter

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of when. Deep breaths, he

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coached himself. He casually

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leaned against the hood of his car as the cruiser pulled

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over. He paced his breathing. He

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practiced his story in his head, but

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Richard Davis still didn't feel prepared.

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S6 scene. He used to S6 scene. That's all.

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Pulled over to admire the great outdoors Winona warm

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evening. Then he realized that

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the day I was stuck in a ditch, wrestled

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with the day I'm covered for hours. Even crawled

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underneath at one point, barely here ever since.

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Yeah. That would work. S6

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recited the story word for word when a pair

12:16

of police officers approached him. Their

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version of the story was slightly different.

12:21

They had received call about a mysterious man,

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camped out on the side of the road on private property.

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It was all over the police scanner that night.

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Channel three to be precise. Channel

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three covered all the Sonoma Valley, San

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Pablo Bay, Santa Rosa, but

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it did not extend to Petaluma, a

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city seventeen miles away. In

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Petaluma, a scanner had different

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intel. In Petaluma, a

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twelve year old girl had been kidnapped by a

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S6. The very same girl

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Richard Davis just dumped in the woods.

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Little Poly S6 left a window open

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on October first nineteen ninety three,

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or maybe her mother left at a jar right

12:59

before passing out on a sleeping pill to

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escape tedious migraine. Didn't

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matter. It was too late now. The

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window offered an invitation, and

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Richard Davis accepted it. He

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made quick clean work He

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slithered right through the open window and into

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the house, picked up a knife in the kitchen,

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he cut the cords from video game controllers,

13:20

ripped up some bed sheets too. He need

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binding materials for this to go smoothly,

13:25

and the strips of cloth did not to be big.

13:27

Children had itty bitty S6 and ankles.

13:30

Davis barged into Polly's bedroom as

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the family clock chime ten thirty PM.

13:35

May as well be midnight to a twelve year old.

13:37

Her her S6 Davis thought. He

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wasn't expecting to find Polly's slumber party

13:41

just heating up. Davis

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saw a panic flood the eyes of every girl

13:45

in the room, he lingered in the doorway.

13:48

The edge of the knife glimmered against the glow

13:50

of Polly's clamshell night light.

13:52

Davis kept his instructions S6. Scream

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and I'll slit your throats. They

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obeyed shaking in silence. Davis

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then bound and gagged each girl.

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Tied them up with their own sheets and video game

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cables, and then he bagged their heads

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with pillowcases from Polly's bed.

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He blinded all the girls except Polly.

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He had other plans for her. Davis

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bent down on his knees, eye level

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with the trembling hoods, count to

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one thousand he ordered, Polly

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will be back by then. Polly

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would not be back. Polly

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was tied up in the woods in Santa Rosa, California.

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And the local police force had no idea.

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All because they were tuned to the wrong channel on

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the police scanner. Channel three.

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One cop used a flashlight to look Davis

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up and down, leaves and twigs poked

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out of his shaggy haircut, beads of

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sweat on his cheeks, S6 body language

14:47

betrayed him. S6 just looked

14:50

S6, not car trouble S6, like

14:52

when you're stranded at midnight with a flat. The

14:55

guilty kind of nervous. One hand

14:57

in the cookie jar, nervous. But

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looking nervous wasn't against the

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law, and the other cop returned to the

15:03

cruiser. He pulled up a report that summarized

15:06

Richard S6' driving record. Technology

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failed the police second time that night.

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And the cursory report didn't include anything

15:13

about S6' criminal history, which

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would have revealed that he was a convicted felon.

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In fact, He was recently paroled

15:20

after an eight year prison sentence for

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kidnapping. But with their limited

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nineteen ninety three technology, all

15:27

of that were uncovered. S6

15:29

found no dirt on Richard Davis beyond the

15:31

dirt that covered his hair and clothes, which he

15:33

claimed was a result of trying to freeze car

15:36

from the ditch. After

15:38

tow truck dragged Davis' car back to the

15:40

road, the police escorted him to the

15:42

highway. He killed time in the fast

15:44

lane, for twenty minutes before he circled

15:46

back to retrieve his stolen treasure.

15:49

And Dave S6 parked properly this time,

15:51

and he ducked back into the woods to find poly

15:53

class. He dodged branches

15:55

and nodded tree roots by the light of the moon

15:57

and found Poly where he left her a few hours

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earlier. He S6 her over his

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shoulder. He S6 his muscles

16:04

and released the nervous energy that had been racking

16:06

his body since the police arrived. But

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Petaluma's panic was only just beginning.

16:13

There was a long standing rule when it came

16:15

to child kidnappings. S6 chances

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of finding an abducted child alive

16:20

or at all shrank significantly after

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the first forty eight hours. The

16:24

Petaluma S6 Department had to act quickly.

16:27

Paulie's life could depend on it. And

16:30

the FBI joined the case overnight, blood

16:32

hounds helicopters, detectives rang

16:34

up scores of ex cons, They interviewed

16:36

sex offenders in surrounding counties. Alibaba's

16:39

checked out. Every volunteer and investigator

16:42

came back empty handed, except

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for one thing. The perpetrator left

16:46

behind a palm print S6 into Polly's

16:49

bed frame. The FBI's database

16:51

didn't include palm prints in nineteen ninety

16:53

three. S6 was untapped

16:56

territory, but it was literally

16:58

all they had and the clock kept ticking.

17:01

The case spread like a California wildfire.

17:04

Banners decorated the S6 town, write

17:06

down petaluma Boulevard, let Poly

17:08

go, the S6 cried, S6 and

17:10

sloppy handwriting of school children. Paulie's

17:13

image covered public buildings. Her face cried

17:15

out from flyers scattered across parks, library

17:18

shopping malls. Her story

17:20

never left the news. An information

17:22

hotline was a regular fixture on TV

17:24

screens and viewers were implored to call.

17:27

Over the course of the case, That hotline

17:29

received more than twelve thousand calls.

17:31

That's twelve thousand leads,

17:34

all dead ends. The

17:36

hotline rang again late in the night about

17:39

ten days after Poly disappeared. A

17:41

volunteer picked up the S6. Soft

17:44

Saabs echoed on the other end of the line,

17:47

the collar was moved to tears. She

17:49

claimed she once lived only two neighborhoods

17:51

away from Paulie's house. And

17:53

that they even went to the same junior high school.

17:56

She just saw the news. She was a colleague

17:58

from the lobby of a Los Angeles hotel. And

18:01

the volunteer asked for her Winona.

18:05

She didn't have to say her last name. The

18:08

volunteer could tell who it was from her

18:10

voice alone. The S6

18:12

unaffected team in beetlejuice, the

18:15

love interest of Johnny Depp in Edward

18:17

S6 hands. And in real life

18:19

for that matter. The girl who literally

18:21

killed her S6 on screen is part of

18:23

a cool series of fake suicides in the

18:25

dark comedy heathers. But

18:28

this call wasn't an act. When

18:30

owner riders S6 her spoke volumes,

18:33

her tears practically trickled through the Winona

18:36

couldn't believe such a tragedy at Stark Petaluma.

18:39

Paulie's parents couldn't believe someone is notable

18:41

as Winona Ryder wanted to pitch in.

18:44

There was perhaps no greater force S6 could

18:46

pull Polly back to them. Polly

18:49

was one of S6 S6

18:51

wishes was to meet her in S6. Then

18:54

again, most tweens, teens, and

18:56

fully grown adults felt the same in nineteen

18:58

ninety three. Winona

19:01

rider was the nineties.

19:03

She was cool as shit. Her

19:05

head to toe black ensembles were

19:07

of goth light legend. Her eyes

19:10

brewed it with attitude. Her smile

19:12

could slice your heart open. And she was

19:14

on par with the other brilliant movie beauties

19:16

of the day, sure, Julia Roberts, Sumith

19:18

urban Nicole Kidman, but Winona

19:20

was different. She was weird,

19:23

wicked, wonderful. All wrapped

19:25

one peculiar package. She was

19:27

named after her town and S6 sort of fuck

19:30

sick. No one was quite like

19:32

her. Winona S6 with

19:34

the Poly S6 case wavered between low

19:36

key and high profile. She could answer

19:38

the information hotline and join person

19:41

searches just to save as any ordinary

19:43

volunteer. Yet, her celebrity status

19:45

meant everyone listened when she spoke, tabloids,

19:48

fans, film critics. Bueno

19:51

S6 the world's unquenchable thirst for her look

19:53

into her private life. Then she

19:55

yielded a tour advantage. If

19:57

one of her accepted interviews, she

19:59

automatically drew more national attention to

20:01

Polly's disappearance. Certain

20:04

news outlets had no interest in reports

20:06

about Polly without their precious q and a's

20:08

for Winona

20:08

hour. First, when known a

20:10

forced America to pay attention to the case,

20:13

then she put a price on

20:14

it. When known a rider. Offered

20:16

two hundred thousand dollars to any person

20:19

who could safely return Polly to her

20:21

parents. Weeks

20:23

dragged on, months. Paulie's

20:26

parents published a letter to the kidnapper in

20:28

the San Francisco Chronicle, imploring

20:30

the stranger to bring their girl home. They

20:33

left a note for Polly two. R

20:35

Darling. If you can read S6, please

20:37

know that your mommy and daddy love you so much.

20:39

And we will continue to search for you until we

20:41

can hold you safely in her loving arms again.

20:45

Every Winona returned home from

20:47

volunteering, she peeled the optimistic

20:50

smile from her face. She would lay

20:52

in bed and let the insomnia knock around

20:54

all the bad thoughts in her brain again. The

20:56

hope never left Winona, but it

20:58

waned. Her childhood fear of kidnapping

21:01

not at it. Winona almost

21:03

died when she was twelve years old too. And

21:06

this could have been her. Anything can

21:08

happen to anybody. You could become a

21:10

mega movie star or sink like a stone to

21:12

a watery grave at the bottom of the ocean. Or

21:15

vanish from your bedroom never to be seen

21:17

again. Woonooner rolled

21:19

over and turned her back on the fear. But

21:21

it waited behind her and alongside

21:24

her in bed S6 like

21:26

it had ten years ago. We'll

21:33

be right back after this word,

21:35

word, word. A

21:40

few days before Christmas, Janelle Matthews

21:42

disappeared from her home. There

21:44

were no signs of struggle, no eyewitnesses,

21:47

no DNA recovered. But

21:49

what if the answer had always been there?

21:52

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police did find a Poly S6,

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but they didn't find her alive.

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A cool breeze whipped across an abandoned

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mill yard and overlooked S6

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in Cloverdale, California. Right

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off highway 101, thirty miles

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from Petaluma. Richard

23:23

Davis trudged through the empty field,

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dry S6, crunched under his S6. The

23:29

police follow close behind him.

23:31

He was taking them directly to Poly

23:33

this time. Davis wasn't

23:35

hiding anymore. He couldn't. The

23:38

S6 stashed in the woods were out in the open

23:40

now. Davis was sloppier

23:42

than he realized on that night two months ago.

23:45

The police made a panic on night kidnapping

23:47

and his heart pounded. The sound

23:50

drowned out as careful calculations. His

23:52

attention to detail slipped away. Kidnapping

23:55

tools slipped out of his grasp and left

23:57

a trail of evidence in the forest. A

24:00

piece of silk fashioned into

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a hood. Strips of packing

24:04

tape perfect for binding. A

24:07

pair of gross tights tied into a knot

24:09

complete with a tango of human hair.

24:12

A resident of Santa Rosa uncovered the

24:14

clues when loggers cleared a portion of the

24:16

woods on her property in December of nineteen

24:19

ninety three. She was familiar with

24:21

the class case by now. Most

24:23

of California was after hearing about

24:25

S6 disappearance for weeks on end. And

24:28

now was her turn to dial the information

24:30

hotline. But

24:32

there was something else. The jarring

24:35

discovery in the woods jogged the woman's

24:37

memory. There was a man stranded

24:39

on her property not too long ago, S6,

24:42

panic S6, roughly two months prior,

24:45

right around the same time, Poly went missing.

24:48

When the police came to retrieve the items from

24:50

the woods, she reminded them about the trespasser.

24:53

They summoned Santa Rosa police records

24:55

for good measure. On October

24:57

first, police called the tow truck for a

24:59

man named Richard S6, and they knew

25:01

that much to be true. But back at the

25:03

station, there was more information about

25:05

this man than just the fluency printout of driving

25:08

record. Davis

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was an ex con. His criminal record

25:13

never seemed to end, burglary S6

25:15

with a deadly weapon. A S6 with intent to

25:17

rate, auto theft, kidnapping.

25:21

Kidnapping. Richard Davis

25:23

did eight years in prison for

25:25

kidnapping. He was paroled

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in June of nineteen ninety three after serving

25:29

only half of a sixteen year sentence.

25:32

Three months before, Poly went missing.

25:34

On October first, police had their prime

25:37

suspect in the kidnapping of Poly

25:39

S6 right there standing in front of them.

25:41

And then they escorted him to his escape

25:43

rope. Investigators poured

25:46

over his criminal record. Police even

25:48

wrangled Davis a second time later in

25:50

October. Arrested for drunk driving.

25:53

Davis then violated his parole by

25:55

failing to appear in court. A warrant

25:57

was out for his arrest. Bingo.

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Police had their in. They

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weren't letting Richard Davis slip away a third

26:04

time. They found him cruising around

26:06

town in a van. Not far from

26:08

where he was staying on the Coyote Valley Indian

26:10

reservation about seventy five miles

26:12

north of Petaluma. Police

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booked him on violation of his probation. Cuffed

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him, tossed him in the

26:18

clink, and then they took his paw

26:20

print. It was an exact match

26:22

for the print found on Polly's bed frame.

26:25

S6 shared a knowing S6. The

26:27

search for Polly's kidnapper was over.

26:30

Davis knew it was over too. He cracked

26:33

after a few days. I S6 up

26:35

big time, told the police. And

26:39

now S6 was retracing his

26:41

steps police by his side. He

26:43

paused at a collection of weathered lumber, mushrooms

26:46

spreaded from the heat, and he thrust his

26:48

chin towards the rotting pile. S6

26:52

overturned the pile board by board.

26:54

They found poly resting underneath, have

26:57

hazardly tucked into shallow grave.

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Poly's family had prayed their search would

27:02

end soon. They just didn't imagine

27:05

it ending like S6, and the

27:07

closure shattered the S6 family.

27:09

Now, one member too small.

27:12

It shattered when known a rider too.

27:15

Her heart shriveled up and shrank. It

27:17

reverted back to being twelve years old.

27:20

Beating at a ragged pace like she was

27:22

a pretty teen tortured by the undertow,

27:24

once again barely clinging to life.

27:27

Maybe Polly once felt the same when she was

27:29

tied up in S6' sedan. Winona

27:32

would never know. She would never get the

27:34

chance to facilitate Polly's happy ending.

27:38

Winona struggled to the premiere of a new

27:40

film in reality by its in February nineteen

27:42

ninety four. The irony

27:44

of the title sunk its teeth in the Buenos

27:47

Aires Soul. She successfully convinced

27:49

universal pictures to make the Los Angeles

27:51

debut of the movie a benefit for the

27:53

class foundation, but her work

27:56

still felt unfinished, woefully

27:58

inadequate. Polly's greatest

28:00

wish had been to meet Winona in real life.

28:03

And that couldn't happen now. Winona

28:06

did the next best thing. She reached

28:08

for Polly through fiction. Winona

28:11

accepted the role of Joe March new

28:13

movie adaptation of Little Women. It

28:15

was Polly's favorite book. Winona

28:18

brought the story to life and dedicated her

28:20

performance to Polly's memory. The

28:23

role was a breath of fresh air for for

28:26

S6. She wasn't the weirdo. She

28:28

wasn't be witching. She was the strong

28:30

female lead determined and dependable

28:33

just like she had been for Polly's family

28:35

for two months. We know they

28:37

used little women to shoo away the darkness

28:39

crowding her life. Same shadows

28:41

that housed her fears and lingered by her side

28:44

when she couldn't get any shut eye. Life

28:46

didn't have to be a big dark room all the

28:48

time. Maybe through her performance

28:51

and little women directors and casting agents

28:53

would see that too. And if they

28:55

didn't, we don't know how to escape on

28:57

her own before that big dark

28:59

room caved in on her completely. She

29:04

would have added it all up, but she could think Winona

29:08

Ryder's hands made quick work on the floor

29:10

of a Beverly Hills fitting room. For

29:12

Mark Jacobs cashmere sweater, seven hundred

29:14

and sixty dollars, and he's Saint

29:16

Laurent Blouse, another seven hundred

29:18

and fifty, four handbags, those

29:21

were at least two grand. handful

29:23

of expensive hair bows and bands

29:25

worth about six hundred dollars and six

29:27

pairs of socks S6 for good measure. And

29:29

those were eighty bucks. And

29:31

with the S6 of each security tag,

29:34

we're known as S6 contraband into a S6

29:36

Fifth Avenue shopping bag, the

29:38

same bag from earlier that afternoon. Her

29:40

first shopping spree already gave her credit card

29:42

a three thousand dollar workout. But if

29:45

all went as planned, the second round

29:47

was gonna be on the house. Winona

29:49

crinkled a handful of tissue paper in the bag

29:51

to cover the sound of her sniffs. When

29:54

space ran out of the S6 bag, She stuffed

29:56

the S6 clothes bag she brought from home,

29:59

a shopping assistant knocked on the door,

30:01

one on her frozen in her position, bent

30:03

over on her hands and knees, S6 in

30:05

one hand and a pair of cashmere bomber carrying

30:07

socks in the other. The clerk

30:10

S6 that the A List client needed anything.

30:12

A coke, where was it? A coke from

30:14

the S6 Avenue cafeteria, a

30:17

paramey shoplifting made her thirsty. The

30:19

assistant's designer heels clicked on

30:21

the tile floor towards the cafeteria. Fuck.

30:25

She used that distraction once already didn't

30:27

she. We're known to rub her forehead. Now

30:29

we're washing. Right. The S6. Fill the

30:31

bags blend in and then S6 out of there.

30:34

We're able to load the bags onto her arms.

30:36

She walked towards the exit with confidence strides.

30:39

Her gate spoke for her. Why yes?

30:41

Of course, I already bought all this. I'm a

30:43

celebrity. Why would I shoplift? S6

30:47

didn't buy or charade. Instead,

30:49

they wanted to know what she planned on buying the designer

30:51

goods visibly stashed in her arm full of bags.

30:54

First, she played dumb, S6 her

30:57

assistant had already paid for the close.

30:59

Then she switched stories and claimed the

31:01

employees were keeping track of her massive haul.

31:03

We're just add the items to her first

31:05

bill as if designer department

31:08

stores let you keep an open tab like a bar.

31:10

And by the time the police arrived, Winona

31:13

S6 to the crime using a uniquely Hollywood

31:15

S6. She explained that the director

31:18

instructed her to ShopLift as research for

31:20

her upcoming role in movie called Shop Girl.

31:22

Or was it called White Jazz? We're

31:25

not as web of incoherent tales impressed

31:27

no one. She left the Beverly Hills

31:29

department store in handcuffs. On

31:31

December twelve, two thousand one.

31:35

They wanted strange and unusual. She

31:37

would show them strange and unusual. It

31:39

was a new century now. A new millennium

31:41

man. But pop culture still wanted

31:44

the one owner of the nineties. The dark

31:46

haired S6 girlfriend to tantalize them

31:48

in Tim Burton films. Acute

31:50

cuckoo like girl erupt, her

31:52

most recent smash hit from nineteen ninety

31:54

nine. Winona heart flooded

31:57

with fear as she ducked into the back of a

31:59

cruiser. Yet a snicker spread

32:01

across her S6. She could be a felon

32:03

now. She was still the outcast,

32:06

still the weird home. Typical.

32:30

One year Winona Rodder

32:32

was not snickering. She was

32:34

sweating. Her dark eyes started

32:36

across the courtroom from one

32:38

stone faced lawyer to another. She

32:40

understood about half of this legal jargon they

32:42

were S6 off, but she knew two things to

32:44

be true. One, she was

32:46

already guilty. She was a felon.

32:49

It was right there in the shoplifting charges.

32:51

Felony grand theft. There would

32:53

be repercussions Two,

32:56

one of those repercussions could be jail

32:58

time. Apparently, her lawyer's

33:00

one hundred percent real defense that Winona

33:03

was too fashionable to shoplift didn't carry

33:05

any weight Beverly Hills courtroom. Wynona

33:08

uncrossed her legs for the seventh time

33:10

that day. Fidgeting didn't speed

33:12

the sentencing up. This was one

33:15

story she couldn't flip to the end of the script

33:17

and spoil the ending. She had to

33:19

S6 through a bunch of men in suits bickering over

33:21

her character. Not a character,

33:24

her character. Not just

33:26

another dark haired beauty throwing smoldering

33:28

glasses across haunted mansions at movie

33:30

sets. The people gathered in that

33:32

courtroom had S6 Winona on

33:35

a Her actions, not her acting,

33:37

would determine her future, which

33:39

may or may not involve trading her pile of

33:41

stolen designer booty for an orange jumpsuit.

33:46

Winona's defense brought forward her extensive

33:48

involvement in the Poly S6 kidnapping as

33:51

the clearest example of her S6 character.

33:54

Sure. She had donated a fat stack of

33:56

cash to the Poly S6 Foundation, but

33:59

she rolled up her sleeves alongside other

34:01

regular volunteers too. It

34:03

was a tender egoist gesture that repeated

34:06

for weeks. Maybe her help hadn't

34:08

brought back, but Her murderer,

34:10

Richard Allen Davis, was on death row,

34:13

and that was the second best case scenario.

34:16

And the prosecution refused to soften

34:19

S6. They snapped. What's

34:21

offensive to me is to trot out the body

34:23

of a dead child, the opposing lawyer

34:25

retorted, when no one S6 up

34:28

from the bench, her eyes well with

34:30

tears. Her lawyer objected before she

34:32

could defend her involvement. And before she

34:34

could explain why that case still round her

34:36

to this day, how seeing her worse

34:38

fear, the fear of being kidnapped, to come to

34:40

life, and a little girl, not unlike herself,

34:42

shattered her heart. Maybe

34:45

no one really knew when had all. She

34:47

plopped back into her feet with a S6. We're

34:51

known S6 again when the judge announced independence.

34:55

Four hundred and eighty hours of community service

34:57

in nearly ten thousand dollars in

34:59

fines and S6. No

35:01

prison sentence. The judge emphasized

35:04

that if her sticky fingers ever stole again,

35:06

She'd undoubtedly be pouting behind bars

35:08

next time. The

35:10

happy ending tour trial also created

35:13

a happy ending for Winona winning streak

35:15

at the box office. For most

35:17

actresses, and acting hiatus

35:19

would be devastating. For Winona,

35:22

it was a S6. She actually

35:24

called her arrest the best thing that could have

35:26

happened. In court that

35:28

day, December six two thousand

35:30

two, Winona was thirty one.

35:33

She started acting in films when she was barely

35:35

sixteen and she never stopped. Buenos

35:38

Aires, performed more than twenty movies in

35:40

the span of fifteen years. A

35:42

break was long overdue. After

35:46

her sentencing, she veered away

35:48

from S6 regimen of back to back

35:50

leading roles. Took a step away

35:52

from movie sets and set new boundaries for

35:54

S6, ones that would keep acting

35:57

burnout at bay. She broke her

35:59

newfound bliss sporadically for her special

36:01

roles. A hilarious turn

36:03

of his commandment breaking, puppet loving,

36:05

Kelly Lofonda, and David Wayne's the

36:07

ten in two thousand S6. Abrams,

36:10

Star Trek reboot, two thousand and nine,

36:12

Tim Burns Claims Claims Creation Frank

36:14

Weenie. Darren S6 nor our

36:16

thriller Black S6, which and while

36:18

Winona repeatedly plunging a steel nail

36:21

file into her cheeks. But

36:23

another script came across her desk skiers

36:25

later that contained the real comeback

36:27

gold. S6 happened to

36:29

Winona when she took that break. Something

36:32

inevitable. She aged

36:34

By the two thousand tens, she was

36:36

in her forties. Casting agents

36:39

couldn't picture her as a twenty something love interest

36:41

in movies anymore. That's

36:43

when Netflix called. They

36:46

gave her a shot at a role that would be more age

36:48

appropriate, a mother. Your

36:50

average suburban mom in the early eighties.

36:52

Totally normal. A little nervous

36:54

perhaps, but with the S6 danger

36:56

panic at the time what parent wasn't. They

36:59

needed her to portray a woman who would be tested,

37:02

a woman who could portray gut wrenching fear

37:04

and grief in her eyes without uttering a

37:06

word. A woman whose son

37:08

would vanish without a trace. It's

37:11

an uncanny coincidence, but

37:14

stranger things have happened. Like

37:17

art, so thoroughly imitating

37:19

life, a life

37:21

that ought to be in pictures

37:25

I'm Jake Winona, and

37:27

this is Batman's. S6

37:43

is hosted by me, Jake Brennan, and

37:45

produced by double Elvis in partnership

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37:49

Lundy is lead writer, editor and co

37:51

producer of the show. This episode

37:53

is written by Victoria Waslett, copy

37:56

and story edit by Pat Healy.

37:59

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