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hello, i'm andrea canning from dateline.nbc

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with a from this week's

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podcast, dateline missing in america here's

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the story of aubrey dameron, saturday,

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march 16th 2019 it

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was cool and dry a perfectly ordinary

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day in tulsa oklahoma, inside

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her home and old

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trees, pam smith was waiting

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for her brother christian to bring back lunch

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while she waited she checked facebook and

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saw something that would turn her life upside

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down

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it a message about her nice aubrey

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nickname shorty friend

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of mine has been friends i like it were thirty

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years she misses me and

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asked me if sorties missing

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i was

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not that i'm aware of why so

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she says ms screenshot of one of our best

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friends you know made a post on facebook

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ask if anybody had seen shorty you

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know to have a call this number

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ham contacted the sheriff's office for

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delaware county ninety miles from tulsa

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the county is part of the cherokee nation where

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opry list the , office

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confirmed that operates family

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had reported her missing so

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assert asking questions and the dispatcher asked

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me how i was to operate

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yes i'm her anti i'm her

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like you know mom and i are he's

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a while you have to call sister she give the details

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pam's brother christian censor arriving

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home immediately sent something was

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off

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i go inside and look on my sister's

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face i just knew something was wrong

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for she could even say anything and

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the shorty was missing a lot up when i was like okay

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she's somewhere at a friend's house

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hey i'm was already making her next phone call

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she calls her sister jennifer i'll breeze

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mother said she'd last seen aubrey

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about a week before

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learn

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the universe that that she woke up about three thirty

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in the morning lock down the hallway

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to the and she's offering

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working out at the side door

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which goes out to under the carpet and

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she says she was wearing a black jacket a black

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top , black skirts

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black hose like knitted oh systems

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and and black boots jennifer

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told him that aubrey said she was going to

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meet somebody

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he returned where

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has she gone

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four pam and christian that would only

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be the first question in an odyssey

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through a small town and an ancient

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culture a place where young

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woman walk tall before walking

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into something dark

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leaving behind a trail of heartbreak

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and haunting clues

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listen closely because you

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or you know might be able to help

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find operates to give a family

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does

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that we needed answers and solve a mystery

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that's become intensely personal to

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the head of the cherokee tribal police

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marshall shannon buell

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she was a beautiful on that's

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she seated tell she was beautiful

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cherokee warmups that was proud

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that was happy that that future

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this a girl with he's ours

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and want needs the in

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if is my hope she found those wants needs

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and and as living happy in whatever

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but if is the case so my cat that short

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and we gotta find out if

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that happened to that was

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thank you for listening search date

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line missing in america to hear more

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i'm lester holt with

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nbc nightly news the past

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couple of years have been challenging and exhausting

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for so many and the headlines can

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often feel overwhelming we

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all want answers we want to know what it all

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means for us and our families

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these are the questions we try to answer every

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night making sense of a major stories

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and about the people in moments that inspires

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i hope you'll join me everything

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nbc nightly news with

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lester holt