Transcript
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The views and opinions expressed in Cold and Missing are exclusively those of the hosts.
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All parties mentioned are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Cold and Missing also contains adult themes and languages.
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Listener discretion is advised.
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I'm your host, Ali McLaughlin-Sulkowski.
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And I'm your co-host, Eli Sulkowski.
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And this is Cold and Missing, where we cover cold cases and missing person cases.
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Hello everyone and welcome back.
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I'm Ali.
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And I'm Eli.
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And this is Cold and Missing.
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We are on episode 83 this week.
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We've both been working quite a bit, so I have just been seeing little peaks of you
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researching this, so I'm really eager to get into it.
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Does that sound good to you?
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Yep.
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Let's go ahead and dive in.
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So today we are covering a missing person case, and we are going to be covering the
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case of Angela Angie Hammond.
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And this takes place in Clinton, Missouri in April of 1991.
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But first a little bit about Angela.
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Angela, or Angie, as I'll be referring to her throughout the podcast, as that's what
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she went by with family and friends, is 20 years old in 1991.
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And she is the life of the party.
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She's an outgoing young woman who is really starting out her life.
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She was taking classes at Central Missouri State University and also working as a bank
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clerk who was tallying evening accounts.
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Angie starts dating Rob Schaffner, who is a high school senior at this time and 18 years
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old.
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But the two are instantly connected and smitten with each other.
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In January of 1991, Angie finds out that she's pregnant and the two are engaged shortly thereafter
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and moving together in a trailer right there in Clinton, Missouri.
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Their baby would be due in late August or early September.
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And now a timeline of events.
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On Thursday, April 4, 1991, Angie got off of work.
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She's wearing a white shirt with black polka dots, black pants, and tennis shoes.
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Rob and Angie attend a family barbecue that was near Angie's mother's house.
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Angie is four months pregnant at this point.
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The couple left around 9pm and Angie drove Rob to his family's house and dropped him
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off so Rob could babysit his younger brother.
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Angie spent the rest of the evening cruising around town and chatting with her best friend
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Kyla.
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She was also excited to hang out with a friend who was visiting from out of town.
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Angie and Kyla parted ways just after 11 and Angie headed to the center of town to use
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one of the payphones that was outside of the food barn, the grocery store.
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Rob and Angie didn't have a phone at their home yet so she needed to call Rob to tell
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him that she had a change of plans.
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The plan originally was for Angie to stop by Rob's parents' house and hang out with
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him for a while, but she wanted to call him and tell him that she was too tired.
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She planned to go straight back to their place and take a bath.
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Phone records will later confirm that Angie was on the phone from 1123 to 1137pm.
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During her phone call with Rob, Angie begins to feel nervous about a green truck that keeps
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circling the block.
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Eventually, the green truck pulled into the parking lot and parked right next to Angie
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and the payphones.
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She tells Rob that the truck had a decal on the back window that showed a fish jumping
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out of the water.
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The driver gets out of the truck and goes to use the payphone on the other side of her.
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He picks up the receiver but quickly puts it back down again before making a phone call.
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Angie tells Rob that it's a white man who looks dirty.
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He had glasses, a full-grown beard and mustache and was wearing overalls.
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The man went back to his truck and rifled with something under a seat.
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He then got back out of the truck and approached Angie at her phone booth.
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Rob could hear Angie ask, quote, do you need to use the phone?
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End quote.
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Just a few moments later, Rob hears Angie scream in the phone and what sounded like
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the phone hitting the side of the phone booth.
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Then the phone line goes dead.
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Someone hung up the receiver.
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Without hesitating, Rob jumped into his car and started speeding towards the payphone
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in the center of town, which was only seven blocks from his family home.
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On his way there, he sees what he describes as a yellow truck speeding in the opposite
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direction.
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But he hears a woman scream Rob.
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Rob told the local paper, quote, when she screamed at me out the window, I put it in
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reverse and started chasing him.
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End quote.
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Rob turned his car around as fast as he could and starts speeding after the truck, which
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he describes as a 1969 or 1970 Ford.
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Rob chases the truck down Second Street, which is a main street there in Clinton, Missouri.
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The truck then turns left on Calvert Drive.
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But that's when Rob's car begins to stall out.
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When Rob had made the quick reverse turnaround to follow the truck, he had shot his transmission.
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And after two miles of chasing the truck, it stalls out and he's unable to follow
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it any further.
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He loses the green truck when it turns down a gravel road and disappears over a hill.
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As fast as Rob can, he gets somewhere where he could call police.
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And police arrive at the parking lot and find Angie's car still there.
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Her purse was still inside the car.
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The only items missing were her license and car keys.
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But her friends and family said that she usually kept those items in her front pocket.
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Police immediately take Rob in for questioning.
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They don't quite believe his story.
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Over the next several days, they'll question him extensively.
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Meanwhile, Angie's family and friends are all looking for her.
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Her mom and dad work day and night searching for her with frantic energy for several days.
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That's Sunday, April 7.
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Angie has been missing for three days.
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About 250 volunteers gathered to search the woods and fields around Clinton.
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Police also launch an air search looking for any sign of Angie, but nothing is found.
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Police continue to search for Angie, but also for the truck.
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And the county sheriff, along with the FBI, are involved in the search.
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Police continue to get tips over the next several days.
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But they're not optimistic about Angie's well-being.
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Detective Parson says, quote, I'm in hopes that she's alive, but I have to be somewhat
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realistic at this point.
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And I feel doubtful of her being found alive, end quote.
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On Wednesday, April 10, police decide to administer lie detector tests to Angie's fiance and
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an ex-boyfriend.
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Police are very suspicious of Rob still.
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He told a local paper that the FBI agents giving the test didn't seem to believe him,
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quote, they don't think my story is very good.
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I told them everything I know.
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I think they're barking up the wrong tree here.
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They need to focus on who really did this and not on people who didn't, end quote.
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Police are also spending a lot of time searching on dirt and gravel roads in the area that
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are mainly known to fishermen.
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I'm assuming that this is because of the decal that Angie and Rob saw on the back of the
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truck.
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On Monday, April 15, Angie has been missing for 11 days.
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The Clinton police asked for the Missouri Rural Crime Squad for help.
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This is a squad made up of a few police officers from several different agencies to cover more
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rural parts of the state.
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Police at this point are focused on finding the truck that Angie described and that Rob
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chased.
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Police believe the truck is green.
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They also say that there could be damage to the front left bumper, and they do believe
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that there's a water or fishing scene that takes up the entire back window.
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Police are hopeful that the additional manpower will be helpful in the case.
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The crime squad spokesperson, Tom Van Zart says, quote, at this point, we've got a lot
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of leads, a lot of good information.
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We're running down leads, but there is nothing at this point to report, end quote.
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That Thursday, April 18, Angie has been missing for two weeks.
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The team investigating Angie's abduction asked the residents in rural parts of West
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Central Missouri to check their property and any abandoned buildings for any information
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that could lead to Angie.
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Spokesperson Van Zart says, quote, there's a lot of wooded, desolate area, a lot of strip
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mines and a lot of cabins in the boondocks that we're trying to cover, end quote.
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On Friday, April 19, the Clinton police chief holds a press conference to tell the community
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about two witnesses that have come forward that were also able to place the pickup truck
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near the phone booths the day that Angie was abducted.
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Chief Bob Pattinson says, quote, it's really the best information we've gotten on the
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truck so far.
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It helps nail down that the vehicle was at that location, end quote.
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However, just as quickly as the rural investigation team came together, they are disbanded that
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Friday evening, just five days after starting.
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The squad bylaws said that the investigators could only work the case for five days without
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a credible lead before they had to focus on other cases.
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Despite the two witnesses coming forward that week, that wasn't considered a big enough
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lead to keep the squad active.
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Chief Pattinson says, quote, sometimes you succeed, sometimes you don't.
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The squad has done a good job of eliminating some things and strengthening the investigation,
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end quote.
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The two witnesses, however, were able to give more details about the man.
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The two witnesses, both women, saw Angie using the telephone.
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These two witnesses are not together.
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They're both driving independently, but they're just a few minutes apart.
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However, both of the women see Angie at the payphone and they think that it's a friend
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of theirs.
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They both pull into the parking lot and pull up near the payphones.
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Both women ended up parking on the other side of the truck.
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The women said that there was a man in the driver's seat who leaned back when they pulled
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in so he was harder to see and more obscure.
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Both women say that the man was wearing a dark colored baseball cap that further blocked
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his face.
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Once the women determined that Angie was not their friend, they left.
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Police believe that Angie was probably abducted just moments after the last woman pulled out
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of the parking lot.
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Over the next week, the reward fund for information grows to over $10,000 thanks to donations
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from the community.
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And another witness comes forward to say that they also saw the truck near Angie the night
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that she was abducted.
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Police feel confident that they are looking for a Ford truck that was made between 1968
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and 1970.
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They believe there is a fishing scene decal in color that takes up the whole back window
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of the truck.
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One of the witnesses thought that the license plate included the letters X and Y.
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Witnesses said the truck is dark green on the upper portion and then light green on
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the lower portion.
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A chrome strip separates the two colors.
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The truck also has a white roof.
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The three witnesses described the man as white, between 20 and 35 years old, medium build.
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He had dark hair that went to his collar and a mustache.
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Angie also told Rob that he had a beard.
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Police are continuing to try to locate the truck but have not been successful in this
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pursuit.
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On May 5th, so it's been a month now since Angie was abducted and there have been no
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new leads in the case since those witnesses came forward, police, friends and family have
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spent the past month searching for her across the town and county.
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Her mother says quote, I'm trying to prepare myself for the worst and yet trying to hope
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for the best.
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I'm taking it one day at a time until they find something.
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I'm trying to stay optimistic, end quote.
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But by October 4th, 1991, it had been six months since Angie's abduction.
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Her family has kept looking for her but are starting to run out of places to check around
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town.
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Her father said quote, we checked creek beds, all old houses, barns and wells every day
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from daylight to dark.
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After two weeks of doing that, the leaves started drying up.
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That's about where we are now.
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We hope and pray that she's alive, end quote.
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Her mother Marcia says quote, I know the statistics aren't good at this point for finding her,
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but until something happens, you can't give up.
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The hope is always going to be there, end quote.
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After Angie's disappearance, Rob decides to join the military as a national guardsman.
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His mother says that he's shut himself off and has taken her abduction really hard.
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It took some time but police eventually clear him from being involved in her disappearance.
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Police say the case hasn't progressed at all over the last few months.
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Detective Damon Parsons says quote, there's someone out there who has information, but
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they just may not realize it.
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Until they come forward or until she's found.
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There really is not much more we could do, end quote.
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In December of 1991, so it's been eight months now since her abduction, a man in Selkirk,
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Manitoba, Canada, which is near Winnipeg, contacts authorities because he is sure that
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he saw Angie leaving a drug store and getting into a green pickup truck.
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The man said the truck had a white roof and a mural in the rear window.
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The man said quote, I know that I saw the girl.
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I know that for a fact.
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I may not remember someone's name, but I never forget a face, end quote.
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The man said the sighting happened in September.
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That would have been five months after Angie was abducted.
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Police Chief Bob Pattinson had this to say about the tip, quote, whether it's good
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or not, who knows?
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It was good enough to alert the Canadian authorities, but so far nothing has turned up, end quote.
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Canadian police have also followed up on the tip trying to track the truck down and hopefully
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Angie, but according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, quote, we're at a dead end.
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We've tried about everything we can do here, end quote.
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The Canadian police had showed photos of Angie to workers at gas stations, restaurant, baby
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stores, motels, hospitals, everywhere they could think of, hoping someone would recognize
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her and nobody else had.
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The man who called in the tip initially learned about the case when he was visiting relatives
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in a nearby town in Missouri.
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He saw a missing person flyer in a shop window and thought she looked familiar.
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He later recalled where he had seen her before and reported the tip.
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In January of 1992, so nine months since Angie's disappearance, a segment runs on unsolved
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mysteries about Angie.
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This results in a flood of new tips.
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To help sort through all the tips, the Rural Major Case Squad comes back together to run
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all the leads down.
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Over 700 tips come in together.
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But by the middle of February, the squad will have dissolved again.
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The spokesperson, Vanzart, says, quote, we've run down just about all the leads and wrapped
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things up today.
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The matter has been turned back to Clinton police and Henry County authorities, end quote.
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Over the years, Angie's case will be featured on various true crime shows and her mom will
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even go on Oprah to talk about it.
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But nothing brings Angie home or police to the man in the green truck.
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In April of 1993, so it's been two years since Angie's abduction, tips have really stopped
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coming in on Angie's case.
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And this prompted the editor of the Clinton newspaper, his name is Malon Miles, to reach
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out to a psychic.
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He says, quote, I'm a former police officer and I once used a psychic on a homicide case
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and she was pretty accurate.
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So I searched around and found this woman and she started steering us towards Odessa
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before the cops had anything going on up there, end quote.
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However, the police maintained that long before the newspaper editor reached out to the psychic,
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they had developed a tip that was leading them towards a farm in Odessa.
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The man who had owned that farm had also owned a blue Chevy truck, not a green Ford, but
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there was a rumor that the man had a green Ford on his farm.
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Police remain unconvinced about the psychic.
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Police Chief Pattinson says, quote, I don't have any faith in psychics.
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The particular person that's being looked at as a possible suspect, we've 95% cleared
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him.
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He has a pretty good alibi.
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He took a lie detector and we feel like he passed it, end quote.
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Ultimately, cadaver dogs are brought onto the farm to, as police put it, either find
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a body or stop the rumors.
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Nothing is found in this search.
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Over the years, the Clinton community continues to pray for Angie, but there are no major
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searches.
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Police will find a few people that they think could be involved over the years, but ultimately
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they rule them all out.
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The occasional tip comes in, but it won't be until April of 2009, 18 years since her
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abduction, that the newspaper will run her story again.
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Clinton Police Sergeant Paul Abbott says, quote, we've been working on this case diligently
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for the last 18 years.
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On occasion, we've had fewer and fewer leads, but here recently it seems like there's
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been renewed interest by the public.
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We feel like this is an open, active investigation right now, end quote.
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It's also revealed around this time that police did collect evidence in 1991 and still
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have it.
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Police aren't specific about what they have, but they are hopeful that they're going
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to be able to get DNA off of it with the advances in technology.
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In 2021, so it's been 30 years since Angie's abduction, and police hold a press conference
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on Facebook Live to unveil a brand new theory in the case, that the abductor took the wrong
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Angela.
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During this time in 1991, police had an undercover informant in the narcotics department whose
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cover had recently been blown.
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On the date that Angie is abducted, a ransom note is mailed to the family of the informant
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boasting that they had kidnapped their daughter who was also named Angela.
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The letter read, quote, we know who you are.
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People like you deserve what you get.
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We know where your foxy daughter is at, and she will see us soon.
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Tell redacted, she has our deepest sympathy in her further loss, end quote.
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The letter is made out of letters from newspapers and magazines.
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Police hope that the public will be able to identify the suspect that Angela described
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the night of her abduction.
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And the police also asked that whoever mailed that letter in 1991 to come forward to further
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the conversation.
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However, as of recording this in 2024, that was the last update that I could find.
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So with that, if you know anything about the abduction of Angie Hammond in April of 1991
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or her whereabouts today, please call the Clinton police at 660-885-5561.
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So that is the case of Angie Hammond.
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I felt like there was a lot of information available to me on this one, thanks to your,
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you know, investigative research.
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I found myself having a lot of questions and circling back to something you had just said
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and trying to keep up a little bit, not because of storytelling.
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It was great.
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I just, you know, with missing person cases, I think it's very natural to start trying
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to fill in the blanks, which I think I've said on an episode before.
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So that's what I was doing.
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I was like very happy to hear that there was kind of a blip of an update, you know?
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I'm always happy to hear when there's movement in a case.
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So yeah, I didn't know if you had any comments on that part, at least.
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So the 2021 update is really interesting and it does raise a lot of questions because it's
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this completely new theory and piece of information that police had never talked about up until
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this point that Angie was this mistaken target for an Angela that was going to be like payback
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for a narcotic informant that was mailed to the family of this Angela the day that
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Angie was abducted.
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So that is really interesting or not interesting, but it just raises a lot of questions and
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like who mailed that?
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And maybe they're unrelated completely, but maybe they're not.
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I think that's where I began to, the questions in my brain began to fire off with the two
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Angie or Angela's.
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And was it the same last name?
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No, it was different last names.
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Okay.
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I don't know.
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This was definitely a case I had never heard of before, but the amount of research you
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did and that you were able to find it.
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I'm just sad again.
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Like it feels like because there was quite a bit of information at least like leading
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up to the moments before or like when she was kidnapped that there's, I don't know,
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like witness testimony.
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And I just feel like it's a case that people should know more about.
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I'm really glad that you brought it to my attention and to our listeners attention.
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I had a few more questions for you about, I don't know, just your opinion on her boyfriend
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and did you, you mentioned that he was questioned, right?
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Yeah.
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Her boyfriend, they were engaged.
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So her fiance, he was questioned, he was given a polygraph test and ultimately he was eliminated
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by police.
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What's your opinion on polygraphs?
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I don't know if I put a lot of faith or stock into them because I think if you gave me a
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polygraph test on what color is the sky, I could probably fail it because I'm an anxious
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person.
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So I don't know.
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And I've also heard of people beating polygraph tests who were really guilty just because
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they were able to like be pretty like calm during it.
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So yeah, I don't know if they're really to be trusted.
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They definitely, they're not allowed in court, so they're not evidence.
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I actually did not know that.
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That's really interesting.
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I'm sure some people are learning that along with me or maybe not, but I had no idea.
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They're just so, they're brought up so often.
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Yeah, they're definitely still used today.
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You see them all the time, but they're, yeah, they're not allowed to be submitted as evidence.
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I'm sure at one time they were, but as of today, you can't use them.
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One thing that I just have questions about or that I just wonder about is how nobody
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could have seen this truck before because it just seems so unique.
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It was like a two toned green truck with a white roof and a fishing decal on the back.
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Like it is a very noticeable truck.
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Like if I saw that truck today, I would notice it.
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So it's very odd to me that in a town, Clinton is small.
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I think at this time it had less than 10,000 residents that nobody had seen this truck
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before or couldn't point to somebody and say, oh, it's my neighbors or it's in my neighborhood
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or whatever.
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Like nobody knew where this truck came from and nobody that's never been found.
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Yes, the truck and the description of the person driving it was, it was that man, correct?
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Yes.
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So the picture and like the physical description of him, that man, it was, it was very terrifying
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and I think he would have been noticeable in that community via the descriptors you
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said.
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So I don't know.
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Serial killer definitely popped into my head.
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I wanted to know more of your thoughts on, you know, just his description and the sketch.
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Yeah.
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So there was a sketch made of the suspect and at the time of Angie's disappearance,
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two other women had also disappeared within like 80 miles of each other, of Angie and
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then these two other women.
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So police did kind of investigate a possible link between all of the women's abductions.
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But as of 2024, they maintained that they've never found any connection and they've never
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investigated the cases together.
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Sometimes it's just that like one thing, you know, that they don't have to connect them
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all because it's, I would imagine as an investigator, it's really difficult to climb and to try
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to climb inside of the mind of someone who is doing things like that, you know, kidnapping
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people.
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So like it's a difficult thought process to understand if you are someone who doesn't want
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to do that, you know.
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So it's easy to maybe for them to like hide the missing link of the crimes they commit
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because you know, they know we won't naturally think of them or discover them.
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Anyway, I was very happy to hear that there was movement in the case.
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Did you say that there were any other updates since 2021?
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No, the last update was the letter that was mailed to the family and this like kind of
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alternate theory that police put on their Facebook.
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That was the last update.
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Well, I'll definitely include an image on our Instagram page of just a graphic of what
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that letter looked like.
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So hopefully folks can take a look along with other pictures as per usual.
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Again, if you know anything about the abduction of Angie Hammond in April of 1991 or her whereabouts
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today, please call the Clinton police at 660-885-5561.
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Like Eli mentioned, we will have photos on our Instagram of Angie.
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There's been an age progression.
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There's the suspect sketch and then also a photo of the letter that was mailed to the
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other family.
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So all of that will be up on our Instagram.
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As Eli mentioned, and I mentioned earlier, you can check out our Instagram, Cold and
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Missing.
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You can also go to coldandmissing.com.
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We have transcripts of the show and also our show notes.
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That's all I have.
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Thank you so much for listening to Cold and Missing.
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I'm your host, Allie.
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And I'm your cohost, Eli.
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Have a good week and stay safe, y'all.
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Stay safe, y'all.
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See you.
