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hello, i'm andrea canning with a preview

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from our latest podcast, dateline

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missing in america here's the of

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alexis where cool

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crisp air with settling and across

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south carolina, inside

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her greeneville apartment 29 year-old alexis

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where snuggled into bed? it

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was sunday, january 30th 2022

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it

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after a three-day visit at her mom's house,

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the exhausted mother-of-two laid

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her head down on the pillow for an afternoon nap

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the weekend had been filled with food

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and loss of love and hugs but

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was winding down and down and start to

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a new wheat with on the horizon

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but

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before close her eyes, her

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phone rang, it was her mom

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as usual she was checking

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was checking alexis, to make sure she made it it home and

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after her 80 mile drive home

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when

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she left, she told me

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that she was just exhausted i'll say it

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when i felt like she should be home

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or calendar so that was around

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three o'clock and she answer the

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phone right away the on video

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so i can see

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she was a hobby it

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like this his mother alberta she

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said mom just so tired she family

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and our second a nap and i

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cry you wouldn't get up

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alberta gray simkins hasn't spoken to

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her daughter since that video, call hasn't

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laid eyes on alexis's smile and

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pierced impulse

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alberta his haunted

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because, well, alexis spent quality time

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with family that weekend it

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hadn't exactly than the peaceful getaway she'd

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hoped for she just

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wasn't herself her mom remembered max

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told her she was afraid afraid

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of something or someone maybe

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she had good reason

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after that alexis

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vanished

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it's all very confusing to her family

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but one thing her mom knows for sure without

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a doubt a lexus didn't

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leave on her own

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she will never leave our key is less

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i knew something was wrong see what

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it is nevertheless are key is like that

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this is the longest my children has been without

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now her family has

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can i prove that he knows more

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than what he's selling as yes

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as investigators follow a trail

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of clues

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it for just possible foul play maybe

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it is uncommon that you release of and let the behind

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in vehicle

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the missing persons

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i'm alexis were a devoted

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mother of two is a mystery

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but you might hold the final puzzle

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piece in the picture of what happened to her maybe

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you can help crack can case that has left

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her family in in

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agonizing limbo i'm

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still confused as confused as of questions

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the i want answered it just don't

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make that it does not make sense to

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me

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thank you for listening

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