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i am josh mankiewicz from dateline with a a preview

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our latest podcast, dateline

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missing in america we hope

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that by telling these missing persons stories,

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someone listening may have a clue

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that could help one of these cases, here's

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the story of keesh a jacobs

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it was an unseasonable a warm

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day and while the leaves

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were starting to turn their predictable shades

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of red and gold the crisp

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fall chill hadn't settled in just yet

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richmond virginia it

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, monday september twenty sixth two

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thousand sixty that

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evening seemed pretty typical image

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typical comes household twenty

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one year old cliche jacobs was getting ready

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to go out on her mother tony

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and her brother settling for the night

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she

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did seem a little trouble the she had it out

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she'd had an argument with her boyfriend she's

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pretty

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they're playing meal our brothers seem

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to talk or down and eighty five

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i'm all for west's own

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our friend's house i'll be back tomorrow

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we're leaving mound to be

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back brighton early

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the maker twenty five year old brother dave

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on a heaping stack of pancakes

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cool he remembers

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the moment she watched her daughter walk out

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the front door

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wearing or go to outfit black

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basketball shorts think i'm black

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nike's and a pink scarf

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right i just be care for let me know you made

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it there safely

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around eleven o'clock tony get ready for

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bed she had to work the next morning

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after her shower

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came a text message from tj

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sea tac me and told me that she

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was there and i was like just be

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careful and lobbyists she's like a

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levy to

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the next morning came and when tony

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woke up the smell of pancakes

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in a skillet was not filling

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mouse she hadn't

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after promise

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and she hadn't come home yet

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only get ready for work and figured

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she'd hear from her daughter later

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then when tony lunch break

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rolled around and she still hadn't heard from

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to set mama bear alarm

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went off and she

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started calling

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in the schools went to voicemail message

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and tony new something was

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wrong

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for tony jacobs my from that

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day forward would become sort of groundhog

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day she , have known

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that the growing worry she was feeling about

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her daughter daughter evolve into

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urgent questions that would go unanswered

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for years and

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that she would personally have to take on the role

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of investigator this

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story of one mother's desperate search

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a mother who believes that six years later

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are missing daughter is still alive

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florida know that mommy

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loves you so so much

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and i miss you so much i am

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fighting and i'll give it up in alaska

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